Yahoo Open Hack India 2010 Winners
Here's the List of Hacks that won the awards in the 2010 edition of the Yahoo Open Hack India . 1. Best in show award Hack Name : FlickSubz Team Name : NaturalBornCoders Team Members : BabuSrithar , Sudeep Nayak,Parashuram Description : A Hack with the Flickr and Language translation API and Twitter..............
Categories: Events, General, Personal Tags: Astronauts, Beanbag Hackers, C4, Catalysts, Chirpshire, Chromy YQLip, Communicator, Democracy Tools, FlickSubz, GitHub Badges, Happy Feet, India, Insomniacs, NaturalBornCoders, Nirvana, Open Hack, Yahoo
Yahoo Open Hack India Day-1 Kick starts
As Announced , the most awaited event , the 13th Yahoo Open hack day began today at the Taj Residency , Bangalore and as usual i was late for the event , arrived somewhere @ 10.30 , and got the glimpse of the Yahoo Geo Technologies API by attending the session at the Vijaynagar hall . This was the second year that i am attending the event too. What’s surprising is that all OHT happened during the session. Read More....Categories: .NET, Events, General, Visual Studio 2010 Tags: hackers, Info Geeks, Kiran, MSP, openhackindia, Prashanth, Raveesh, Taj Residency, Vijaynagar, Yahoo Geo Technologies, Yahoo Open hack day
Delphi is recommended over .NET ,PHP and Java ?
I read an article in one of the the popular site, The Register on Exam board deletes C and PHP from CompSci A-levels The article states that the Exam Board ( Schools teaching the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance ) will withdraw C# ,C and PHP from the syllabus of A-level computer science programme following the low intake of the above programming languages . The pdf document in the article also states that
Categories: .NET, C#, Delphi, F#, General, Visual Studio 2010 Tags: c#, Delphi, PHP, Problem solving, RAD, Schools teaching the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, stable
Never Write a .NET Code ??.
I was reading through a Blog article written by Glyn Moody . This talks about the interview with Richard Stallman and talks about the Microsoft's patents , Open Source Implementations ( Mono , DotGNU's-Portable.NET) .
Categories: .NET, Mono Tags: C# 4.0, DotGNU, Glyn Moody, microsoft, mono, Portable.NET, Richard Stallman, Visual Studio 2010
Windows Phone 7 Jump Start Sessions
Kick start your Windows Phone 7 Development with the Windows Phone 7 Jumstart Sessions from Microsoft . With the Recent release of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta released last week , these sessions provide the developers to start developing the Windows Phone 7 applications . It is a free Online Virtual Class training / Office Live Meeting broadcast and includes 4 instructor led 3 hour sessions presented by forthcoming MS Press authors and MVP's Andy Wigley and Rob Miles. Here are the Session Details :
Categories: .NET, Windows Phone 7 Tags: Andy Wigley, microsoft, MS Press, MVP, Office Live Meeting, Rob Miles, Windows Phone 7
Entity Framework Feature CTP 4 Released
The Microsoft's ADO.NET team has released the latest Entity Framework Feature CTP,which is now available for Download from the Microsoft's Download center . Remember that Entity Framework 4 was released together with Visual Studio 2010 in April 2010 The new CTP is called as Entity Framework Feature CTP 4 that includes the early preview of the Code First features.
Categories: .NET, Entity Framework, Visual Studio 2010 Tags: ADO.NET, c#, Code First Feature, microsoft, Microsoft's Download center, Visual Studio 2010
Interesting Statistics on .NET Framework 4.0
Did you know how many classes and interfaces exists in .NET Frameworks 4.0 and how many of them are Sealed / Abstract .???
Categories: .NET, C#, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Application Tags: .NET Framework 4, 3.5 SP1, Abstract, Sams Publishing, Scott Dorman, Statistics
Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta Released
Microsoft has shipped the beta version of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools. The Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta is supported on the following Operating Systems ( Windows 7 , Windows Vista ) and also includes the XNA Game Studio 4.0 as well and can be Downloaded here .
Codenames for Microsoft’s Visual Studio ?
I have an habit of calling the Visual Studio by its Code name ,but was recently struck with how i call the Visual Studio 2010 with the Code names . I read in an article that the Codename of Visual Studio 2010 was Hawaii and kept calling it the same , but only recently i found that the name is different as mentioned in Wiki
Categories: .NET, Visual Studio 2010 Tags: Dev10, Everett, Hawaii, Indigo, microsoft, Orcas, Rainier, Rosario, SilverlightWCF, Visual Studio, Whidbey
Mono Touch Books for .NET Developers and iPhone Development is out
Mono Touch is a .NET Libary which allows the C# developers to write code in .NET and that runs on IPhone OS .The iPhone Development now offers the hot opportunity for .NET developers too. MonoTouch offers the .NET developers to create Apple iPhone and iPad applications. Seems like one doesn't need to learn the Objective-C , the native language for iPhone to master Mono Touch .:-) ...
Categories: .NET, Compact Framework / Windows Mobile, Mono Tags: .NET, c#, Chris Hardy, Craig Dunn, iPad, iPhone, Mac, Martin Bowling, Mono Touch, Objective-C, Rory Blyth, Wallace B. McClure, Windows Phone 7
How to Suppress Splash Screen in Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio Express ?
Most of the time , i feel frustrated with the load time of the Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio because of the Splash screen that takes a sometime before Visual Studio /SQL Server Management Studio Loads . It takes some 10 seconds for the splash screen to be loaded before the Visual Studio and SQL Server ...
Silverlight for Symbian Platform , What about Windows Mobile ??..
I found a nice article on "Silverlight for Symbian hits 20K download" The blog states that the "Silverlight for Symbian – Beta hits 20K in successful downloads". Silverlight is the development platform for Windows Phone 7 along with the XNA Framework . Microsoft had announced a Beta version of Developer Tools and Silverlight runtime during the MIX'10 to enable users to run Silverlight applications on the symbian devices.
Windows Phone 7 Action Pack Tool for easier Windows Phone 7 Development
Microsoft's Codeplex has released the Windows Phone 7 Action Pack , a set of tools aimed at improving the velocity of development for Windows Phone 7 Development . This includes several useful
