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5 Things Programmers Can’t Live without

What are the 5 things that a programmer can’t live without ? Below are few list of things that i feel as a Programmer can’t live without . I know there are lot of things 1. Caffeine (Coffee) / Tea 2. Desktop ( Probably Windows PC ) 3. Meetings / Interactions / Code Reviews 4. Teams / Customers / Company 5. Google for searching Each and every one consider few things that are important to them and the s Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - April 25, 2012 at 9:09 pm

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Top 10 posts of year 2011

Well , the year 2011 comes to an end and 2012 begins in few hours time , I am taking few minutes here to look back at some of the popular articles in my blog for the year 2011 . Below are the Top 10 posts in my blog . These top posts were based on the traffic as well as the usefulness of the article . My 10 favourite Programming Quotes Restoring SQL Server 2008 R2 Backup file with SQL Server 2008 Install Window Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 31, 2011 at 7:08 pm

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My WindowsPhoneRocks.com site goes Live

It has been a month now that i was working on my Windows Phone 7 site called WindowsPhoneRocks.com and today, the website officially goes live. I wanted to move all my Windows Phone related articles from ginktage.com to the another site ( Windowsphonerocks.com ) site and that is how the idea for this new site was born. By this, i can target the windows phone developers via my windowsphonerocks.com site and leave Gi Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - September 3, 2011 at 12:04 am

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My Blog is seriously attracting visitors. What’s next?

We were in a campus recruitment program today and i was happy hear a statement from my manager that there were few students who answered that they knew something about the company via my blog when my manager asked them a question something like “Do you Know about the company”? I really don’t know what students answered for the simple reason that i was not there when the discussion / Interview happened Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - August 18, 2011 at 9:31 pm

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Tech.Ed 2011 announcements I am looking forward to

Well , Its just few more weeks left for the Microsoft’s Tech.Ed 2011 and there seems to me more announcements revolving around Microsoft with the news like Windows Phone 7 updates , Kinect and not the least the big announcement of the IE9 . With all these around , the Microsoft’s Tech.Ed 2011 has more for the Developers and the IT Professionals to look out for . More Technical sessions , Hands on Lab , Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 8, 2011 at 11:14 pm

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Some things i dont like in Windows Phone 7 after one month of using it

 It was a month back when i got my first Windows Phone 7 ( HTC Mozart 7 ) and after using it for a month here’s what i summarize of wht i like and dont like in my new Windows Phone 7 . My previous phone was Samsung Omnia Pro B7610 .Samsung Omnia Pro B7610 runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 so comparing it with WP7 doesn’t make sense but yes , there is a huge transition and frehness that i can notice and feel w Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - February 27, 2011 at 9:15 pm

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List of My Favorite Developer Tools

Great Indian Developer Awards honor technologies contributing to the productivity and innovation excellence of the Indian developer ecosystem. Every Year , the developers are invited for voting to select their favorite developer tools based on some categories are are awarded during the Developer Summit and this year too the voting has began . Here’s my list of favorites Developer tools that i will be voting f Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - February 22, 2011 at 11:05 pm

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Project Demo that made me go Crazy

Recently , one of my friend shared me an video of an URL that has Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu giving a Demo of one of his Hobby Projects Buddy Home . I have heard of this name some where , but couldn’t really recognize until i got another URL where he is interviewed in SUN TV . Well this brought me some memories . I watched this guy’s interview very long time back . Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu is a Developer Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - February 20, 2011 at 10:09 pm

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What happens when your favourite Super Hero becomes a .NET Programmer ?

Who is your favourite Super Hero ?? . Who ever it is .. Have you ever imagined them to be a .NET Programmer and what they can do ? It can really be funny when you think that way . The inspiration of this post was basically from some of the Jokes on a Tamil Super Star – Rajnikanth but relates more towards programming on .NET for all super heroes. SO here’ we go Your Favourite super hero Can force garbag Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - February 20, 2011 at 1:02 pm

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Top 10 Non-Programming Quotes for Programmers

In one of my previous posts , i wrote about “My 10 favourite Programming Quotes” . Some of the visitors commented saying that it was a fresh Monday reading . So how about ending the week with another one ? . Yes , this posts will be about my favourite “Non – Programming” Quotes for the Programmers . The quotes are really inspiring and its up to the programmers to related it to the prog Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - February 17, 2011 at 8:40 pm

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My 10 favourite Programming Quotes

For this post , i decided to collect some of my favourite quotes related to the programming . These programming quotes  were made by some of the famous personalities in the IT industry . So , without wasting any time , here are my 10 favourite programming quotes . If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -  Edsger Dijkstra The first 90% of Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - February 13, 2011 at 5:45 pm

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The Deal that is set to take Windows Phone 7 to new levels

With all the rumours that have been around for quite some time , it has finally become reality . Microsoft and Nokia have announced their partnership which means the new Windows Phone 7  will now be the Nokia’s primary smartphone Operating System and Bing will also be part of all the Nokia services along with the Bing Map . Will this combination pay off big ?? Can’t say at the moment , but is surely go Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - February 11, 2011 at 10:00 pm

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Why Nokia and Windows Phone 7 combination will succeed ?

Looks like the news on the Nokia and the Windows Phone 7 is being hot at the moment everywhere . The move to switch to Windows Phone 7 from the symbian OS might well see a plus for both Windows Phone 7 as well as Microsoft . The Windows Phone 7 that was released on October , 2010 has been slowly gaining momentum ( I know some people might not agree on it) . The Phone is slowly becoming popular with consumers as wel Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - February 9, 2011 at 10:33 pm

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New Year Tag (2010)

One of my friend asked me to fill the new year tag and fill it up . Here’s the newyear tag that i share with my Blog visitors . I know the questions looks like stolen . Anyways the answers aren’t . Here’s the result . 1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before? I tried to be good to everyone, but failed to do so  . I travelled to Germany, my first trip outside India 2. Did yo Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 31, 2010 at 5:17 pm

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Top 10 posts of year 2010

As 2010 draws to a end , i am taking a moment to look back at some of the most populat posts on my Blog for the year 2010. At this moment , i would also like to thank the all the readers who visited my blog. There were 111 blog posts this year and with this , i’d like to share some of my favourites / top posts of 2010 . These top posts are based on the traffic as well as the feedback received and how useful t Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 30, 2010 at 9:38 pm

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Top 2 Google Adsense Alternatives for Blogs targetting Microsoft Technologies

Are you a Blogger who frequently write contents mostly related to Microsoft technologies ? What are the ways do you use to monetize your blog ?? . I know quite a few or probably most of them use google adsense , but using google adsense some times leads to the display of the unrelated ads to that of the content of the Website . There are other few Advertising network like Adbrite,Bidvertiser,Kontera etc .. , but n Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 27, 2010 at 3:18 pm

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Windows Phone 7 MarketPlace Petition to open up for non-approved countries

As you might be aware that Windows Phone 7 Market place is currently available to the following 17 countries Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States . For the people from other countries , just try changing the location of windows to one of the supported countries of the Marketplace Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 22, 2010 at 9:32 pm

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Promising sales figure of Windows Phone 7 , the game starts now

Well , when i saw this link Microsoft Must Really Be Embarrassed By Windows Phone 7 Sales , i had keep myself quite rather than putting my views or reply on it immediately . I know that there are more people out there who want to see how the Microsoft’s Windows phone 7 Sales has been as soon as it was launched , but here comes the news from the through Q&A by “Achim Berg, corporate vice president, M Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 21, 2010 at 9:37 pm

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Windows Phone 7 Xbox ad

I found this new Ad of Windows Phine 7 and XBox in Youtube . Watch this video on YouTube Embedded with WP YouTube Lyte. Nice Music in the background and a simple and good Windows Phone 7 Ad . You can find the rest of the Windows Phone Ads in the Windows Phone Channel in Youtube . Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 20, 2010 at 8:20 pm

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Windows Phone 7 availability in India

To all Windows Phone 7 fans out there in India, here’s some good news … The Windows Phone 7 is Expected to be available soon in India . Few of the Windows Phone 7 models have already been listed in some of the well known online Shopping and Phone websites . Here are the website where you can find the phone being listed . 1. UniverCell – The Mobile Expert LG Optimus comes with a Phone Memory of 16G Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 19, 2010 at 5:29 pm

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I am sure atleast 99 percent of the Developers would not have heard of this language called Lj4

It was just a month back that i came across this language called “Lj4″ and was a bit surprised to hear about this language for the first time . I got a chance to know about the language when i was exploring Infor ERP .I am sure that there are many developers who might not be aware of this language too .. Whats surprising is that just Google “Lj4″ , and u might not even get a single result re Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 12, 2010 at 12:23 pm

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Completed Two Years in Trivium eSolutions

Dont know how i missed to write about this last week , but just now remembered this when i was goining through my Emails . I completed 2 years( including my internship) in Trivium eSolutions , Bangalore on November 17 , 2010 . Well again , there has been lots of learning and the exploration of new things , technologies , meeting new colleagues etc. The amount of exposure that i got over 2 years has been amazing an Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 6, 2010 at 10:31 pm

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Interesting Places in Germany that i visited recently..

I just got back to Bangalore two days back from almost a month of wonderful trip to Germany .Frankfurt Airport was my Destination where i landed up in Germany and later to Ellwangen . The travel from Frankfurt to Ellwangen was via Car and my first impressions on Germany was Awesome. I did identify lots of Differences too.All houses were grouped together and almost had the similar look , green everywhere on the way Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 5, 2010 at 10:47 pm

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Microsoft is late to the game ??? Stop the Joke and see the Reality

Ever since the announcement of the Windows Phone 7 was made, I have been noticing that in some of the articles or views of the people telling that Microsoft is too late to the game . The Motley Fool: Microsoft is too late to the game with Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone 7 too little too late? Not if gamers have anything to do with it!� How do people talk about it even before the phone is made available to the Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - October 16, 2010 at 7:29 pm

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Stepping out of my Comfort Zone

Just a few days back , i came across the blog post by Davy Brion on "You Need To Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone" . Well an Excellent article by Davy . David talks about the upside and the downside of his experience and thoughts on “instead of learning a lot of languages, wouldn’t it better to really focus on one and know it very thoroughly?” ....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - October 3, 2010 at 11:04 pm

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I’m a DZone MVB (Most Valuable Blogger)

A few Weeks back , i got a mail from Karyl Gomoll , Dzone saying that Lyndsey Clevesy, Managing Director of DZone recently enjoyed reading a post on my blog and wanted to invite me to join DZone's Most Valuable Blogger program and now i am DZone MVB :).

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - September 16, 2010 at 7:55 pm

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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..............

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - July 27, 2010 at 9:30 am

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Why should i Blog ?

Recently , i was asked by one of my friend on why do i blog ? or rather why should one Blog.This forced me to think myself and write down the important points on why do i blog ? . Most Bloggers out there blog for more fun or perhaps could be a fan of an product and well end up in writing articles related to them .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - May 3, 2010 at 10:50 pm

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2009,Resolutions and Top Blog Posts

Every year, I make a resolution and the time of the year is back again for me to look back and evaluate what I’ve done well, what I missed, and what I need to change to make 2010 even better than 2009.

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 31, 2009 at 11:20 am

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Completed one Year @ Trivium

Its Exactly one year back when i wrote an article about my first day experience in the job that i joined on Nov 17,2008 and the time went off so fast that i already completed one year here .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - November 26, 2009 at 10:57 pm

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