Sudev Gandhi

Few Tips To Get Best out of Databases Indexes.

2010-06-02T19:31:00.001+05:30

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Why SharePoint 2007?

2008-10-16T17:26:00.002+05:30

It is rare for a technology product to attract as much attention as SharePoint has in recent years. The industry has historically paid little attention to new product suites, particularly those related to web design. SharePoint products and technologies, however, have managed to excite and rejuvenate industry followers, causing them to take notice of the ease of use, scalability, flexibility, and

A problem I faced with WSS 3.0 configuration

2008-10-16T17:23:00.006+05:30

I’d like to share a typical problem recently I faced with WSS 3.0 configuration on a Windows 2003 Server.I created a virtual machine with Windows 2003 OS and named it “myvpc” in a hypothetical workgroup viz. “WKGP” (I initially planned to use it in stand-alone mode). Then I installed all available updates to the Windows Server and .Net framework 3.5 with IIS followed by Stand-alone installation

Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2010

2008-10-16T17:23:00.005+05:30

Microsoft is offering a first look at the next version of its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) and platform, which will be named Visual Studio 2010 and the .Net Framework 4.0.http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc948977.aspxThere’s a lot promised in the new release (expected to ship, duh, in 2010), from improved software testing tools to software engineering

THE MOSS ARCHITECTURE

2008-10-16T17:22:00.002+05:30

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 can, working with other components of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite of applications, provide the functionality and benefits described previously. However, the amount of functionality derived from an MOSS installation depends on the features implemented and activated, as well as whether or not the MOSS environment is used to extend other building blocks,

SQL Server Reporting Service – Few Important Concepts And Overview

2008-10-16T17:08:00.003+05:30

SQL Server Reporting Services, due to its robust but user friendly architecture, is an obvious choice for Enterprise or in-house reporting, for product management, sales, and human resource and finance departments. Its flexibility makes it an ideal for usage in applications as well (Deliver User-Friendly Reports from Your Application with SQL Server Reporting Services - MSDN Magazine August 2004)

Gas and Dust of the Lagoon Nebula

2008-07-15T12:04:00.002+05:30

This beautiful cosmic cloud is a popular stop on telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius. Afer all I'm also Saggy only and equally handsome ;).Eighteenth century cosmic toyurist Charles Messier cataloged the bright nebula as M8, while modern day astronomers recognize the Lagoon Nebula as an active stellar nursery about 5,000 light-years distant, in direction of the center of our Milky

Why Google Changed Their FavICON

2008-06-26T16:23:00.001+05:30

You may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, the small icon you see in your browser next to the URL or in your bookmarks list.Few days ago Google changed their favicon, from “Big G” to “small g“. It was a surprise! Why would google change the “Big G” which is recognised all over the world!Lots of questions filled my head…• Why would google change the “Big G” which is recognised all over

How Cloud Computing Works

2008-06-11T19:07:00.003+05:30

Inside This Article you'll find1. Introduction to How Cloud Computing Works 2. Cloud Computing Architecture 3. Cloud Computing Applications and4. Cloud Computing Concerns read more | digg story

Ten NASA Inventions You Might Use Every Day

2008-06-11T18:56:00.002+05:30

Although most people today will never set foot on the moon, everyone likely comes in contact with a NASA by-product every day. Partnering with various research teams and companies, NASA continues to spawn a vast array of new technologies and products that have improved our daily lives.read more | digg story

Chips stack up in third dimension

2008-06-08T11:34:00.002+05:30

Stacks of chips, one on top of the other, will power the next generation of superfast PCs, IBM has announced. Laying chips vertically, instead of side by side, reduces the distance data has to travel by 1,000 times, making the chips faster and more efficient. Big blue has said that it will start producing the compact silicon sandwiches in 2008. Chip manufacturer Intel has previously announced

The free online SQL Formatter -- SQLinForm

2008-06-06T15:09:00.002+05:30

SQLinForm is an automatic SQL code formatter for all major databases ( ORACLE, SQL Server, DB2 / UDB, Sybase, Informix, PostgreSQL, MySQL etc) with many formatting options . No installation needed. No database driver necessary. Even incomplete SQL statements or SQL statements with syntax errors are formatted Run it out of your browser It is secure. No SQL statement is transferred from the

Google Shell

2008-06-05T11:22:00.002+05:30

One more stuff thing for Google Lovers. It's Google shell (goosh, it's unofficial though). It's again a cool and simple thing developed for Google Lovers like me. Though you can wonder what is the need of such a thing, but hey, you never know where it can be used. I like the web, images and video searching options. And surprisingly, it's pretty damn fast, as if we are really using a shell. Check

Microsoft warns Windows users about Safari security flaw

2008-06-04T10:00:00.002+05:30

Microsoft has released details on a flaw in the Safari browser that, coupled with the correct Windows or Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, could be used to execute malware. Changing the default download location on Safari is enough for a workaround.read more digg story

Creating Custom SharePoint Timer Jobs

2008-06-03T18:46:00.001+05:30

In previous versions of SharePoint (or other platforms), if you had some task you wanted to perform on a scheduled basis, you'd have to either create a console EXE and schedule it to run via Windows Task Scheduler (ala AT.EXE) or create a Windows Service that went to sleep for a period of time. In order to install (and maintain) these tasks, you had to have console access to your production

Incredible pictures of one of Earth's last uncontacted tribe

2008-06-03T09:58:00.002+05:30

They are members of one of Earth's last uncontacted tribes, who live along the Brazilian-Peruvian frontier, and are thought never to have had any contact with the outside world.read more | digg story

Hitachi Maxell claims new Li-ion battery with 20x the power

2008-06-02T10:45:00.000+05:30

Hitachi Maxell and a number of universities and firms in Japan have created a design for a Li-Ion battery that will last 20x longer than current unitsElectric cars with 2000miles range on single charge, cell phones requiring outlet once in a month, laptops with batteries for 1 week. Lets hope technology finds its way to life sooner than later.read more | digg story

Windows 7 demo: all multitouch and no meat

2008-05-29T12:45:00.002+05:30

The first public demonstration of Windows 7 was made at the D6 conference, showing off Windows 7's multitouch features. Notably absent from the demo was anything new.read more | digg story

Comma separated list of values of single Database table field

2008-05-29T10:16:00.002+05:30

Many times you need to create a comma seperated list of values in a table. Here is a line of T-SQL solution to get comma separated list of values of single field of a database table. DECLARE @commaSeparatedVal AS VARCHAR(MAX); SELECT @commaSeparatedVal = ISNULL(@commaSeparatedVal +',','') + CONVERT(VARCHAR,[SKU]) FROM PRODUCT PRINT @commaSeparatedVal

New Google Talk in Lab

2008-05-28T15:36:00.002+05:30

Google Talk, Labs Edition is an experimental release of the Google Talk client. It has many of the same great features as the Google Talk Gadget, including instant messaging, emoticons, and group chat. Google Talk, Labs Edition also comes with new desktop notifications from Calendar, Orkut, and Gmail. You can download it from http://www.google.com/talk/labsedition/. browse discussion on http

Importance of !important in CSS

2008-05-27T10:12:00.002+05:30

Do you know What does !important mean in CSS?, an "!important" declaration (the keywords "!" and "important" follow the declaration) this takes high precedence over a normal declaration. And can be framed in this way, this means that the styles are applied in order as they are read by the browser. CSS it tries to create a balance of power between author and user style sheets. By default, rules

Download A Firefox Version that speaks your language

2008-05-26T10:38:00.001+05:30

The award-winning open source Web browser Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is available in more than 45 languages (including Gujarati and Punjabi) as a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed. Check out http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html for more

Disney builds virtual bridge for interactive games

2008-05-26T10:03:00.002+05:30

Disney is bridging the gap between gaming and virtual worlds. Disney Interactive Studios on Thursday formally launched DGamer, a free avatar-based community for U.S. buyers of games the company...read more | digg story

The "Hello World" Program, in 366 Programming Languages!

2008-05-23T09:45:00.001+05:30

"Hello World" is the traditional first program you write when learning a new language, first appearing in K&R's "The C Programming Language" book in 1978. Since then it has been implemented in almost every programming language on the planet. This collection has it in 366 coding languages and 58 human ones! Is your favourite here?read more | digg story

A Blog From Google Docs

2008-05-22T16:16:00.000+05:30

Hi All, I'm just exploring this exciting feature from Google Docs. You can directly publish your online documents as blogs in simple steps. One more reason to love Google. Regards, Sudev Gandhi

ODF Wins the Office Document Format War

2008-05-22T09:52:00.001+05:30

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will bring improved XML support to the office suite -- but it will be to ODF and not Microsoft's own format.read more | digg story

China Earthquake buried 32 sources of radiation

2008-05-21T10:39:00.001+05:30

More than 30 sources of radiation were buried by debris from the massive earthquake in central China last week and all have either been recovered or safely cordoned off, state media reported Tuesday. A French nuclear expert said the radioactive sources likely came from materials used in hospitals, factories or in research, not for weapons.read more | digg story

The Google File System - Google's core storage platform

2008-05-20T11:50:00.001+05:30

Google File System - large distributed log structured file system in which they throw in a lot of data. Reliable scalable storage is a core need of any application. GFS is Google's core storage platform.Google File System (GFS) is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google for its own use. Its point is both to assure reliablity by using redundant copies and to allow individual most

Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data

2008-05-20T11:00:00.001+05:30

Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many projects at Google store data in Bigtable, including web indexing, Google Earth, and Google Finance.read more digg story

Ten technology trends that will shape 2008

2008-05-20T09:58:00.001+05:30

Grid computingIndia is the fastest adopter of grid computing in the world, according to Oracle’s Grid Index IV. Oracle should know, since it has 70 customers in India using its grid solutions.Grid computing is applying the resources of many computers in a network to a single problem at the same time. It is not a new phenomenon. Research organisations, government

Rules to Better Virtual PCs

2008-05-19T12:51:00.001+05:30

Microsoft Virtual PC provides facilities to run a complete operating system and hard drive images on top of a host operating system. This is a boon for testing in multiple environments and for hosting providers.However, to run Virtual PC in a most efficient way, we have developed a few rules for a better Virtual PC usage.read more digg story

Safety based on radar technology – Audi braking guard - Auto

2008-05-17T14:40:00.001+05:30

Audi braking guard forms part of the radar-based adaptive cruise control system, or ACC for short. This system regulates the speed and the distance from the vehicle in front at speeds between 30 and 200 km/h, independently applying the brakes within certain limits in the process. The amount of traffic on our roads is increasing constantly, as is the amount of information that needs to be

Google Introduces Brand New Google Reader For iPhone

2008-05-17T10:05:00.001+05:30

Searching through all of those RSS subscriptions on a small screen can be quite a bit of a cumbersome experience, but to make Google Reader for iPhone even better, Google took advantage of the device’s capabilities and released a new beta version designed for the iPhone and other mobile phones with advanced browsers.Visit my homepage ( http://sudev.gandhi.googlepages.com ) for latest news

Naming Polygons

2008-05-16T18:11:00.000+05:30

What do you call an 11-sided polygon? A 14-sided polygon? Can you give me a list of names of polygons?This answer represents excerpts from contributions made by Prof. John Conway of Princeton University to the geometry.college and geometry.pre-college newsgroups. For an etymological discussion in the Dr. Math archive, see "Naming Polygons."When naming polygons, for the "numerical" part of the

Astronomers baffled by weird, fast-spinning pulsar

2008-05-16T10:31:00.001+05:30

Astronomers are baffled after finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun -- an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects. The rapidly spinning pulsar -- an extraordinarily dense object created when a massive star exploded as a supernova -- is called J1903+0327 and is located about 21,000 light years from

Make more money with adsense

2008-05-15T16:50:00.001+05:30

A very interesting ‘make more money with adsense’ success story. The earnings went up about 400% and we do indeed make more money with adsense now!read more | digg story

Scientists aim to unlock deep-sea “secrets” of Earth’s crust

2008-05-15T16:39:00.001+05:30

During the five-week expedition they will use explorer robots to map individual volcanoes on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge tectonic plate boundary – which effectively runs down the centre of the Atlantic Ocean - almost two miles (3km) below the surface of the sea.The work is funded by a grant from the Natural Environment Research Council, which also owns and operates the RRS James Cook.read more | digg

Top 10 “top 10 SEO tips” from Google

2008-05-15T15:53:00.001+05:30

Click Here to see them in detail...Regards,Sudev Gandhihttp://sudev.gandhi.googlepages.comread more digg story

How To Get Hardware Information Using MS.Net Code

2008-05-13T17:11:00.001+05:30

For numerous reasons, you may need to access system hardware information. One example is when you have created a software and you want to put a lock on that software or you want to uniquely identify the a computer. Following article demonstrates how to achive this task using managed MS.Net code.http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/GetHardwareInformation.aspxI must say its awsome piece of

Mac OS X System Overview

2006-03-21T00:55:00.000+05:30

Introduction Mac OS X is a uniquely powerful development platform, supporting multiple development technologies including UNIX, Java, the proprietary Cocoa and Carbon runtime environments, and a host of open source, web, scripting, database, and development technologies. Built around the integrated stack of graphics and media technologies including Core Image, Core Video, Core Audio and QuickTime