Entries from July 2006

July 31, 2006

hellooooo newyork. HURRICANE!!

heres some pieces of conversation i overheard in (chicken!!) nugget form!
- hurricane going to hit new york in 2006. and prolly a major one too
- Allstate insurance not giving out new home insurances in new york area. existing insurance ( if not coupled with auto insurances) are being sent back as non renewed (spooky!)
-water to [...]

July 29, 2006

yipee

the poison ivy induced swolleness on my face has subsided.. but my hand looks leprous.. hope skin becomes normal in a couple of days…

July 28, 2006

diff kinds of licenses..

there are days when suddenly a random thought, somewhere from out of the yonder blues pop up… today was such a day.. the thought was about s/w  licenses… (i know, pretty wierd!!) so to satisfy my freakish inquisitiveness i did a lil research on licenses.. there are licenses for commercial and non-commercial products. the [...]

July 27, 2006

SDLC

SDLC = Sofware Development LifeCycle.. today i started messing around with a testing a tool called “TestComplete” from automatedQA. TestComplete is an automated test manager, with project level support for the full range of internal and UI testing. Seems complicated. I guess i’ll get a grip on it in a couple more days. Using this [...]

July 27, 2006

another race?

so check this out.. i still walk around with the poison ivy deformed body.. swollen face and rash covered limbs.. i look more chinese than indian.. (thanks to the swollen eyelids!!) i was on the train expecting a lot many eyes turning my way… but surprisingly not even one!! hmm.. prolly people thought that i [...]

July 26, 2006

an overview of big tech companies

heres a good article i came across the internet that mentions certain key points about the current IT industry leaders…. google, yahoo, microsoft, amazon, ebay 

July 25, 2006

free it mags

here are couple free good it mags
1. infoworld
2. eweek
3. baseline
4. CIO Insight

July 23, 2006

the attack of the poison ivy

so here i am sitting at home, scratching and itching hours and minutes of a wonderful weekand away.. face all swollen, hands all blistered, mind all bored.. reason? the 3 leaved POISON IVY i touched in the backyard!! (the rashes started showing its ugly face only after a few days) cant i go out? way [...]

July 23, 2006

y i am not a member of the “giga” society…

giga society?? if u havent heard of this society, dont be surprised.. a lot many havent either… now the answer to the question y im  not a member of the giga society is, simply because my IQ (136 according to “tickle“) is way less than 196 and thus is not in the 99.9999999 ( yep, [...]

July 22, 2006

datalist, datagrid or repeater

in asp.net, visual studio 2005 provides you with 3 controls to view data from a source.. all three controls are populated by using a datasource (which can be a database, xml, odbc sources..) by using the databind() method.
1. repeater is the basic of all the three
2. datagrid is easy to use. u can connect to [...]