Saturday, November 21, 2009
Zachman framework for enterprises
http://www.zachmaninternational.com/index.php/the-zachman-framework
ASP.NET MVC 2 BETA
The framework encourages developers to maintain a clear separation of concerns among the responsibilities of the application – the UI logic using the view, user-input handling using the controller, and the domain logic using the model. ASP.NET MVC applications are easily testable using techniques such as test-driven development (TDD).
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4817cdb2-88ea-4af4-a455-f06b4c90fd2c&displaylang=en
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Money Transfer: The Top Mobile App of 2012?
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/11/money_transfer.html
Friday, November 13, 2009
About Doloto
The rest of the application's code is replaced by short stubs -- their actual function code is transferred lazily in the background or, at the latest, on-demand on first execution. Since code download is interleaved with application execution, users can start interacting with the Web application much sooner, without waiting for the code that implements extra, unused features.
In our experiments across a number of AJAX applications and network conditions, Doloto reduced the amount of initial downloaded JavaScript code by over 40%, or hundreds of kilobytes resulting in startup often faster by 30-40%, depending on network conditions.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/ee423534.aspx
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Performancepoint in MOSS?
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/01/23/microsoft-business-intelligence-strategy-update-and-sharepoint.aspx
What this means for us:"Microsoft is removing the barriers for customers who want to deploy a complete Business Intelligence solution, leveraging their existing investments in SharePoint Server, SQL Server, and Excel. Customers with SharePoint ECAL SA will have rights to deploy PerformancePoint Server today. PerformancePoint’s scorecard capabilities are certified by the Balanced Scorecard Institute/Palladium, building on the capabilities first introduced in Business Scorecard Manager. This means companies can implement their scorecards, following any methodology they choose, and accurately reflect this with their company strategy. The contextual dashboards allow organizations to create data-rich views that are interactive and change based on the users context. Organizations can create rich views that combine Excel, Excel Services, SharePoint Lists, Reporting Services, Analysis Services, and relational information to accurately reflect the business, measure the right information, and quickly understand changes in real-time.
This capability augments the team-based KPIs in SharePoint today, and utilizes the Excel Services environment, already allowing customers to share and reuse their workbooks in personal dashboards across the organization."
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Saw USS NY
At approximately 8:00 a.m., on November 2, the future USS NEW YORK will come to a standstill across from the World Trade Center site, dip her flag, and deliver a 21-gun salute. Members of the Fire Department of New York, the New York Police Department, Port Authority Police, members of the families of 9/11 victims and veterans will gather on the shore at the North Cove in the World Financial Center to return the salute.
Sunday, November 01, 2009
SharePoint and alternative to BDC?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms546541.aspx
you can't miss thinking is there an alternative to BDC, using the same Runtime Object model exposed....Is there a plug in solution out there that could do that?
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Visit to the Statue of Liberty
Amazing piece of sculpture. It was apparently gifted to the US by France on the occasion of 100 yrs celebration for declaration of independence.
Standing on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, it welcomes visitors and immigrants traveling by ship Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi sculpted the statue.Maurice Koechlin—chief engineer of Gustave Eiffel's engineering company and designer of the Eiffel Tower engineered the internal structure. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was responsible for the choice of copper in the statue's construction and adoption of the repoussé technique, where a malleable metal is hammered on the reverse side. Amazing piece of art!
Saturday, October 24, 2009
DI using Unity Application block
http://computerauthor.blogspot.com/2009/09/di-using-unity-application-blocks.html#SolvingproblemusingUNITYblock
Application Architecture Guide 2.0
http://www.codeplex.com/AppArchGuide
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Visit to Lake Placid
Mirror lake :
Veterans Memorial:
From Whiteface:
Winter Olympics training:
About Newport and the surroundings
Below a nice snapshot of this place taken from the Hudson that borders on this city. The building with a weird top is my office..
To get a true flavor of Newport you should visit, http://www.newportnj.com/
Nice place this for families and the like..Following are some more things to see..
The mall:
Near Pavonia:
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Oslo roars ahead
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/oslo/default.aspx
Performance Engineering and architecture
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/SitePerf.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998530.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/10ASPNetPerformance.aspx
Some really nice facts of the performance and scalability aspects were brought forth by these articles.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Happy Diwali to one and all
Amazing experience..!!
Happy Diwali to all..May this new year bring happiness and enrich you with health, wealth and everything you wish for...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Something new I learnt today...
www.jslint.com is a nice tool to check the Javascript you have in code and it tells you what could be potential issues in it..Interesting!
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Enterprise Architecture
Agreed that this strategy is going to be slightly different for different companies/fields but a basic framework more tighter than Zachman and TOGAF seems to be the need of the hr.
Despite governance software (read SOA),looks like companies like HP are still trying to figure how to get to the pinnacle...IBM has some ideas but aligning IT strategy and business goals remains a challenge even now..
Lets see who gets there first ..
More thoughts to follow...
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Power in the interstices
1. Volvo’s Vision for Collision Safety Based on the African Grasshopper’s Vision
2.Fighter aircrafts and cross-country skiing
3. Bionics and the how robots are getting influenced with cognition, regenerative medicine and bioengineering..
While majority of the people in the world continue to live in their own silos, it is people who think differently, think in the interstices that seem to be getting it right...
Interesting stuff..
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Living a perfect day
What was the best day you've had in the past 12 months? What made it so special - and unforgettable? What things were you doing that time that gave you those superior results? Once you know what works, you can set about doing them with greater consistency. And consistency is the generator of Mastery.
Here are 4 recommendations for a perfect day:
1. Get up early. Getting up early is a gift you give yourself - once you install the habit. Yes, that's hard at first but after a few weeks you'll have more time for yourself every morning - time to think/read/visualize/exercise and set yourself up for superb results.
2. Run a schedule. I write more about this in The Greatness Guide where I say: "The things that get scheduled are the things that get done." Success and happiness don't happen by accident. No, they occur through conscious choice. Schedule your priorities and the most important things in your life so you can get them done.
3. Stand in Gratitude. While there are so many things you could do to ensure a great/perfect day, I find spending even 5 minutes in gratitude reshapes the way I perceive my day. Please remember, stress and gratitude can't share the same room. And you'll see more of what you pay attention to. So focus on best and block out the rest.
4. Growth. Much as we resist change, the fact is human beings are happiest when we are growing. To live perfect days, do things that move you out of your comfort zone and into your Discomfort Zone. A day with zero growth is a day unfully lived. Fears faced die speedy deaths.
Steve Jobs 10 magical principles
#10. On Management
My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects.
And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.
#9. On Hiring
Recruiting is hard. It’s just finding the needles in the haystack. You can’t know enough in a one-hour interview.
So, in the end, it’s ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they’re challenged? I ask everybody that: ‘Why are you here?’ The answers themselves are not what you’re looking for. It’s the meta-data.
#8. On Firing
We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place — the last thing we were going to do is lay them off.
#7. On a CEO succession Plan
I mean, some people say, ‘Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.’ And, you know, I think it wouldn’t be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple.
My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that’s what I try to do.
#6. On Product Strategy
It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. We figure out what we want. And I think we’re pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That’s what we get paid to do.
We just want to make great products. (I think he means “insanely great products!“)
5 Leadership Mantras
#5. On Leadership
So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.
#4. On Evangelism
When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself.
They’ll want to do what’s best for Apple, not what’s best for them, what’s best for Steve, or anybody else. (this actually reiterates my oft-repeated mantra of “ubiquitous evangelism” in companies)
#3. On Focus
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.
#2. On the User Experience
Our DNA is as a consumer company — for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.
#1. On Creativity
That happens more than you think, because this is not just engineering and science. There is art, too. Sometimes when you’re in the middle of one of these crises, you’re not sure you’re going to make it to the other end. But we’ve always made it, and so we have a certain degree of confidence, although sometimes you wonder.
I think the key thing is that we’re not all terrified at the same time. I mean, we do put our heart and soul into these things.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
NY NY...
Monday, August 10, 2009
Oslo May CTP
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9648442
Obviously there have been some issues reported around the compatibility of the Jan and the May CTPs but overall a good initiative.
More to come in this space soon...
Swine flu epidemic
Meanwhile the Indian health ministry will have to have its work cut out fast...Time is running out.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Terrorist incidents in India
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Innovation - ideas, ideas, ideas
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB121158255162818565.html?mod=yahoobarrons&ru=yahoo&page=1
http://www.futurist.com/2007/12/13/beyond-web-20/
Sunday, May 18, 2008
HP takes over EDS
Can HP Whip EDS into Shape?at BusinessWeek (Thu, May 15)
Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: H-P's takeover of EDS will test Hurd's management chopsat MarketWatch (Thu, May 15)
HP and EDS Try a Tieupat BusinessWeek (Wed, May 14)
Hewlett-Packard Gets a Tummy Acheat Motley Fool (Wed, May 14)
HP and EDS: A chat with CEOs Mark Hurd and Ron Rittenmeyerat Fortune (Wed, May 14)
If HP Gets EDS, Smaller Rivals Can't Even It Up
I would like to put my take on this takeover in a separate article.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Performance and Domain Frameworks
Also, working on some Architectural framework for domain-specific areas.
Microsoft has published its take on some domains like Finance(Capital markets and Banking), Insurance and Financial information protection.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Microsoft BPM
http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/1/f/e1f30631-482e-43b5-a69f-036e31df0c81/Microsoft%20and%20BPM%20-%20Technical%20Overview.pdf
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Stefan Thomke ...On Innovation...
Stefan Thomke of Harvard Business School has written a definitive book on the importance of experimentation. "Experimentation Matters" argues that every company’s ability to innovate depends on a series of experiments (successful or not), that help create new products and services or improve old ones. That period between the earliest point in the design cycle and the final release should be filled with experimentation, failure, analysis, and yet another round of experimentation. “Lather, rinse, repeat,” Thomke says. Unfortunately, uncertainty often causes the most able innovators to bypass the experimental stage.
In his book, Thomke outlines six principles companies can follow to unlock their innovative potential.
- Anticipate and Exploit Early Information Through ‘Front-Loaded’ Innovation Processes
- Experiment Frequently but Do Not Overload Your Organization.
- Integrate New and Traditional Technologies to Unlock Performance.
- Organize for Rapid Experimentation.
- Fail Early and Often but Avoid ‘Mistakes’.
- Manage Projects as Experiments.
Thomke further explores what would happen if the principles outlined above were used beyond the confines of the individual organization. For instance, in the state of Rhode Island, innovators are collaboratively leveraging the state's compact geography, economic and demographic diversity and close-knit networks to quickly and cost-effectively test new business models through a real-world experimentation lab.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Innovation and research
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
First entry from India
http://www.founderblog.com/
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Virtual Labs
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/traincert/virtuallab/office.mspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/aa740373.aspx
Thursday, June 28, 2007
ESB
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Synnovation...
http://www.eds.com/services/alliances/agility/synnovation/index.aspx
Some of these writers have given an indepth analysis of ways to innovate..Found some very nice info in these..
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Innovations
http://www.themedicieffect.com/index.html
Frans Johansson has done a great job in explaining innovation. Good read!
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
WSE Unearthed
Part 1 - Examines the basics of Web services, what Web services are, and the technologies and standards that serve as the underpinnings of Web services. (October 8th, 2003)
Part 2 - Examines creating Web services using Visual Studio .NET. Looks underneath the hood of the code created by VS.NET. (October 15th, 2003)
Part 3 - Examines creating a client application that consumes a Web service. Discusses the purpose and structure of a WSDL document, along with creating and using proxy classes to consume a Web service. (November 5th, 2003)
Part 4 - Examines the utility of Web services and common scenarios where Web services make sense. A business-oriented look at Web services. (November 19th, 2003)
Part 5 - Takes an in-depth look at XML serialization, which is the process of converting a data type, such as an integer, array, or custom class, into its XML representation, and back again. Every time a message is passed to or from a Web service, XML serialization transpires. (December 17th, 2003)
Part 6 - Looks at sending metadata to a Web method through the use of SOAP headers. Examines defining and accepting a SOAP header on the Web service end, and looks at sending a populated SOAP header from the client. (December 31st, 2003)
Part 7 - Examines how the incoming and outgoing messages to a Web service can be programmatically modified via SOAP Extensions. (January 21st, 2004)
Part 8 - Learn about the Web Service Enhancements (WSE) and Microsoft's free class library for implementing the WSE standards. (June 30th, 2004)
Part 9 - See how to implement UsernameToken authentication using the WSE 2.0 Toolkit. (July 14, 2004)
Part 10 - Learn how to send large amounts of data as attachments using DIME and WS-Attachments. (September 8th, 2004)
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Sharepoint WebParts
ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part vs Sharepoint 2007 Web Parts
Resources
Sharepoint Web Parts Overview http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms432401.aspx
Windows SharePoint Services Web Part Infrastructurehttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms415560.aspx
Walkthrough: Creating a Basic SharePoint Web Parthttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms452873.aspx
Walkthrough: Creating Connectable SharePoint Web Partshttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms469765.aspx
Creating Web Parts in Windows SharePoint Services http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms367238.aspx
Working with the Windows SharePoint Services WebPart Class http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms473203.aspx
Channel 9 Video: Building ASP.NET Web Parts for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=192071
15 Seconds: Building Web Parts for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 http://15seconds.com/issue/060824.htm
15 Seconds: Building an ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part for Deployment to WSS V3.0 and MOSS 2007 - Part 1 http://15seconds.com/issue/060914.htm
Scott Guthrie (MSFT): Writing Custom Web Parts for SharePoint 2007 http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/09/02/Writing-Custom-Web-Parts-for-SharePoint-2007.aspx
Mark Kruger (SharePoint MVP): Great resource link site for almost everything Sharepoint http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mkruger/archive/2006/05/25/7570.aspx
If anyone has any great resources on comparisons between the two let me know I would be interested ...
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Hmm....Mangoes now in the US
Tasty stuff...:)
Monday, April 30, 2007
India - A Trillion dollar economy
Oh well...It has...Another sleeping giant has gotten up...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Really busy...
PM has been kinda interesting off late as well...Patterns, Methodologies...I think I like those..
Will blog in detail about some of those soon..
Saturday, March 31, 2007
PMP Certification and Technical Interview Quest
Meanwhile I am also trying to create a small database of MSFT Technologies interview questions that will be helpful to everyone..
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
PMP Training
Now Project Management seems to be the flavor of the day everywhere I see. Our company seems to be enroute to creating a pool of PMs who can help other depts manage their projects and processes. I will b out attending the PMP training at Hilton Computers Apr 2 - 6. Having done certain aspects of PM in CMMi I think it should not be that difficult. Lets see..
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Orcas
- Delivers innovative new programming language features, such as those found with in the .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
- Enables designers and developers to work together more effectively than ever
- Enable Web developers to quickly build applications with the broadest possible reach and a rich, browser based client experience
I really hope MSFT can live upto its promise.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Case Study with MSFT
We have been invited to write a case study based on this...Should be interesting!
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Project Server 2007 and MOPS 2007 POC
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Back from India...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Sharepoint features
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dustin/articles/5235.aspx
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
So many new technologies!!!
Chief among them being
Sharepoint 2007
WWF 3.0
VSTS new version
Project Server 2007
Office 2007
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Straight onto Real world
Getting interested on reading about requirements gathering since thats one area we still need to work on...so long!
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Hurrah! CMM Level 2
Hope we can continue the momentum..Now onto something new and exciting!
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
D-Day
Hope all goes well today.
Sunday, November 26, 2006
About del.icio.us
I have created mine at http://del.icio.us/advait_k
Friday, November 24, 2006
Getting closer to appraisal...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Been a while...
Meanwhile I have grown some fancy to newer technologies like :
Office 12
Project Server 2007
WSS 3.O
Windows Workflow Foundation Services
.NET 3.O
Found an interesting blog about Software Return on Investment
http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2006/11/11/return-on-investment-on-software.aspx
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Sunday, September 03, 2006
CMMi Progress
Lets see how we progress...
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Certification
Friday, February 24, 2006
CMMi
Monday, January 30, 2006
SAP Modules
SAP BW
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sem60/helpdata/en/e3/e60138fede083de10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm
SAP SEM
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sem60/helpdata/en/3a/c670373bbf0303e10000009b38f842/frameset.htm
SAP NetWeaver
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/start.htm
Sunday, January 29, 2006
DSL Tools
http://blogs.msdn.com/pedrosilva/archive/2005/11/08/490640.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/alan_cameron_wills/
http://blogs.msdn.com/jochens/
http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecook/
http://blogs.msdn.com/stuart_kent/
http://blogs.msdn.com/georgem/
is interesting
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
New Architectural Link
http://realworldsa.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Monday, January 09, 2006
Friday, January 06, 2006
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Back from India
version. Looks like we are in for some luck now that the latest version of TS is more stable
and forgiving than Beta 3 refresh..
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Microsoft Certified Architect Program
http://www.microsoft.com/architecture/default.aspx?pid=journal
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/architect/
Friday, October 28, 2005
Microsoft CRM
Microsoft CRM Demos
Microsoft CRM Customer Service Demo
Microsoft CRM Overview Demo
Microsoft CRM Sales Demo
Microsoft CRM White Papers
CRM ROI Blueprint 2004 - How Customer-Focused Strategies and Solutions Drive Productivity, Profitability and Growth (154 KB)
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Very useful Build Links
Team Foundation Team Blog - Team Foundation Build Overview
Product Documentation - Managing Builds with Team Foundation Build
Product Documentation - Team Foundation Build Walkthroughs
Product Documentation - Performing Nightly Builds with Team Foundation Server
MSDN Forums - Teambuild: Customizing the e-mail sent when a build completes
TeamSystemRocks.com Video - Automating Nightly Builds with Team Build
TeamSystemRocks.com Video - Customizing the Build Process with Team Build
Product Documentation - Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Known Issues
And Nagaraju Palla, a technical lead at the India Development Center, added links to these related blogs:
http://blogs.msdn.com/nagarajp
http://blogs.msdn.com/anutthara
http://blogs.msdn.com/manishagarwal
http://blogs.msdn.com/hemantk
http://blogs.msdn.com/Uday
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Team Foundation Build
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms242867
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171479(en-US,VS.80).aspx
Office Add-Ins
http://blogs.msdn.com/team_foundation/archive/2005/01/21/358536.aspx
Sunday, October 16, 2005
New Terms from MSFT
Roadmap - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/roadmap.aspx
Planning for Orcas - http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=24709
Avalon - http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/building/presentation/default.aspx
Indigo - http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/indigo/default.aspx
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Team System Features
Saturday, October 08, 2005
Internal workings for IIS
http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/howaspnetworks/howaspnetworks.asp
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Saturday, October 01, 2005
Found VSTS Template customisation link
http://weblogs.asp.net/dmckinstry/archive/2005/03/10/392424.aspx
Shrini 's Blog on Software Testing
Friday, September 30, 2005
First Blog
I started off with searching for some MS.NET sites since I work as a Tech Architect in this technology. I found some really innovative blogs of people who are working on this technology. So I have added links to their sites here..