Implement Custom Cache Dependencies in ASP.NET 1.x

Good article which talks about how to get cache dependencies working in ASP.NET 1.x
This is a new object which is available out of the box in .NET 2.0.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/07/CuttingEdge/default.aspx

Should check out the workings of the same and create custom snippets that can be used in our day to day apps...

Omea Reader

JetBrains announces a new addition to its family of information management products. Omea Reader is
a RSS/ATOM feed reader, newsgroup reader, and web bookmark manager with a set of powerful information organization and
management features.

As a limited time offer, valid until January, 1st 2005, it will be available for free download.

[Omea News]

I recently downloaded this from the Jetbrains website. These are the guys who brought out intelliJ and Resharper. Omea is a all in one information management system which integrates with Outlook, windows file system, your newsgroups, your rss feeds, web bookmarks. Pretty good interface and nice way of presenting what is important to you as views. Omea reader is a lite version of Omea and does not contain the Outlook integration. The RSS news feeds and Newsgroups reader is pretty good. It also has a pluggin to wbloggar to quickly post a blog directly from that interface. One of the nice features is it groups these items into categories that are defined as today, yesterday, last week etc.

Currenlty I use Sharpreader to read blogs and Outlook express to read news. Omea reader gives me one package to do both. Lets see if I stick to this for some more time...

The first time I downloaded Omea by mistake. It is a time limited beta edition. Omea reader is offering a free licence and is available for donwload till Jan 2005.

A cool tip for anyone who uses this reader....
You can import your OPML file to quickly get up to speed using this reader but one thing I missed sorely was to display all the newly updated feeds in a list. A quick way to do that would be to create your own folder, call it "All" and import your OPML feeds within this folder. Clicking on "All" will now allow you to see all the feed updates from within one folder.

MSDN2 preview

The new version of MSDN website available for a sneak preview. It is still buggy, but you can get a flavour of what is coming up soon....
I remember Sonali was testing this a few months ago in Aditi.

Microsoft, who for years has heard reams of feedback and complaints about MSDN, has announced the release of the complete revamp of MSDN, dubbed "MSDN2". Of principal note is the new URL format, of the form http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/System.IO.Compression.GZipStream, which promise to be stable now and forevermore. [TheServerSide.NET: Your Enterprise .NET Community]

Helping the Small Blogs...

Helping the Small Blogs...
There are by some estimates more than a million weblogs. But most of them get no visibility in search engines. Only a few “A-List” blogs get into the top search engine results for a given topic, while the majority of blogs just don’t get noticed. The reason is that the smaller blogs don’t have enough links pointing to them. But this posting could solve that. Let’s help the smaller blogs get more visibility!
This posting is GoMeme 4.0. It is part of an experiment to see if we can create a blog posting that helps 1000’s of blogs get higher rankings in Google. So far we have tried 3 earlier variations. Our first test, GoMeme 1.0, spread to nearly 740 blogs in 2.5 days. This new version 4.0 is shorter, simpler, and fits more easily into your blog.
Why are we doing this? We want to help thousands of blogs get more visibility in Google and other search engines. How does it work? Just follow the instructions below to re-post this meme in your blog and add your URL to the end of the Path List below. As the meme spreads onwards from your blog, so will your URL. Later, when your blog is indexed by search engines, they will see the links pointing to your blog from all the downstream blogs that got this via you, which will cause them to rank your blog higher in search results. Everyone in the Path List below benefits in a similar way as this meme spreads. Try it!
Instructions: Just copy this entire post and paste it into your blog. Then add your URL to the end of the path list below, and pass it on! (Make sure you add your URLs as live links or HTML code to the Path List below.)

Path List
Minding the Planet
Luke Hutteman’s public virtual MemoryStream
Mohammad.Abdulfatah, Chronicles Of
Anand M, DotNet From India
AbhisekBanerjee, Abhi's Weblog

(your URL goes here! But first, please copy this line and move it down to the next line for the next person).
(NOTE: Be sure you paste live links for the Path List or use HTML code.)

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 PR

This is an awesome browser. Firefox was cool with all the features and clean an proper browser with no frills attached. I used the version 0.8 for quite some time now.
1.0 is way too cool. I really like the extensions available with it. The developer extension allows you to do a lot with the code. Should be easy to check with the different window sizes, css properties and images. It also shows the alt text only. Great for general web development.
Will continue to use this more frequently from now on. A definite try for anyone using a different browser.

I read somewhere that Microsoft better watch out. I sure think that was well worth the warning, Firefox is stomping home....

Another of My Website

Site Manager

Nano Net ...Another free webhost...
Womder how I will keep track of all these places..guess I will anyways..
Currently just as a redumdamcy factor...
Latest to the list is

http://new.nnsol.com/abhisekb

Web-Style Navigation in Windows Forms

IUIs and Web-Style Navigation in Windows Forms, Part 1

Good article about the future of windows forms to make things easier for users. Mainly developed on ideas by Jan Miksovsky of the Longhorn User experience team.

Looks like a better way in devloping win forms applications which are task based and has a series of operations to be performed to comeplete the task. We have usually referred to a similar type of Ui as Wizard based UI but IUI ( Inductive UI) is probably a cool term to be used for now..

Anyways lets see how this progresses and is apporved by the developer community :)

Some more stuff on the same lines....
Microsoft Inductive User Interface Guidelines

Google Toolbar Installed

Google Toolbar Installed

Yes... After being coaxed to be installed for more than a year I finally succumbed to the temptation. Specially with Win XP SP2 being delayed yet again and popups on the rise, hope the google toolbar will ease some of my worries.

Another cool feature is the blog this button. Hope to make good use of it as I am doing now.

Rest later.. Off to bed for now...

Sonali and Abhi

Sonali and Abhi

This was on our way from Meerut to Delhi after we got married. Thanks to Vishal to capture this moment in our life...