My Blog got a permanent home

Finally I was able to relocate my blog from rented premises to a permanent one. From now on I will be blogging at http://blog.techrepository.in and all my previous post will also be available there.

Also along with that I have hosted a new site www.techrepository.in, which I will use to post latest happenings in the technical world, tips and tricks, tutorials, faq, online quizzes etc etc.

I has been very fortunate with the visitors my site till now and expects support for this initiative. After all what I am now is all because of all you you out there.

So till next time, happy blogging.....

My Session at Trivandrum Windows Azure Camp – Preview

I will be speaking on Cloud computing and Windows Azure at the Windows Azure camp conducted by Microsoft in Trivandrum on 30th of April. For more details, please visit the K-MUG site. I am hoping to kick off the session by giving an introduction to cloud computing and then will explain the current scenarios for deploying the appliciations.

After that I will be spending the next half hour explaining the Azure architecture, its various components and its working. I am also hoping to show some demos also along with this. I will round up my talk with an indepth coverage of the management portal and the developer experience.

So see  you folks at the venue and do drop in if you have any queries

Windows Azure Camp at Trivandrum on 30th April

 

Microsoft is organizing the Windows Azure camps in various cities across India.

As part of it, K-MUG in association with Microsoft is conducting a day long event on Windows Azure at Thiruvananthapuram on April 30, 2011.

If you are interested in learning more about cloud computing and Microsoft's offerings for that environment, come and join me and my fellow speakers on 30th

Venue

Zenith Hall, UST Global, Bhavani,Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram

 

Agenda

• Cloud Computing and Azure Overview
• Azure Architecture
• Azure Management Portal
• Services and Tools Needed
• Create and debug Azure Application
• Deploy application in Azure
• Lunch Break
• Moving ASP.NET application to Azure
• Moving SQL Express database to Azure
• SQL Windows Azure App Fabric Cache

Speakers  

Amal Dev works as a Senior Software Engineer with Gemini Software Solutions, Technopark. An avid techie who constantly articles in his blog, http://inquisitive-instincts.blogspot.com/ .He has been working with .NET technologies since its inception and his area of interests include C#, ASP.NET, WP7, Silverlight.

Shiju Varghese, Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET, is a Technical Architect on the Microsoft .Net technology stack with a focus on web application development and Domain-Driven Design. He has been working with .Net Technologies since beta version. Shiju focuses on C#, ASP.Net MVC, Entity Framework, Windows Azure, REST, WCF and Unity. Shiju holds number of Microsoft certifications including MCP, MCAD, MCTS, and MCPD: Web. He blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/shijuvarghese/

   

Yanesh Tyagi is a technical architect with Millennium Consultants. He has extensive 16 years of experience working on different technologies, specially Microsoft Technologies. He has been with .NET since it's early days. Yanesh has worked in many domains inclusing BFSI, Travel, Education, Manufacturing, eCommerce etc. Yanesh is also involved in some open source projects.

                                                                                   

Microsoft DreamSpark Yatra coming to Kochi

 

  
 

 Student Chapter of K-MUG is conducting Dreamspark Yatra at Kochi in association with Microsoft. The focus of the event is to help students to know more about the latest technologies and which in turn helps in kick start their careers.K-MUG students chapter is lead by the Microsoft Student Partners – the student volunteers who are specially selected by Microsoft on an annual basis.

About Dreamspark Yatra

 

Dreamspark Yatra (DSY) is a Microsoft India initiative empowering students who are passionate about technology to get an insightful overview of the current trends in the software industry. As a part of this national campaign, we bring the brightest students and professionals of the IT world and put them right in front of you - to discuss about technology, careers in computer science, give technical presentations and some exciting demos. For more details, please visit Dreamspark Yatra and for more details about the Kochi event can be found here Dreamspark Yatra – Kochi

Internet Explorer 9 Released

Microsoft today released its latest version of their browser, Internet Explorer 9 to the world wide audience at the SXSW event. Its been already the most downloaded beta version of any software product released by Microsoft and already been downloaded 40 million time.The beta version and platform preview versions of it were available for the last year or so and final release doesn't have significant changes when compared the RC version

IE 9 can be downloaded from the official IE 9 site www.beautyoftheweb.com and is compatible only for Windows Vista/7 . The main features include HTML 5 compliance, fast, standards compliant, trustworthy and puts more focus on the website rather than the web browser, which helps for a better browsing experience.

For more details and review, please visit the sites given below

http://www.neowin.net/news/internet-explorer-9-rtm-now-available

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/reviews/2011/03/the-most-modern-browser-there-is-internet-explorer-9-reviewed.ars

http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpps/news/microsoft-launches-internet-explorer-9-dpgoha-20110315-fc_12327455

.NET Framework - Overview

 

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User Group Meeting - 12th March 2011 - Kochi

Venue:

Orion India Systems Pvt Ltd, 103, 2nd floor, Tejomaya, Info park SEZ, Kakkanad, Kochin-682030  

Agenda                                           

                                 

09:30 - 09:40 Community updates

09:40 - 10:30 Introduction to Windows Azure

10:30 - 11:15 Pattern Oriented Software development using .NET

11:15 - 11:30 Tea Break (15 min)

11:30 - 12:15 Developing web apps with ASP.NET MVC 3 and EF Code First

12.15 - 01:00 Ask the experts

For registration, please visit K-MUG site @ www.k-mug.org

Speakers

	Saravana Kumar  is Working as a Senior Software Engineer in Orion India Systems Pvt. Ltd, cochin. He has 4 years of Experience in IT Industry,  Expertise in developing applications using   Microsoft Technologies and also in Interwoven. He writes programming articles in his website http://www.wcftutorial.net.

	Praseed Pai is a well known software architect from Kochi,Kerala. His areas of interest include Enterprise software development (using C#/.net) ,Engineering Software development(CAD/CAM/C++),Cross Platform C++ development (Windows/Linux/Mac), Computer Graphics, Computational Finance and Domain specific programming languages. At present, he is associated with Cabot solutions, Kochi. His blog can be accessed here.   His open source compiler SLANG4.net got many fans
	Shiju Varghese, Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET, is a Technical Architect on the Microsoft .Net technology stack with a focus on web application development and Domain-Driven Design. He has been working with .Net Technologies since beta version. Shiju focuses on C#, ASP.Net MVC, Entity Framework, Windows Azure, REST, WCF and Unity. Shiju holds number of Microsoft certifications including MCP, MCAD, MCTS, and MCPD: Web.  He blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/shijuvarghese/

Mobiles Mobiles Mobiles

 History of mobile technology and overview of platforms available for developing apps for mobiles

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Microsoft WebCamp at Kochi on Feb 18, 2011

I am attending the webcamp happening at Kochi on Feb 18, 2011. If anyone is interested, please see the details below.

09:00am - 10:00am     Registration
10:00am - 10:30am     Opening Keynote     

                                           Nahas Mohammed,Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu
10:30am - 11:30am     Introduction to WebMatrix    

                                           Nahas Mohammed
11:30am - 12:30pm     Forms and Data Access     

                                           Nahas Mohammed
12:30pm - 01:30pm     Lunch Break
01:30pm - 02:30pm     Helpers and Publishing     

                                           Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu
02:30pm - 03:30pm     DotNetNuke on WebMatrix     

                                           Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu
03:30pm - 04:00pm     Audience Q&A and Closing Note     

                                           Nahas Mohammed,Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu

Venue Details

City        Kochin
Date       18th February, 2011
Venue     Abad Plaza
Address   M.G Road, Cochin-682 035
RSVP      080-4089 7010, +91-96636 82120

More details at http://www.microsoft.com/india/events/webcamps/day_events.aspx
 

My First Post Of The Year

Since I was busy with work at my workplace, I was unable to spend time for updating my blogs. We are about to complete a month of the new year and I decided to post my first article of the year.

Update on IE 9

There are unconfirmed reports in the media that Microsoft is planning the public release of Internet Explorer 9 RC on February 14. The beta was made available to the public last year and its been already downloaded 10 million time, making it the most for any beta version of Internet Explorer. Its been rumoured that the final version will incorporate many changes which were not present in the beta version. With the release of IE9,Microsoft is banking on it to gain lost grounds from Chrome and Firefox.

Windows Phone 7

Microsoft released first update to the Windows Phone 7 platform this month and the features include the much needed Copy & Paste functionality, better market place search and faster application and games. The platform is slowly attaining a global reach with more and more manufacturers releasing the WP7 devices world wide. It had also run into several hiccups, the phantom data usage being the most significant one. But MS was quick to respond in resolving the matter, which was not a bug and was attributed to a third party service that caused larger than expected data usage.

Also there were news that some developers has got payments from Windows Phone Marketplace, which came to light through some posting by the developers itself. Earlier Microsoft has said that they will be depositing the money by the last week of January.

My End of Season Thoughts……

 

Another year is going to say good bye to us and its been an eventful year for me. For me, this year started off in the worst possible manner, in the causality of a hospital. Sitting there, I thought it was not a good omen and expected lot of worst things in the days ahead. But to my surprise it turned out to be one of the most interesting time in my life. I ventured in to many new things like blogging, got involved with a technical community, delivered a presentation on WP7 and so on. My blog was up and running this and got over a thousand visitors. A big thank you to all and expects a lot in the coming years also.

Also my long cherished dream of having an SLR was finally fulfilled this year by a friend of mine who bought it from overseas. Then there were a lot of weekend getaways with my friends from college and office. This year also helped me to network with many people from Vijay Raj, an active blogger widely known as msigeek, Janakiraman from MS, Sreeju, Anoop aka AmazedSaint, Jairam, Ramprasanna, again a MS guy who is very familiar these days with this adventures in robotics, Anuraj, Shalvin, Yanesh, Saravana Kumar, Bijith, Safil, Shiju, Satheesh, Saleem and the list goes on. Thanks a lot guys, loved every second spent with you.

Speaking of technology, we experienced an eventful year. We finally the saw the uprising of tablets and smartphones which are poised to dethrone PC’s and laptops in the coming decade.Its that time of year when we take a stock of the developments happened in the past year and here from my perspective the end of the season accolades goes to……