Senthil Kumar's Blog

A few months back i had posted a Q&A on the Topic ” What it takes to be a Good Programmer ” in LinkedIn . The response i got was really good .Here is some of My favourites and the summarization of it .Let me make it clear that I do not consider myself a good programmer. My coding skills are just a mere average and i am still learning and there is a long way to go before i am even pleased with my Programming skills .

ASP.NET MVC is a web development framework from Microsoft that combines the effectiveness of the model-view-controller architecture .
It is an alternative to the WebForms that was and is still mostly used one in ASP.NET .

What is a Model View Controller (MVC) Framework?

Windows 7 has been made public and many users are moving towards adopting the same. From the application standpoint, Windows 7 is very similar to Windows Vista. This means that, we will need to work towards solving the compatibility issues which would arise. In this series of posts we will look at some common challenges around application compatibility when coming from a legacy operating system, why changes were made, compatibility technologies inside the OS and methods for getting incompatible applications to run on Windows 7.

Yesterday i was going through a blog about the new language from Microsoft called Vedea .This language is built on .NET 4.0 DLR and has the syntax that is similar to C# .

Vedea is a visualization language to create interactive data-driven visualization .

If your Delphi application accesses data using the Borland Database Engine (BDE) and you wish to deploy it on a user’s client computer, then it is necessary that you deploy the BDE too.

You may receive the following error , if the BDE is not deployed .

These are the control characters in delphi that are used to format strings.
If a string value has to be entered in a multiline , we can use this .
Eg:
var
testString : String;

testString := ‘Senthil’ + #13#10 + ‘Kumar’;

Microsoft has just launched the long awaited Virtual Business Card program for Microsoft Certified Professionals. Everyone who has an MCP or MCT profile can now create their own cards.

Microsoft announced in July that the Welcome kits for certification were to be discontinued and promised to create a better way of sharing the transcript of your certification in a easy way.

I have already been a participant in the last 2 editions of the GIDS ( Great Indian Developer summit ) and looking forward for the GIDS 2010 too to make a hatrick .

Infact i have already got my slot booked for GIDS 2010 .Although i dont prefer the paid conferences , this one is an exception as you could learn more