Say goodbye to Google Translate, Transliterate & ten other APIs

About a fortnight ago, Google highlighted on its official blog how "two clever Translate trends caught our eye—perhaps one of them will inspire you to come up with a fun Translate trick of your own.". Folks around the world were making fun remixesFirst, some creative folks translated strings of consonants...

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Tatkal Train Ticket Reservation Tips

Tatkal train ticket reservation is a ray of hope for millions of Indians who prefer to commute by trains over other forms of travel even if they have to pay extra because the original reserved ticket quota has run out. The IRCTC website is possibly the best known site in India as it helps travellers...

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Notes from Pluralsight course "Introduction to Visual Studio 2010 - Part 2"

Introduction to Visual Studio 2010 - Part 2  importantly covers IntelliTrace & Extensions. Some interesting facts about VS from the video course -You can debug a release build. Release folder can contain .pdb. PDB – Program Debug DatabaseDeploy Release version of build. Depending on the third...

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Free videos from major Microsoft Developer events are archived on Channel9

Recordings from TechEd, PDC, MIX events are all now archived on Channel9. These are great learning resources to keep abreast of all that's happening in the Microsoft Development world. Here are videos I have identified from Tech-Ed North America 2011 for weekend viewing over the coming weeks:Team...

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MVP Open Day 2011 was an insightful experience #opendayin

Like last year, MVPs from all over India & a few from Sri Lanka & Australia converged in Hyderabad for the MVP Open Day event. I had a great time meeting & talking with some extremely smart & passionate MVPs & listening to presentations from visionaries & Product Team leaders...

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Free SQL Server Goodies

Michael K. Campbell has shared some useful SQL Server goodies that are available online, in his article in DevProConnections. I picked the ones I liked -* Scripts - TechNet's Script Repository has a vast repository of scripts provided by Microsoft and by its users/customers that you can adapt for your...

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Notes from Pluralsight SQL Azure course

Here is a summary of the 2h 38min duration Pluralsight SQL Azure course  -* Advantages of SQL Azure -Highly availableManageableScalableFamiliar – similar to SQL Server 2005 & 2008, but differences/limitations existMaintained by MS IT* Some differences from standard SQL Server  -Data migration...

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