I have implemented a rich text console , using the IConsole interface.

Still has bugs, but helps noobs like me in locating methods in a module by simulating intellisense.

Also has support for up & down arrow keys to scroll through history & the default copy paste of Rich Text box.

If you like to play with it you can download it from here.

The following screen shots to show it in action,

 

screenshot 2 , screenshot 3

Look what happened to the me on my birthday bash.

Attended Tech•Ed 2005after a gap of 4 years!

The First day Started with laser show (which I am getting a little tired off, from last 8 months I have seen the same laser show with the same music and the same patterns at different venues, good ROI for the company which sells this )

First Break out session i decided against the Architecture Track( I have gotten tired of all the SOA talks) choose to attend "Analysis Services Soup to Nuts" by Praveen Srivatsa that turned out to be a good choice I really enjoyed the total demo approach that Praveen adopted for this session. The BI Studio really looks good, I need to install the beta pretty soon to try it out.

Second Breakout session I choose the "Dealing with data in SOA" hoping that it might give me a different view, but soon i was bored out of my wits, check out for a early lunch. It turned out that was a good move too. I had my lunch peacefully, soon there were snaking lines as the buffet counters.

After lunch I attended a session titled "Enabling applications for multi-core platform and the software tools to support the process", it turned to be a bad choice, I believe that we all should seriously consider the multi-core processor's in our near future but the the session just was a display of Intel's tools, rather and actual information/ tips on multi-core applications/ programming.

The last two sessions on Domain Specific Language's were quite informative, they first introduce the need for DSL's and gave a glimpse of how DSL can be created in Visual Studio 2005. 

I skipped the evening entertainment program and headed home to avoid the Bangalore traffic, felt great

 

 

A site which has a comprehensive list of illusions and explations too...

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html

Another good site with category based listing

 http://members.lycos.nl/amazingart/E/index.html

 

 

 

I am Kung Fu Master. I like to be in control of myself. I dislike crowds, especially crowds containing people trying to kill me. Even though I always win, I prefer to avoid fights if possible. What Video Game Character Are You?

Here is my latest set of characters for new cartoon series on technology impact on people. Still havent decided on the title of the strip , but the broad area in which the events of the strip shall take place.

what do you think

While going thorough the online documentation for Gimp , I came across an link a free vector graphics editor called InkScape . I already use another free software called blender  for 3D graphics, the three of this make a very powerful Desktop publishing suite for free :)

Here is site that has How to's on Blogging .

expert from the blog..

"It is important to note that a blog is another type of web site but it is not just a web site. Blogs are social tools and I don't think that term "social tool" has been overused just yet. Without the social characteristics of a blog, you don't have a blog...then you have just a web site."

Now how can I make my blog more "social" 

Came across a good listing of Common Sources of Processor Performance Penalties: Five Issues , Rico Mariani’s Blog also has good information related to performance. Wiki on performance topics.

I was playing around with the new anonymous delegates feature of the Visual Studio 2005 (widbey), I wondered if i could use the this to write for age old data structures in different way, and here is the result!

class ADStack<T>
{
     delegate T popdelegate();
     private popdelegate popper=null;
     public T Pop()
     {
          return popper();
     }
     public void Push(T value)
     {
          popdelegate oldpopper = popper;
          popper = delegate{
                popper = oldpopper;
                return value;
          };
     }
}

 

I came across this interesting Project by one of the Microsoft Researcher's call MyLifeBits , it attempts to create a lifetime store/record of a persons activities and data related to him, hmm now that will eat up Terabytes quite soon! 

Find the latest interview with Andres Hejlsberg.

In this he talks about one my per peeves in .NET 1.x. "People do a lot of database access, and yet there are some pretty notable impediments to interactions between databases and programming languages. One of these mismatches is the absence of nullable types from programming languages. SQL databases have always had nullable types, but programming languages have never had nullable types."

His thoughts on XAML "One of the trends I think is interesting is the integration that is happening with programming models like ASP and XAML, which are mixtures of declarative and programming code that give you an amalgam of two different programming disciplines."

And this is exactly the reason I give my employees/clients for .NET based developments "The unique value proposition for .NET is that all languages ride on a common runtime and therefore the learning curve...well, 10 or 20 years ago learning the syntax of a language was 50% of the learning curve, and 50% was its APIs; indeed it might have even been that the language was more. Now, the API is the overwhelming learning curve, 95% or better. So, having a common API regardless of your choice of language is an enormous benefit!"

Came across an interesting site that highlights the "western" take on Outsourcing to India