VSTS 2010, TFS 2010 & .Net Framework 4 BETA 1

Time to play with the beta 1 of my favourite duo. Visual Studio Team Suite 2010 & Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1 is released. It’s available to download here.

Downloading… 35% completed. :)

Few achievements in my life

I’m still alive. :)

It wasn’t a break like the Musical band Eagles took… But honestly I was busy with so many things. Few great achievements in my life, I’m happy to say I completed my MSc. in Advanced Software Engineering (University of Westminster) and received the certificate few weeks back. Wait… I’m not finished yet.. :D

I completed four Microsoft certifications in the past few months. Now I’m a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer. [70-536, 70-529, 70-548, MB2-632]

Happily worked on couple of challenging .net projects at the new company. Visual Studio Team System, Microsoft CRM, LINQ, Entity Framework, CCF, SharePoint are few of the applications and technologies added in to the list to power me. ;)

Looking back.. few successful milestones. Long way to go…

Google Chrome Web Browser

Yes!!! It’s true and official. Google is releasing their own web browser today (Tuesday 2nd September 2008). From the screen shots it looks very simple as Gmail. Google Chrome looks similar to FireFox. But will it kick FireFox?

Chrome Team has a reason for the launch of this new browser… “Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web”

More Screen shots...

What Goes Around Comes Around

My day-to-day activities include reading technical news, looking for what’s new with Apple inc., Microsoft and Google. While browsing the web I found this nice article written by Jason Hiner. When I read it, the first thing came to my mind was “What Goes around Comes Around”. It’s about the Software giant Microsoft and the search giant Google. To be more specific, it’s about the top heads Eric Schmidt, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.

Sanity check: Has Eric Schmidt finally outmaneuvered Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer?

A need for speed: the path to a faster loading sequence

While signing in to Gmail, I saw this really interesting article regarding how Gmail crew has improved Gmail loading sequence. It's really worthwhile reading if you are in to web development.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/need-for-speed-path-to-faster-loading.html

But I wonder whats this popular network site they are referring to... ;)

Head First C#

Four months after the release of Head First C# (by Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene) I was lucky enough to get my hands on this great book. Yes I said “Great”. I’ve read Head First Design Patterns and Head First Object Oriented Analysis & Design books too. It’s specially the way they present the contents to the reader attracted me to this series of books.

You don’t have to be a pro or an expert to understand the contents of Head First C#. My gesture is they’ve targeted the readers from novice to professional. Below is a sample page form this book. (I hope OReilly wont sue me doing it :D )

Google Nap

People who works for Google and who are interested knows how good Google’s office is. It’s more like home. Very recently I got to know that they have this super duper machine where you can have a good nap. It’ll provide you the best environment for a cool nap.