For the past 4 weeks I have been assigned on a project with lot of performance issues. It’s an asp .net 3.5 project based on DNN 4.9 framework. The project is quite complex and the team has already put in almost 50 man years in the project and as usual most of the efforts were towards getting functional part working as per requirements. At first I tried ......

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FL Dot Net User groups are conduction the Florida Microsoft Community Speaker Idol competition through out various dot net groups. The purpose of the Microsoft Speaker Idol competition is to enable lesser known members of the technical community to be recognized for their talents and speaking abilities. For more details on the competition please visit ......

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Last week I did my session recordings for the SSWUG vConference and it was great, this time I am doing 4 sessions and I kept all of them at level 100 as I remembered when I started looking at these topics few months back I was struggling myself. There is so much information on the Internet but its hard to find introductory topics, topics which will ......

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Wow what an event considering that it was first SQL Saturday event in South Florida, now the next event we have to setup is where Scott Klein will jump in a pool full of alligators, (he had promised in one of the SQL PASS meetings that he would do that if we have more than 300 registered attendees, and it was way more than that). I did a session on ......

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REadyBoost is one of the very usefull feature that was introduced in Windows Vista. Recently I asked few of my colleagues and friends about this feature and only couple of them knew about it, so thought of adding a blog post on this one. You can increase the performance of your machine by using a high speed USB flash drive to supplement your RAM. Upgrading ......

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Today the news about Google coming out with its own operating system "Chrome" is all over the Internet and I was wondering can they make an in-road into the OS field which is basically been dominated by Microsoft for decades. And the answer to that is possibly yes, if not as a full fledge OS for desktops and servers but for portable devices. There are ......

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Yesterday I was trying to create my first database on SQL 2008 and thought let me check out if there are any new data types that I can take advantage of and yes in fact there are. The best I liked is Date and Time data type, how many times we needed a field just to store either the date part or just the time part and we ended up using DateTime data ......

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Yesterday Telmo Sampaio of Blue Dasher Technologies presented Virtual Earth development with silverlight at the West Palm Beach .net user group and it was more than amazing. During his presentation he demonstrated how one can take the mapping applications to next level with the help of silverlight, now the maps on your application need not be just plain ......

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Recently I received a discount code for the virtual conference by SSWUG group, the organizers call it VIP code :) I am going to present 3 sessions under the .net conference sessions and really liked the whole concept; for less than 5% cost of what one would pay at VS live or Teched one can get same quality of session at the comfort of home or office ......

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It was another great code camp event at Miami with so many great speakers and .net enthusiasts. The only difficult thing is to choose between tracks that you want to go. In today's session of Sync services I saw more interest than in past which is always good and fun. For a presenter there is nothing is more satisfying than having a presentation more ......

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