Pavan Gayakwad

Diwaali - one of the richest celebrations in India. A festival of lights, wealth, victory and wisdom. This very day, Hindu mythology has many remarkable events. Goddess Lakshmi’s Birthday. Vishnu rescued Goddess Lakshmi from the prison of king Bali. On this day Rama, Seeta and Lakshman returned to Ayodhya after defeating Raavana and conquering Lankaa. The return of the Pandavaas from their 12 years of “Agnaat Vaas”. On the day preceding Diwali, Krishna killed the demon king Narakaasura and rescued 16,000 women from his detention. On this glorious day, we crack fireworks and symbolically we worship human positive instincts. We pray for the best and light up new dimension towards our life. No matter how far we succeed; as long as we have vigor and undying dreams, covering the way of light will never be a challenge in itself. Wishing you happy festival of enlightenments.

If you navigate to http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/ you will find quite good development resources for free and few with source code. Out of all, for me, the Dotnet Reflector tool was pretty impressive (Great work by Lutz Roeder). This will help dot net programmers to analyze and decompile dot net assemblies in to different programming languages (C#, VB, IL, Delhpi, MC++ and chrome!)

This is a dawn of Web OS. Next generation internet world will neither be a navigation of dynamic pages, information exchange, business/social networking nor creating your presence in virtual world. It’s more on starting-closing computing and accelerating work only through internet and nothing else. It’s an attempt to think and act beyond normal desktop computing and days of spending gigantic time to install/maintain operating system and required software updates/utilities on your box may become extinct. There are many small-big initiatives on Web OS. Most of them are free to use. Few of them are still with “Beta” tag and few claim they are complete. In parallel to this, web office suites are also playing major role in trying to replace desktop office software. Many of the web office suites come in front with free service offer. Combination of Web OS and Web Office is certainly giving a strong sense of eliminating workplaces with stand alone environment in future. The dream of accessing...

From past several months I am using Windows XP 64 Bit version operating system on my laptop having AMD Turion 64 X2 TL50 (in Intel words- “1.6 GHz 64 bit dual core mobile processor”) master mind underneath. Luckily I got 64 bit driver support for all my hardware (I think, 64 bit days has silently begun) components. The operating system is stable enough and quite fast too (when compared to Windows XP Professional 32 bit Edition). It is true that there are very few 64 bit version software available for use, but as a dot net programmer what ever I need, I have those 64 bit enabled. The operating system even allows running 32 bit applications under protected memory environment but few are pretty much incompatible with this pact like Norton Antivirus, Comodo Personal Firewall…etc. specially, system software/utilities which are very much dependent on operating system API calls and if these software/utilities are of 32 bit, then there is a clear disagreement with 64 bit operating system. We j...

When your initiative or work or act is questioned and opposed by many, then you should understand that you have done something unusual and out of the box which is in point of fact drawing people’s attention.

Online storage is not a new idea, what’s new is Microsoft’s SkyDrive online product ( www.skydrive.live.com ) initiated under the Windows Live umbrella. Being an admirer of Microsoft products I register here too. We can use our existing hotmail/live ID for login and start using 500 MB free space which comes by default. If you are looking for getting more space, currently I didn’t see any such upgrade option but you might expect ‘purchase’ link in coming days. We can share folders and files with everyone on internet or only with our friends or secure it for private use. You can browse my public folders here https://cid-29f7a129fc6ad7aa.skydrive.live.com/home.aspx Yes! The URL is hard (in fact impossible) to remember. It would have been more impressive if we could replace the puzzled alphanumeric characters with our hotmail/live ID like this pavan.gayakwad.skydrive.live.com isn’t it? I don’t think that Microsoft hasn’t thought about it, I am just wondering what stopped them doing this. ...

Please find my second tech article on Code Project - String.Empty Internals , it's about one of the most debatable subject of using String.Empty over "" (empty string) in dot net world. I tried documenting my investigation on internal working of String.Empty under the hood of CLR. When I checked number of views just after 2 minutes of gap, it was 140! I was amazed looking at the number of users hitting CodeProject portal. That was cool!