stumbling over the EntLib blocks

just when i had thought that 1.1 to 2.0 migration was going to be done within a week, I stumble upon the Enterprise Library application blocks migration from the June 2005 (.Net 1.1) to January 2006 (2.0).The first approach i took was to replace all the assemblies with their 2006 version ans get rid of any obsolete ones ( e.g Configuration.dll ) - This completely wrecked the build. So now, I'm going to take up the migration assembly by...

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Head Hunt

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the nokia 5500

As most of you know, I lost 2 mobiles within the space of a week - Since then, I worked out the theory that I subconsciously wanted to lose them because there was my true handset lying in wait for me - And surprisingly enough, the very week I lost these phones, the Nokia 5500 was released in India. Hallelujah - Its fate; karma; and its sporty !!It has all the features of a N-72, but nokia spared the ugliness. AND its cheaper by a bit....

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.Net 2.0 migration - continued

and we're off to do some migration.Got my first look at VS2005 - nothing radically new. Of course, its been cutified a lot more - nice colorful icons and all that jazz you can expect from MS :-/On the down side the "Web Site" model compiles slower than molasses going up a slope. No, seriously - its at least 15 times slower than what the solution used to compile under VS2003.I'm getting ahead of my self here. To even get to the compilation...

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.Net 2.0 migration

I'm onto a new project with a very clear goal - migrate .net 1.1 code to .net 2.0. Now this would not be so interesting for small projects. But hear this - while we are emigrating to 2.0, another team will be migrating some components from c++ / COM to .Net 1.1 - that should make things really interesting. Plus throw in the facts that the back-end is Oracle, Apache server is used for reports; 3rd party tools used charts; some of the code dates back to the 90's; AND the team is is distributed across bangalore and US - you will...

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google boggles again

For all you people disappointed with one of the recent adventures of google labs - Google Reader is back with a brand new and brilliantly intuitive interface ! Frankly their first attempt was crap.But just take a look at this ! WowStand-alone applications are passe.I recall people trying to visualize what a Google OS would look like - well I think its going to like like their customized home page.These guys seem to have a knack for taking...

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