Visual Studio 2010 launch on 12th April 2010

Visual Studio 2010 will be launched on 12th April 2010 worldwide

Ruby on Rails

Stay tuned for some ruby on rails stuff, really really interesting.

REST, MVC, WCF

Trying to blend REST, ASP.NET MVC 2 and WCF.... while searching came up with this awesome article, http://msmvps.com/blogs/omar/archive/2008/10/03/create-rest-api-using-asp-net-mvc-that-speaks-both-json-and-plain-xml.aspx

Shrinking SQL 2005 Log file

Use the below command to shrink the database log file in SQL 2005

backup log <database_name> with truncate_only
dbcc shrinkfile ( <log_file_name>, 1)

Outlook Web Access Bug

Recently i was accessing my web email using Outlook Web Access at the same time i was using hotmail and facebook accounts.

I found out that when I sign out from Outlook Webaccess all other sessions that of facebook and hotmail were signed out too.
Which suggests that this website somehow clears all running cookies, need to look into it.

Qt Framework Licensing Details

Qt Framework is available in 3 license types, main features are described below.

1. Qt Commercial License

• License Fee : YES
• Submit code changes to QT : NO
• Write Proprietary Software : YES

2. Qt GNU LGPL v. 2.1 Version

• License Fee : NO
• Submit code changes to QT : YES
• Write Proprietary Software : YES

3. Qt GNU GPL v. 3.0 Version

• License Fee : NO
• Submit code changes to QT : YES
• Write Proprietary Software : No

Qt Framework

Qt uses the "signal/slot" concept. Compared with callback functions, this mechanism has the advantage that Qt automatically dismantles a connection if either of the two communicating objects is deleted. This avoids crashes, and makes programming simpler.