Sunday, October 30, 2005

Heavy Rain in Chennai Contd.

On Thursday morning power were swicthed off and my house was flooded. Power was restored only on friday(27/10/2005) afternoon.
Chennai received 27cm of rain.I couldn't go to office due to heavy water logging. It was very diffcult managing the kid in this type of heavy rain with water everywhere. It is real pain cleaning the entire house after the rain. I was almost exhausted. on Friday chennai is back to normal with deepavali around the corner.

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Heavy Rain in Chennai

Rain God after showing its mercy in Mumbai, Bangalore and now it's turn for Chennai. Chennai is receiving heavy rains after quite some time now.Hopefully this should solve the water problem for the city for sometime now. My house is flooded with lot of water.Unable to move anywhere. Till now the power is intact if rains continues i am nit sure about the power. I am blogging at the time of flood. Hopefully rain will not cause much damage.

Monday, October 24, 2005

DB Connection Problem

One of the project team was having problem connecting to sql server2000(installed with instance name) installed in Windows 2003 server machine from client dev machince having VS.Net2003.


Error Message looks like this
Test connection failed because of an error in intializing provider[DBNETLIB][connectionopen
(connect())].sql does not exist or access denied.


Solution

Finally they found the solution to be apply below patch from Microsoft Link to solve the problem.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9552d43b-04eb-4af9-9e24-6cde4d933600&displaylang=en#filelist.

Monday, October 10, 2005

Architect Links

Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/architect/default.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/DesignNetApp.asp

Stocks,Money Links

Yahoo Links
http://in.finance.yahoo.com/

NDTVProfit
http://www.ndtvprofit.com/

Rediff Money
http://in.rediff.com/getahead/money.htm

MoneyControl
http://portfolio.moneycontrol.com/login/logout.php

National Stock Exchange Link
http://www.nse-india.com/

Waiting for Next Assignment

My project support ended on Sep 30 2005. I am waiting for my next assignment. In the meantime to get next assignment, I have cleared my Microsoft exams(70-300) last week, I have one more paper to get MCSD(.Net). I am trying to spend my time reading for next exam 70-229(Sql Server) and to get read more on .Net.

Useful .Net Blog Links

G Khanna Microsoft Developer E'list
http://blogs.msdn.com/gkhanna/

Other G Khanna links
http://www.wintoolzone.com/
http://geekswithblogs.net/khanna/



Architect Advisor Microsoft
http://blogs.msdn.com/ramkoth/


Varad Link
http://weblogs.asp.net/Varad

Microsoft Road Show at Chennai.

I couldn't blog for quite sometime now. I attended microsoft road show on Sep 27 & 28 in Chennai at GRT. The two day session was somewhat useful. Even though I felt it could have been better.
Gaurav Khanna, Janakiram MSV Session was good. Jana made the session very interesting by taking requirement and did that in Asp.nET2.0. Gaurav made sure that people learnt something from the session. The Session on How to Design, Code Your Transactions on the MS Platform didn't cover much on COM+.

Architect's Session Building Collaborative Solutions using Microsoft Platform by Ramkumar was some what better.