The wait is not over!!!!! Members Public

WP7 phones are yet to hit the indian market.Hopefully sometime in the next quarter I guess.Testing an app on the simulator is less than half way done.So waiting for the phone to release. Meantime got into a little bit of Expression blend,which would be an indispensable

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Life

Attachments in email - a new way Members Public

Just a though on a new mail attachment way :). What if we could attach existing attachments in our mailbox to new mails that we want to send.Forwarding the mail that had the attachment might not be a good solution in many a cases. The key point here is that

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Thoughts

WP7 Application Model Members Public

Mobile phones should be always responsive,highly responsive infact.If it's not responding within 10 to 15 seconds,the users hits the switch off button or removes the battery to reset the phone....I have done this many a times. The WP7 application model allows only 1 application

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Programming

...Retrospect Members Public

As I was migrating my blogs on to wordpress,I just went through all my previous posts.It seems all my posts are just a brief overview ,very brief indeed,on various topics and promising detailed posts in due time.But nothing detailed ever turned up.I guess I have

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Thoughts

C# google image search Members Public

Need not much of an explanation I guess. The title has it all.... ....a C# API for searching images from google. Works on Regex for matching the image URL from the HTML returned for the image tag search.This might stop working anytime google changes the formatting. Even the current

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Dotnet

Callbacks in WCF Members Public

Quite often in the client-server model,the requirement of getting notified of certain changes in the server pops up.Say for example in the movie ticket booking system.When a person selects a seat for booking,the selected seat should become disabled for all the users currently logged in,so

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Dotnet

Replace ‘Introduce Local Extension’ With ‘Extension Methods’ Members Public

Introduce Foreign Method(IFM) and Introduce Local Extension(ILE) are two refactoring techniques that comes handy when you need to add functionality to an exisiting class,source code of which is beyond your control. IFM is used when its just one or two functions that you need to add to

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Programming

TDD and Refactoring Members Public

Over the days I have been reading on Test Driven Development(TDD) and it seems really interesting methodology to go with as per development is concerned. Basic of TDD is that the development process relies on 'tests', that are written prior to code. Sounds astonishing!!!! It might to

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Testing