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

Seek the problem, Not the Solution Members Public

It’s not uncommon to have problems in life, and so in the application/code that you write. I am not being too techie here. It’s just I am relating my thoughts to something technical. Being a software engineer, writing code is inevitable in my day-to-day life and so

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Thoughts

Hero or a Cheat???? Members Public

Luis Suárez....that name would be said few more times, at least till Uruguay's fate is decided in FIFA WC 2010.Early Saturday morning(IST),witnessed some [dramatic moments](http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/round=249718/match=300061508/index.html#ghana+penalty) of WC 2010.With the

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Thoughts

Synchronize SQL Server database objects Members Public

Updating an old database, with newly created/modified database objects(mostly stored procedures,views,functions and table value parameters), from a new database was a very common,tedious,error prone task that was performed at my workplace for the past few months.This came up with the client requesting to

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Dotnet

Role Based Access Control Members Public

RBAC(Role Based Access Control) is something that is very common in the day-to-day world. So what is this all about.It is just about a authorization check on whether you have the access to a particular resource or not. When faced with scenarios like this when developing applications, where

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Programming