akjoshi's Blog
Born with a black thinking hat
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Firebug Lite : Firebug for IE, Safari, and Opera
As a web developer I really love firebug, easy to use and really powerful web development tool. I always missed firebug when I test my pages with IE; although we have Developer Toolbar for IE I always find it tough to use when compared to Firebug. Most obvious reason is because firebug gets embedded in browser window instead of Developer toolbar which is a popup window and its really tough to move between your page and developer toolbar.
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tsvn:logtemplate - Enforcing strict format to SVN check-in mails
TortoiseSVN is a free open-source client for the Subversion version control system. Sometimes you want to have a more detailed information about a file/directory than just the icon overlay.
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Debugging classic ASP web application with Visual Studio 2005
Finally, I got it; after a long and tiring evening of hit and trial I was able to hit a breakpoint in my asp page :)
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Troubleshooting SQL Server Reporting Services
In my last post Installing & Configuring SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Grant O pointed out that I missed the troubleshooting section and same feedback came from my manager too; So I decided to add that section to the document.
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VS 2005 Report designer Glitch I
While working on my last Code Project article Implementing an ugly tab structure in reporting services, I faced a weird issue while designing the sample report. It was not the first time I faced such issues in report designer so I decided to blog about these glitches.
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A tab control like structure in reporting services report
Yesterday I wrote my first Code Project article Implementing an ugly tab structure in reporting services showing how a tab control like structure can be implemented in SSRS report. I had implemented this in one of my projects and this post [How to create excel like tab lay out?] inspired me to share it. Although it's not very elegant implementation but it was good enough for me to fulfill client requirement.
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Each of you has the power to change the world (Commencement address by Muhammad Yunus)
A great read, it makes you believe that if you do something you believe in sincerely and keep doing it consistently, then it will definitely pay some day, even reading first 3-4 paragraphs will convince you on why Muhammad Yunus(proud initiator of Grameen Bank) deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Installing & Configuring SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
For the last one year I was working on reporting services and as project is closed, now its time to do some documentation and knowledge sharing :). So I started to prepare a doument which can be used as a starting point for future projects. In this post I will be posting its first part - Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.
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Namastey world
Hurrey, I am blogging, this is my first ever blog post and it really took a while to come, although I always wanted to start my blog ever since I started working in this Industry but thanks to my laziness and my wish of a good blogging platform, like MSDN blogs J. Thanks to Joe for setting up a blog for me, I will try my best to post some useful stuff here.