Mehfuz's WebLog

I just came to know that I have been given the MVP award for 2008 that comes through the following line from a mail in my inbox.

Few weeks ago, I did a post about how can I handle REST response using LINQ To XML. You can take a look at it here.

Last week, I have released a patch for LinqExtender project at Codeplex. You can find the full feature list at release page. One issue that I will talk about here is orderby clause and its related in-memory sort.

ECMA OpenXml is a recognized  open standard for saving and retrieving  office documents that enables cross-platform document porting and sharing. The Office 2007 uses this format for its data persistence for word, excel and power point lineups. There is a OpenXml SDK CTP available for it to download from MSDN, which lets you create your own office component that works on universal format. 

Few months back Ravi stated a video site http://www.dotnetvideos.net/  at his own initiative. I did registered and today I got a mail from http://www.aspnetpro.com/ that I have got a free 6 month premium account. The concept is that early signup users will be credited with free subscription of aspnetpro account. Though, there are plenty of places to improve but as an singleton initiative, dotnetvideos looks good. I heard from Ravi also that they will be offering a book every week from Apress.com beginning April 2008 for one random user who regularly visits the site.

Although I was not in mix08, I took interest in knowing every detail of how it is going on and downloaded the sessions and keynote as it is available at http://sesssions.visitmix.com , a clean Silverlight site with all the cool videos. This morning , I was watching out the keynote, and found Dean Hachamovitch (General manager,IE)  point out some of the cool new features that really dropped my jaws.

I started working for Pageflakes around 2 years from now, it was not only all the way fun to work as an early starter but being a core member of a startup is really a lot to learn.

Last week, I have released LINQ.Flickr 1.2 , this new release comes with some bugs fixes requested by community.  The best of them was not to be able to search only by user and with specific photo size. The bug started after converting it to use LinqExtender instead of its own query logic. So, now here it is