Ideas and Coffee at 3.47 AM
Some half baked beans... Tao, Zen and the art of converting coffee into ideas...
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New year resolutions
- Move to domain: Focus more on domain knowledge than on Technicalities. My blog will be filled more with how a technology applies in solving a business problem rather than how to solve a technical problem.
- I will track my investments: All these years I have been only investing to save tax. It is mandatory to invest in Insurance linked funds and so I invested. It increased my salary a little bit. I didn't look at it from a returns perspective. After I got married October last year, I was made to realize by my investment savvy wife that saving tax is just not enough. There is potential to make our lives better and that I should. That's another reason why I love my wife so much. She brings out the best in me and makes me want to get better every day
- I will cut costs: Yes I have lived a lavish life. Beyond my means, beyond what a sane person should do. This year I will not put money into things that I do not have to. Every extra penny that I have after spending the constant costs, I will save.
- I will Make a savings Plan: Every month after I get my salary, approximately 60% of my salary goes directly into Infrastructure costs (big word...!!) Rent, Maid Salaries, car EMI, House hold expenses for mom and dad and household expenses for us are infrastructure costs. The rest of the money is slowly spent over the month on small things such as eating out and such. Since I am not keeping track of where the money is going, I end up spending more. Up-front investment is required. A savings plan is required which gets implemented as soon as I get the salary.
- Insurance Policies: Re-activate the LIC policy that became dormant last year. Save for the new annual tax benefit investments on a monthly basis rather than on an annual basis. It is always a fight around December when I have to make the savings towards the end of the financial year.
- Gym: Last entire year I was extremely irregular in gym. I need to get back into discipline
- Guitar: At least 5 hours of cumulative practice over a week should be good.
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It's all there in the cloud...!!
So what's this new buzz word... everyone has been talking about it...
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Hot fix for the Entity Framework Bug
I had recently posted about a bug on SQL CE Entity Framework. Please note that the links mentioned in there for the bug and the hot fix are internal to Microsoft. The hot fix shall be released as a KB article in a couple of weeks.
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SQL Server Compact Edition / Entity Framework bug
I am working on this really smart, smart client application installer. Which smartly installs other pieces of another smart client application as and when required.
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Best RSS Feed Reader
My wife is a writer, and a pretty good one for that matter. Recently she went for a job interview, where she was asked a lot of questions about current affairs, and she doesn't exactly read the news regularly. So I told her she should. But she doesn't like reading the news paper, and I told her about online news. About RSS Feeds and Feed Readers.
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Downloading and installing AdventureWorks Database
I am assuming that you want to write a prototype of some sort for which you want a sample database to work with. And I am assuming that you don't have AdventureWorks on your machine. Putting down quick set of steps:
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The Sleeping Giant...
I am going to talk about the experience that I went through recently, when I met with a quite dangerous accident. It could have been quite fatal, fortunately, it wasn't. This post is going to be starting from around 2 seconds before I met with the accident to about 5 minutes after the accident.
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Marriage and the movie maker
I am getting married. That's right. Well I don't know about the other parts of the world, but 32 is a little late to get married for people resident in India. All my friends are married and have children of age ranging from 4 months to 8 years. Most of them started thinking that I am not ever going to get married. But well it is happening. But this blog post is not about that.
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Hosting a WCF Service on IIS
Look for this topic on the Internet. The first thing that you will see is the implementation of the service. I really wouldn't fathom why that is usually done. If I am looking for the subject Hosting a service on IIS, I would assume that the service has already been written and ready, and it is the hosting that I really need the help with. But still I will also follow the standard and go and and tell you the details of how to create a WCF Service.
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How much are you worth after all...?
Well It has been a really long time since I blogged about anything. Lots of things happened in the last couple of days...? or should I say Months...? So let me start by telling you about a sweet little discussion that I had with my girlfriend the other day. Well she is quite a proponent of the company that we all know so well... the company that does searches really well, gives away all its services for free, encourages all its users to waste a whole lot of time on the Internet and the company that uses the oldest Internet business model in the books... Ad Business...
