My BlogDay recommendations

1. First and foremost, the most interesting commentary I have ever read, Don’t miss to check this out: http://spaces.msn.com/members/thirumurugan/ (Strictly this is not a new blog to me though I am posting)
2. This one, I noticed when the person had left a comment on my blog. Truly colourful blog http://spaces.msn.com/members/dotdot22/ (This blog is relatively new to me.)
3. This blog i noticed today from my friend’s blog link. Again a great read http://spaces.msn.com/members/siddharthb/
4. This one is again from my one of my old blog entries, a good blog. http://spaces.msn.com/members/preetonline/
5. If you are interested in travel, do check this one http://www.travelblog.org/

That’s the list for the day.

BlogDay 2005

Some links may not work as they are relative. From http://blogday.wikispaces.org/

What is BlogDay 2005? [ Help translate ]

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BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. On that day Bloggers will recommend other blogs to their blog visitors.

With the goal in mind, on this day every blogger will post a recommendation of 5 new blogs. In this way, all Blog web surfers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, previously unknown blogs.

Read the original post Nir Ofir, the creator of BlogDay, wrote.

What will happen on BlogDay?

For one long moment on August 31st, bloggers from all over the world will post recommendations of 5 new Blogs, preferably Blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude. On this day, blog surfers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, unknown Blogs, celebrating the discovery of new people and new bloggers.

Why do we need a BlogDay?

1. Information Overflow! The more Blogs there are, the less time Bloggers spend on reading new weblogs. Because of the overload of information, you miss a lot of good Blogs and Bloggers.

2. Its Fun!

BlogDay posting instructions:

1. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting
2. Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2005
3. Write a short description of the Blogs and place a link to the recommended Blogs
4. Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st) and
5. Add the BlogDay tag using this link: http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2005 and a link to the BlogDay web site at http://www.blogday.org

GrokTalks

GrokTalks are short (typically 10 minutes or so) technology backgrounders by the MSDN Regional Directors at TechEd.

They can be found here http://www.groktalk.net/blog/

Worth a look. Spend 10 minutes a day and get yourself updated on the latest Tech Trends (.NET Focussed).

 

 

Stored Procedures vs Inline SQL: An interesting debate

Read some interesting stuff today. These are really old blog entries, I just stumbled upon them today.
From SQL Server BOL this guys quotes:

SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server version 7.0 incorporate a number of changes to statement processing that extend many of the performance benefits of stored procedures to all SQL statements. SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 7.0 do not save a partially compiled plan for stored procedures when they are created. A stored procedure is compiled at execution time, like any other Transact-SQL statement. SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 7.0 retain execution plans for all SQL statements in the procedure cache, not just stored procedure execution plans.

The link is http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/architec/8_ar_da_0nxv.asp.

He refers to a section called "Stored Procedures and Execution Plans".

The actual debate URLs:

Started by a post from Rob Howard (Microsoft ASP.NET Program Manager).

http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward/archive/2003/11/17/38095.aspx

Frans Bouma and Thomas Tomiczek respond here:

http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2003/11/18/38178.aspx

Of SOA Patterns and Anti-Patterns

A couple of articles from MSDN

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/SOADesign.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/SOADesignVer.asp?frame=true

Enterprise architecture frameworks map

Worth a bookmark. http://www.theeagroup.net/ea/Default.aspx?tabid=1&newsType=ArticleView&articleId=68

 

What kind of a thinker are you?

Just took a What kind of a thinker are you? quiz from BBC site here http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/leonardo/thinker_quiz/.

Here’s what they had to say about my thinking style.

 

You are a Logical-Mathematical Thinker
		Logical-Mathematical thinkers:        Like to understand patterns and relationships between objects or actions        Try to understand the world in terms of causes and effects        Are good at thinking critically, and solving problems creatively
Like Logical-Mathematical thinkers, Leonardo based his theories on evidence rather than speculation.		Other Logical-Mathematical Thinkers include Isaac Newton, Archimedes, Albert Einstein Careers which suit Logical-Mathematical thinkers include Physicist, Chemist, Biologist, Lawyer, Computer programmer, Engineer, Inventor

A slight variation of an old joke – Programmers enjoy ;-)

  A young Programmer and his Project Manager board a train headed through the mountains on its way to Delhi. They can find no place to sit except for two seats right across the aisle from a young woman and her grandmother.

 After a while, it is obvious that the young woman and the young programmer are interested in each other, because they are giving each other looks.

 Soon the train passes into a tunnel and it is pitch black. There is a sound of a kiss followed by the sound of a slap.
When the train emerges from the tunnel, the four sit there without saying a word.

 The grandmother is thinking to herself, "It was very brash for that young man to kiss my granddaughter, but I'm glad she slapped him."

 The Project manager is sitting there thinking, "I didn't know the young tech was brave enough to kiss the girl, but I sure wish she hadn't missed him when she slapped and hit me!"

The young woman was sitting and thinking, "I'm glad the guy kissed me, but I wish my grandmother had not slapped him!"

The young programmer sat there with a satisfied smile on his face. He thought to himself, "Life is good. How often does a guy have the chance to kiss a beautiful girl and slap his Project manager all at the same time!"

Magic Squares

A magic square is a n X n quare matrix in which the sum of the rows / columns / diagonals add up to the same number. The sum will be n(n^2 + 1)/2. Numbers that can be used will be 1 to n^2 and no number can repeat. An example would be:

 

8	1	6
3	5	7
4	9	2

 

I have written a small HTML Page which generates magic squares. If you are interested check it out. It should be fairly easy to figure out the javascript used. I’ll also host this on
my geocities page. As of now the generator will be only page there. More to come soon.

 

PS: A special thanks to my better-half (for bearing with me on the couple of evenings, while i was working on this ;-)).

 

Tech Trends: The Open Source movement

Here is what MIT’s TechReview.com has to say about it.