As part of mynokia.in promotional offer, there is a chance of getting Nokia E71.

You can win this cool Nokia E71, if you do the following 3 steps

Register at http://mynokia.in Add 100+ friends in your network Send one SMS: mn [Phone Model] 9740063021 to 55555 (eg: mn N73 9740063021 to 55555) Steps to be followed while sending the message 1. Create new text message 2. Write: mn [Phone Model] 9740063021 3. Send it to 55555 4. You will get a confirmation sms from MyNokia Conditions The contest starts today, 22nd September 2008 and will be for a durationof 1 week (end date: 29th September 2008) Nokia India employees are not eligible for the contest It’s an individual event If more members have 100+ friends, top one will be considered as winner

More details can be located here 

MyNokia is a free service for Nokia owners, which helps you to get the most out of your Nokia. By registering for MyNokia you can receive regular communications that include tips & tricks specific to your phone, great offers, competitions and more. You can choose how you receive these communications, directly to your phone and/or via email. You will also be able to log-in to your own personalized My Nokia web page (and in some markets a personalized mobile page). You will also receive information on new device models through My Nokia.

How to register?

Send SMS to 55555 with following text

mn <phone model> 9740063021

eg:- if you have N73 model, you should send sms to 55555 with the following message

mn N73 9740063021

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We are merging all Microsoft Users Groups in Kerala under one umbrella. We had some discussion with MS folks regarding this, and got green signal. Regarding the UG sessions, we will have sessions in various cities, based on members demand. Current plan is to concentrate more on Trivandrum, Kochi and Kozhikode in terms of in person session. But online discussions and support will be there for all members.  Expecting your support!

Now I am part of MVF Community – Most Valuable Father.  Something similar to MVP Program, but some minor differences. Instead of MVP certificate from Microsoft, I will get the birth certificate from Kozhikode corporation. MVF award package details and benefits are not documented anywhere, but it is worth to try out

Yesterday evening (18-July-2008, 3.50 PM IST) Vidya delivered a baby girl and it was normal delivery, both mom & baby doing fine.

We have started a new Microsoft Users group in Calicut today (22-06-2008). We didn’t get much time for advertising before the meet, still we got 13 members for the first meeting. Thanks to viable technologies for providing meeting venue with LCD projector and tea

I started with the introduction of Users Group and it needs. Based on the feedbacks from members, I didn’t take the sessions which I planned. Instead I took sessions on introduction to Expression Studio, Bled, Design, Media, Encoder etc and demo of silverlight application.

Later we had Q&A sessions, and created some sample projects related to Web services and its usage in win forms.
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T-Mug is coming with new look and feel. Last weekend I was totally occupied with this assigment. We have taken back up of the old forum, but we couldnt migrate the users (Snitz forum) to new site. But members can access the old forum as well, and we don’t encourage new posts to old forum. So I would request all t-muggers to join the new site and support the community.  Please share your comments in t-mug site itself.

Nothing happened to this techie guy and I am still with software industry

But yes, it is true. I have started another hobby project for cooking recipes (www.cookingideas.net) and we have expert editors (cooking experts) too.

Here is the snippets taken from about us page. “..where you will find most comprehensive collection of Vegetarian and Non Vegetarian recipes from different parts of the world. After going through various sites, we came to know about the need of a good website having easy-to-make and genuine information about cooking. CookingIdeas.net is the one for you which satisfies all your Cooking needs. This website is a result of dedication and effort put forward by various experts who has analyzed the needs of people and their tastes…” Read more »

The .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the .NET 3.5 Enhancement features including: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX History, ASP.NET Silverlight controls, ADO.NET Data Services and ADO.NET Entity Framework.

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I have been using the Enterprise Architect tool from sparx systems for last 4+ years for UML based design. Every time I start a new architect role, I used to check with the team which UML tool they are familiar with, so that we can communicate the design to the team more effectively. I am sure, all of us would like to use our favorite tool, if the organization don’t have standards related to design.

Here in my new organization, colleagues use different tools like Rational Rose, StarUML, Visio etc. We will be doing most of the developments in Visual Studio 2005/2008 and C++ or C#. I have worked with Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect, Visio, Raphsody, Rational XDE etc, and I did some research on UML tools available in market. Read more »

WPF Localization can be achieved via the following steps.

1. Add UICulture node to project file. ( <Project><PropertyGroup><UICulture>en-US</UICulture> … )
2. Create Localization IDs for the resources (msbuild /t:updateuid TestProj.csproj )
3. Create CSV file from en-US resource (LocBaml /parse TestProj.g.en-US.resources /out:en-US.csv)
4. Create new satellite assembly (LocBaml /generate TestProj.resources.dll /trans:fr-CA.csv /cul:fr-CA)