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December 2005 - Posts

• Wrapping up 2005

  Personal I was not good religiously. I didn’t care much about my health; gained extra pounds. I adopted giving charities regularly, especially after earthquake Family I am glad that I managed to have my whole sub-family with me at my work-town I was not Read More... Posted Saturday, December 31, 2005 1:45 PM by khurram | 1 Comments Filed under: Personal

• To Indexed View Or Not?

  This year; we computerized the attendance system of our company. And as the year is ending; everyone is expecting a yearly attendance report. When system was made; it was not stressed test; and today; when I evaluated the report to see it will work when Read More... Posted Saturday, December 31, 2005 1:06 PM by khurram | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server

• mySQL engine is ridicules

  Consider a table Populations with fields, Country, City, Area, Population. In SQL Server (and I am sure in Oracle as well) you cannt execute query like select Country, City, sum(Population) from Populations group by Country order by Country, City You Read More... Posted Saturday, December 31, 2005 11:04 AM by khurram | 0 Comments Filed under: Databases

• SQL Server 2005 :: The First Impression

  I strongly recommend not configuring SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express on your development machine, unless you have lot of memory and system resources. Don’t install SQL Server 2005 Management Studio and SQL Server management Read More... Posted Thursday, December 29, 2005 2:20 PM by khurram | 6 Comments Filed under: SQL Server

• Zombie Objects

  The one problem; that is very common in team projects is existence of “zombie objects”. I weblogged about how one can trace such objects with in database layer; but what about business layer? Here is one approach that we try to follow. We establish interfaces Read More... Posted Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:03 PM by khurram | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Engg., Databases

• Master Pages and FindControl

  First let me confess; I am not good in UI programming. I am not in touch with it anymore. In my PSK2 project; I implemented ASPNET2’s Master Pages; and the problem I faced that if your page has any master page; the control’s ids get changed and FindControl(controlid) Read More... Posted Thursday, December 15, 2005 5:31 PM by khurram | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET

• Tidbits and PSK2 Updates

  Do you like boiled eggs? Well I enjoyed couple of them tonight at bus stop while waiting for my wife…”Garam Aandey” </smile> She is doing duties these days in new-born nursery ward. She told me that they use ventilator, a machine to assist respiration Read More... Posted Thursday, December 15, 2005 1:12 AM by khurram | 1 Comments Filed under: General

• PSK2 Goals

  It’s getting colder day by day… In evening; I had been thinking about the little project I have planned to keep myself engaged for days to come. I will refer to it by name PSK2 (Portal Starter Kit v2). My goals are To experiment with SubVersion; I want Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:36 AM by khurram | 3 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET

• Running ASP.NET (v1.1) Portal Starter with SQL Express and ASP.NET v2 Development Server

  My younger brother has moved back after completing his graduate studies. He is in phase of deciding what-to-do-next. My son got pneumonia last week; we took him to our home town at grand parents place, they being doctors; are treating him; and this week Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 13, 2005 5:11 PM by khurram | 9 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET

• Working with Medical Doctors

  Few months ago I developed a small printing tool for one of the local hospital volunteer. From few days they are again contacting me to fix some issues they are facing. Here are my learned lessons. Define scope of your participation in the scene; if computer’s Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:38 PM by khurram | 2 Comments Filed under: Personal

• Testing :: Code Coverage :: HTMLEncode :: Classic ASP

  Today I received a complaint for the application that I am responsible for then maintenance. Almost 95% of the code written for this application is by my own hand; and most of it was written in 1999 – 2000 The BUG reported; is funny in one sense, but Read More... Posted Friday, December 02, 2005 3:14 PM by khurram | 1 Comments Filed under: Software Engg.

• A Tip and a Joke

  If you are one of those; who dislikes computer boot times; and if you are using Windows XP; never turn off your computer; always hibernate it. It will require some additional hard disk space to create hibernate data; but when next time you turn on your Read More... Posted Friday, December 02, 2005 9:37 AM by khurram | 1 Comments Filed under: Personal

• Securing SubVersion Repository configured to use Windows Authentication

  I recently needed to secure the SubVersion repository. I am using SubVersion with Apache on Windows; configured to use Active Directory for user authentication [1, 2]. The interesting thing I found out that setting up ACL you ends up with a system which Read More... Posted Thursday, December 01, 2005 3:57 PM by khurram | 0 Comments Filed under: Configuration Management