Fun with Visual Studio : in my mother tongue too

Captions Language Interface Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (even working fine for other applications also)

Captions Language Interface Pack (CLIP) is a simple language translation, uses tooltip captions to display translations for English user interface terms.

Now, CLIP for Visual Studio 2008 is available in Arabic, Czech, Hebrew, Hindi, Malayalam, Oriya, Polish, Tamil and Turkish.

From Scott,

It'll even help with other applications within Windows if it thinks it's got a decent translation, but for now, it is focused on correct translation for common Visual Studio options.

Quick Link:

தமிழ் - Tamil Pack (1.5 MB) – Download here

മലയാളം - Malayalam pack (1.6 MB) – Download here

Other Language List – Download here

 

Gmail : Voice Chat & Video Chat

:-)    Yes

Gmail added new “Voice chat” and “Video Chat” functionality on 11-Nov-08.

 

Just install a small Gmail plug-in from http://mail.google.com/videochat

 

More details can be accessed from Gmail Blog

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/say-hello-to-gmail-voice-and-video-chat.html

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Care about “Create Table AS Select” statement

Hi folks,

I had one misassumption on the SQL statement CREATE TABLE AS SELECT in database operations. We are using this form of statement for creating a table from an existing table.

Ex.  Create table New_tab as select * from Old_tab;

Yes, it is working, table creation is done. But, what I thought about it is, it will create that new_tab table with constraints & index which are available in old_tab. But, only table is created with the values (if any exists) ; constrains, primary key & index are not created for the new_tab table, even they are present in old_tab. I tried this in MySQL.

It seems this not only for MySQL, I will check any option needs to provide, to get result as expected.

If anyone have any suggestions / content about this, update me.

Moon

Hereafter, we (Indians) can see the moon, with proud.

Yes, as you all know, Chandrayaan-1, India’s first unmanned spacecraft mission to moon, entered lunar orbit today (November 8, 2008).

http://www.isro.gov.in/pressrelease/Nov08_2008.htm

Congrates for our scientists.

Silverlight 2 Toolkit, Charting Tools

 

Toolkit for Silverlight is released on PDC 2008. It is having lot controls, components to use with Silverlight page. It can be downloaded from CodePlex in http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight

As reference for how to create Charts in Silverlight, we can refer an interesting post from one MSDN Blog. This post demonstrates about “Chart Builder” in silverlight. [ source code also available :-) ]

You can run the “Live Demo” of “Chart Builder” from http://delay.members.winisp.net/ChartBuilder/

Today is different

Today (07-Oct-2008), it’s different.

Several personal decisions, thoughts.

[ .. .. ... ]

 

And, it is first time, here am writing, about office incident.

“Jinson Jose”, my colleague, is moving to another assignment, and hence moving to another team.

 

Being with him, was just few days, because only few days before we joined both in same task, but these days are different.

 

He haven’t tried to dominate,

not avoided his work & pushing to others to make them as victims.

He shared the tasks, shared the knowledge for that task.

He is willing to share.

 

And in work he is perfect. He is doing the same assigned task, but in different manner.

Hope and wish him, to continue his excellence ever.

Live Mesh - Synchronizing Life

Microsoft Live Mesh -

excellent one :-) really. Try it in http://www.mesh.com

You can realize you are using an Web OS

Currently only in "Technology Preview"

Hope, in upcoming PDC 2008 conference ( starting on Diwali Day, yes October 27-30), There will be a big announcement about this.

 

This time, even RayOzzie is there, people may miss Bill Gates. ...

First Blog Post : via Windows Live Writer

Recently Microsoft released “Live Wave 3” beta. As you know it has lot products as package to enable life with online experience.

I wondered about improved “Windows Live Writer”, currently downloaded only this product alone. Yes, currently am doing this post in “Windows Live Writer” only.

About its usage, yeah, really nice because even several utilities available, earlier I just direct posted in “Blogger”. So, this posting experience in Windows Live Writer is greater.

-> Same Microsoft Office Interface

-> Standard Microsoft Office Features

-> Able to work with Multiple Blog Accounts

-> .. ..   ..

Try it.

Web21C SDK is joining Ribbit!

Today, i received an important information about "BT Web21C SDK". Herebelow am sharing this with you.

Announcement from "Mr JP Rangaswami (Managing Director, Strategy & Innovation, BT Design)

Dear Web21C SDK Developer,

BT has consistently supported the vision of an open, programmable telephony platform through its investment in its award winning Web21C SDK initiative. BT's vision has been to enable global innovation by giving software developers the tools they need to creatively embed voice into high-value business and personal processes through software applications. BT's goal has been to enable developers to build communications solutions that our customers want and need, as they define them, today and into the future.

Supporting our vision and goal, BT announced on 29 July that it acquired Ribbit Corporation (www.ribbit.com), underpinning our ongoing commitment and belief that voice can be integrated, personalised and monetised by developers everywhere for both enterprises and consumers, bringing to life new ideas, new experiences and new business models.

Complementing the server side tools provided by our Web21C SDK, Ribbit brings a host of client side features that will enable you to bring together voice calling and Web 2.0 experiences, turning voice into a rich feature that can be added to any application, on any device.

Ribbit's client-based API is currently based on Adobe Flash and Flex components and libraries. This API allows a web programmer or designer to access Ribbit's capabilities directly through a web page in a browser or in the case of Adobe's AIR technology, as a entirely standalone application. Ribbit is also in the process of extending its client-based APIs to Microsoft's .NET/Silverlight and Sun's JavaFX.

For more information on Ribbit's current set of APIs, which include, calling, the ability to play and record audio files and phrases, transcription of voice, access to directory listings, the ability to create, provision, and access user data and many, many more, go to http://developer.ribbit.com

We are also in the process of migrating the Web21C SDK into Ribbit, providing you with the same server-side APIs which allow machine-to-machine communication. Supporting this migration, Ribbit will provide a REST-based API in December 2008. On top of this API, Ribbit or third parties can add numerous server language bindings including Python, Perl, Java, Ruby, and others.

To ensure a smooth transition and to focus on efforts on providing you with the REST API as soon as possible, we will be suspending the Web21C SDK platform at 12:00 pm GMT on Friday, 10 October.

In the meantime, come and play at Ribbit! If you haven't already, go to http://developer.ribbit.com and sign up for a developer account, giving you immediate access to all the benefits already shared by the over 6,000 Ribbit developer community members including comprehensive documentation and code samples to help you "Ribbitize" your application!

As a member, you'll be able to create and share your Ribbit applications, get feedback from other developers and see what others are building. You'll also be able to participate in the community forums, where you'll receive first hand support from the Ribbit team. Additional support can be found at developersupport@ribbit.com. Contact us with your questions and we will be happy to address your needs and get you coding with Ribbit!

We look forward to enhancing your development efforts with Ribbit and we would like to thank you and your involvement with the Web21C SDK. We are excited about the opportunities ahead and look forward to your continued support during this transition, as we continue to provide you with more tools to allow you to innovate with voice and communications.


JP Rangaswami
Managing Director, Strategy & Innovation, BT Design

Animated Sorting Algorithms

Animated Sorting Algorithms


http://vision.bc.edu/~dmartin/teaching/sorting/anim-html/all.html

Excellent work.

I came to know about this "Animated Sorting Algorithms" by Schott Hanselman's post.
Thanks Hanselman.