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  • Dialog Units

    Microsoft recommends a left margin of 7 Dialog Units (DLUs) ( here ) between controls in forms. So what is this DLU? The definition follows - A vertical dialog unit equals 1/8 the font height, and a horizontal dialog unit equals 1/4 the font width. The actual problem is, when we talk about the system...
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  • New job

    I joined ThoughtWorks as an application developer. It was a wonderful day, had a real nice time talking to some of the people there. Incidentally, Martin Fowler is in the India office these day, so maybe I will get to meet him sometime. BTW, moving from Outlook 2003 to Lotus Notes is a hell of an experience...
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  • Friday Quiz I : Who wrote the first Hello World program?

    Thought about starting a quiz series, a question every friday kind of. So todays question is : Who wrote the first "Hello World" program? I might know it, but I am not sure. Do you know?
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  • Books?

    Am looking for a set of good books, and one of our guys is in the US rite now, so I can buy them from Amazon (dont get me into details as to why we dont get good books in india :(, just have to import, or wait for a year) Any ideas about some books tech / management? Would really appreciate recommendations...
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  • Questionnaire for my trainees

    Set of questions that I asked my trainees today, please drop in comments if you think I need to add something more, so as to force them understand how things work. 1. What is the difference between a function call and invoking an event? 2. Explain the coordination between an event, a delegate and the...
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  • .Text and need to indicate reposts before publishing

    After joining such a distinguished set of .net bloggers, one's first fear is not to repost on something that's already been discussed or written on by somebody great. My idea of solving this issue is to basically put a hook on the POST button, find out all posts that correlate to the post subject ( trying...
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  • 40tude Dialog

    If you ever were looking for a replacement for Outlook Express (msimn), or for that matter, any good news + mail reader, this is it. 1. Doesn't open Windows Messenger by default. ( major PITA with msimn) 2. Color coding. Quoted messages (with > and >>) with different levels are coloured with...
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  • VS.NET Wizard mayhem

    The pop-up says Could not run the 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC#\CSharpProjectItems\LocalProjectItems\..\CSharpAddClassWiz.vsz' wizard. Annoying. You can't create a new project, can't create a new class. Nothing. Cause ? Some Add-in messed up all the wizards or scripting or both...
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