There are plenty of words we use in our daily life, no one asked how did they come up with these words and why we use them on daily basis. Lately I did some research on technical words we use. Really knowing the reason behind every term makes you see these words in a different…
Harald Bluetooth Gormsson (Old Norse: Haraldr blátǫnn Gormsson, Danish: Harald Blåtand Gormsen) (probably born c. 935) was a King of Denmark and Norway. He was the son of King Gorm the Old and of Thyra Dannebod. He died in 985 or 986 having ruled as King of Denmark from c. 958 and King of Norway…
Regular Expressions can be very useful to the Database programmer, particularly for data validation, data feeds and data transformations. In C#.NET, Regex.Replace Method replaces all occurrences of a character pattern defined by a regular expression with a specified replacement character string. We can do the same steps in T-SQL (2005/2008). Use the Ole Automation Procedures…
It’s no secret that a new age of modern apps is here. With connected devices and cloud-based services, you have bigger and better opportunities than ever before. Independent developers can plug in from anywhere, build a brilliant app, and make it available to millions of user. Large, agile teams can give their businesses a significant…
I don’t remember how life was before Google. During school time, the hardest homework was to do some research. I used to look in the encyclopedia and ask dummy questions to come out with 500-word paragraph. But that was history.. Google changed our life and gave us an answer to every question, no matter how silly it…
I still didn’t get it why they insist on naming the smart phones fruit names. Life was much easier when Apples, Blackberries, Mangoes were only fruits. I tried to find out the real reason behind the names, and here what i got: Why Apples are called Apples? In 1976 , Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak wanted to start…
Wikipedia defines Source control as “Revision control is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information.” In other words: Source control allows distributed work in teams of any size, at different locations, while avoiding conflicts in source code changes. There are two famous source control software by Microsoft: Microsoft Visual SourceSafe and Team Foundation Server. Here is the definition for…
A “bug” in a computer program or system is a common term used to describe an error, flaw or a mistake that produces wrong results… Usually bugs arise from mistakes and error made by people in their program’s source code. But the question remains, why it is called a bug? In 1947, computers used relays…
Have you ever wondered why we use the term “Cookies” in ASP ? Well that question didn’t pop up into my mind until one of my students asked me why do we call them like that? When I checked for the history of cookies, nothing was clear enough about the origin of this name. But…
Sometimes you spend hours and days in finding some errors that can be solved in a simple way. Here was the problem: I was using AjaxToolKit in one of our web applications, it was running great for a long time, until one day our client reported that the website is like a mess. When I…
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