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August 2006 - Posts

  • Wed

    Naming ATLAS

    Ever since Brad Abrams mentioned Microsoft will be renaming Atlas, it’s AJAX coding framework, before it ships, and that Microsoft is listening to what the community thinks the name should be.Everybody seems to want to name ATLAS these days, I thought why not take a shot at the Atlas Naming Game My pick is AJAXPF.net (in 2 more variants - AJAX-PF.net / AJAX PF.net) That's short for AJAX P resentation F oundation for .net . The "Presentation Foundation" part makes it a nice marketing...
  • Fri

    REBOOT 2.1

    OK So it took 2 days rather than 2 hours for me to upgrade. Ran into some serious issues during the upgrade. Mainly because of Dan Bartel's Google SiteMap Plugin I had recently installed. And perhaps I may have to revert back to the default Community Server theme for some time. But this blog theme (now available by default in CS2.1) by Jaxon Rice simply rocks.
  • Wed

    Site To Be Offline Later Today!

    Community Server's finally done it. The del.icio.us inspired Tag clouds - considered the most hip thing in a blog service these days is now available on Community Server. So I'm going to perform the upgrade later today which means downtime of about a couple of hours. And I might also switch back to the default theme for sometime. See you in CS 2.1
  • Sat

    3 Things; That Are A Waste of Time

    While I'm contemplating whether to switch my ISP again in less than 3 months despite knowing that no Indian ISP is dependable when it comes to infrastructure. I have been disconnected from the web since 1st of August, made about 2 dozen calls to the call centre but have been told there has been some physical conectivity problem which apparently hasn't been fixed over the last 12 days Anyways here are 3 things that I would say are sure waste of anybody's time… 1. Pursuing the "String Theory" . 2....
  • Sat

    Definitive Guide To Setting Up CVS on Windows

    If you find setting up CVS a nightmare like I used to, a few days back! This is what I would call a life saver. This guide by Bo Berglund is fantastic. Because it is simple enough and does not require you to be a SysAdmin or someone who knows what NT stands for … In the event that this guide becomes inaccessible you can view the pdf version of this guide here . Though made for Windows Server 2003, it will work on Windows xp Professional & all flavors of Windows 2000. Although the guide...