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iPad 2 “Cannot determine location”
Our team at work got new iPad 2s for busting our butts for 30 weeks straight. It was all fun for me till the second day when I got a “Cannot determine location” message when I tried to spot myself on the maps application. Well it sucks, doesn’t it? Tried changing to a different location, [...]
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Show/Hide using jQuery, the easy way
Recently I had to create a little widget on a HTML page, which opens and hides with a toggle link or button. To detail on the requirement, On click of a link on page widget needs to show up, when the widget is open clicking the same link that opened it or cancel button on [...]
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jQuery – checkbox On Change
There might be million different way to do a conditional operation when when user checks or unchecks a checkbox. The one I prefered is using jQuery and event binding as discussed below. Lets consider a simple case where I have two textboxes labeled First Name and Last Name respectively, and there is a checkbox labeled [...]
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మా తెలుగు తల్లికి
మా తెలుగు తల్లికి మల్లెపూదండ, మా కన్నతల్లికి మంగళారతులు, కడుపులో బంగారు కనుచూపులో కరుణ, చిరునవ్వులో సిరులు దొరలించు మాతల్లి. గలగలా గోదారి కదలిపోతుంటేను బిరాబిరాక్రిష్ణమ్మ పరుగులిడుతుంటేను బంగారు పంటలే పండుతాయీ మురిపాల ముత్యాలు దొరులుతాయి. అమరావతినగర అపురూప శిల్పాలు త్యాగయ్య గొంతులో తారాడు నాదాలు తిక్కయ్య కలములొ తియ్యందనాలు నిత్యమై నిఖిలమై నిలచి వుండేదాకా రుద్రమ్మ భుజశక్తి మల్లమ్మ పతిభక్తి తిమ్మరసు ధీయుక్తి, కృష్ణరాయల కీర్తి మా చెవులు రింగుమని మారుమ్రోగేదాక నీపాటలే పాడుతాం ,నీ [...]
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Don’t give refutable examples
Today my manager challenged me to find a way to wrap Pipes and Filters pattern around business objects generated using CSLA.NET framework. I thought LINQ has Pipes and Filters implemented so binged for LINQ to CSLA. Great, I found the first page of Chapter 14 from book “Expert C# 2008 Business Objects” and it has [...]
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Didn’t know gmail was so dumb
Few days ago I got an email to my gmail inbox, and its an invitation to use gmail. Can google not see the To address and stop sending invitation to use gmail for an existing user?
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Chopping big Excel sheet into multiple files
This is a conversation between me and Mr. Higher Up which made me find the cool script given at the end of this post. Mr. Higher Up: Randy, can you get me this survey completion report? Me: What do you want in the report Mr. Higher Up? Mr. Higher Up: Here is what I want [...]
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Validating XML against XSD
I looked around for a tool that can validate my XML against a given XSD with least amount of effort. The easiest and best solution I found was AltovaXML – FREE XSLT 1.0/2.0 Engine, XQuery Engine, XML Validator. Well, I need something with a GUI. Searching on google and bing gave me nothing but some [...]
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Run to Cursor or [Ctrl + F10]
Every time I am debugging code using Visual Studio 2005, one of my biggest frustrations was to set a breakpoint only to skip stepping through the code till that point. When I read about Ctrl + F10 combination on Visual Studio 2008/2010 I couldn’t stop my slef from a sigh of relief. What is Ctrl [...]
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PLINQO a new way for LINQ to SQL
Plinqo is a collection of CodeSmith templates designed to work with LINQ to SQL. Here are the steps I took to go from knowing very little about Plinqo to being ready to implement in my next development project. * Download a CodeSmith Trial * Install CodeSmith * Download Plinqo * Watch 16 minute Quick Start video See notes [...]
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