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What it takes to get a website off the ground?

Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு] - Syndicate — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:19:57 GMT

Sometimes the best possible way to visualize something really complex is to see it as a graphic and have it printed on a huge poster. Few years back in one of the Microsoft Mix event, they released this super cool visualization of an illustration of the...(read more)

Yelagiri Hills Trek

Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு] - Syndicate — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:29:00 GMT

One of my favourite getaways from Chennai is Yelagiri hills ( details in my earlier post ). This time I went there with my family and my brother in law Mr.Badri Thirumalai’s family for the XMas holidays. Staying in Yelagiri is a very relaxing experience...(read more)

Smart ways to educate your kids from harassement

Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு] - Syndicate — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:03:10 GMT

children-eng.pdf (200.17 KB) children-Tamil.pdf (527.1 KB) Share this post: email it! | del.icio.us! | digg it! | newsVine!...(read more)

Ethiopian Restaurant in Bay Area

Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு] - Syndicate — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:37:00 GMT

Last week while in San Jose (CA), my good friend “Ranga” took me for a change to have Ethiopian food for dinner at “ Zeni Ethiopian Restaurant ”. I readily agreed as I like to experiment any food that is Vegetarian (As I say in foreign lands -...(read more)

Windows 7 Ultimate commemorative edition

Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு] - Syndicate — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:07:00 GMT

As one of the Windows 7 Beta testers, about a week back I received a commemorative edition of Windows 7 Ultimate DVD. It was special with a nice “Thank You” message signed by Microsoft CEO Mr.Steve Ballmer. In general I liked Windows Vista - its engineering...(read more)

Microsoft Silverlight 4

Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு] - Syndicate — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:00:34 GMT

There are tons of cool stuffs for Silverlight 4 that are being shown in Day 2 keynote of PDC ‘09 and in the SL4 overview talk by Karen Corby . I am amazed at the speed in which the Silverlight team in Microsoft has been able to churn out releases at rapid...(read more)

Microsoft Azure Container in PDC ‘09

Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு] - Syndicate — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:31:00 GMT

I am in LA for Microsoft PDC ‘09. One thing in Day 1 I was happy to see in real was a Azure container that was on display in the exhibition floor. These are containers (shipping container) that have all included in them – Hundreds of Dell Servers, Climate...(read more)

Down the memory lane: High School Prizes

Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு] - Syndicate — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:34:00 GMT

Today my mother while cleaning her book shelf, found few of my envelopes. They were from my High School days. One was Rs.51 Cash Prize I won in Twelfth Standard for “Most Deserving Student of the High School”. The other was a First Prize with Rs.150 for...(read more)

It is my birthday – and Windows 7 launches today!

Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு] - Syndicate — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:40:00 GMT

It is my birthday today (I am not telling how old I am) and I am in Cologne, Germany attending Tamil Internet Conference 2009 away from my family & friends, missing the gifts they might have given me :-) Anyways, Mr.Steve Ballmer didn’t disappoint...(read more)

Forward emails with Exchange/Outlook even when you are away

Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு] - Syndicate — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:28:00 GMT

The other day one of my colleagues asked me how he can have emails from a distribution list sent to him, go automatically to certain people even when he hasn’t downloaded the emails in his MS Outlook client. A server-side rule can be setup by the individual...(read more)

Dune Eco Village near Pondy

Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு] - Syndicate — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:08:00 GMT

Being a long weekend, we decided to go out for few days from city. I generally like going to beach resorts near Chennai in ECR road for a peaceful stay. Since I had been to GRT Temple Bay & Fisherman’s Cove in Mamallapuram, Ashok Resort in Pondy I...(read more)

The British left-behind show

Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு] - Syndicate — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:26:42 GMT

Read in The Hindu few days back about an exhibition with display of British era items in Lalit Kala Academy, Greams Road Chennai – this place is near the Greams Road-Pantheon Road traffic signal, few hundred metres away from Apollo Hospital. The exhibition...(read more)

Free (book) by Chris Anderson

Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு] - Syndicate — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:37:00 GMT

Free is the new book by Wired Editor “Chris Anderson”. His earlier book “ Long Tail ” was an acclaimed work that is quoted in almost every conversation with the word “Web” in it over last few years. This book’s title though had the potential to...(read more)

Tamil in Windows Mobile with SkyFire

Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு] - Syndicate — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:50:00 GMT

I have written in the past about lack of Tamil unicode rendering support in all popular smartphones ( iPhone , Windows Mobile, Nokia). This week one of my colleague who uses a Windows Mobile 6.0 (HTC branded) phone showed me SkyFire browser. SkyFire...(read more)

What is Microsoft’s SharePoint?

Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு] - Syndicate — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:09:00 GMT

Though we have done lot of Microsoft SharePoint projects, I find it difficult to give a single answer to everyone for the question on “What is SharePoint?”. Depending on who (their job role) is asking the question and for what they are asking it, the...(read more)