Technology | Anuj Varma

Lessons learnt from the world of Software Development, Object Oriented Design and .NET Architecture.

The Publish Subscribe Pattern in C# and some gotchas | Posted on April 17, 2013 by Anuj Varma

NOTE: With the introduction of two new interfaces in .NET 4.0, there is a cleaner way to implement the Publish Subscribe pattern in C# .NET. However, the ‘gotchas’ listed here still apply. Even with the new interfaces, one still needs … Continue reading →

Using CSS Templates with ASP.NET MVC | Posted on April 16, 2013 by Anuj Varma

Find a CSS layout that you like – one good source is freecsstemplates.org.
In your MVC solution, in the shared views folders, there should be a _layout.cshtml file. This file contains razor view engine syntax. What we need to do is … Continue reading →

All flash storage cluster…database performance may take a giant leap | Posted on April 16, 2013 by Anuj Varma

http://www.techpageone.com/technology/enterprise-ssd-the-first-all-flash-storage-cluster/#.UWz9oZPviSq

Outlook messages open up in MS Word | Posted on March 19, 2013 by Anuj Varma

Here’s what happens – you open outlook to compose a new message (or reply to an existing one). Instead of Outlook as your editor, MS Word takes over at this point. Confusion ensues – since Word’s window is always hidden … Continue reading →

Windows Live Writer for Editing Pages | Posted on March 15, 2013 by Anuj Varma

Editing blog ‘posts’ is straightforward in Windows Live Writer. To get to the ‘pages’ (created in WordPress) was somewhat hidden…
Editing ‘pages’ as opposed to ‘posts’ in LiveWriter

1. FILE—>Open Recent Post
You should see a side bar that contains ‘Drafts’, ‘Recently posted’ … Continue reading →

First Page–A free editor for Cold Fusion Markup (and HTML) | Posted on March 14, 2013 by Anuj Varma

More recently, I returned to some Cold Fusion programming (In the late 90s, I owned and operated coldfusionprogrammer.com – a site dedicated to Cold Fusion development – but moved to other platforms since then).
I was pleased to see that … Continue reading →

Microsoft abandoning its brightest idea ( in a long time….)–The upcoming death of Silverlight | Posted on March 9, 2013 by Anuj Varma

Microsoft seems to have come up with one of the greatest technologies of recent times. A technology that would change the way websites looked and performed. Far more powerful than HTML5 or Flash. With capabilities that HTML5 can only dream … Continue reading →

Facebook– Essential Missing Functionality | Posted on March 5, 2013 by Anuj Varma

For the world’s leading social networking site, these missing features are inexcusable:

Unable to edit status updates (there’s a trick that can be used on updates containing images – but not on regular, non-image updates).
‘Send’ button (e.g. while messaging someone) – … Continue reading →

iTunes 11–Missing sidebar and File menu | Posted on February 22, 2013 by Anuj Varma

Not sure why these are hidden by default on the Windows version of iTunes.

To recover the File menu bar –> CTRL B
To recover the sidebar –> CTRL S

Phew….

C#, .NET Exception Handling Best Practices | Posted on April 27, 2012 by Anuj Varma

The Problem Statement
You have just started working on an existing codebase – an n-Tier project – and noticed that the Exception Handling framework wasn’t as well defined as you would expect. Some specific things that bother you include:

Lack of … Continue reading →