
In my last post I have discussed about the BerkleyDB product family.In this post we will discuss about using BerkleyDB with it's C# API set.Before getting into the details we will take a quick look into the different access methods provided by Berkley DB. BTree - Here the data is stored in a balanc...Read more.
Posted on 31 January 2010 | 6:34 am
Last Tuesday we planned to see the latest James Cameron sci-fi blockbuster Avatar.We decided upon the odd showtime of 10.15 PM in Fame Cinemas of South City Mall under the anticipation that very few will choose that time.This was because after 10.15 PM it's really night in Kolkata (unlike many other...Read more.
Posted on 3 January 2010 | 9:57 pm
Last Tuesday I saw the movie Three Idiots and on Friday we were having discussion on our own engineering college days,about so many engineering colleges springing up here and there etc.As time went by and we started becoming a little high on whiskey the discussion took a different turn and we star...Read more.
Posted on 3 January 2010 | 7:27 pm
Every application that we build needs data.Traditionally in most of the applications we have a client component which interacts with the end user and data resides on a separate database server.In modern applications we have an intermediate web server or application server as well.There are some appl...Read more.
Posted on 2 January 2010 | 3:58 pm
We all are quite conversant with the XmlWriter & XmlReader classes in System.Xml namespace.But not that much with the XmlDictionary ,XmlDictionaryReader & XmlDictionaryWriter present in System.Xml namespace in System.Runtime.Serialization assembly.These are used primarily by the WCF framewor...Read more.
Posted on 26 December 2009 | 5:19 pm
In my last post I had discussed about Parallel For loops and in what situation it can be useful compared to a sequential loop.In this post we will take a look at how to break or exit from a Parallel For loop.We can use the break or exit keywords for this purpose as Parallel For [...]...Read more.
Posted on 20 December 2009 | 1:02 pm
This week has not been too much interesting for me.Too much drinking (almost 4 out of 5 working days) & freak outs.Now it has become a personal agenda of highest priority to cut down on that count.Anyway's,even in this freak week there were some interesting things that caught my attention.Google...Read more.
Posted on 13 December 2009 | 9:24 pm
Last Tuesday I managed to see the movie "2012" finally.. There are a couple of reasons for which I wanted to see this movie.The first and foremost is the theme of the movie.The prediction of apocalypse in 2012 as per Mayan calendar becoming true and human race is strug...Read more.
Posted on 6 December 2009 | 1:16 pm
Tuple provides us with a way to group elements of disparate data types together.This is present in functional languages like Haskell and also dynamic languages like Python.A common example of a tuple is a pair of coordinates defining a point in two dimensional space.In Haskell a tuple storing name a...Read more.
Posted on 29 November 2009 | 10:46 pm
Recently in the tweets of one of my friends (who is lucky to be a student in this bad times) I found that he is quite bored with subjects like economics,accounting etc. as a part of his tech degree curricula.Back...Read more.
Posted on 13 May 2009 | 12:29 pm
In my earlier post I had discussed about the context/problem/solution of the Layers pattern and it's multiple implementation scenarios.In this part we will focus on the steps we need to follow in order to implement this pattern and it's benefits...Read more.
Posted on 3 May 2009 | 12:20 pm
What do we do first, when designing a large complex system?We try to break it into smaller manageable pieces i.e. we try to decompose the system.This is the context in which Layers architectural pattern comes into picture.While doing so normally...Read more.
Posted on 26 April 2009 | 7:25 pm