I have been working on a number of Angular apps in the past 2 years, since I first heard about Angular and started studying the technology. I wrote my first TypeScript app using TypeScript 0.4, which also used Angular about 1.5 years ago. I blogged about my experiences previously quite a few times. Here is …
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I just got an email from Microsoft that I was re-awarded Microsoft MVP status! This would be my 6th consecutive award. I am quite humbled and excited to have my community efforts recognized by Microsoft again. For many years now I take a bit of time in December to reflect upon the last year and …
In case you missed an important news, Oracle just released ODAC 12c Release 3 to production. The new ODAC release is now available for download from OTN. New features include Entity Framework 6, Code First, Code First Migrations, .NET Framework 4.5.2 certification, and managed ODP.NET XML DB, Kerberos, and more streamlined distributed transaction support. Try …
I was working with another developer today, and he wanted to experiment and see if running Entity Framework generator on a blank database takes longer than the one with a lot of data. We wanted to truncate all the tables. You cannot truncate a table with that participates in a foreign key constraint. SO, together …
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I mentioned before that I attended management meeting for a division of Tyler Technologies a few weeks back. As part of the meeting we talked about employee satisfaction, hiring and retention. I found over many years that when it comes to hiring, the only thing that is important is to hire smart and conscientious people. …
I blogged previously on leadership. I wanted to extend the topic a bit and talk about goal setting. First of all, what is a goal? Goal from dictionary perspective is a desired result that an organization or an individual sets to achieve. They have a few properties that are important. Goals need to be Specific …
Connect(); event took place on November 12 and 13th. So many new things were announced by Microsoft. You can watch the recorded session here. I wanted to take a few minutes and summarize the announcements for myself as well contemplate a bit on importance and ramifications of them. All the opinions below express my personal …
Last week I attended management meeting for a division of Tyler Technologies. We discussed many topics, one of them was centered around leadership. There is not a big difference between being a leader in software industry and really any other market. I wanted to summarize my thoughts on the subject in this post. I feel …
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I know many developers have seen tremendous amount of new technology that is being developers at Microsoft. Windows 10, new version of Visual Studio which will include new Roslyn compiler and new version of ASP.Net. Although preview versions are generally save and un-installable, I like to have a separate computer to play with early bits …
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Event sessions has been finalized now! You can see the schedule at http://atlantacodecamp.com/2014/Sessions. As you can see for yourself, we have impressive line up of seasoned as well as up-and-coming speakers. Come to learn and hang out with your peers. Registration is still open! We are still looking for sponsors as well. Please review important …