Just a quick tip for all you codeplex/codeproject code downloading junkies
Solution for assigning a strong name to a third party DLL using your visual studio command prompt.
E.g. Lets say the name of the third party DLL is myTest.dll.
Step 1: Dis-assemble the assembly
ildasm myTest.dll /out:myTest.il
Step 2: Re-Assemble using your strong-name key
ilasm myTest.il /res:myTest.res /dll /key:myTest.snk /out:myTestSN.dll
for verification you can use following command,
sn -vf myTestSN.dll
Filed under: Tech on December 11th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
As some of you already mailed me, I kind of stopped blogging by the end of the Chennai adventure…
So what happened in the meanwhile ?
Things got pretty hectic at work, got hooked on Guild Wars (dropped WoW for it) and after a few weeks decided that I had to stop playing it. Reaching the addict level is never a good thing :).
So I quit gaming all together. Sold my Wii … and replaced it for a PS3 as new gaming station.
Since I had no ‘time consuming hobby’ left I decided to pick up an old dream: learn to play guitar. So I am quite busy with that nowadays.
Did a evening seminar at SAI on Scrum together with Peter Bauwens and had the opportunity to go to Tech-Ed Barcelona in november, and for the rest got some interesting projects going at work…
Filed under: Chennai on December 11th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last week I received an invitation to go to the wedding reception of Deepak and Sunitha. (Sunitha is an Indian colleague) It was an honour and quite an experience for me.
In India it is quite normal to have +500 people on your wedding reception,… and you all get to eat too!
The bride was dressed up really beautiful and the groom was really charming and friendly although I never met him before.
I’ve added some pictures of the reception and dinner afterwards.
This wedding was really something special because it is a love-marriage opposed to the arranged weddings (which still take place), it took them more then 10 years to arrange (and get permission for) the wedding. He is a christian and she is a hindu which made it not easy but they managed to make it through…
Thanks Deepak and Sunitha ! I wish you all the best.
Filed under: Chennai on August 30th, 2007 | No Comments »
Last saturday my colleagues and me were asked to leave the Dublin club at 12 o’clock.
At that point it was not clear to us why the club closed so soon, and everybody was in such a rush to leave.
On sunday when we watched the news it all made sense….
Nameless, ruthless and pointless
IT IS a strange terrorist who prefers to remain anonymous. Yet this seems to be the signature of the bombers who, every few months for the past few years, have exploded crude bombs in India’s cities. The latest blasts were in pleasant southern Hyderabad on August 25th. In quick succession, explosions in a park during a laser show and at a crowded food-stall killed 43 people and injured scores. Another 19 bombs were discovered planted around Hyderabad, and made safe. The government of Andhra Pradesh, of which Hyderabad is the capital, leapt to blame the customary suspects: “terrorist organisations based in Bangladesh and Pakistan”.
Read more here and here.
After this news and especially the info they gave on the Indian channels we decided to stay in the hotel on sunday instead of going to spencer plaza and t.nagar…
Filed under: Chennai on August 30th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The last couple of days my colleagues and I noticed that there was a lot, err… even more garbage on street corners than normal in Chennai. We found out why…
RESIDENTS OF three thickly populated zones of Chennai have had to put up with piles of stinking garbage for the past few days after a new contractor appointed by the Chennai Corporation failed to get its act together even three days after his tenure began.
The previous contractor, CES Onyx of Singapore, which had been doing a commendable job for the last seven years, was replaced by the JBM-Fanalca joint venture after a fresh bid to clear 1,200 tonnes of garbage daily - one-third of the city’s total waste. But on August 25, JBM’s local company Neel Metals failed to show up with its garbage bins and compactors, leaving the residents with no option but to leave their waste by the roadside.
Neel Metals was nowhere to be seen even on Wednesday, four days after it took over. The 150 mini trucks it had deployed were simply not enough to handle the city’s waste in the absence of the 600-kg capacity bins and compactor trucks needed to transport the waste to the dump yard. While embarrassed Corporation officials initially tried to make light of the situation by calling it a transition hiccup, it was later forced to use its own trucks and men to clear the accumulated garbage. It even got Onyx to redeploy its bins and compactors to handle the emergency. With the non-performance of its new contractor evident, the Corporation has decided not to give it an additional zone that was originally allotted to it.
“It is a fact that Neel Metals failed to get its act together, though they were given the contract a month ago. We have given them notice and if they fail to improve within a month, we may review the contract,” Chennai Corporation Commissioner Rajesh Lakhoni told HT. Local Administration Minister M.K. Stalin blamed the delay on the non-arrival of garbage bins from Sintex, due to a fire in the company’s factory, and promised things would look up in 10 days. Neel Metals CEO P.S. Batra also promised “things would improve in the next few days”.
Source: yahoo India News
People here think it will take another 4 weeks for all garbage will be cleaned up. Do keep in mind that even at night its 30 degrees here and that a lot of people sleep on the streets…
Filed under: Chennai on August 30th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
