tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16605445481812321502024-11-01T04:03:29.877-07:00Confessions of a Creativity AddictVenkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17426517970261759507noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660544548181232150.post-82267856580578222202015-04-23T13:06:00.001-07:002015-04-23T13:06:10.057-07:00

It's been a while since i posted here, I got a little free time on my hands courtesy of waiting on comments on a pull request. A few days ago i really wanted to develop a very quick rest application. I have been writing a lot of java services of late which are consumed by rest applications. Despite my tests around it on the java level I wanted to ensure if there was a quick fire way to test it

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I know its been really a while like a year and half long since i posted something out on this side. I finally decided to stretch my thoughts out a little. It's been close to 2 years since i came to Kansas city and I have to say I am loving the work i am doing here everyday because the scope of picking a new stuff everyday is fantastic. The biggest hurdle i faced was migrating from Visual

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It's been a long time since i made a posting out here, Well it was the winter and I was hibernating you might say. Well I actually was transitioning a whole lot in these past 6 months or so. I can't believe how quickly time flies. To my surprise in my LinkedIn profile I found that I am in my new job for about 6 months now.  I have been busy though finally I have mustered enough courage

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After the amazing set of releases by Amazon over the course of last week where in I was keeping my fingers crossed for Apple to make its next move. In a way felt let down after the much hyped iPhone 4s announcement despite the fact I knew that there won't be much to expect in that announcement. It's more than a matter of choice for me currently I am going to jump into the Bandwagon

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This one is going to stand on a sad note rather than a tech note. First up is the Mango update which started rolling out when my phone broke couple of days before and it's weighing heavily on my mind. Second one is the announcement by Jeff Bezos. Everyone kinda knew about Kindle Fire the tablet they were about to release but the surprise factor happened to be the new kindle. Oh boy they took

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Yesterday was one of the really worst days which I faced in these past 2 months. Just when i was waiting so eagerly to get hooked up to a Mango update. My Windows Phone died on me, apparently due to the failure of the LCD screen. I didn't think I needed the insurance with that phone primarily because of the fact that I never had a problem with any of the phones I had in a long time. I did

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I had this question on an interview where I was asked to solve this problem on C#. Reverse a string :) well my eyes were gleaming when i heard the question, best part being asking me to do it in all possible ways I could think off to answer it immediately. I was happy with the number of answers I could do it in that short tenure of time but  I realized how knowing a framework in detail could

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I wanted to install Mango Tools SDK onto my laptop to start tweaking a new app I had been prototyping for quite some time now on Windows Phone 7, alas there was one major hindrance. My laptop was running Windows Vista Home Premium and for mango be installed needed a SP1. I let my windows update to download the SP1 and tried installing it which happened to be the beginning of the end. SP1

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I have three posts on drafts which needs my approval, Life has been a little hard for the past few weeks needless to say! I have been following E3 Expo with some curiosity because of the rumor mills which were grinding some info about upcoming Halo 4. Rumor hills had been churning that for quite sometime at-least for the past  2 years. I was full of skepticism filled with a

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I took quite a long break from here after writing my last post out here, I do love writing but I had a handful to deal with in the last 2 months. Thought of making this post here today after bumping into an interesting article at Engadget. Well i was pretty amused reading about it since I am a kindle user for the past 2 months it made feel a quite elated I should say :) Oh yes Veronica is my

Venkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17426517970261759507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660544548181232150.post-44641873307134129792011-04-20T11:21:00.000-07:002011-04-20T11:22:42.328-07:00

Mortal Kombat & Portal 2 quite possibly one of the good combo games to play concurrently :) Going to take my time playing these two unlike crysis 2 which i beat it in 2 days and got bored out of my mind since then. One eye for Fatality and One eye for Science!! PS: Next post is on my first application on Windows Phone 7...

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Been a while since I made my promise, nevertheless despite me wanting to post something interesting. I would very much like to stick to my promise, so here it goes. LINQ stands for Language Integrated Query is a set of features listed from Visual Studio 2008 (.Net 3.5 and above) it extends query capabilities to Language Syntax of C#. I tried explaining the architecture of LINQ to people I know at

Venkihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17426517970261759507noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660544548181232150.post-24001093068352493742011-02-18T14:38:00.000-08:002011-02-18T14:38:32.330-08:00

I was a little busy over the past week with lots of traveling, It's been a productive week for me personally and my next post would be on my experiences with LINQ to XML definitely. I got fascinated with LINQ for a long time finally my project requirements have necessitated the need to use LINQ but current post is about a nifty little feature which i made use of yesterday and i figured someone

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One of the most important aspects to a good application in fact one of the most pivotal components happens to be logging. If not for logging it would be very nasty to troubleshoot an issue when the application goes live onto production. Where do you start looking for problems?? There are some really awesome logging frameworks out there but I am going to focus on an Open Source logging framework

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I had this blog created for a long time ago, the primary reason i wanted it to be the avenue to share my nerdy thought processes sometimes (Don't worry it wont be that nerdy i try to keep it really simple enough). i had this posts in drafts for over 2 months and now that I've finally decided to curb my procrastination and wanted to nail it down today. I've been in the blogging circle for a while

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