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Nine-year-old TN girl cracks Microsoft exam

NinethSense — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:38:00 GMT

A fourth standard girl from rural Tamil Nadu has become the youngest to pass the Microsoft certified professional examination.

The Microsoft exam, usually taken by techies for better job prospects, measures problem-solving skills and Lavinashree (9) passed it with flying colours.

By achieving this feat, she broke the record held by Arfa Karim, a ten-year-old Pakistani girl.

And what's more, the Madurai-based fourth-standard student has already planned her future.

"Dr Kalam is a very big scientist and I want to become like him," Lavinashree said.

Lavinashree is used to creating records. When she was just three, she was listed in the Limca Book of Records for reciting all 1330 couplets of Thirukural, one of the Tamil classics.

After that, her parents decided to encourage her tremendous memory. But an admission to a software programme wasn't easy.

"When we went to them, the guys first refused saying she was too young. They took her only after she proved that she could," said Lavanya, Lavinashree's sister.

The child prodigy's admirers include many national leaders -- from former president APJ Abdul Kalam to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi.

In fact, according to Lavinashree's father, the Tamil Nadu government is likely to announce that they will take care of the child's education. Who knows she might well turn out to be India's Bill Gates one day.

Source: http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080077337

Christmas Offer from Timenet on Certification exams

NinethSense — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:29:00 GMT

Just got this offer in my mail. Let us utilize.

Windows Live Translator Bot

NinethSense — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:01:00 GMT

You may be aware of Microsoft's language translation service at http://www.windowslivetranslator.com/

Here is a cool feature which allows you to do translations from your messenger. Simply add tbot@hotmail.com as your buddy.

Initially you will be asked to set your source and target languages.You can get list of commands by typing "tbot ?".

Here is the list of available commands from my messenger:

(3:32:06 PM) NinethSense: tbot ?
(3:32:07 PM) TBot: Here are all the commands I understand:

1 TBot lang - Show the current language pair
2 TBot change - Select translation languages
3 TBot stop - Stop translations
4 TBot start - Start translations again
5 TBot set - Set your preferred language
6 TBot ? - Show this list of commands

See also: http://translator.live.com
(3:35:56 PM) NinethSense: What?
(3:35:59 PM) TBot: Was?

Oxite - A blog engine with ASP.NET MVC

NinethSense — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:37:00 GMT

Oxite is an open source, standards compliant, and highly extensible content management platform that can run anything from blogs to big web sites.

This is a simple blog engine written using ASP.NET MVC, and is designed with two main goals:

To provide a sample of 'core blog functionality' in a reusable fashion. Blogs are simple and well understood by many developers, but the set of basic functions that a blog needs to implement (trackbacks, rss, comments, etc.) are fairly complex. Hopefully this code helps.
To provide a real-world sample written using ASP.NET MVC.

Here are the URLs:

Azure Services Platform

NinethSense — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:53:00 GMT

Build new applications in the cloud - or use interoperable services that run on Microsoft infrastructure to extend and enhance your existing applications.

The Azure™ Services Platform (Azure) is an internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers, which provides an operating system and a set of developer services that can be used individually or together. Azure’s flexible and interoperable platform can be used to build new applications to run from the cloud or enhance existing applications with cloud-based capabilities. Its open architecture gives developers the choice to build web applications, applications running on connected devices, PCs, servers, or hybrid solutions offering the best of online and on-premises.

Azure reduces the need for up-front technology purchases, and it enables developers to quickly and easily create applications running in the cloud by using their existing skills with the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment and the Microsoft .NET Framework. In addition to managed code languages supported by .NET, Azure will support more programming languages and development environments in the near future. Azure simplifies maintaining and operating applications by providing on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web and connected applications. Infrastructure management is automated with a platform that is designed for high availability and dynamic scaling to match usage needs with the option of a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Azure provides an open, standards-based and interoperable environment with support for multiple internet protocols, including HTTP, REST, SOAP, and XML.

Microsoft also offers cloud applications ready for consumption by customers such as Windows Live™, Microsoft Dynamics™, and other Microsoft Online Services for business such as Microsoft Exchange Online and SharePoint® Online. The Azure Services Platform lets developers provide their own unique customer offerings by offering the foundational components of compute, storage, and building block services to author and compose applications in the cloud.

More details can be found here.

The new logo for Microsoft.NET

NinethSense — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:15:00 GMT

Here it goes...

Free Microsoft Press eBooks

NinethSense — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:18:00 GMT

You can download two free cool books from microsoft press on behalf of their "Free E-Book of the Month" offer.

Windows Server® 2008 TCP/IP Protocols and Services: Your essential guide to TCP/IP—fully updated for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista.

Programming Microsoft Robotics Studio: Visualize, build, and deploy the next innovation in robotic applications.

Kerala-MUG Mega Launch Event

NinethSense — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:46:00 GMT

K-MUG - Kerala Microsoft Users Group is conducting a mega launch event on 25^th of October 2008 at Ashirvad Lawns, Kozhikode. We will be having technical sessions, announcement of scholarship program, career guidance sessions etc. This is a full day event starting from 8:30am which last till 4:30pm. Lunch, snacks and gifts will be avail to the audiance.

Click here to register for the event.

For event related queries (including sponsorship) please contact admin@k-mug.org

Microsoft and ineta (International Dotnet Association) are the platinum and gold Sponsors. For further details visit the link : http://k-mug.org/content/LaunchAgenda.aspx

Winners announced - MSDN Premium subscription

NinethSense — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:30:00 GMT

Top 2 developer-ranked users of Kidoos who are eligible for MSDN Premium Subscription as gift are:

Shiju.dba
Shobankr

Congratulations!

Also, Thanks for your contributions.

Vote for Innoz!

NinethSense — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:04:00 GMT

May be you remember ‘Swades Solutions’ which initiated the offsite incubation of India’s finest it park, technopark.

News: http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=327947

Most of the students take a routine life style.

Complete schooling, get some degree, and get into some company.

Work there until “the boss” fires you or you quit.

But when Deepak,Abhinav,Ashwin and Hisam from L.B.S College of Engineering,Kasaragod did things differently, they are no longer the guy-next door.

And when technopark took them into their incubator family, nuturing with right support and publicity they started creating magic.

"Swades" was the perfect project to take further, and when the team shared belief in it, and vision for it, marked the beginning of "innoz".

Innoz Technologies is a software firm incubated under T-TBI,Technopark.

This startup has been initiated for the need of brilliance and innovation in the software field mainly focusing on 3 fields mobile, internet and new media.

“Do what you love, Be your own boss and make a million to smile for”.

That’s our mission-says Deepak,CEO,Innoz.

Know more about Innoz at their official website www.innoz.in

Recently Innoz had been nominated for TATA and NEN Hottest Startup awards by NEN.

It’s a people’s awards so definitely we need to support.

Innoz Technologies is the youngest and only student startup from Kerala, to get nominated!!

So lets get to the point:

As a family, we technoparkians would definitely need to help them to get the best ranking possible.

Each votes matters them a lot :)

About TATA NEN hottest startups awards

TATA NEN Hottest Startups awards is India’s only community-chosen awards for Indian start-ups.Brought to you by National Entrepreneurship Network and TATA Group, in association with Helion, Mint , Seedfund and Wadhwani Foundation

What if innoz get into the top 30?

The Awards has the outcome of directly helping the 30 short listed companies, and providing even greater support and visibility to the Top 5 Winners.

Winners of TATA NEN Hottest Startups will receive a potent combination of publicity and business support, designed to spur their growth to the next level.
Prizes in the TATA NEN Startup Awards include:
• Business training, mentoring and incubation support of upto Rs. 50 lakhs by IIM-A and CIIE
• Incubation opportunity to a befitting venture by IIM-B and NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL)
• Admission to Microsoft’s StartUp Accelerator Program for at least one winner
• All Shortlisted startups will receive direct admission to pitch to Angels courtesy Indian Angel Network and Mumbai Angels and admission to TiE’s nurturing program

In addition, all nominated companies stand a chance to be invited for the TATA NEN Hottest Startup Funding Challenge 2008. The funding will be provided by Seedfund and the winner could receive 2 to 3 crores of investment capital subject to evaluation from them. The final decision on the funding for the winning company will rest with Seedfund. A great launchpad for the young team to showcase their products and that’s what we it all matters.

The most important thing : UR VOTING FORMAT

For SMS voting type HOT<space>66 and Send to 56767

For online voting go to www.vote.innoz.in

Deadline of the contest is 1^st November 2008.

Author take no responsibilities.

Virtual TechDays 2008

NinethSense — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:24:00 GMT

For more details: http://www.connectwithlife.co.in/vtd/default.aspx

Join Microsoft experts at Virtual TechDays and discover how Microsoft can help you get more out of life.

September 17, 18 and 19

Happy Teachers Day - September 5

NinethSense — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:36:00 GMT

Let us remember with love... our teachers... who helped us to grow....... live.... career

Guru Divas - September 5 - It is the birthday of the second President of India, academic philosopher Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan. It is considered a "celebration" day, where teachers and students report to school as usual but the usual activities and classes are replaced by activities of celebration, thanks and remembrance. At some schools on this day, the responsibility of teaching is taken up by the senior students as an appreciation for their teachers.

PHP 4.4.9 and PHP 5.3 alpha1 released!

NinethSense — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:25:00 GMT

PHP 4 latest stable release PHP 4.4.9 released and is avaialble for download at http://php.net/

Also, the first Alpha release of 5.3 version also released.There have been a great number of other additions and improvements, but here is a short overview of the most important changes:

Namespaces (documentation maybe out dated)
Late static binding and __callStatic
Lambda functions and closures
Addition of the intl, phar (phar is scheduled for some more work a head of alpha2), fileinfo and sqlite3 extensions
Optional cyclic garbage collection
Optional support for the MySQLnd replacement driver for libmysql
Windows older than Windows 2000 (Windows 98, NT4, etc.) are not supported anymore (details)
New syntax features like NOWDOC, limited GOTO, ternary short cut "?:"

Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows

NinethSense — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:50:00 GMT

Google's new web browser - Chrome is released and you can download it from http://www.google.com/chrome

script.aculo.us

NinethSense — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:51:00 GMT

script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly.

Latest version available is 1.8.1

More details here