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A very interesting post! People at MS organized an Iftar Dinner in which they showed videos and present about Fasting and philosophy behind Ramdhan. Around 700 people participated in this event including Lisa Brummel (Senior Vice President of Human Resources). Click here to read. http://blogs.msdn.com/jobsblog/archive/2007/10/25/microsoft-celebrates-Ramadan.aspx

When some thing related to technology, work or appreciation then must be above politics.    Situated in InfoComm City Vashi, New Bombay , its Worlds Second Biggest Screen just after NASA. Mainly Built to have look into Fiber Optic Cable laid down all over India. It mainly used By Fault Detection and Quick Response Cell . The facility has some of World finest Technologies attached within it . It has full functional Helipad on the Top.

Happy news for .Net Developers! Do you have a Facebook account and want to do more with it? Start creating cool, fun applications and Web sites with the Facebook Developer Toolkit. This toolkit offers you a huge amount of easy-to-use components and controls, plus ready-to-run samples and detailed documentation to get you started. With Visual Studio Express Editions and the Facebook Developer Toolkit, you'll have the tools you need to get going today! Source: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/bb510381.aspx So, now you can add social-elements into your applications, provide rich-interface for Facebook applications and much more! I have downloaded my copy what about you? Update: To download Facebook Developer toolkit Installer  click here .

Do you want to fly like birds? Just spread your wings and boo... have you ever think? Check this out:

I had decided to post some thing about C# 3.0 since I used CTP release of LINQ but due to some reasons I could not. But I came across this very nice article about C# 3.0. Somehow, he described all that I wished. Click here to read .

You have an ISO or IMG file and want to copy some or install from it but without burning it on CD or DVD, how? Here it comes in action, Microsoft's light weight tool "Virtual CD-ROM". It is much simple and just need to follow a short 'readme' file. You can download it from http://download.microsoft.com/…/winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe  

Microsoft and Open source are always considered as two different and opposite things but now it seems no longer. Open Source Initiative (OSI) has approved two of Microsoft’s shared licenses : Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL) . I did not read yet, but they are Open Source :).

Today, two different news , related to Microsoft, hit me with the though "Change in behaviors".  First one was " Microsoft’s chief executive has seen the future - and the future is advertising " and second is " Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries ". Be a developer I am happy for second one and be an ordinary user I have to do nothing with first one except I think Microsoft want to chase Google. Google already have very mature programs related to Advertisement and far ahead than Microsoft in this industry.

When Napoleon Hill interviewed Edison for the first time, he said, "Mr. Edison, what have you got to say about the fact that you've failed thousands of times in your attempts to create a light bulb?" Edison replied, "I beg your pardon, I've never failed even once. I've had thousands of learning experiments that didn't work. I had to run through enough learning experiences to find a way that it did work." [from book "Dare to Win" ] LiveJournal Tags: General , Quotation