Thanks Richard for the nice advise, really appreciate that.

Richard A. Dalton wrote:

For me I'm facintated by the tools that improve the development experience. So on my plate are things like:
Automated Unit Tests ...NUnit
Automated Acceptance Tests ...White
Outward facing tests ...Fitnesse, SpecFlow
Aspect Oriented ...PostSharp

How do you figure out that something is there on which you can look upon and research further. I mean there are so many ways/tools to do same things so how to determine which will be the best to learn and implement?

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Henry Minute wrote:

Think about it. If you were hiring and an applicant only knew stuff that hardly anybody uses, you wouldn't hire them.

Opposite of this is equally true, when someone works on rare technology they hardly get expert professionals and pay way more than a normal developer.

Henry Minute wrote:

You would be far better off choosing an area that really interests you and learn everything that you can about it.

Agreed. My original post was to look for something unconventional, different from my routine work where I can keep my interest too.

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Very true, it depends on person to person that how they learn and claim to be master of something. For me I like to learn, implement then claim that I know the technology. Let me put one example, I have a friend who worked 5 years in Java application development then shifted on Tibco framework component development though the core technology for Tibco framework is Java only, but now he gets almost double the salary what equally experienced Java developers get. I got 8 yrs of .Net application development experiance and here in India most of the employers get many .Net developers these day, demand is of someone who has something more than .Net in their CV.

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What rare technologies/tools a senior .Net developer can learn to have edge over the Winform/Webform application developers and gain some niche skills. I know about SharePoint, BizTalk, Mobile app development, Commerce and Exchange servers but apart from these I am looking for something which can add real value to my profile and help me to get better rewarding job. Also if you have enjoyed working on any tool please share here.

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More than 1500 Million people are fanatically going to follow it across border. PM's of India and Pak will be at the stadium with almost every VIP of India... This is the Mother of all games. Nerves are tighten... Mercury is sky high... Come on India have a Paki Curry in the dinner…

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Assuming that your are in UK, it's no surprise that doctors were unable to detect the actual cause, despite having all facilities. NHS has pathetic lot of medical professionals. Anyways my best wishes for the little one's health :rose:

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I am afraid this is another and bigger reason for univetes on your posts.

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thatraja wrote:

But i don't know why we both getting down-votes?

That's the reason you are getting down voted :laugh:

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They are purposely posting grammatically wrong English there, just the way some of less educated people communicate in India. The thread is intended for fun only and some of you are actually followed it :)

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Perfect expression, dance, balance and performance here[^] :omg: Just forward video up to 2 minutes.

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:laugh: accept my apologies to post in Hindi here. BTW Hindi is one of the sweetest languages, world's third largest spoken, having vast literature and a great history.

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I have already posted it there :)

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सभी हिंदीभाषियों का हिंदी फोरम पर सवागत है! मैं मेम्बर्स की सहायता के लिए कुछ igoogle gadgets बताना चाहता हूँ, कृपया इनका उपयोग कर के आप अपने प्रश्न पूछें! १. Hinglish से हिंदी में लिखने के लिए कृपया इस gadget का प्रयोग करें English to Hindi Translator[^] यह वेब पर उपलब्ध सभी translators में से सर्वोत्तम है! २. google translate[^] इस gadget का उपयोग कर के आप हिंदी से अंग्रेजी और अंग्रेजी से हिंदी में अनुवाद कर सकते हैं, यह पूर्णतया अनुवाद करने में सक्षम नहीं है लेकिन काफी हद तक अनुवाद कर पाता है! उपयोग केसे करें : www.igoogle.com पर जा कर आप अपने gmail के email account से login करें और ऊपर दिए गए links से gadgets add कर लें. इसके बाद कभी भी आप igoogle खोलेंगे तो दोनों gadgets आपको main page पर मिलेंगे! अन्य किसी भी जानकारी के लिए कृपया अपने प्रश्न पूछें!

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When Grandma speaks in court... Lawyers should never ask grandmas a question if they aren't prepared for the answer! In a trial, a small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, an elderly grandmother to the stand. He approached her and asked; "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?" She responded, "Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I've known you since you were a young boy, and frankly, you're a big disappointment to me.. You lie, cheat on your wife, manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You think you're a big shot when you haven't the brains to realize you never will amount to anything more than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know you.." The lawyer was stunned! Not knowing what else to do, he pointed across the room and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know the defense attorney (the opponent's lawyer)?" She again replied, "Why, yes, I do. I've known Mr. Bradley since he was a youngster. He's lazy, bigoted, and has a drinking problem. He can't build a normal relationship with anyone and his law practice is one of the worst in the state. Not to mention he cheated on his wife with three different women. One of them was your wife. ..Yes I know him." The defense attorney almost died. The judge asked both lawyers to approach the bench and in a quiet voice said: "If either of you rascals asks her if she knows me, I'll send you to jail for contempt of court !!!

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McAfee online site advisor says this is a perfectly clean website: http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/cccp-project.net/summary/[^]

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I am using their codec pack from quite a long and it works wonderfully for almost every video format available on net, my OJOSoft Video converter use this package and never complained for unsupported codecs ever since I installed the package.

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Every employer's compiler will at least give an warning on the line of expected CTC (cost to company) line.

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It was the first day of a school in USA and a new Indian student named Chandrasekhar Subramanian entered the fourth grade. The teacher said, "Let's begin by reviewing some American History. Who said 'Give me Liberty, or give me Death'?" She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Chandrasekhar, who had his hand up: 'Patrick Henry, 1775' he said. 'Very good!' Who said 'Government of the People, by the People, for the People, shall not perish from the Earth?' Again, no response except from Chandrasekhar. 'Abraham Lincoln, 1863' said Chandrasekhar. The teacher snapped at the class, 'Class, you should be ashamed. Chandrasekhar, who is new to our country, knows more about its history than you do.' She heard a loud whisper: 'F*ck the Indians,' 'Who said that?' she demanded. Chandrasekhar put his hand up. 'General Custer, 1862.' At that point, a student in the back said, 'I'm gonna puke.' The teacher glares around and asks 'All right! Now, who said that?' Again, Chandrasekhar says, 'George Bush to the Japanese Prime Minister, 1991.' Now furious, another student yells, 'Oh yeah? Suck this!' Chandrasekhar jumps out of his chair waving his hand and shouts to the teacher , 'Bill Clinton, to Monica Lewinsky, 1997!' Now with almost mob hysteria someone said 'You little ****. If you say anything else, I'll kill you.' Chandrasekhar frantically yells at the top of his voice, 'Michael Jackson to the child witnesses testifying against him- 2004.' The teacher fainted. And as the class gathered around the teacher on the floor, someone said, 'Oh ****, we're screwed!' And Chandrasekhar said quietlly, "I think it was the American people, November 4, 2008."

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Well, I got google's web spell checker installed on my machine and it corrected the spelling that way :(

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Fate of nAnt, nUnit, nCover, nDoc, GotDotNet and many more open source product/communities shows that MS is still living in their age old methodology "Depend on us else perish". What do you think, we as dot net developers carries a greater risk in case of some disaster to MS compared to other technology Dev's?

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