Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

Supposedly friendly features like spell-check & auto-completion can be a bane sometimes. Imagine if your boss & best friend share the same name & you excitedly send a very private message to the boss instead of the friend because GMail cleverly fills the email address while you type a few characters of the name. If such a scenario rings a bell, here is one option to prevent GMail from supplying names you don't want to see in the email auto-complete list that appears while composing a mail. The easy way is to delete the contact. But if you want to prevent an email address from showing up in GMail auto-complete list when you try names in the To:, CC: or BCC: fields, then you can consider moving the email address from the Email field in the form for that Contact to the Notes field. click on image to enlarge

This page on the Browserscope website  lets you choose versions of the same or different browsers & see how they stack up in supporting HTML5 features. Click on the "Compare UAs" link on that page, select User Agents you want to compare & then hit the Compare button. I chose versions 8, 9 & 10 of Internet Explorer to see what's new with respect to HTML5 in IE9 & IE 10 click to enlarge image You can copy the table data to Excel & transpose the columns to rows to view the tabular data vertically as a list (in Excel2010, click on Paste dropdown in Ribbon & select Transpose). So here is the list of HTML5 supported features in IE9 as detected by Browserscope by utilizing Modernizer 2.0.4 - audio:m4a  audio:mp3  backgroundsize  borderradius  boxshadow  canvas  canvastext  csstransforms  draganddrop  fontface  generatedcontent  geolocation  hashchange  hsla  inlinesvg  localstorage  multiplebgs  opacity  postmessage  rgba  se

From Scott Allen's C# Fundamentals Part 2 course on Pluralsight - Rule #10: Avoid Regions - as they are typically used to hide ugly code or classes that've exploded in size or responsibility. Think if you should break the regions into seperate classes Rule #9: Use exceptions for errors..instead of status code or booleans...but not for control flow Rule #8: Avoid boolean parameters Rule #7: Avoid too many parameters - beyond 4, consider grouping Rule #6: Warnings are errors - Go to a Project's Properties and in the Build tab of the dialog box that opens up, change "Treat warnings as errors" to All from the default None Rule #5: Encapsulate complex expressions - Instant recognition is good Rule #4: Try to avoid multiple exits - have just one Rule #3: Try to avoid comments - A meaningful method name is more effective than comments. Triple slash comments in VS are ok as they help in documentation of an API. Other developers can see your comments through Int

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Microsoft's Students to Business website  connects graduating students with  Microsoft, Microsoft Partners and its customers. This program is open to graduating students in India. The enrollment process is simple  and does not require any fees. Microsoft's DreamSpark program gives students Microsoft professional tools at no charge. For students passionate about software development, there are also other avenues where they can publish their original projects or contribute to ongoing open-source projects and get noticed. Here is a list of popular project hosting sites - CodePlex SourceForge Google Code CodeProject