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TWIL - Week #20 25 Aug 2013 | 09:18 pm
This Week I Learned: A good way to setup Development, Staging and Production environments for a Azure cloud application is to have either three separate Cloud Services, or even 3 subscriptions. The b...
HOW TO let Google watch over your web activity 15 Aug 2013 | 11:19 am
When we get onto the Internet, we trade our privacy for convenience. Everyone from marketers, ISPs to Governments can watch our activities on the Internet. I chuckled when I saw a question on Stack E...
HOW TO change mobile number in your IRCTC.co.in profile 14 Aug 2013 | 11:27 pm
The Indian Railways ticket reservation website, IRCTC.co.in, is possibly the most used utility site in India that is also the most complained about. It can get hopelessly slow when you need it the mo...
Book Review: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook 12 Aug 2013 | 09:09 pm
The intent of the book Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook by Jose Luis Latorre Millas, to cover the new features of .NET Framework 4.5 in just 226 pages is too ambitious - it covers too ...
TWIL - Week #19 10 Aug 2013 | 06:58 am
This Week I Learned: RuPay is the Indian domestic card payment network being set up by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) at the behest of banks in India. This project had been conceived b...
Google's "answer box" gives direct answers 8 Aug 2013 | 11:30 pm
An "answer box" is a SERP feature, usually displayed in a light-gray box, that occurs above the organic results (left column) and tries to directly answer a question. This Moz article lists 101 pract...
TWIL - Week #18 4 Aug 2013 | 09:01 pm
This Week I Learned: jQuery's .data method ignores case in attribute data names - The value of a HTML5 data attribute like data-sampleAttributeName="example" or data-sampleattributename="example" ca...
Book Review: Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick & Bill Simon 28 Jul 2013 | 02:12 pm
Ghost in the Wires is the memoir of Kevin Mitnick, once labelled America's most wanted hacker. Besides time in jail, he received the unusual punishment of not being allowed to use a computer for eight...
TWIL - Week #17 27 Jul 2013 | 11:13 am
This Week I Learned: The normal Web and Business Editions in SQL Database have a limit of 180 concurrent requests. Applications requiring more connections should use a Premium database (Premium Tier ...
TWIL - Week #16 21 Jul 2013 | 09:30 pm
This Week I Learned: $.now() is the shorthand for new Date().getTime(). #jquery Pages fetched with POST are never cached, so the cache and ifModified options in jQuery.ajaxSetup() have no effect on ...
