Ranjan Sakalley

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• Dialog Units

  Microsoft recommends a left margin of 7 Dialog Units (DLUs) ( here ) between controls in forms. So what is this DLU? The definition follows - A vertical dialog unit equals 1/8 the font height, and a horizontal dialog unit equals 1/4 the font width. The... Posted Apr 11 2006, 05:35 AM by rsakalley with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• New job

  I joined ThoughtWorks as an application developer. It was a wonderful day, had a real nice time talking to some of the people there. Incidentally, Martin Fowler is in the India office these day, so maybe I will get to meet him sometime. BTW, moving from... Posted Apr 10 2006, 03:13 PM by rsakalley with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• Friday Quiz I : Who wrote the first Hello World program?

  Thought about starting a quiz series, a question every friday kind of. So todays question is : Who wrote the first "Hello World" program? I might know it, but I am not sure. Do you know? Posted Apr 28 2005, 10:37 PM by rsakalley with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• Books?

  Am looking for a set of good books, and one of our guys is in the US rite now, so I can buy them from Amazon (dont get me into details as to why we dont get good books in india :(, just have to import, or wait for a year) Any ideas about some books tech... Posted Mar 17 2005, 10:45 AM by rsakalley with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• Questionnaire for my trainees

  Set of questions that I asked my trainees today, please drop in comments if you think I need to add something more, so as to force them understand how things work. 1. What is the difference between a function call and invoking an event? 2. Explain the... Posted Mar 08 2005, 12:03 AM by rsakalley with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• .Text and need to indicate reposts before publishing

  After joining such a distinguished set of .net bloggers, one's first fear is not to repost on something that's already been discussed or written on by somebody great. My idea of solving this issue is to basically put a hook on the POST button, find out... Posted Feb 23 2005, 07:35 AM by rsakalley with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• 40tude Dialog

  If you ever were looking for a replacement for Outlook Express (msimn), or for that matter, any good news + mail reader, this is it. 1. Doesn't open Windows Messenger by default. ( major PITA with msimn) 2. Color coding. Quoted messages (with > and... Posted Jan 27 2005, 09:20 PM by rsakalley with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Misc

• VS.NET Wizard mayhem

  The pop-up says Could not run the 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC#\CSharpProjectItems\LocalProjectItems\..\CSharpAddClassWiz.vsz' wizard. Annoying. You can't create a new project, can't create a new class. Nothing. Cause ? Some... Posted Jan 05 2005, 10:49 PM by rsakalley with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: Misc