Happy Christmas 2006 ...

Its always a great feeling to celebrate Christmas. Christmas teaches the art of giving.

We feeling brings much joy and peace on earth to mankind. I enjoyed to the core this Christmas.

In Christmas evening there was a Children's Programme at our Church. We enjoyed the powerful show rendered by the tiny kids.

Happy Holidays...

Cool site to check your website!

I am just amazed by the thoughts that people get while creating tools. Here is a beautiful website that check the design of any website, popularity of a website and accessibility of the website.

It does about 130 tests on Basic HTML, Frames etc.

Here is the link.
http://sitescore.silktide.com/
Check your website and fix the issues it says ... it really means what it says.

Also for your further reference you can use another cool web based siteperformance tool. That is netmechanic you can visit http://www.netmechanic.com for more details.

SQL Tip - Row-by-Row Processing ...

Sometime back I was asked the best way for processing records row by row. Cursor was the only solution that I was thinking till now.

But, the idea totally changed when I read an article today on row by row processing with triggers.

Here is the link. Read on ...

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/asobati/2747.asp

Tip on usability

Usually it is hard to determine the usability of a website. But once we freeze on the usability of any website and with effective submission to search engines we are entitled to get a decent traffic from search engines.
Experts say that if a page doesn't load in 8 +- 2 seconds then user doesnt stay in the site.Also experts say that a good UI design would make the visitors fixed / get what they intended to get. So while creating any website we atleast need to keep in mind the above two points.

Earned a BrainBench Certification

Last saturday ( 09-Dec-2006 ) I passed C# exam at BrainBench.   Though Iam not sure of whether this exam is of much use I have cleared my exam.