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Here's a link http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html This contains most of the course lecture notes from MIT.

Posting after quite a good gap. That's because currently I am trying to digest basic computer science concepts related to algorithms, data structures, application of logarithms, the Big O notation etc.. Its not that I am not aware of the above concept, but occassionally everything needs brushing, so that the accumulated dust gets wiped off..

Away from c#, asp.net into the realms of javascript, xslt, xml etc... Hope its fun..

This has what happened when nature plays game !!! The rains which began on 26th July, halted mumbai's pace. The most affected place were kurla, sion, chembur, goregaon, santacruz, kalyan, badlapur, thane, andheri (sakinaka)... The loss cannot be written down in this blog. This space is too little to understand the emotions and truama of those suffered.... But, its amazing to see, how fast mumbai is back to life...

Yesterday, attended my first lecture on Time Management as part of my E-MBA course. The crux of the matter was to able to save 20 minutes of quality time a day. Some sample equation... 20 minutes a day 600 minutes a month 7200 minutes a year. i.e 120 hours a year.. For 25 years + more of life time you have got 3000 hours of more time which you can utilise to achieve your life goals.. To manage time ==> is to manage self. And self management requires some discipline which is not developed overnight. Patience and practice is required... More to come...

Cursors and while loops seems to be bit evil in terms of gaining performance.. Here's a solution to it... Avoiding Cursors and While Loops Enjoy...

RSS is a Web content syndication format. Its acronym stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website. For more info... Click here RSS Sample code to read RSS feed in asp.net.. private DataTable GetRSSFeed(string strURL ) { //Retrieve the XML data XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(strURL); DataSet ds = new DataSet(); ds.ReadXml(reader) ; return ds.Tables[2]; } // for displaying the RSS feed add the following code to the page load event. private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { string strURL = Server.MapPath ("rss.xml"); //"http://rajeshpillai.blogspot.com/atom.xml"; dgRSS.DataSource = GetRSSFeed(strURL); dgRSS.DataBind(); } When the dataset is generated from ReadXML, three tables are created in the dataset, one for each rss, channel and item tag. Since we ...