Microsoft Certification : 70-483 - Programming in C#

Studying for a Microsoft exam is not easy. That is what I found out the the last couple of months.

Here are some of the resources I found which are massively helpful.

• Study:

http://returnsmart.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/mcsd-web-applications-c-option.html

http://app.pluralsight.com/courses/discussion/clr-fundamentals

• Tests and questions:

http://www.certbest.com/

http://www.measureup.com/ProductDemoForm.aspx

http://www.certificationking.com/download/Microsoft.htm

WebForms vs. MVC

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/528117/WebForms-vs-MVC

The Dottoro Web Reference

 Found a nice resource on css styles: http://help.dottoro.com/ . The Dottoro Web Reference.
 I was searching to find out about the "Display" attribute in CSS when I found this article which was very helpful: http://help.dottoro.com/lchnsqsb.php. And I hope this will be useful for you as well.

ViewBag, ViewData and TempData in MVC 3

 Useful post on how to use ViewBag, ViewData and TempData in MVC 3. :
www.rachelappel.com/when-to-use-viewbag-viewdata-or-tempdata-in-asp.net-mvc-3-applications

BillUsers.com is Launched

So we did it!
Last November.

After much chopping, slicing, dicing, washing, scraping, spicing, incensing, boiling, stirring, steaming and not to mention frying, we at the RnD team at Duo Software launched our highly anticipated, first full product: BillUsers.Com !

So what is BillUsers.com? It is a cloud based platform for anyone who wants to do billing. More specifically suitable if you are in the Pay-TV industry. That is for the cable and satellite television companies, to manage their customers and for the billing needs, with inventory management, CAS integration, reports, CRM and an android app for mobile access for a very affordable price (based on the number of users).

billusers.com

As the site says: ''Billusers.com provides you with many options and methods of billing the customer in order to generate revenue while meeting market needs. Billing cycles can be maintained flexibly on a post-paid basis with flexible billing periods as required.''

You would think, isn't this what the DuoSubscribe is already doing? Yes and no. BillUsers.Com is for the small to medium level Pay-TV companies and who ever that simply wants to manage their subscribed customer base with a small budget. It is online, which means, you don't have to spend on installation and maintenance of the system. We will do it for you. In return, you will get every thing important and nothing too fancy. You can choose to implement the system at your place if you wish as well.

We at the RnD team were working on this product for more than 1 and a half years. We used the MVC framework for ASP.Net, that comes with the .Net platform. CelloSaaS is a framework BillUsers.Com employes, which is built on top of MVC. We had to use JQuery quite extensively as the MVC framework doesn't support web-forms controls. JQuery DataTables is one plugin that was heavily used. WCF services were used as well for part of the functionality. For accessing the application from mobile phones, we made the site responsive: i.e. mobile friendly. Android development is another technology we have used.

Many colleagues were there with us along this long time working on BillUser.Com. Many have left. Many new faces are here, working with no less enthusiasm. We walked on uncharted territories.

Thanks everyone!! Let's keep this moving forward!

For more details visit us at: https://www.facebook.com/billusers.
Check our features at: http://www.billusers.com/features.html

The Story of Googlemoto : The Bright Side | Webupon

The Story of Googlemoto : The Bright Side | Webupon

Review of: Technology’s Impact on Brain Utilization: Trojan Horse of The Tech Revolution | Computersight

Technology’s Impact on Brain Utilization: Trojan Horse of The Tech Revolution | Computersight

Sahan's article for neuroscience .
Intriguing start to the article. A great attempt by my batch mate. Displays a lot of research, especially in Psychology and Neuroscience related to aspects of computing and technology. A little colloquial in the language at some points. I find myself strongly interested in him criticizing the modern concept of "New is always better". (But this section seemingly lacks references . I personally don't believe referencing is very scientific thing to do anyway. )
Other than a minor spelling error, I believe the content could have been more intriguing. My question for Sahan is that although its true, the idea of technology creating personalities which are "lonely, self-centered souls strongly entangled in self-contempt" (nothing new), he has not discussed the effect by social networks in this context of social interactions. The effect on "Emotional Intelligence " by social networks, I believe is a subject to be discussed separately.
Overall this is a good effort. And it is suitable as a scientific magazine article, rather than a scientific dissertation . And that's what it is.. So again good luck Sahan!