Omkumar's blog

For a while now, I use several websites in order to find auspicious days and times based on Tamil astrology. Daily sheet calendars in Tamil provide all the information about a day. However, finding those daily sheet calendars online is a pain. There is not one reliable source out there. Either you go to one of the Hindu temple’s websites or you find local Tamil newspaper online. Even then you have to search there a lot. One recent finding seems to be reliable since 2009 which I got it from my favorite Hindu temple . But then the problem is every time I need to go through the calendar website and click on drop downs and wait for the image to load. For a long time, I was wondering whether I could add such calendar info, like nalla neram, raaghu kaalam etc. to my Google calendar. Data entry is a tedious work and error prone. Maintenance of those manual entries is also a problem. When I was browsing some other feature in Google calendar I found out this cool event called Google Event G

The coding experience is getting better and better. I just happened to get Visual Studio 2010 Premium installed on my personal laptop. I also picked up the April edition of MSDN magazine . It focuses mainly on the new Visual Studio release. Couple of articles talk about some of the many new features that VS 2010 offers, including Vertical edits and IntelliTrace. I was reading about IntelliTrace and how you can avoid “no repro” scenarios. More often we come across such cases at work. I will test out the IntelliTrace this weekend in order to fully understand it. I am sure it is great feature that will very useful for developers. Vertical editing – How long have I loathed text editors in general that I cannot replace text vertically. With VS 2010 it is pretty simple. Just Alt+select your text vertically and you can replace them all together. I wish they bring this feature to SSMS as well. This combined with .NET framework 4.0 features will definitely be a sure winner. I will explore m