It was long over due recognition 😀 Best Original Song: A.R.Rahman for Jai…Ho Best Original Score: A.R.Rahman எல்லா புகழும் இறைவனுக்கே! (All the praises / credits to God)

The below post will provide a hello world kind of introduction to connecting to a remote IBM WebSphere Message Queue server using client application written in C#. Points to note: Server and client should have a common OS login name. The passwords can be different between the server and client, what matters is that the login name should be identical. The login name you have selected to use should be part of the MQM group on the MQ server, or it should be explicitly given permission for querying the Queue manager and the queue.

In the hunt for improving my development methodologies and techniques I recently came across on the concept of using Powerpoint for prototyping the user interface of the application that’s yet to be developed. It is quite an interesting concept, apart from getting a look into the idea Long Zheng has provided a template package in Powerpoint which can be used for designing such prototypes. I am already loving this idea and planning to use from the current development cycle.

Okies, carrying on with the series we will look into expanding on the Essential tools – part 1: StExBar (Freeware / Open source) StExBar is a plug-in for the Windows Explorer, which adds much needed functionality to the explorer / folder view. It provides many useful commands for your everyday use of Windows explorer. And you can add as many custom commands on your own as you like. From the product site : Have you ever needed to open a console window while you were using the explorer?

Our day to day life becomes a lot easier when we make use of the proper tools to help us complete the task at hand. I am planing to post in about few tools which forms an essential part of my tool chain, most are free tools but sometimes there do come in gems which makes you to take out your credit card. Below are the ones for today: Piriform CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) (Freeware)  CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool.

It was quite hard to get the system to get into installation mode through the windows install CD or when trying to boot from one of the PE based boot CD’s (BartPE, Ultimate Boot CD) on Dell Optiplex 755. The main culprit was the SATA harddisk and DVD drive, since the drivers for these models are not available (even after making a BartPE from the already existing Windows Installation). The best method to overcome the problem was change the Drive Operation settings in the BIOS to “legacy” mode, so that they show up as normal IDE drives.

Update on 25 Feb 2020 The original link http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2007/03/23/understand-why-your-computer-restarted-unexpected.aspx was broken (thanks Microsoft), you can read the archived content at archive.org. A lot of information would have lost to the void if it were not for archive.org, please consider a donation. Well, its the time of the year that I decide to actually look into all the bookmarks I make on the go when I cannot read a page in detail due to time constraints.