Friday, September 03, 2004 7:03 PM
I was going through MS case studies when few funny memories hit me. The case study that made me travel back in time was this. The case study talks about how MSN India delivers online content across diverse mobile devices using the .NET fx - the solution for which was done by Vishwak Solutions. Vishwak Solutions is run by one of the Indian MSDN Regional Director Mr.Venkatrangan.
I remember Venkat for his MSDN session(s) along with Daniel Ingitaraj couple of years ago when Daniel used to be one of the technical evangelist for MS India. Those were the MSDN sessions where I came across Windows NT Options Pack (do you know it is still available for download - but probably you would like to upgrade your box than download each file from there :J) which shipped COM+, MTS and things like that. Those days if I am not wrong Venkat (Easy Tools, I believe I still have that business card of his somewhere back home) got into the groove and came up with what I still believe is the predecessor to portals like Rediff, MSN.co.in .... I am referring to ChennaiOnline.com!!
There was this session when I got to see Visual Studio 6 and Interdev (for the first time ever HTTP debugging right on your desktop for server side pages). And ofcourse couple of demos using MSMQ where Daniel happened to draw on one app and the drawing getting presented in another application window (to show case as though app#2 is running on a remote machine and messages about the drawing points were going through via MSMQ).
Truely I feel like laughing at myself cos those were the same sessions which made me think to move away from writing code using Microsoft technologies and I happened to shift to J. Today I am back to writing code on .net and I use Vs.Net. and ofcourse spend more time using tools like snippet compiler. Lets see whats upcoming with VS.net 2005.
The change ofcourse is that due to the way Microsoft has got so closer to the developer using mechanisms like Channel9 and lot other ways including initiatives via MSDN and things like that I believe there would not be (m)any who would like to shift away from Microsoft technologies in the way I happened to move away couple of years ago ONLY TO COME BACK LATER :).