Bhavin Surela’s blog about engineering, leadership and life.
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Solving the problem is the interesting part, providing finishing touches – not so much. What to do?
Developers are usually problem solvers, we solve problems and once we solve the core of it we have a tendency to call it done. However completing the rest of it, the finishing touches takes a looong time. The 99% complete syndrome is a documented fact that aligns well with software development and developers. I have…
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Interviewing: The other side of the table.
Hey Friends, It’s been a while since I have made a post, I have a lot to write but I have been bit busy with work, family, friends and some side projects. Today I want to dedicate this post to “Interviewing“. In my new job I have been given an opportunity to interview people for…
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New Year, New Things, again.
Happy New Year friends, 2013 passed in blink of an eye and it was an amazing year for me. 2014 on the other hand brings so many new things in life. Before I go on about 2014, I would like to mention a few highlights about 2013. Of Course the highlight of 2013 was that…
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Setup SingalR self-host in SSL
Hi Guys, There has been a lot of buzz about singalR lately and If you havent checked it out yet, singalR is a fantastic realtime communication system, you should give it a go. For friends who have played around with singalR and tried singalR self host and want to host in SSL, read on. Setting…
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Linq and Automapper, A View Model and Data Model binding solution. Part 2
Hey Guys, So finally I have got a second piece of my earlier post. However this isn’t going to anything about Linq. We have already seen in part 1 how we can use Linq classes as data model classes. We have also seen how Automapper can help bind th…
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Virtual Channels – More awesome than you think
Hey there, Recently I came across some really interesting thing called “Virtual Channels”. I had no idea what they are. As it turns out they are some pretty nice though, difficult feature given by Microsoft to do stuff when you do Remote Desktop C…
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How to upload .Zip files in Posterous Blog
Hey there, So I was writing a post and I found out Posterous do not allow me to add zip files in the blog. This is very weird for a blogging website to me. Anyway, being an Engineer helps finding a solution. This is an era of cloud, you get tons o…
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Linq and Automapper, A View Model and Data Model binding solution. Part – 1
Hi there, Hope you are doing great, I have another topic I would like to discuss with you! It’s Automapper. You may have heard of it and you may have already used it but I think there will be a little take away for everyone in this post. This will…
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Times Square on a New Years eve, an amazing experience.
It is always a great experience to do something that has been sitting on your wish list for a while. Being at Times Square, NY was a amazing, tiresome, unique experience, which CAN’T happen anywhere in the whole wide world. I love New York City an…
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Silverlight Event Calendar with MVC 3
I love it when two development technologies shake hands with each other to make a composite product. I have been playing around with integrating one technology with another lately and today’s blog is dedicated to integrate Silverlight control [Cal…