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Microsoft Code Name “Astoria”

Originally Astoria was known as Hallet's Cove. It is a small city in the neighborhood in the north wastrel corner of the borough of Queens on New York City. But it has no known-to-me connection with the project Astoria, which is released by Microsoft in Sep. 2007 as CTP. Project "Astoria" (Microsoft codename "Astoria") is developed to enable applications to exposes data as a data service that can be consumed by web clients within a corporate network and across the internet. Astoria exposes data as web services through an Entity Framework Data Model. The data service is reachable over HTTP, and URIs are used to identify the various pieces of information available through the service. Interactions with the data service happens in terms of HTTP verbs such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, and the data exchanged in those interactions is represented in simple formats such as XML and JSON. The results can be output in a number of formats including JSON and ATOM. The base

India Won Cricket World Cup Twenty20 - Pics

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India Won Twenty20 World Cup

I never watch cricket match. Instead I am always interested in final results. Last Thursday, we have a party at Pebble Street. In the last hour of party, they broadcasted cricket match showing India batting. I had to watch the match. I really enjoyed excitement of people (I too was very excited) when India hit sixes. On Saturday I was little bit sleepless in the evening. I surf different channels but found nothing interesting. So I decided to watch India vs. Australia Twenty20 match. It was a good time pass. India got an easy victory over Aussies. Today, in the office, everybody was excited. People were saying that its an history. The fact was that India and Pakistan were face to face in the world cup final first time in the history of cricket. In India, India vs. Pak is always a very exciting phenomenon. And to add spices in it, it was World Cup final. India won last World Cup in 1983. So today history was going to repeat after 24 years. In such excited environment, I decided to watch

Party at Pebble's Street

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Last week our project manager of FlairView, Kelly O'Brian and Tony Reeve flied from Sydney to New Delhi. There were some meetings and discussions in the agenda. They flied back on Friday. We celebrate a party at Pebble's Street, New Friends Colony. We had team meeting in after noon. In the evening, Rohit drove me and some other team members to Pebble's Street. Thanks Rohit. Pebble's Street is a great bar and restaurant. The two floors of it are properly decorated. We celebrated at first floor. The whole team of project Advantage was there at party. We drink, eat and dance there. The space was cozy but enjoyable. I don't drink so enjoyed Fruit Punch (mix fruit juice with vanilla) and Pineapple Sunshine. Both drinks were delicious. People were enjoying beer, whisky and vodka. Tony tried to shake his feet but music was too slow for him. Sometimes they play Hindi sings, which he could not understand. Kelly and other girls didn't dance at all. My team was very energe

My Ujjain Trip

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Last weekend I visited Ujjain. Ujjain is situated at the banks of Holy river Shipra. Ujjain is a district of state Madhya Pradesh (MP) in India. It has special geographical position. It lies at the tropic of cancer. Ujjain is a historical place. It was rued by many great kings like Ashoka and Vikrmaditya. Ujjain is a place of spritual importance for Hindus. Its ancient name is 'Avantika'. It is also called NabhiDesh (central kingdom). It is the workplace of great astrologers like Aryabhatta and Varahmihir. Lord Krishna completed His schooling from the ashram of Maharshi Sandipani. Sandipani Ashram is still there in Ujjain. The main places to visit at Ujjain are: Shri Mahakaleshwar Temple Shri Chintaman Ganesh Temple Shri Sidhvat Observatory Shipra River Navgrah Temple Gopal Temple Kal Bhairav Temple Mangalnath Temple Shri Harsidhdhi Devi Temple Bharthari Caves Sandipani Ashram Shri Mahakaleshwar Temple Shri Mahakaleshwar Temple is the largest temple of Ujjain. It the main place