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Pareeksha is a complete examination management system developed by PIT Solutions with J2EE. You can download this product now from sourceforge.net. It simplifies the organization’s assessment needs in a simple structured and secure manner. It provides powerful tools to create, manage, administrate and reuse exams with three different types of users. This system is a web based application and can create, edit, and delete different types of questions.

Read more about pareeksha from these links:

• http://pareeksha.sourceforge.net/
• http://contenco.net/products.html

Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program, with a number of different tracks that will help you build your portfolio of professional development skills. Ramp Up has a solid foundation of premium technical content from subject-matter gurus, and provides easy-to-access content in a variety of forms that guide you in learning the important skills. Join Ramp Up (it’s free!) and help advance your career – click on a track now to start!

Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/default.aspx

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puts "What is your name????"
myname = gets.chomp
puts "Your name is #{myname }!"

Let us save this code in a text file first. Preferred extension is .rb but no issues even if no extension provided.

Now on command prompt use this command to execute.

ruby test.rb

This should ask you your name and display your name again if ruby-on-rails installed. It will be something like this:

D:\testruby>ruby test.rg
What is your name????
praveen
Your name is praveen!
 
D:\testruby>

Download the SQL Server JDBC Driver 2.0 CTP, a Type 4 JDBC driver that provides database connectivity through the standard JDBC application program interfaces (APIs) available in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5.

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver is a Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) 3.0 compliant driver that provides robust data access to Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 databases. The JDBC driver can access many of the new features of SQL Server 2005, including database mirroring; the xml, user-defined, and large-value data types; and it supports the new snapshot isolation cursor type. In addition, the JDBC driver also supports the use of integrated authentication with both SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005.

Read more about JDBC Driver here.

One of my other domain digitalmanic.com is up now. It is basically a blog. I will use this website for posting my project management thoughts and words of wisdom

My wife also will participate. Let me wait and see.

DiGiTaLmAnIc – We write from our minds…

Dear All,

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2. use the promotion code below:

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3. In the next screen you will need to enter your email id
4. You will soon get an Exam Voucher in your mail.

5. Go to any Prometric exam centers and take the exam

If you fail first time, do not worry. You can retake same exam for FREE one time.

Click the links below to find more about available certifications:

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Feel free to ask any questions about this offer or certifications here

The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft’s entire Web Platform, including IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Using the Web Platform Installer’s user interface, you can choose to install either specific products or the entire Microsoft Web Platform onto your computer. The Web PI also helps keep your products up to date by always offering the latest additions to the Web Platform.

For more information and download check this link: http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebPlatformInstaller.aspx

Use any of the live help boxes below – For Technical Help! However, I strongly prefer you to post your query in http://kidoos.net.

Barack Obama’s inauguration as US president next week will be broadcast online using Microsoft’s Silverlight browser-based media player.

Microsoft said Friday that Obama’s Presidential Inaugural Committee had selected Silverlight to stream live coverage of his swearing-in from its site, scheduled for Tuesday in Washington DC.

It’s the second Obama outing for Silverlight. Obama’s speech accepting his party’s nomination as candidate for US president was streamed via Silverlight from the Democratic National Convention last August.

And this is the third high-profile win for Silverlight, which last year streamed online coverage of the Olympics for US broadcasting giant NBC.

Read full here : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/17/obama_silverlight/