• Articles - General

    Why some professional certifications are not trustworthy in some countries?

    September 24, 2020 - By 

    Read the original article I wrote in LInkedIn here. I was in a brainstorm meeting to design a new training program for developers, and one suggestion was to have a mandatory certification as part of evaluation criteria. Most of us were not in agreement with the idea but a justification comment from one person caught my attention “certification exams are just memory tests!“. Microsoft do not conduct Beta exams in few countries and it is clearly mentioned in the About page of Microsoft’s Certifications: Candidates located in China, India, Pakistan, or Turkey are not eligible to participate in beta exams…

  • Personal

    Getting myself introduced to Azure Synapse Analytics

    September 18, 2020 - By 

    This week I got an opportunity to be part of the program “Analytics In A Day”, organized by my employer, Orion Innovation. This is a one full-day workshop by Microsoft, delivers through their partners and target audience is usually technology leaders, architects, managers and developers. I have experience with various components of Azure Synapse Analytics individually such as ADF/Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Databricks and DataLake but it is a very nice experience working with a unified platform which provides seamless integration, or in other words – each stakeholders: Data Scientists, Analytics, Architects, Business users and IT guys…

  • Code

    Bookmark: Raise event from a WPF User control

    August 14, 2020 - By 

    This blog is just for sample code keeping. // UserControl1.xaml <UserControl x:Class=”WpfApp1.UserControl1″              xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation”              xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml”              xmlns:mc=”http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006″              xmlns:d=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008″              xmlns:local=”clr-namespace:WpfApp1″              mc:Ignorable=”d” Background=”Red” Height=”186.646″ Width=”411.693″>     <Grid>         <Button Content=”Button” HorizontalAlignment=”Left” Margin=”80,72,0,0″ VerticalAlignment=”Top” Width=”75″ Click=”Button_Click”/>     </Grid> </UserControl> // UserControl1.xaml.cs namespace WpfApp1 {     /// <summary>     /// Interaction logic for UserControl1.xaml     /// </summary>     public partial class UserControl1 : UserControl     {         public event EventHandler MyButtonClick;         public UserControl1()         {             InitializeComponent();         }         private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)         {             this.MyButtonClick(this, new EventArgs());         }     } } //…

  • Events - General

    Delivered a session on Virtual Classrooms – best practices to School Teachers

    August 7, 2020 - By 

    I got an opportunity to present a session on etiquette and tips & tricks in the 5-day online workshop organized by IT Milan Seva Foundation and & NTU Kerala.  About 100 teachers from different schools across Kerala attended the event. The sessions were handled by experts in technology field and mine was on day-4. The program name was “പഞ്ചദിന ശാക്തീകരണ ശില്പശാല“, which formally concluded today. This stands here as my first ever technology session in Malayalam and, I am crediting this session also to my giving-back-to-community personal goal. Topics covered: – Etiquettes – Best Practices & tricks – Google Calendar…