My MVP Summit 2009 Experience: DAY 1 Part 3

On the same day i met some more people from various technology domains.

I am fortunate to meet Limno from WWW.ASP.NET. He is one of the top and best contributor in this forum and is now part of Hall-Of-Fame. He told me a few tips in ASP.Net and in SQL Server. He also shared his experiences of his journey of becoming MVP. He is really nice. I am really looking forward to meet him once again in the next MVP summit.



Standing from Left to Right: Pinal, Limno and Vijaya Kadiyala

We had long party at the Convention center and its time to go back to hotel and take some rest and get up for the next BIG thing i.e. Microsoft Campus Redmond. Wow.. isn't it great to say I am going to visit Microsoft Campus!!!

On the way back to hotel, I heard that there is open forum discussion from the people who are behind MSDN Forums. isn't it really kool!!! On-and-Off I was also contributing in this forum.
I met Sam, he is one of the Dev Lead of MSDN Forums and he told me the improvements his team made to these forums. Just now I visited these forums and UI looks great. As expected Microsoft kills everybody with looks:)



Standing from Left to Right: Sam, Vijaya Kadiyala

After long hour discussions with Sam, its time to take rest. So i slowly moved to my hotel room. I was about to sleep, got a call from Mahesh Chand from C-Sharpcorner.com
He called me for a dinner with MVPs who are from C-Sharpcorner.com. I had very good time with all of them.



Starting form Left to Right Front Row: Vijaya Kadiyala, Mahesh Chand
Starting form Left to Right Back Row: Mike Gold, Mathew Cochran

My MVP Summit 2009 Experience: DAY 1 Part 2

After all the initial key notes from MVP leaders, we headed to the dinner. I happen to see many authors of various books which I read to learn these technologies. Wow it’s truly amazing. As you know I regularly contribute to the SQLServerCentral.com and I happen to meet Steve Jones whom I always admired. What can I say it’s truly world class experience; I even told him about my contributions in SQLServerCentral.com and my position in it. When I said my rank in this community is less than 150 he was very happy and impressed by me.
You know what, when he kept his hand on my shoulders I can’t express how happy I was at that point of time. What can I say about him, I am like a little kid with candy in front of him.


Standing from Left to Right: Vijaya Kadiyala and Steve Jones.

Some more snaps with some of the Finest Technical people in SQL Server.


Standing from Left to Right: Vijaya Kadiyala, Andy Warren

Once again hand on my shoulders from one of the best SQL MVP.

Standing from Left to Right: Itzik Ben-Gan, Vijaya Kadiyala


Standing from Left to Right: Vijaya Kadiyala, Satya, Glenn Berry, Ross Mistry

My MVP Summit 2009 Experience: DAY 1 Part 1

My MVP Summit 2009 Experience: DAY 1

Again all 5 MVPs gathered in Pinal's Room and went to register for MVP summit at Washington Sate Convention Center.
Check out the below pics.







After our registration we were looking for a place to have our breakfast. Where else we can go!!!!!! With Egg-and-Chese Biscuit from Mc Donalds and then visited a few places in Downtown and then went to visit Seattle's world famous Space Needle.

Here are some of the snaps:







Its Lunch time and we were hungry. We found one good place "Bombay Wala" in Downtown. While coming back from Space Needle, I met an MVP. His name is Guilherme Mendonça and he is from Brazil. He is MVP in "Expression" technical discipline. There are very few MVPs around the world may be you can count them on your fingers with this technical skill set.



After our Lunch, we went back to hotel Sheraton to attend some training sessions. Please dont ask me what sessions I attended coz I can't disclose it.

Now the big event of the day: MVP's Welcome reception. Its amazing. For the very first time in my life I felt like I am one of the best.

Here are some of the snaps:








All South Asia MVPs with MVP Lead Abishek Kant(the one who is in Brown Jacket standing First from Right to Left) and Howard Lo (Regional Manager Asia Pacific Greater China).

My MVP Summit 2009 Experience: DAY 0

My MVP Summit 2009 Experience: DAY 0

On DAY 0, I met few MVPs from India who were staying in the same hotel where I was staying. In the evening,we were roaming in Downtown. During the course of time we became good friends.Guess what, out of these 5 MVPs, 4 of them are new i.e. for the very first time to the Summit.One of them shared his last year MVP Summit experience. We tried to find a good place for our dinner; it was too late because all the shops and restaurants were closed by that time. Don’t ask me the time … its just 8:45 PST. After going here and there, we finally ended up in Mc Donalds. When we came out of this, we went to visit Washington state convention and trade center. Some of the pics at this place:

Standing from Left to Right: Vijay, Mahesh, Pinal, Suprotim and Ravi. Let me tell you something about MVPs.

Suprotim Agarwal I think this time I spelled his name correctly otherwise I always used to mispronounce his name. I will share my experience on his name when I am writing about Mahesh Patil. He is a MVP in ASP/ASP.Net Architecture. In addition to this he has so many certifications in his pocket. He regularly contributes at ASP.NET forums and he regularly blogs at http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ and http://www.sqlservercurry.com/.

There are very few MVPs in India who got this award in ASP/ASP.Net Architecture discipline. You want to know the number then it is less than 5 and all around the world its just 54. I am fortunate to be the part of this Technical discipline i.e. I am also into ASP/ASP.NET Architecture.

He really inspired me in various ways. The best line what he told me is “ When you are doing something your focus should be on Quality not on the Quantity” this is very true. Apart from this he also told me what to work on and how to improve your knowledge.

I forgot to tell you something. He is working as a Independent consultant in INDIA. There are very few people in INDIA who are Independent consultants. One has to see his knowledge in various technologies. You can take any topic in Microsoft, he can speak about that and he also suggests process improvement steps. It’s really amazing.

Ravi Patel is working in Infosys as Project Manager in UK. He is a MVP in ASP/ASP.NET. After talking to him I came to know that he is not just a project manager but also technical consultant in his projects. In today’s world, people either go to Management side or Technical side. But Ravi is good in both the areas. I am sure people who are working for him are lucky enough to get both management and technical tips.

Pinal dave, As far I can think of him,he is a well known TABLE in SQL Server database. One must see his blog, he is so consistent in writing articles in his blog that he even published few lines when the day he was getting married. It’s really amazing. Can you believe it. Well I am big fan of his blog. He gives/shares very detailed information about basics that we deal in day-to-day life. For me its dream come true when I met him. He is MVP in SQL Server. I also came to know that other fellow MVPs in SQL Server all around the world nominated his name under TOP 5most influential people in SQL Server Community. I think this is the Biggest and Best compliment any one can get. Check out his BLOG on his MVP summit experience.

The best line what he told to me is “ Share your day-to-day experience in blog” this is very true. I am sure most of us are dealing with same set of problems in our day-to-day work.

Mahesh Patil is working in system side programming. He is MVP in Visual C++. Its very rare in INDIA to find people working on VC++ but who ever is working in this are one of the finest technical people and Mahesh is in one of them. He is into core system software design and development in Microsoft technologies using VC++/ATL/COM. He is one of the top contributors in experts-exchange. Check out his profile. Apart from his technical skills he is very friendly. He tells lot of jokes; one can’t stand with out laughing. He is full entertainment TV (Technical Veteran). He is the one who renamed Suprotim Agarwal to Support Team. Mahesh is very funny.

Validate ZIP in Java Script

Check out the below code to validate zip code.
NOTE: This code is use to validate the Zip Codes in US region only or any Postal code which contains the following format:
nnnnn-nnnn

function ValidateZip(s)
{
reZip = new RegExp(/(^\d{5}$)(^\d{5}-\d{4}$)/);
if (!reZip.test(s))
{
alert("Zip Code Is In-Valid");
return false;
}
return true;

}

CHARINDEX in SQL Server

One of the very intresting question in my mail box is I have INSTR function in oracle and what is equivalent in SQL Server?? In fact this is the easiest way tgo learn new SQL server if you know Oracle or Vice-Versa.

Well the asnwer is CHARINDEX. Check out the below syntax.

CHARINDEX ( expression1 ,expression2 [ , start_location ] )

Searches expression2 for expression1 and returns its starting position if found. The search starts at start_location.