Google April Fools Day 2008 Pranks and Jokes

Written by Manas Apr 01

Here are the ones I found till now:

http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html

The other two are in Korean and Japanese and so not posting them here.

Will update if I find any more :)

Happy April fool’s day everyone! Its your day! ;)

Update: Here is the BIG one!! The Virgle project!

http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html

Update #2 : Orkut turned into yogurt:

Is there a bubble?

Written by Manas Feb 19

So many of us looking to make a quick buck by starting websites :) See this.

Thanks Murali for sharing the link :)

Generating XML instance from XSD Schema

Written by Manas Jan 18

Its easy to programatically generate XML instances from XSD schema if you have BizTalk libraries installed. All you need to do is this (Replace “http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003″ with the Target Namespace of your XSD):

XmlSchemaCollection schemaCollection = new XmlSchemaCollection();
schemaCollection.Add(null, “c:\\schema1.xsd”);
System.Xml.XmlQualifiedName rootName = new System.Xml.XmlQualifiedName(“BAPI_PO_GETDETAIL_Request”);
DocumentSchema docSchema = new DocumentSchema(schemaCollection, “http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003″, rootName );
Stream stream = docSchema.CreateXmlInstanceWithData();
//Do whatever you feel like with the stream!

The class Microsoft.BizTalk.ParsingEngine.DocumentSchema can be accessed by adding a reference to Microsoft.BizTalk.Pipeline.dll.

Update : To do the same without using BizTalk assemblies, this code will help you : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302296.aspx

A must have Internet Explorer add-on

Written by Manas Jan 03

Love Firefox? Try Internet explorer with this add-on: http://www.ie7pro.com/ 

Its amazing! Mouse gestures - to close tabs or to move to next / previous tabs is cool. Even cooler is drag drop a link to open it in a new tab and drag drop selected text to google it! Block ads, search inline, restore sessions and loads more! A real must have. I have it on all my systems (Don’t ask me how many :P)

Contrast

Written by Manas Jan 02