Sachin Pilot, India’s minister of state for communications and information technology, Wednesday asked Canadian companies to invest in India to take advantage of the IT revolution in the country. Pilot, who is here to meet with leaders of Canadian companies such as BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) to discuss investment opportunities and [...]

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Although the U.S. power industry is one of the greatest engineering marvels, ageing technology and an increase in demand are creating problems for the power grid that needs fixing. Now, an Indian-American engineer is set to transform the way power is generated.
Venkat Selvamanickam, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Houston, is developing a [...]

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As 2010 placement session of all the seven IIMs draws to close, it is being witnessed that the role offered to these graduates are more or less traditional and the salary packages are different than the packages which were making the buzz, reports Economic Times.
Following the placement session getting over, the debate [...]

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With the growing usage of social networking sites, it becomes easier for several employers and staffing companies to hire the candidates because the employers get a bird’s-eye view of candidates’ personalities and character, reports Bob Weinstein from Troy Media. Most job candidates don’t consider the power of the social networking Web sites and the impact [...]

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With the job markets opening up, it is time for all the aspiring techies to be equipped with the right skills that can land them in a job now. Recently, several reports have indicated that the job market is booming again after the slump due to the economic slowdown. Based on inputs from some industry [...]

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Walking down the roads of Bangalore, the 22-year old Gaurav Jain saw a place bustling with young boys and girls holding big files. And on enquiring, a boy standing at the end of the queue replies, "This is a walk-in offer for a job for freshers, but I may not get a chance for this [...]

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Bangalore: The global economic slowdown has impacted corporate in many ways. Companies started cutting their IT spend and this seems to have taken away the edge from the MCA degree. Software programmers are also being edged out by professionals with engineering degrees, as outsourcing work gets more complex. A sharp increase in the number [...]

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Step 1:
Follow all steps in the Web Development with ASP.NET  – RampUp Guide  – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/dd861531.aspx
Step 2:
Watch General ASP.NET Concept Videos
http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/
Watch the Data Access “How to” Videos
http://www.asp.net/learn/data-access/
Watch the ASP.NET 3.5 “How to” Videos
http://www.asp.net/learn/3.5-videos/
Step 3:
Follow all the steps in the WCF section
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms735119.aspx
Other Resources:
Recommended Microsoft E-Learning
These e-learning courses allow you to learn at your own pace—any time [...]

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http://code.google.com/p/nunitex/wiki/SyntaxOverview
Just as an example – ProfessionalControllerTest.
Index_IntegerAsParameter_ReturnsProfessionalView() used to have the following Assertions:
        Assert.AreEqual("Index", viewResult.ViewName);
        Assert.IsNotNull(viewResult.ViewData.Model);
        Assert.IsInstanceOf<ProfessionalProfile>(viewResult.ViewData.Model);
This is now written as
       viewResult.ViewName.Should().Be.EqualTo("Index");
       viewResult.ViewData.Model.Should().Not.Be.Null().And.Be.InstanceOf<ProfessionalProfile>();
It’s more verbose for sure (Should() and Be seem almost superfluous), but there is now ZERO doubt as to what each assertion does, and that helps readability and thus maintainability.
Note [...]

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India’s third largest software exporter Wipro plans to hire about 7,500 fresh graduates in the next financial year starting April 1, 2010. It will consist both engineering and non-engineering students.
Talking to Bloomberg UTV, Girish Paranjpe, Joint CEO of Wipro Technologies said, “We plan to bring in 7500 engineers for which we plan to go to [...]

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