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While working on one of my projects, I had a requirement to resize user uploaded images before storing them to the web server. My prime concern while resizing an image was losing the aspect ratio. Since there isn’t anything readily available in the Framework, I decided to look around and I found Rufan Redi’s blog post. I have taken that code forward and come up with a refactored C# version that could be used as part of a library. Thanks Rufan for your insightful post.

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Steven “Doc” List has been kind enough to post pics from the recently held Agile Austin Open Space Conference. Since I’m still relatively new to the group, I’m yet to acquaint myself with all the people and their names. Please excuse me if I left out any “important” ones.

Jeff Palermo, CTO of HeadSpring Systems

The ever-charismatic Scott Bellware who is also pretty active on the ADNUG group.

Sharon Cichelli and did I mention I just love her blog?

Joe Ocampo, the Agile evangelist

Robert Stackhouse as laid back as ever

Chad Myers

Me me me

The link to the set is here

Thanks Doc for the great pix.

Now this is huge. ITunes finally surpasses Walmart as the biggest music retailer in the United States. They have sold a whopping 4 billion songs since 2003. Though I am not a big fan of Apple’s business models where they very well could charge you even for calling out their name too loud and I have never owned an Apple product (ok, but for this one :D), I must say this is a major breakthrough for the company. All said and done, I must admit, they are a hip company with really hip products and a lot of people love them which is what matters to me. How you ask? Well look here. I have invested heavily in this money minting company. I’ve managed to develop some nerves of steel with the stock’s journey from 200 all the way down to 115 and back up to 150+ now. Just because I believe the iPhone is going to be the next iPod or even better. In fact, there have been a few signs in that directions lately (iPhones running out of stock!).

Coming back to Apple, due credit, I must say, should go to Steve Jobs for turning around an underdog into one of the coolest companies in American history. Some analysts predict that Apple might turn out to be the first trillion dollar company in the world. Now that might be a stretch and could take quite a while too, but I’d not be surprised if they come up with the next killer product that might change the fortunes of the company overnight. They might already have?

Here is the ITunes news link

Recently, I stumbled upon this survey for mobile phone device satisfaction levels. iPhone, to my surprise, topped the ratings with an astounding 82pc. I say ‘to my surprise’ since it’s been just under a year since the launch. There is a very weird phenomenon I’ve observed with the iPhone; people who own it love it and those who don’t absolutely hate it. Now as a proud owner of an iPhone, I know why people hate it

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Edit: Ok, there seems to be some disconnect in the charts that the above site has and the one I ’stumbled’ upon.

Here it is

Now this is some great news for iPhone and Touch lovers. The Flytunes service promises to deliver FM stations right onto your mobile device. I tried the service over the weekend and I must say I’m really impressed. To begin with, the interface is pretty simple and stands up to the iPhone standards set by Apple. Navigation is pretty straightforward and quick too. There is a lot of choice available when it comes to stations, in fact, they had a Hindi station too! Streaming is pretty fast when you’re connected to a Wi-fi network and surprisingly, even on EDGE. There is a set of toggle buttons that let you select the network you’re connected on and accordingly presents you with high/low bandwidth stations. Setup is quite simple, all you need to do is sign up on the website and wait for your registration email. Make sure that you provide an email ID that is already configured on your iPhone/Touch. There is a link in the email that you need to navigate to from your mobile device in order to complete the registration process. Overall, this is a great addition to the host of other sites available for the iPhone at least until the SDK opens up. Till then, go ahead, give it a try. www.flytunes.fm