SkyDrive bumped to 25Gb

Microsoft SkyDrive ramps its storage space to 25Gb. This will undoubtedly heating up the competition for online backup services.

I think 25Gb is plenty for a lot of people. I for one will be in those category. What it's missing is sync ability ala Carbonite. There's a Gladinet, a new software to mount web-drive to your Windows Explorer but it's still in Beta and that too is missing sync ability.

For me though, this is great news. I will start uploading my archived files one-by-one while giving me a bit more time to do my research for online backup or when Gladinet finally comes out with the sync function or when GDrive is finally released ... whenever that may be.

Is that Padding or Margin?

I've always got confused about the difference between Padding and Margin. Yeah sure for a seasoned web developers or UI developers this is easy, but I hardly touch any UI code these days (that may change).

Dan Rigsby has this really good post about the difference between Padding and Margin (in WPF), bookmarked and linked.

Hashtable Serialization

I've experienced the pain of Hashtable serialization/deserialization. It's just doesn't work as you expect it to.

The following two posts are very useful explaining what the issues with Hashtable's serialization mechanism:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279524/hashtable-ondeserialization

http://clevercoder.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/hashtable-serialization-and-the-ideserializationcallback-interface/