No Christmas in Sweden without Donald Duck

Nice interesting read: http://www.thenewsvault.com/cgi/xtra.pl?go=12302934366

I like Donald Duck a lot over Mickey Mouse. I just love Donald Duck.. I can also do mimic of Donald Duck :D

btw, belated Merry Christmas to all.

Fennec Mobile Browser – Alpha 2

Mozilla has recently released Fennec mobile Browser’s Alpha 2 release.

more info here: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081224-mozilla-releases-second-alpha-of-fennec-mobile-browser.html

Who says Footers are boring?

I was working on a web site and trying to look for few good footers.. Well, footers are not boring you can do a lot of things with footers, while I was searching on Yahoo!, I came across following link through digg.com

http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/25-stylish-website-footer-designs/

25 stylish website footer designs.

101 Classic Computer Ads

Just found following web site:

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/08/08/101-classic-computer.html

Shows 101 Classic Computer ads.. if you knows about earlier computer era.. this is must see for u all.. great stuff :)

Box and Reality

Below picture says it all

Xbox 360 Name

Following comic strip will give you idea on how Microsoft came up with name Xbox 360

http://i40.tinypic.com/xkneae.jpeg

of course its not true :)

Google’s Native Client plugin – Alternative to Microsoft ActiveX

Google has released a new experimental plugin called Native Client plugin for its browser, and Google aims to make it work on all major platforms and browsers. Google also claims that it will be a lot safer than Microsoft ActiveX.

My Note: Looking at past record with Google specially with Android, I seriously wonder how safer Native Client will be.. Google had made same claim earlier when Android was in Beta (BTW almost all products of Google are in Beta)

More info: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081209-safer-than-activex-a-look-at-googles-native-client-plugin.html

36-24-36

I was just talking about age.. dirty mind people.

Found this here: http://phatchicks.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-2243721,prtpage-1.cms

Job Posting talks about Zune-Xbox and Zune-Phone

More info : http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10126637-27.html

Usefulness to Career Success

Silverlight 2.0 Resize using Resized Event

I remember doing this in Silverlight 1.0, when Silverlight 1.0 released, I thought of giving it a try, I wanted to make sure that Silverlight application that I create should resize it self based on browser size. I am very much particular about width and height for the web sites and web applications, as well as for any other applications. I do not like pixel values much, I prefer working in terms of %, as it makes my application layouts dynamic and adapt to the preferred size of the user. I remember doing this kind of thing in Silverlight 1.0 using Javascript, discovering how to do it was a bit difficult but it was easy to do in Silverlight 1.0

Recently, I started writing an article for my web site http://www.learnitonweb.com/ article on Menubar in Silverlight, and I wanted to do layout in %s format or dynamic format. This time I was using Silverlight 2.0, which means using languages like C# or VB.NET, this is where I really thought it will be really easy to do that, and yes it is.. following code will do that.

in C#

public Page()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            App.Current.Host.Content.Resized += new EventHandler(Content_Resized);
        }

        void Content_Resized(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            this.Width = Application.Current.Host.Content.ActualWidth;
            this.Height = Application.Current.Host.Content.ActualHeight;
        }

in VB.NET

Public Sub New()
       InitializeComponent()
       AddHandler App.Current.Host.Content.Resized, AddressOf Resized
   End Sub

   Private Sub Resized(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
       Me.Width = Application.Current.Host.Content.ActualWidth
       Me.Height = Application.Current.Host.Content.ActualHeight
   End Sub

Without resize you will see your Silverlight Application as follows:

Silverlight application with resizing

Windows Mobile Web Browsing

There is no good web browser available for Windows Mobile, Pocket IE is pathetic, half of things doesnt work in it, specially AJAX enabled sites, so I use Opera Mini.. but Opera Mini has its own issue, biggest issue is no copy-paste :( I really dont get it why people do not provide copy paste? including APPLE so called next gen iPhone.

anyways, Microsoft has been working on better version of Internet Explorer for Windows Mobile (IE6) you can have a look at it here - http://www.modaco.com/content/blackstone-blackstone-modaco-com/277328/modaco-custom-rom-for-blackstone-1-08-12-17-ie6-cf3-5-uc-1-19-based-more/

It does look amazing and makes browsing experience on mobile wonderful.

Toilet Paper Cheque

In Britain one man tried to pay his parking fees by writing a cheque on toilet paper, police officer refused and dragged him to a court, judge gave him funny punishment but at end winner is common sense.

More Info: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1096553/Payment-loo-Toilet-paper-cheque-lands-man-court.html

Xbox Arcade Live – Dash of Destruction FREE

NinjaBee recently launched game named Dash of Destruction for Xbox Arcade Live, which is available for free to download, game is pretty simple but fun to play.

You can add game here http://marketplace.xbox.com/games/offers/00000001-0000-4000-8000-00005841090B?cid=MajorNelson&partner=MajorNelson

More info here - http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/12/17/arcade-dash-of-destruction-free.aspx

Xbox Live India Offer for UNO

If you are an Xbox Live member in India, you have special holiday deal, UNO Normally costs 400 Microsoft points, but in special holiday offer, it will be available for 300 Microsoft points.

and worldwide Bomberman Live will cost 600 Microsoft points, which is normally priced at 800 Microsoft points.

4th Workshop at MPSTME – Day 2

2nd day of 4th workshop was ok ok.. less students turned up.. and students were ok ok, questions were ok asked by them, but it was good.. did ado.net with windows forms, then asp.net and ado.net with asp.net

when I ended.. Mr. Ketan Shah (Head of Student Department) presented me with a trophy, you can see the trophy attached below as in image.

would like to thank Mr. Ketan Shah, Mr. Abhinav and two more students who were with me. Thank you.

3rd Workshop at MPSTME – Day 2

2nd day of 3rd workshop was really interesting and great.. students were more enthu about learning things, and very interactive and quized me a lot, and I just love that.. and yeah no stupid questions.. all good questions. Nice students I would say.

So today we started with ADO.NET in Windows Forms, and then we did a bit of ASP.NET and ASP.NET ADO.NET and ended 3rd workshop.

2nd Workshop at MPSTME – Day 1

I was supposed to start workshop at around 2:00 PM, but due to earlier late schedule.. I started by 2:30 PM and ended by 5:00 PM.

Took basics of .NET and Intro to ADO.NET and Windows Forms.. and ended workshop for day 1.. tomorrow we will be starting more on with ADO.NET, ASP.NET and Windows Forms.

Tomorrow will be having really long day.. 10 AM to 5 PM… and then I got meeting. Looking forward to tomorrow.

1st Workshop at MPSTME – Day 1

I was supposed to start workshop  at 10 AM, but I reached late there by 10:20, but figured out they were also a bit late.. I assume because of me.. and we starting workshop by 10:38, I am very sorry for being late but anyways, I started my workshop with basics of .NET Framework at 10:38.

Took basics of .NET and Intro to ADO.NET and Windows Forms.. and ended workshop for day 1.. tomorrow we will be starting more on with ADO.NET, ASP.NET and Windows Forms.

Was planning to take few pics.. but camera battery gone down.. will catch few pics tomorrow.

Few hilarious Pranks

At bottom of page I have put the source from where I picked up the videos, they have mentioned about 2008 top videos.. but I wouldnt really agree with that.. anyways, I have just re-ordered according to my preference.

1 Butter Floor

I found this prank the most hilarious, basically because of the kind of revenge they are taking and reason behind the revenge.

2 Hair Dryer

Girls without proper hair will look ghost.. to prove that this prank works best :)

3 Wake up

If done this in right way.. this would be really great.. I have played this kind of prank.. but instead of loud sound.. we used toothpaste or shaving cream.. put it on hand of a person who is sleeping.. and then on his face you try to do few things.. and when he puts his hand on face to remove it.. its hilarious.

4 Fake Date

This is really one of the best prank you can do on someone, but issue is that, it requires a lot of time.. trap a friend by fake girl id or something.. ask him to meet up somewhere.. and surely he will come to meet up.. but dont turn up.. or you yourself only turn up.. its very hilarious.

 

5 Cereal Bird

I found this prank good.. but also a bit bad.. because there is a dead bird used.

6 Cling Film Over the Door

This is really good one.. I just wished lady had something in her hand.

7 Chicken

This is really long long video.. 50 chickens in room.. just see how you can throw out chickens out of room :P

8 Foil

This is pretty hilarious. Everything covered in foil.. when ur friend arrives and he finds it.. it will be very difficult for him to take out each and every coin out of foil and pay.

9 Newspaper Cover

Newspaper cover is pretty good, same as above.. just look at the end of video.. and see something interesting.

10 Fill up Room with Ballons

hmm, its ok.. but still good.. friend room completely filled up with ballons.

Source : http://www.roombuddies.com/blog/2008/12/best-pranks-to-play-on-your-house-mate-2008/

Workshop at MPSTME on .NET Framework

I am going to have four workshops in 2 days starting tomorrow, workshop is going to be at MPSTME college in Mumbai, they have a local user group running in college, starting 10 AM in morning till 2 PM and then second session from 2 PM till 5 PM.. same schedule for the next day that is Sunday as well. Topics that I am going to cover is basics of .NET Framework, Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Windows Mobile and Silverlight.

I am pretty excited about it, as it is going to be after a long break :)

26 Ways to know Your Software Development Project is Doomed

Found this link - http://www.cio.com/article/print/470103

Good one :)

10 Dirty Little Web Development Tricks

I found this interesting link - http://www.yongfook.com/items/view/81/10-dirty-little-web-development-tricks

it talks about 10 dirty tricks about web development, much of it talks about PHP and other things.. but still its must read for everyone.

Microsoft launches open source blogging platform

Microsoft has recently launched open source blogging platform called Oxite, I got this new from my friend Sankool Shah - http://www.sankool.net/

It is standard compliant, extensible CMS, designed to support either blogs or larger Web sites, it also supports pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting, gravatars (globally recognized avatars), and most importantly RSS feeds at any page level which means RSS at comments also???  hmm interesting…

http://visitmix.com/ is built using Oxite.

More info - http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10119017-92.html?part=rss

Oxite - http://www.codeplex.com/oxite/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=20210

Article: ADO.NET with Windows Forms using Visual C#

Today, I written one more article on ADO.NET, this article is focusing on basics of programming ADO.NET, it is targeted towards students. Its like a tutorial, will take you step by step throughout the tutorial, and will help you create a small application which performs simple, select, edit and delete functionality.

You can read my article here - http://www.learnitonweb.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?contId=6&page=1

and please digg it here - http://digg.com/microsoft/ADO_NET_with_Windows_Forms_using_Visual_C

Standard and Poor’s stock index annual return 1825 to 2008

Found this interesting thing.. which has a graph showing Standard and Poor’s stock index annual return from 1825 to 2008, really interesting to see the way trend is moving, as years are passing frequency of low down of economy is increasing, kind of alarm for us.

Link - http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/09/sp-returns-and-the-r.html

Turn Image Template into HTML Page

LearnItOnWeb.com site is back, Today I written an article on Turning Image Template into HTML Page at learnitonweb.com.

here is link to it - Turn Image Template into HTML Site Template