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June 25

Legendry legspiner Mushtaq Ahmed

today while surfing on cricinfo i cam across a very good article regarding Legspinner Mushtaq Ahmed. i have read that article twice and i really liked it because he is a sensible man and Andrew (writer) has done a really good job in explaining about Mustaq also known as Mushy.
June 18

HEC National Digital Library

Today, i was just going through my links and i saw that HEC Pakistan National Digital Library, i visited the site again.... well! things have moved ahead.
Site performance is better now but awkward use of Flash with average theme... i would give the design just 3/10.
Data is not accessiable so i can't comment on that as its a Institute based library.
May 29

On my way to MCTS

today i jst came back from Prometric, after successfully completing my certification for Microsoft Certified Application Developer (70-536). i am hoping that by next week Insha Allah i will be able to complete another paper. so on my way to MCTS :)
March 03

IE7 First Time Run Tweak

open note pad copy the text below and paste it in notepad. then save the file as "RunOnce.reg" run it. your IE7 won't go for runonce..... site instead it will stay at your homepage.
 
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"RunOnceHasShown"=dword:00000001
"RunOnceComplete"=dword:00000001
November 29

Honey Pot Captcha Technique

while surfing along my RSS feeds today i read the Honey Pot Captcha Technique its so simple and easy.

First, what is a Captcha?  It is a challenge - response test to help determine that you are actually a human.  You've undoubted already came across a few of these during a sign up process of some text with a grid or a line through it asking what it says.

Haack came to the conclusion that most bots don't do two things, parse CSS and execute JavaScript.  Haack's solution adds in a field in a hidden div tag that a spam bot would fill then checks it server side during the validation of the submission.  He even wrote a validation control which is on CodePlex.

November 28

Words May Fail By Ovais Akhter

yesterday our Architect shared his poem "Words May Fail(a poem about the US invation of Iraq)", I think he has beautifully played with words while expressing his feelings .
 
"Copied from his Blog"

Flood of Tears, in the mist of fears

Helpless fathers

Dying sons and screaming daughters

Killed for oil or killed for fun

On their own soil under the burning sun

The power of my expression can not tell the tale

The emotions are such that words may fail

November 19

Avatar Season-3

i know alot of you love Avatar series... here is a site which displays all.

http://www.avatarchapter.com/

 

My Last Day at Suave Sol.

well! its my last day at suave sol (my first company) as I am reallocating to Islamabad Pakistan from 8th October. hope it would be a good career move. MONDO Isb. has offered good package and i do like Isb. although i had spent 6 years in Lahore. but still i prefer Isb over Lahore :).

September 08

Lightbox for ASP.NET 2.0

 

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Light box with ASP.NET 2.0

I've just finished creating an ASP.NET assembly for enabling Lightbox functionality on ASP.NET 2.0 based web image gallery. The idea for the control was born out a similar control - Lightbox.NET. However this control does not seem to be under development currently and the latest version gives a bunch of problems when running under medium trust websites. This control implements the functionality in a completely different way than Lightbox.NET. Also this control has a highly modified version of Lightbox scripts that allow better keyboard navigation, ability to download high-res version of displayed image and other small fixes.

The assembly contains two custom controls - LightBoxScriptManager and LightBoxHyperlink.

The LightBoxScriptManager control embeds the CSS and JavaScript files that make up the Lightbox functionality into the page that needs to use it as HTML markup. You can customize the location of the CSS, JavaScript and images for Lightbox using the properties of this control. The LightBoxHyperlink control needs to be used for each image on which you want the popup effect. You can set the name of the album, the caption, the thumbnail image as well as the full web sized image. Upon clicking the thumbnail, the Lightbox effect will run and you can then navigate within the popup.

The complete source as well as samples for this is available for free from here. This has been released under a fully permissive license, so feel free to use it wherever you wish and make whatever modifications you want. It would be nice if you can mention us, though.

To use the assembly, simply follow the instructions below:

  1. Copy the EITLightbox.dll from the Sample website's Bin/ folder to your website's Bin/ folder
  2. Also copy the entire "Lightboxnet" folder from the sample site to your website
  3. Open the ASPX page in which you wish to add the functionality. Switch to Source mode.
  4. At the top of the page, just below the @Page directive, add the following line:
    <%@ Register Assembly="EITLightbox" Namespace="EIT.ASPNET.Controls.LightBox" TagPrefix="eit" %>
  5. Just below the <form> start on the page, add the following control markup. Make sure that the paths in the CSSPath, ImagesPath and ScriptsPath properties are correct
     
    <eit:LightBoxScriptManager ID="lbsm" runat="server"       CSSPath="lightboxnet/css"       ImagesPath="lightboxnet/images"       ScriptsPath="lightboxnet/js" />  
  6. In the place where you wish to add the image gallery add the following control markup for each image:
    <eit:LightBoxHyperlink ID="lb1" runat="server"       Album="My Album Name"       Caption="Picture Caption #1"       FullImageUrl="Images/WebSized/img1.jpg"       ThumbnailUrl="Images/Thumbnail/img1.jpg" />
  7. Save and run the form.

Here are some sample screenshots of it running

Two Galleries and Usage Tips
Two galleries and usage tips
 

image
The "popup" window. Note the caption, the album image count and the navigation links.
You can navigate using the keyboard or mouse and exit the popup at any time.

Let me know what you think. BTW, this component is what powers my image gallery over at www.vinodunny.com.

 
August 16

14 Tips to Speed Up your web pages.

Marcelo Calbucci has posted very good article on how to speed up Web Pages renderign on Browsers.

July 09

A Beauty

ہے اب بھی وقت زاہد، ترمیمِ زُہد کرلے

سوئے حرم چلا ہے انبوہ بادہ خواراں

June 16

Bottlenose Dolphin

its hilarious. check the beauty of nature.
May 03

Good Site

Seen this site and thought to sure with you guys... its good in terms of tutorials.

http://www.programmingtutorialz.com/

April 03

GUID as Primary Key

recently i came across a problem, during that probelm solving I got that Using GUID as primary key came with alot of overheads here are some ref. article.

The Cost of Guid as Primary Key THE Results

March 21

Thank you BOB, you made the difference.

There are occasions when words, or anything else, are not enough. This is one of those occasions.

I have no words for all this all what has happed today was a great loss for Cricket, it looks to me that a very dear one of mine has departed.

I just can say Osman Samiuddin has expressed it all.

No matter now, for what has gone previously, what he did as player or coach, whatever has happened, all of it is irrelevant at this moment. In time, after sorrow and regret, it will become clear that he had done enough with Pakistan, with South Africa, with Warwickshire, with the ICC and with the game to be remembered as an innovative, successful coach and not for a last-game defeat to Ireland. My last interaction with him was through e-mail. He wished me a speedy recovery from illness. God bless your soul Bob.

Above Quoted Article can be found here.

'Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, so concentrate on the now'

 

March 15

Popular Ajax Frameworks

following are popular Ajax frameworks.
i have tried many of them but i would prefer Microsoft Asp.net Ajax, Dojo and Anthem.Net

  • Microsoft Asp.net Ajax Framework (works with Dotnet 2.0 only)
  • Yahoo Developer Framework
  • Dojo
  • Anthem.Net
  • Prototype
  • Script Aculous
  • Taconite
  • Rico
  • DWR
  • February 14

    Free Tempates

    Last Update: March 27 2007

    http://www.freecsstemplates.org/
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    http://www.templatesbox.com/templates.htm (No download option available but have some nice Templates.)
    http://www.templatemonster.com/free-templates.php
    http://templatenavigator.com/
    http://www.dotcomwebdesign.com/?Free-Website-Templates-Section-1 (Some Nice Collection)
    http://effex-media.com/templates/
    http://www.entheosweb.com/website_templates/free-dreamweaver-templates.asp
    http://www.dezinehub.com/
    http://www.free-flash-template.com/
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    http://www.freetemplatesonline.com/
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    http://www.freewebtemplates.de/
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    http://www.ginger-ninja.net/
    http://www.groovylizard.com/site/linkware.htm
    http://hotfreetemplates.com/WebsiteTemplates/
    http://www.interspire.com/templates/
    http://www.ajoyfulheart.com/floral_linkware_sets.htm
    http://layouts4free.com/
    http://www.mastertemplates.com/
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    http://www.snakeyewebtemplates.com/free_dreamweaver_web_site_templates.asp
    http://www.steves-templates.com/templates.html
    http://www.templateperfection.com/?parent=1&sm=1
    http://www.templateworkz.com/website_templates.php
    http://www.themesbase.com/
    http://www.webdesignhelper.co.uk/page_templates/page_templates/page_template_homepage/page_template_homepage.shtml
    http://capmex.biz/resources/free-web-templates
    http://www.webtemplates.la/
    http://zymic.com/show_templates.php?id=1
    http://www.freecsstemplates.org/
    http://www.templateworld.com/free_templates.html
    http://duggmirror.com/design/Free_Design_Templates_2/
    http://www.studio7designs.com
    http://www.opensourcetemplates.org
    http://btjunkie.org/search?q=templates
    http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/02/14/free-de...


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    http://www.kaushalsheth.com/themes
    http://pinkfreak.niftykeen.net/design/archives/templates/index.html
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    http://scribez.wordpress.com/2006/09/16/new-ten-best-free-wordpress-templates/
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    http://v4ny.net/themes-and-templates/
    http://www.weblogdesign.com/website.php
    http://wpthemes.info/

    December 26

    Good poetry read at some place

    سہما سہما ڈرا ڈرا سا رہتا ہے

    جانے کيوں جی بھرا سا رہتا ہے

    ايک پل ديکھ لوں تو اٹھتا ہوں

    جل گيا سب ذرا سا رہتا ہے

     

    مرے چارہ گر کو نوید ہو صف دشمناں کو خبر کرو

    جو وہ قرض رکھتے تھے جان پر وہ حساب آج چکا دیا

    کرو کج جبیں پہ سر کفن مرے قاتلوں کو گماں نہ ہو

    کہ غرور عشق کی بانکپن پس مرگ ہم نے بھلا دیا

    جو رکے تو کوہ گراں تھے ہم جو چلے تو جاں سے گزر گئے

    رہِ یار ہم نے قدم قدم تجھے یادگار بنا دیا