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Announcement: Employee Info Starter Kit (v5.0) is Released

Ever wanted to have a simple jQuery menu bound with ASP.NET web site map file? Ever wanted to have cool css design stuffs implemented on your ASP.NET data bound controls? Ever wanted to let Visual Studio generate logical layers for you, which can be easily tested, customized and bound with ASP.NET data controls? If your answers with respect to above questions are ‘yes’, then you will probably happy to try out latest release (v5.0) of Employee Starter Kit, which is intended to address different types...
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Print | posted on Posted On Sunday, March 13, 2011 3:01 AM | Feedback (13)

Agile Software Development: More About Human Ideology, Rather Machine or Technology!

In the recent trend of software development and information technology, Agile has been a Buzz word among the developer community. There are three types of guys, while a new hype gets introduced. First, who really ignores it, as it is being hype, second, who really get excited about it, but really not very aware to utilize the concept properly, and the third, who really don’t care about whether it is hype or not, but cares to utilize and adopt it properly. It’s very hopeful that the third type of...
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Print | posted on Posted On Friday, January 30, 2009 1:53 PM | Feedback (0)

nAML: A New Revolutionary Way to Model Your .NET Applications!

Understanding the architecture and code in software application plays as major factors while building good software products. Having an easy to understand visual notation, not only helps architects to model the system efficiently, but also helps developers to quickly implement that, as well as it helps the re-engineering process to easily adopt the architectural model with respect to new requirement. A new visual modeling technique, termed as “nAML” (.NET Application Modeling Language) is being introduced...
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Print | posted on Posted On Friday, September 12, 2008 9:35 PM | Feedback (1)

"Rock You!" rocks! Creates awesome slide show!

RockYou! is really nice. I created a sample slide show there, pretty much quickly. Really cool. The good thing is you can use your hi5, facebook, friendster, myspace pictures while creating slide shows. Create Your Own Technorati Tags: slideshow,tool,picture...
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Print | posted on Posted On Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:19 PM | Feedback (6)

Wikimapia: Describing own place!

I become a fan of Wikimapia with in few minutes, after checking it! How easy to find out your desired location and can mark it with your own words if you wish! Being combined with Google Map, this site enables to browse any place in the world via web, without installing Google client side software. The picture below shows my sweet home using wikimedia! The concept of "wiki" is to enable users to put their own text in site content, so being integrated with Google Map, it lets you to mark any area....
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Print | posted on Posted On Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:42 PM | Feedback (0)

Few Enhancement Suggestions for GWB

GeeksWithBlogs is becoming on of the most popular provider in blog space. I really wish for the best for it. Recently I noticed some of the great enhancements is being implemented here, which will definitely increase it's popularity among bloggers and readers. Besides there, I have some other ideas which can be considered: 1. I wish to have the full source codes available in zip for some code related post. Definitely I would love this type of feature, to have a single place where i can share my source...
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Print | posted on Posted On Thursday, December 06, 2007 3:15 PM | Feedback (0)

I Become a Community Credit Member

Thanks to community credit to consider me as a member! Being a member of community member, my posts in GWB will be automatically be approved for the credit points. Thanks to GWB as well as to support for this cool stuff! Technorati Tags: community,blog...
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Print | posted on Posted On Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:58 PM | Feedback (1)

Started using Feedburner, Twitter and Good bye to Google Ad Sence

Just started using Feedburner for my site rss, along with the integration support from GWB. It works fine! From now my Feedburner RSS URL is: http://feeds.feedburner.com... Also GWB provided support for Twitter, which I have also started using. I think Twitter is going to another nice Web 2.0 feature. Nice stuff! Also, I said good bye to Google Ad Sense, as I have seen it's not providing enough profit (0.23 USD in 30 days!) for thousands of page loads. I wonder how Google do billion dollar...
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Print | posted on Posted On Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:52 PM | Feedback (1)

Using Windows Live Messenger in Your Blog

I was really missing one necessary feature for my blog (as well when I am reader of other blogs). That is to have a way to chat with the readers or the poster. As Windows Live Messenger in one of the most popular IM, having it's support to my own blog will enable lots of my readers to get connected with me. You can see below how easy it is to have a chat with me thru my blog! The same can be happened for your readers of your blog! Ha ha ha! You can do the same by creating necessary html, available...
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Print | posted on Posted On Tuesday, December 04, 2007 10:36 AM | Feedback (0)

5 Things About Me

Thanks to Ferdous, as he has tagged me! Here are 5 things about me. 1. Although I am writing computer programs now by profession, once upon a time, I wrote literature and news in local newspapers. My parent really didn't like it, as being a "Bengali writer" will not give me a bright future. Well, I got admitted to computer science under-grad course, where I first leaned how to use computers, by the year 2000! Primarily it was a bit confusing area for me, but very soon programming became a great choice...
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Print | posted on Posted On Sunday, February 11, 2007 12:23 AM | Feedback (0)

Few Words From A Fresh MVP

One of the famous quotes of Socrates that drives me all the time is: "Know Thyself". Around the world there are lots of things which might be in your interest on not. Knowing yourself doesn't only mean to find your choices, it also includes the facts, which don't belong to your choice as well as! Knowing what I don't know Well, so I need to know myself. As a technical guy, how do I know where I can be the best fit or where I can be comfortable to explore my ideas to create new but necessary things?...
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Print | posted on Posted On Wednesday, January 03, 2007 10:39 AM | Feedback (1)

Object Oriented Tagging : Adding Power to Web 2.0 Tags!

One of the basic consideration in web 2.0 concept is 'tagging' where any contents in the web can be associated with one or more tags, which can be shared among social community network. It lets others to find any content according to their chosen tag. Tag is nothing, but a way to categorize any web content. In real world, any visitor can quickly reach to a content thru it's associated tags, can thus get a basic idea about whether s/he will consider it to read/download etc. "Search" is older concept...
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Print | posted on Posted On Saturday, December 09, 2006 12:22 AM | Feedback (2)

My 50th Post! Cheers!!

This is my 50th post here! Definitely it is good experience for me to achieve this number, as I tried to put quality and thoughtful best to reach to the readers, with useful info. Any way, it doesn't mean that ALL of the posts have to be very 'Crazy Serious' all the time! Sometimes, funny/light post can make a ' geek blogger' to the rest world as a simple person like others! Lolz! Among all all the posts here, I found the post Common Sharable Content: A Missing Feature of Web 2.0 most popular! It...
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Print | posted on Posted On Friday, November 10, 2006 5:00 PM | Feedback (4)

40000+ Touches with My Community Friends

It's a great wonder for me my article titled Common UI Practices in ASP.NET Applications at codeproject has reached 30,418 hits so far! This article was published in March 2006, and was honored to be a recommended article by the official web site of ASP.NET. In this article, I discussed few tips and guidelines regarding the UI issues while developing an ASP.NET based web application, along with some useful resource links. It's great pleasure for me, around 30k+ developers read my article to find...
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Print | posted on Posted On Friday, November 10, 2006 11:25 AM | Feedback (0)

I'm Feeling Lucky!

I find my GWB blog at the first link of Google for the key word with my name "Mohammad Ashraful Alam". There might be several thousands "Mohammad Ashraful Alam" in this world, but Google knows me at first. Not only in the web search, Google picks two of my pictures in the Google image search as well as, for the same key word. The same thing for web search happens in Yahoo! and MSN search as well as. What I am guessing is, search engines are putting higher priority for the bloggers. Hah! So finding...
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Print | posted on Posted On Friday, November 10, 2006 10:56 AM | Feedback (0)

Me, My Groups and INETA

Rather being involved on core coding, this month I was pretty busy on project management, user requirements analysis and of course in developer community activities. For last few days I tried to get the membership of my own developer group, where me and my other mates shares their ideas and thoughts. As the group leader, finally I was able to get the recognition from INETA (International .NET Association). For verification purpose I was called from Microsoft, Bangladesh office, which was a good surprise...
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Print | posted on Posted On Friday, September 29, 2006 12:18 PM | Feedback (0)

Common Sharable Content: A Missing Feature of Web 2.0

Lets consider the situation: I have 6 categories of resumes and portfolios which are used for different purposes (i.e. for professional job, contract, personal, marriage, research proposal, university admission purposes etc). I have to provide those with recent information when needed. Also I am a developer, who has blogs, profiles among several online community, forum, sites, for instance in 20 sites. Among those, of course there are some information which are being changed very frequently (i.e....
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Print | posted on Posted On Friday, August 18, 2006 3:06 PM | Feedback (6)

Using Live Writer

Yesterday in a blog posting of GWB, I have first heard about Live Writer, by which blog can be posted by a FAT client. I downloaded and it worked fine for my Live.com space. Although found in the mentioned blog posting, using Live Writer, GWB blogs can also be posted, but didn't got any way to post blog in GWB. Today I found Jeff Julian has provided a very nice tutorial about how to use Live Writer to post in GWB. Well I have gone thru all the steps yesterday, that Jeff provided, but got stacked...
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Print | posted on Posted On Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:31 PM | Feedback (1)

“Hello .NET 3.0 Installation!”

When a new development technology comes, the first thing that makes the developers busy, crazy and tensed is “how I can see the first ‘Hello World?’” Well of course you need to successfully install the corresponding software into your pc, then can write a new or open an provided sample, generally which is as simple as showing the “Hello World” message. After then the developer goes through the more complex samples, finds good tutorials and start discuss about it...
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Print | posted on Posted On Friday, July 21, 2006 8:26 AM | Feedback (0)

Web 2.0 — What Do I feel?

Starting from the static page, Web 1.0 has been turned to dynamic contents (like Google, yahoo etc), where users can interact with web pages, by providing instructions and contents through graphical interfaces. In short web 1.0 dealt with human-machine communication through web, accessible through wide range of operating system platforms, which was been possible by using http and html. Besides human to machine communication, the concept of web 2.0 concentrates on the following issues, that I have...
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Print | posted on Posted On Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:54 PM | Feedback (0)

Online File Share Best Sites

I need a online file share site, which will provide the following features 1. Free 2. Files can be shared with public 3. Files can be shared only with specific people 4. Files can’t be shared, all the files should be private 5. Should be able to track the list about all the files that I have been uploaded. http://www.filewire.com/ File share (public) No registration required, 250 mb file limit, all file formats accepted. Upload up to 20 files at a time. If you register, you have complete file...
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Print | posted on Posted On Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:01 AM | Feedback (1)

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