Category: General

Just a small anouncement from me on localization

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I have done couple of projects for the companies I am working in or worked out, which are localized applications. But most of those projects were ANSI based, not unicode. So I made a decision last night that I wont spend my time for any ANSI projects in near future. All my localized projects will be Unicode.

Some of my colleagues will be extremely happy seeing this announcement, I bet that. But I have to mention a few names who inspired me a lot for making such a decision, among those Ekushey, Ankur and Omicronlab to mention.

One more thing, If , by any chance I have to develop a solution for ANSI, be sure that there will also be a unicode port of that project. That means a Hybrid solution.

Thanks to all who inspired me.

Little Afif

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Little Afif with Papa

Afif is learning how to talk in alien language these days. He express many of his wishes using “gili-gili-gulu-gulu’ , ‘gggggiiiiiii’, ‘aoouuuu’ words. Everyday we talk for a long long time. Afif become very happy when his mom talks with him.

These days Afif sleeps sooner in my lap instead of his mom’s. So I got this duty unofficially. Afif also express his strong opinion to eat or ‘not to eat’ sometime just by trying to leap from her mom’s lap. He can now react with public expression. He get annoyed when someone tries to talk with him with same “Alien Language” that he speaks in. So we understand that he likes our “Bangla” to hear but he likes “Alien Lang.” much more to speak 😀

Afif’s mom took this picture week ago.

WordPress SQLite – Update One

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1. Installer is Finished
2. WordPress DB core conversion finished

Now I am stuck with Role Management and I will finish it hopefully within a day. Last night a funny thing happened. In wordpress installer they check whether a table has been successfully created by invoking “SHOW Tables” command which is not compliant with SQLite. So I start searching how to get information about database scheme. After searching for a while, I finally went thru the code of phpsqliteadmin and found the solution.

Every SQLite database has a table called SQLITE_MASTER which remains hidden. So you can just execute the following command to get all the table names.

“SELECT name FROM SQLITE_MASTER where type=’table'”

Really Cool. !!! I am very much excited abt this project and I am sure – I will release it in friendly way. In WordPress SQLite edition you can use standard wordpress distribution (with modified db core) but you can just configure your config file and add the following line.

driver = ‘sqlite’

I just want to avoid all the hassle for the end user 🙂

Lets see!!

So Hasin, The Game is Finally Over

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Long time ago I played a cool game named Heroes of the Might and Magic. The ending session was cool. Just a few weeks ago I over Serious Sam – the Second Encounter and Finally Prince of Persia – the Sands of Time. Serious Sam got a funny ending.

Few months ago – I saw a great movie – Exorcist, the Beginning. At the final stage when The ghost fought priest, she whispered a cool sentence which priest heard a long time ago. I like the dialog very much. The ghost whispered to the priest “Priest, God is not here Today.”

Well, god is still here today. I am grateful to you for what I get and What I didn’t, I am grateful because for standing here right now. And God, I am thankful for what you brought into my life.

A new chapter is about to begin. And I realized finally, the game I was playing is finally over. Thanks god.

Save Nurul – Student of RUET

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nurul.jpg
The boy in the picture is our friend NURUL (02 series), a final year student of EEE at Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET ). He is supposed to be an engineer after only 6 months. But he is in hospital (National Kidney Foundation, Ward #3, Bed #3) now fighting with death. He is suffering from KIDNEY damage problem. Doctors have diagonosed that both his kidneys are 80% damaged. To transplant one of his kidneys a gross amount of Tk 15,00,000 (1.5 million Taka) is required. The vital fact is we need the money within A WEEK .

All the students of RUET are working heart and soul to collect the money from every possible source. We the students of RUET expect you to be one of us in the mission of saving the valuable life of a meritorious engineering student.

In the past we did save Omit and Hridoy. We do believe that if we stand together hand in hand we could get back NURUL among us.
Wouldn’t you be one of us!!!

Please send your contribution to
TAHMINA AKTAR
Saving account no – 34115593
JANATA BANK.
Dilkusha Corporate Branch, Dhaka.
Bangladesh

On behalf of the students of RUET –

Istiaque Uddin Chowdhury (RIFAT)
Cell – 0199-116447 (TnT incoming)
Please Forward it to Others.

TUX Became Paid and I got one year subscription for Free.

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The popular Linux magazine TUX became paid by an announcement yesterday. I was just wondering why it took so long to make the decisssion. Having other paid publishing in their cart like LinuxJournal TUX was offered for free for the last 15 month.

But I like what they did with their existing free subscribers. They make an announcement that they are going to be paid subscription, but they have something for their existing members who are old. Guess what? Most old members got a one year subscription for Free. Whoa!! And I was one luck chap among them

I am an extreme fan of TUX Magazine for the last 12 month and their content are really so good. I have been happy so that they went into paid subscriptiong program, because that will ensure their existence. At least for the next couple of years.

Long live TUX.

Zend is launching PHP5 Exam

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Zend is launching PHP5 certification exam pretty soon. The beta is starting from this July 26 – Sunday to August 2. Today I received a mail from Dhwani Wahia from Zend Education Advisory board announcing the upcoming Exam.

But There is a surprise. Zend is giving away 25 Free beta exam voucher chosen from existing Zend Certified Engineers. Lets see the Result. Zend already published the curriculum for PHP5 exam.

Great

Whoa!! Its a somewherein party in Water Kingdom

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Today we all somewherein people are going to water kingdom, a theme park beside fantasy kingdom. Its 9:48 AM here in my desk and we are waiting for everyone. So far here is Didar, T-poo, Shahana, Hasan, Ipshita, Saikat, Robin, Mouli, Jana, Kinnori and Arild. Deborah, Emran and Farhana are on their way.

😀 so its going to be a great party in water. 😀

unicode in somewhereinblog

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Today morning, I added support for unicode in somewhereinblog. Now people can write text and display them as unicode if they just enclose their texts using [unicode] tag.

I am working for a phonetic unicode parser, i hope it will be up soon.