During Last two days I was engaged with some charity work or rather IT related charity work, doing a Shopping cart using ASP.net. I had to use VB.net which i was not familiar with before, SO i got the chance in feeling the VB.net environment. VB is not a hard language to catch up when you do know the principals of programming plus when you have plenty of online help.

Also Visual Studio is one great development environment to engage in any kind of development (large or small). Database connectivity, data handling and debugging is amazingly easy using this powerful CASE tool.

Since I did this project for my own satisfaction I thought of uploading it for the use of anyone who needs a shopping cart or a related example.

You can download it and use it for your own purpose…
cheers

Adobe (Macromedia) Flash is one of the technologies we use to add fancy eye catching animations to our web sites. But after the resent development of Ajax, developers tend to blend CSS and JavaScript effects with those flash animations making their sites look more new or rather web 2.0 (ish). For some time i was searching for a method to place DHTML layers over the Flash objects, yet i couldn’t find an article regarding this matter or rather i didn’t … Continue reading →

Today I was integrating some eye catching AJAX effects to one of the web sites I was developing, and one of my friend Told me “Nice Flash Effect”….. I smiled for a moment and thought it really is… AJAX is Growing So fast that I feel sooner it will beet Macromedia FLASH animation what you include in your website. There are many AJAX frame works available to take use of and play with some great Javascript effects. What I was … Continue reading →

For the proposal we have submitted under the category of web development (The earlier post was about Software design Category) we were ranked as the world’s 11th. this is done using community voting process in  the imagine cup community. It is time to compete for the second round developing our idea of AcSO (Academic status organizer). http://imaginecup.com/Competition/Leaderboard.aspx Thanking you all for the support.

Well web designing is not my field though, I was engaged in few designing stuff whole last week. Mainly contributing in molding a theme to a web site . The stuff I am going to write is not so new to professional designers but for beginners it will be some help. In web designing the most important task is to design the site template. In this case some beginners tend to do this by editing and writing HTML codes for … Continue reading →

Just writing a small post after a along time…. well its just because i was buried under a whole lot of work and could not concentrate on blogging… Anyways Just writing this To announce the Team Enterprise (Myself, Kasun, Sandaruwan, Keshan ) got selected for the Microsoft Imagine cup competition in the category of software design…. Our project is to develop a location base searching software (GeoLink) for Mobile phones, this project is a effort to add a new meaning … Continue reading →

This is some interesting site i was given by my colleague sandaruwan while on a chat …A site which ask few questions about your programming protocol and give you a description about the programming personality you have…. well the site link is… http://www.doolwind.com/index.php?page=11 According to that for me it was ” PHTC ” you can get the detail description from http://www.doolwind.com/index.php?page=15 so check that out it says some cool stuff about you !!! cheers !!!

This is one wide area that no clear online article is available as a help document. I my self had a huge problem in searching and making my modem to work with Edgy. When you google for the Conexant AccessRunner driver you get the driver file as sources from the sourceforge, http://accessrunner.sourceforge.net/index.shtml where you have to add those files to the kernel source tree and recompile the kernel creating a great deal of work. But yet luckily the new kernels … Continue reading →

Today while i was surfing the net (digging new gadgets for my Gnome desktop) i saw some interesting screenshots of a universal dock something which is similar to the OSX making me hunt down this new feature to my desktop. i googled for “Gnome dock” and found a post in ubuntu forums where i followed the installation process and at last.. yes !! I got the DOCK but there were no application images seen in the DOCK. i solved this … Continue reading →

Since I haven’t used or haven’t heard that “Rational rose” working on LINUX (on WINE) and of cause for modeling purposes I had to switch to Windows making a headache, I was searching a solution or more likely an alternative within Linux. I was just peeping in the add/remove menu and under the programming category, I found two modeling softwares for Linux. one which failed to install (Gaphor) and the one which i installed (Umbrello 1.5.5). What made me surprised … Continue reading →