Microsoft launches portals for developers and IT professionals

Microsoft Bangladesh on Wednesday announced that it would run two online community portals each for developers and IT professionals in Bangladesh.

Microsoft Bangladesh launched msdnbangladesh.net (developers) and techbangladesh.net (IT Professionals) in a ceremony held at the BIAM Foundation auditorium in the Capital.

Basic Shell Commands

To speak about the truth, I actually don’t dislike Linux, but i don’t feel comfortable on it. But i am feeling it is going to be important day by day specially in developer society (I don’t know, home user will ever choose Linux for their every day computing). I am learning some shell commands (they are not many but TOO many!!) here i listed some basic commands (just for me):

cd—Changes directories
chmod—Changes file access permissions
cp—Copies files
du—Prints disk usage
find—Finds files by searching
grep—Searches for a string in input
less—Filter for paging through output
ln—Creates links between files
locate—Finds files from an index
ls—Lists files in the current directory
make—Compiles and installs programs
man—The manual page reader
mkdir—Makes directories
mv—Moves files
ps—Lists processes
rm—Deletes files and directories
ssh—Connects to other machines
tail—Prints the last lines of a file
top—Prints resource usage
which—Prints the location of a command

Installing Microsoft Fonts in Ubuntu 8.10

Just follow these two steps below:

1. Go to terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

2. Refresh the fonts cache type:

sudo fc-cache -fv

source:ubuntu.imoka.net

a Laptop in $10 !!!?

Indians are doing a real great thing this time. A laptop only $10 (ten dollar) which is much lower then a price of a pocket calculator. I just waiting to see they are really doing this. Those laptops will be equipped with 2GB memory, WiFi, Ethernet, expendable memory and consumes a mere 2W of power.  There is no information about what operating system will it use. may be it will be a linux based OS  (windows!? of course not! ) To know more look here. Feeling happy about them (Indians) and at the same time feeling very sad about us (bangladeshi peoples).

Waterproof rice!

just wanted to share this link.

http://tinyurl.com/bnc3d6

অন্ধ গরু!

গ্রামে বেড়াতে গিয়ে শ্যামল সাহেবের গাড়িটি কাদায় আটকে গেল। সব দেখেশুনে পাশের জমিতে কাজ করা কৃষকটি তার গোলাপি নামের গরুকে দিয়ে গাড়িটি টেনে তোলার সিদ্বান্ত নিল। গরুটিকে দড়ি দিয়ে গাড়ির সামনে লাগিয়ে কৃষকটি বলল ‘যা কালা যাহ্!’ কিন্তু গরুটি লড়ল না। এরপর আবার হাঁক দিল, ‘যা মালা যাহ্!’ তবুও গরুটি নড়ল না। সবশেষে কৃষকটি বলল, ‘যা গোলাপি যাহ্!’ এবার কিন্তু একবারেই গরুটি নড়ে উঠে গাড়িটা টেনে তুলল।
শ্যামল সাহেব বেশ অবাক হয়ে বললেন, ‘গোলাপিকে অন্য নামেই বা ডাকলেন কেন আর গরুটি আগে নড়লি না বা কেন?’ কৃষকটি একগাল হেসে বলল, ‘আসলে গোলাপি চোখে দেখে না। ও যদি কোনমতে টের পেয়ে যায় যে শুধু ওকেই খাটানো হচ্ছে, তাহলে ওকে মোটেও নড়ানো যেতো না। এ কারণে আগে অন্যদের ডেকে বোঝালাম, শুধু ও নয়, আরও কয়েকজনকে কাজ করানো হচ্ছে।’

source: prothom-alo

Bangla Pad

I was in need of a good bangla typing editor from long ago (yes i know there are many bangla typing software available over there; they don’t work for me. okay?) so i have decided to make one for me.  (I released its first preview).  You can try it in here.

9th National Election in Bangladesh

the JavaFX logo of Death!

I was learning javafx from last few weeks. I am in love with its  syntax and simple (but powerful!) API. What ever i learned about javafx till now, it is just amazing. But one thing is very painful!. JavaFx is very poor in its deployment. It is very sad for a developer that he made a nice app and deployed it but the maximum users of the entire world can’t see his great work! (really very sad!).

I made a javafx app with my novice expertise (here it is)

but when i deployed it on a remote server i can see it in my own PC and but i can’t see it in my other PC. (just a pain!) As i am novice i didn’t know what to do as it was not showing any error message i was just thinking may be i had made some error while building the app or may be i didn’t follow the proper deployment procedure. I was just confused.

Suddenly i discovered the automatically generated jnlp file by netbeans is not valid and that’s why it was not working in remote server. I fixed the jnlp file then it seems works very well. But still it has few problems. The main problem is it don’t let know what error it occurred (it does show in java console). It just shows the loading logo of death.

So the bottom line of javafx deployment i found till is make sure your jnlp file is correct and make sure your client has at least jre6 update 11 thats it. Oh one more thing i noticed for the slower connection, like you have jre 6 update 10 and it automatically updated to 11 then javafx may not work properly( I don’t know why). I faced this problem then i reinstalled the jre and problem fixed. JavaFx is better for desktop (at least) for now and i think it is not matured enough to play in web.

Waiting for the next release…

Apple Computer

I got this joke on the net just few ago:

Apple had a new computer under development. Their project name for it was “Carl Sagan” (I don’t know why).

When the real Carl Sagan (American astronomer) learned about this, he was upset. He demanded that Apple stop using his name, even for their private, internal projects.

Apple agreed. They changed the name of the project to “Butthead Astronomer”.

Vote for Netbeans

NetBeans has been nominated in five categories for the 2009 Developer.com Product of the Year Awards!

Developer.com Nomination Page
http://tinyurl.com/5dbatf

NetBeans tools are up for awards in the following categories:

* Development Tool of the Year: NetBeans Platform
* Development Utility of the Year: NetBeans Profiler
* Wireless/Mobile Development Tool or Add-in of the Year: NetBeans Mobility Pack for Connected Device Configuration (CDC) 5.5
* Java Tool or Add-in of the Year:NetBeans IDE
* Open Source Tool of the Year: NetBeans

Cast your vote today for NetBeans and help us deliver another win! Voting ends Monday, December 15, 2008.

21 Things I Wish Would Just Go Away

I was reading PCWorld magazine and i found a nice article in the Full Disclosure chapter. Here i am sharing that:

21 Things I Wish Would Just Go Away

5 Wonders of Microsoft “Innovation”

1. Microsoft Live Search: Isn’t it wonderful that they have to pay you to use it?
2. Windows Genuine Advantage and Microsoft product Activation: Isn’t it wonderful that Microsoft makes sure you have the quality that only its official products can bring?
3. Microsoft Service Packs and Patch Tuesday: Isn’t it wonderful that Microsoft is so assiduous about fixing the defects that its official products actually do bring you?
4. Security updates that won’t install despite many attempts: Isn’t it wonderful that Microsoft seems to possess such passion for my potential?
5. Untimely abandonment of support for slightly aged products: Isn’t it wonderful that cars that can rust will last longer than Microsoft products that can’t it?

Five Insanely Great Things About Apple’s Approach to “Customer Service”

1. PRpeople and tech support mailboxes whose cynical motto is “No comment” or “We’ll get back to you”: We’re still waiting. Kind of like early 3G iPhone customers with connection problem.
2. Genius Bars with smug fanboys instead of geniuses: Attitude? You got a problem with that?
3. Steve Jobs’s clever cultivation of sycophantic reporters: Ever see a negative review of a new Apple product the day it comes out? Unfailing cheerleaders get the product first.
4. Nonremovable batteries: Why should you have to bother with the arduous task of replacing a battery when apple employees are happy to do it for you for a sizable fee?
5. “One more thing”: Nope, it’s not just another overpriced overhyped product. It’s a way of life!

Five Things That need Ad Blocking

1. Cell phones: Spam? Call it business-to-customer texting.
2. ATMs: Could I just have my money?
3. Airplane entertainment: I’m already flying your lousy airline!
4. Public restrooms: Go in peace…
5. Junkware-laden PCs: No, I don’t need then free subscriptions to cancel next month.

Three Products That Need New Interfaces

1. GPS systems: Who really believes that the message telling you not to fiddle with the device while dri…[CRASH!]…ving…?
2. Office 2007: Menus! We need the steenking menus!
3. Universal remote controls: Just a couple more days, and I’ll have this thing programmed exactly the way I want it.

Three Cloud-Computing Unmentionables

1. Dearuser: We’re sorry for the three-month service outage.
2. Dearuser: We apologize if your confidential information was exposed during our 27-week maintenance period.
3. Uh-oh–the network’s down again!

Chrome supports Java!

Google Chrome requires Java version 6 update 10 (Java 6u10), and should work with Java 6u10 as indicated in the Google Chrome Help Center. However, Sun Microsystems does not support Google Chrome for Java SE 6. For more information and help on Chrome, you might want to visit :  Google Chrome Help Center For a list of Java supported browsers by Sun Microsystems, please visit the following page: Java SE 6 Release Notes Supported System Configurations  Download the early access version of Java 6u10 from the link below: Download Java 6 update 10 early access version  To make sure that Google Chrome recognizes Java 6 update 10 correctly, you might want to install Java 6u10 prior to installing Google Chrome. And for Silverlight you might need to install silverlight after installing Chrome.