C# Hell to Heaven

Recently I got the help of a .Net developer (Yes! He know the trade wery well but very much careless..) to develop a Flash based virtual banner making online application. I thought to went for .Net because with ASP I didnt see any inbuilt feature for server side image manipulations except some third party applications with many bugs.
Anyways the developer I mentioned left the project without any notice when the deadline reache leaving many bugs to me to deal with. Neither I didnt have a time to build it from the scratch with ASP (I could have done it easily with PHP but the client wanted the system built in ASP or .Net) nor I did have a way to debug it myself. I contacted several C# developers but all tehy were reluctant to touch it becaue it is comparatively large and complecated. Anyways I took the callenge to my hand and started the debugging (Thanks to my previous developer - he has done almost everything except the few bugs)..
When I ask for a help from experts-exchange I found this very smart and help-full guy GREG YOUNG, who help me through out the process. I learnt lot of things about .Net and beeing thinking about learning .Net in a formal wayafter finishing this project.

 

President Hugo Chavez Delivers Remarks at the U.N. General Assembly

President Hugo Chavez (one of the few vertibrate leaders in the world) delivered a remarkable speach at latest UN General assembly. You can find the full text of the speach from here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/20/AR2006092000893.html

Yesterday, the devil came here. Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of.

Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.

 

Nokia 8800 Sirocco


The new Nokia 8800 reincarnation - the Sirocco Edition, comes as an updated version of the highly successful fashionable model of the Finnish manufacturer.

We usually refrain from publishing rumors about would-be mobiles that are not officially announced by the manufacturer. In the case with the new jewel in the Nokia crown though, the 8800 Sirocco Edition model, we decided to publish the available info since Nokia have already sent pricing and release date info to their partners and some of them posted it on their "coming soon" pages.

The reborn Nokia 8800 SE would have a 2 megapixel camera. It will probably keep the tri-band GSM support, 64MB of internal memory and a 262K color display with a resolution of 208x208 pixels of the original Nokia 8800. Following the current trends, the phone would also feature a well-developed music player and enhanced Bluetooth capabilities, although even the regular Nokia 8800 supported the A2DP profile allowing listening to music on a stereo Bluetooth headset. It is not yet known whether the new edition will have memory card slot.

Beside technological upgrades, the handset has received a decent face-lifting in black and stainless steel outfit. The regular Nokia 8800 had infamous navigation keys that provided for a lot of mistakes when pressing the keys. Our hope now is that with the new design of the keypad, the navigation would get much more user-friendly.

A serious flaw that may have put off a lot of the potential customers of the regular Nokia 8800 was the short battery life. Most of the users had to recharge their batteries every day or so. Nokia has put an effort in fixing that problem too and now the Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition would be equipped with new larger capacity battery instead of the 600 mAh the old one had.

The Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition would be available in September 2006 and the expected price is 675 EUR in bulk without taxes. More info will be available with the official announcement, which should come anytime now.