Yahooo!! 6th grader and 8th graders!! finally !! Do they get to see a computer? Or this initiative gets bumped at the level of regional corruption where no one knows where the grant finally got lost in the dark hole? I really have high hopes for this, “Computer literacy is becoming compulsory at the 9th grade” [Prothom-alo, 01-Nov-2009]

Who is making the curriculum, where is it getting screened? Where can we obtain a copy of the proposed curriculum? No doubt the initiative is great, but what is going to be the content of the curriculum? How to create microsoft word document, how to create excel sheet?
Can we do this, can the curriculum be like a wiki-site and we could all propose an addition to the curriculum and then a team would edit/moderate the post as necessary? It would save a hundred hours worth of work for someone (I am guessing some poor fellow in ministry who would have to dig down to start doing a documentation from scratch) but result in much better content than it is run by 2-3 sets of eyes. The result would be a much criticized and polished curriculum, an wonderful tool to hand to the kids.

I am really hoping to see a curriculum that allows the kids from the outer suburbs to be able to log in to internet and manage to outsource their skills. Can you think about it? High speed internet connected to a cheap laptop, a Bangladeshi kid is writing a piece of code that is being used by an Austrian Company!! I dare to dream!!
Our parents are turning their blood to water trying to afford good education and even after completing tertiary level of education we sit around with no jobs. I think its about time we should bring some changes and improve the quality of the education provided to the kids instead of just handing them the degrees. Its time for education that actually lets you earn and improve the quality of living rather than enrich the manure in the head that stinks.

I am sure you have come across plenty of those certain points in your life when you are confronted by a situation, and you ate your tongue!

You know exactly what I am talking about .. don’t you? For example you are making a small talk and you get pinched by a remark and you are thinking – ‘think, head! think! think of something witty and funny but – at the same time can be posed as a smart answer to the pinch!’ You are hoping your prompt reply would be there (smile).. any minute now (nervous smile).. but no.. it never happens (disappointment)!

And God forbids if you force a reply – it would neither be funny, nor appropriate. It would be nothing short of being a subject of nightmare for next couple of nights – with ‘embarrassment-O-meter’ reading pointing a reading of ‘I-am-a-naked-clown-in front-of-everyone-I-know’ level.

Its like your tongue was on vacation, was in off duty, or eloped – cruising somewhere, in nice sandy beach along with your ‘instant-response’ brain cells.. Damn, don’t you hate not being there? Worst of it is when they are back in their duty, all the proper response comes back to your head and you are left with a taste as bad as reading yesterday’s newspaper.

Don’t you think its about time the scientists create some sort of fancy pills that comes with colorful packing, tastes like strawberry and helps you keep your tongue and brain-cells together?

I am losing to see the while point of being a mother. More I listen to people more I am thinking, what is the point? You get pregnant, you carry around that lump for 8 or more months, then you give a excruciatingly painful birth to a crying-peeing-pooping diaper-monger. (You would think that would be all.. hahahaha…)

Then you give up your normal life-style to take care of it for 18+ years – you don’t sleep, you don’t take timeout for yourself.. You devote your life behind raising it, tolerating its inability to stick to the rules, and equally powerful natural abilities to find all incompetence in your part to fail to see what it (s/he) is planning next, that might stamp right at your face and yell, ‘in your face sucker!!’

You know what I think?
All this crap about ‘being mother is the best thing of all’ – slogan is just another way how other new-moms can cut your tail in the same trap. And when men says the same thing, in my head its getting translated as -’how about you stay back home, clean after the messy monster, so that I can take the day off’? What would have been fair is, if women gave birth, it should only be fair if men stayed back and took care of baby.

Hope I am not harsh-ing your mellow, I guess it would just take me some time to really see the point of giving birth to another mouth when the earth already has enough people.

Don’t really mean to sound ungrateful, but at present life hasn’t been treating me very nicely. In a conversation with my dad, we shared a joke.
The joke I made was an old one -

‘ a guy was walking through a rainy night and he stumbled upon a piece of rock and fell in the mud, and right after that there was a thunder and for a second there was light everywhere.. the guy stood up and said – ‘Gheez.. you made me fall to have a laugh, and then you just had torch down to see that I fell, right ?!”

To this I added, ‘Dad, not only He made me fall, now he is digging the hole and as soon as I manage to climb up, there are land slides that makes me fall again..’ I really feel that much lost right now.

To make me feel better Dad suggested this – ‘just pray, lets presume – heaven exist, if not at least we are staying fit with the prayers exercises.’ that sounds like a good way to look up at the bright side of life..

For life is quite absurd And death’s the final word.
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin. Give the audience a grin.
Enjoy it. It’s your last chance, anyhow.
So,…
Always look on the bright side of life.

Don’t you hate it when you start working with the LINQ to SQL in Visual Studio, everytime you change something your *.dbml, the *.designer.cs file changes its namespace to original projectname depended namespace? And you can’t find your objects or tables in intellisense?

Well, solution is simple.

Open up your *.dbml and look up the properties.

you will see the “Context Namespace” and “Entity Namespace” fields as empty. Set it to your desired namespace and that should keep them in place.

I was looking for some comprehensive text about how IIS and ASP.NET handles application request and I found this post reply. I am just removing the context in which it was replied to and quoting the reply.

In the following description, I’m going to remove the Http prefix from the main objects that are used.  It should make the description easier to read.

Let’s say that Michelle visits your website, and requests your default.aspx page.  This request is received by the web server’s Internet Information Services.  IIS looks at the extension, sees that it is .aspx, and knows that this request is to be processed by ASP.NET.  So, it says to ASP.NET, “Here is a request.  You handle it, and give me the HTML that needs to go back to Michelle.”

The first thing ASP.NET does is create a Context object, which is kind of like a suitcase that holds stuff.  ASP.NET then creates a Request object that contains all the information that IIS passed to it, and puts that Request object into the Context suitcase.  ASP.NET then creates a Response object, which will hold the HTML that it must pass back to IIS, and puts that Response object into the Context suitcase.

The next thing ASP.NET does is create an Application object, which is kind of like a manager.  ASP.NET hands the Context suitcase over to the Application manager and says, “In this suitcase is the Request that we’ve received, and the Response that you need to fill out.  Go ahead and do it.”

The Application manager is like all managers, who doesn’t want to get his own hands dirty, and wants others to do the hard work.  The Application manager uses two types of workers: Module workers and Handler workers.

The Module workers are able to peek into the Context suitcase and make some decisions.  For example, the Security Module worker peeks in and looks at the user (Michelle) and looks at the page requested (default.aspx), and decides whether this is okay.  If the Security Module worker decides that this is not okay, the worker can adjust the contents of the Context suitcase (such as changing the page requested from default.apsx to login.aspx).

After the Module workers have been given the chance to peak into the Context suitcase and potentially alter its contents, the Application needs to find a Handler worker whose job it is to fill out the Response object that is sitting in the Context suitcase.

The Application manager is truly lazy, and doesn’t want to know anything about the Handler worker except that the worker can process a Context suitcase.  So, the Application manager tells a Factory worker to go and find a suitable Handler worker.  It is this Factory worker that looks at the page name (default.aspx), and “creates” a Handler worker out of the page.  The Factory worker hands over the Handler worker to the Application manager.  The Application manager gives the Context suitcase to the Handler worker and says, “Process this Context suitcase, and then give it back to me.”

The Handler worker, which was born out of the default.aspx page, then uses the Request object to decide what to do, and ultimately creates the HTML that goes into the Response object.  When that is done, the Handler worker gives the Context suitcase back to the Application manager.  The Application manager then takes the Response object, which has now been filled out, and hands the response back to IIS, which in turn sends it back to Michelle.

What Michelle receives is just the HTML for default.aspx–no images yet.

Now, the browser looks at this HTML, and sees that it contains an <img> tag, which points to your image.ashx file.  So, the browser sends a new request to IIS, asking for that image.  IIS looks at the extension, sees that it is .ashx, and says to ASP.NET, “Here is a another request.  You handle it, and give me the image that needs to go back to Michelle.”

You will see, I hope, that this is a completely new request.

So ASP.NET creates a new Context suitcase, and gives it to a new Application manager  And that Application manager goes through the whole process again.  But this time, the Factory worker returns a different Handler worker.  Whereas the Handler worker that was born from the default.aspx file created an HTML response, the new Handler worker is born from the image.ashx file and creates an image response.  But both Handler workers are simply given a Context suitcase and told to fill out the Response object inside.

The Application manager gives the Response object back to IIS, and IIS sends the image back to Michelle.

And if there is another <img> tag on the same default.aspx page, then the whole process occurs again.

So, that is where you were a little wrong.  When the default.aspx page was requested, that was not the time at which the Application manager worried about any <img> tags.  At this point, there was just a single Handler worker whose job it was to create the HTML.  It was later, during a separate request and using a new Context suitcase and a new Application manager, that the image.ashx-based Handler worker became involved and created an image.

Like any story, this one covers up certain truths. For example, IIS and ASP.NET do not talk as directly as I’ve suggested. And the Module workers can do more than peek and poke about in the Context suitcase.  Still, I hope this little story is easier to understand than reading a technically-accurate explanation of the ASP.NET life cycle.

[Huge disclaimer; this is not at all mine. Credit is due to the person who posted the reply]

Have you ever came across one of those annoying people who always has a similar stories to tell in response to your interesting, one-of-a-kind story? [Guilty!]

Yesterday we were watching friends (Season – 7), it was our vow to watch all the seasons of friends once we are together, so when we got down to Monica-Ross-Chandler telling embarrassing secrets to each other; Ross said Monica couldn’t tell time even when she turned 13.. (hehehehe..)

Thing is I couldn’t tell time even when I turned 10 and I still have trouble with quarter-to and half-pasts! I have more trouble with my native way of time telling ( ’showa’, ‘pone’).

Moreover, I had issues with left-right!!

I didn’t know my left from right up until I was in my 5th grade.. thats really late, if my parents knew about this they would get me treated by a child specialist for deferred development of direction senses.. ( or whatever wierd name they would call it by ).

Well thanks to a smoker, I gained my sense of left-rightyness. We would often go to Bagerhat, our country town for Eid celebration and while cruising through the swarm of ricksaws at folarpotti@bagerhat I managed to get a cigerate burn on my right hand. My cousin who was with my scolded the s**t out of that clumsy guy, and told me to hide my right (daan) hand  from my parents. So I took note to hide my blazed hand (daan hath) .. thats how I got hang of the sides.

End of Story..

NOTE : I still get confused sometimes and yell ‘go-right ! go-right !!’ while I keep pointing left when my hubby drives his car in and out of garage.. poor guy uses me as his navigator ( has no clue about my navigation skills .. lolz )

a short post ..

guess what ? I got incoming link!

I came across another nice link with set of tutorials for web designers, thought I would bookmark it for myself in a post.

I haven’t been writting for quite a while, but I am determined to get back to it. wish me luck!

Took the morning out to explore the spring in my machine. After having the Java_home, path set for Tomcat, it was time for ANT.

For some reason the ant was killing my build. Every time I went

C:\Documents and Settings\MyaccountFolder\workspace\springapp > ant
Or,
C:\Documents and Settings\MyaccountFolder\workspace\springapp > ant -verbose build

I would receive detail error that would go like this..

Buildfile: C:\Documents and Settings\MyaccountFolder\workspace\springapp\build.xml

BUILD FAILED
C:\Documents and Settings\MyaccountFolder\workspace\springapp\build.xml:85: C:\Documents and Settings\MyaccountFolder\Tomcat\lib not found.

But my Tomcat was not inside my C:\Documents and Settings\MyaccountFolder
I have even set a TOMCAT_HOME to C:\Tomcat.

Later I was inspecting the build.xml file and build.properties xml. I have copy-pasted it from tutorial.
The only thing I changed was shown here..

# Ant properties for building the springapp
appserver.home=${user.home}/apache-tomcat-6.0.14 /Tomcat
# for Tomcat 5 use $appserver.home}/server/lib
# for Tomcat 6 use $appserver.home}/lib
appserver.lib=${appserver.home}/lib
deploy.path=${appserver.home}/webapps
tomcat.manager.url=http://localhost:8080/manager
tomcat.manager.username=tomcat
tomcat.manager.password=s3cret

I guessed the user.home had something to do with it. so i modified it to be ..

user.home = C:
# Ant properties for building the springapp
appserver.home=${user.home}/Tomcat
# for Tomcat 5 use $appserver.home}/server/lib

Hoping the {user.home} can be overridden .. and on retry with “ant -verbose build” i got:

Override ignored for property “user.home”

This was getting on my nerves.. so I ripped off my decent attitude and hard coded the path..
Voila! that was it!

# Ant properties for building the springapp
appserver.home=C:/Tomcat

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Btw, if you are facing similar issue try this forum post..

http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=45&threadID=5148390

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Today I had a pure blond moment : when asked about DNS I replied ” something to do with database..” my sup said, “What?”, i enforced my reply saying, “Isn’t it something that use to refer to database”? Lolz.. ( shouldn’t have been thinking too much in to Ant)

He was reading about DNS protocol and the new bug that has been posing question whether the entire protocal should be re-written or not. DNS version 2.  Read more about bug..

There is a big basement sale going on in the Queen Victoria Market. I am not a great shopping enthusiast, but I did need some utensils, so on Thursday night we took a walk across the basement. It was nice, we had a bite to eat at TGV’s fast food section, browsed through some bags and later joined the shopping frenzy at the basement.

Until we had to head back and I had to look for my small black purse, I had no clue that it dropped out of my pocket! ( Talk about being clueless! hehehehehe..) So we rushed back trailing on the breadcrumbs..

After chasing all the way back to the fast food court, we got hold of security people who had “I know what you lost an hour ago” smile in their face. Rest is a slow walk and reaching to the security office where I found my small black purse!

Of course I got a comment from my Hubby ( which I mistakenly comprehended to be a compliment! ).
He said, “you bring adventures to my life!” It was the most sweet thing if he was smiling.. but he wasn’t. I have taken a personal note of Never sticking my purse in my pocket ever again!

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Special thanks to great security that are enforced in Sydney city and around it. It feels strage to be that safe for people like me. Anyway, Keep the great work up, guys!