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Self-Evangelism
At first glance the title of this post may be a little confusing for you but don’t worry since I’m going to talk about this term and describe it here!
In the past two years and since a short while before starting my military service to now I’ve been trying to keep my skills up and train with them to avoid the disaster that has happened to many other young men in the country after the service. Beside studying and writing, I also defined some small and big projects for myself, started them, developed them and also released them. Luckily these projects could be done very well mostly on time or with short delays and with a good quality. I’m also proud to say that they got successful overall and gave me some energy to keep them (and other projects) up!
Continue Reading : 1 Comment : 07.04.08
Abidar – ASP.NET Task Scheduling Framework
Recently I published a couple of blog posts about building a simple ASP.NET task scheduling system in a practical way and with a basic example (Part 1 and Part 2).
Per comments and feedback from some visitors, especially a dear and respectful friend like Dave Burke, I also promised to publish my general framework for task scheduling as a part of an open source project. Today I found some free time to start this and created a CodePlex repository for the project.
Finding an appropriate name for the project was not easy and I usually end up with special names such as names of places and areas when I get stuck in these situations! So I ended up with another special name for this project like Abidar.
Continue Reading : 3 Comments : 06.30.08
Nayyeri.NET Turns Three
Today, 28th June 2008, is the third birthday anniversary of my site and blog, Nayyeri.NET! It’s hard to believe that three years are passed since the day that I first installed an early Beta version of the Community Server 1.1 on this site and got in many of troubles. I can remember that I went to my hoster’s office and we cooperated to tackle many issues down!
From that day to know I’ve been actively blogging on this site with no stop point and without going lower than 20 posts per months ratio! Those who have been writing a technical blog with same material can understand that it’s not easy to achieve this in a long time!
Continue Reading : 5 Comments : 06.28.08
Bill Gates - Looking Back, Moving Ahead!
Well, it’s not easy to not write about Bill Gates’ transition today!
If you’re one of those a few guys who don’t know, today Bill Gates transits its main role at Microsoft to a Chairman role in order to spend more time on Bill and Melinda Gates foundation! This somehow means that Bill Gates is leaving its active role at Microsoft, the role that we all knew him for it!
So in a few hours, we’re going to say goodbye to the most famous man on the software world, or even in the whole computer world!
Continue Reading : 2 Comments : 06.27.08
Waegis Will Be Live in July
The last time that I gave a status of the Waegis I promised to announce the final launch date of Waegis very soon and today I finally found an idea of the timeline that I can rely on it.
Last Thursday the Alpha testing stage of Waegis ended and the VPS account that was hosting the Waegis Alpha expired. I’m in the process of merging my pre-launch data (gathered from Alpha testing and incoming databases) and also finalizing a few things in order to launch the site.
Initially I had fixed 30th June as the launch date for the site and hoped that I can make it possible but unfortunately some unexpected parameters delayed the launch for 10-15 days.
Continue Reading : 1 Comment : 06.26.08
How to Build a Task Scheduler System for the ASP.NET – Part 2
In the first part of this short post series about building a task scheduler system for the ASP.NET I covered some principles as well as the structure of a Task class that represents a particular task.
The other element of the process is of course building a mechanism to schedule this task and start or stop it. This is the topic of the current post. Don’t forget to read the footer notes of this post that have some good news related to this topic.
Before following the post, just let me point that the value of a scheduling system that just depends on the ASP.NET application and works for all the environments and security settings is something obvious. As I pointed in the first post, there are lots of other methods that usually require access to the server resources and depend on other tools but an integrated solution is %100 integrated and simple to use and extend.
Continue Reading : 8 Comments : 06.25.08
INETA Community Champions Program
Today I received an automated email notification from INETA site in which my dear friend and community leader, David Silverlight, had listed me in the list of recipients who can promote newest community program by INETA.
This program is called INETA Community Champions and is designed to promote active INETA members and speakers.
Even though the program seems to target North America region and I can’t participate but I thought it’s good to help the program and write about it to help guys at INETA.
Continue Reading : 1 Comment : 06.23.08
My Military Service After Sixteen Months
From the beginning of my military service every two months I’ve given a status of the service and things around it in my life.
Today I finished the 16th months and started the 15 and it means that I’m close to the end and only four months are remained!
The status is almost similar to the last time that I gave it except that weather is getting warmer and this is very annoying for me (you would know this from my past posts)!
Continue Reading : No Comments : 06.21.08
Graffiti 1.1 Released
A few hours ago, Telligent released the second major version of its Graffiti CMS. Graffiti 1.1 is released with some new features and bug fixes to complement version 1.0.
You can download this new version and install it in a few minutes as I did for my blog. The install and upgrade experience for Graffiti is the most sweet one among all the .NET web applications!
Continue Reading : 1 Comment : 06.20.08
Some Thoughts on Firefox 3.0 Download Record
First of all, let me clarify a simple point that you need to have in your mind when reading this post: neither I’m a fan of Internet Explorer nor a fan of Firefox! I have used both and never preferred one to another!
What I’m going to write about in this post is what you have heard about it in the past few weeks: Firefox 3.0 download record!
In this simple blog post I don’t want to talk about technical aspects of this browser and never want to challenge the excellent quality of the software!
Sometimes such a disclaimer can save my time from deleting some comments!
Continue Reading : 1 Comment : 06.20.08