My half-life2My half-life2Tech blog of a Perl programmer and technology enthusiast. Articles
About internet service, mobile companies and IT trends in Bangladesh
2007-08-12 11:56:00 Note: This post is a response to the post ??????? ???? ????????? ?????? ?????????????. by Omi Azad. Dear Omi Azad, Thank you very much for raising this topic. I always wanted to have comparative knowledge about the internet services in Bangladesh . And having a more clear view now after reading the responses. So thanks to everyone ... More About: Internet , Companies , Mobile , Trends
Perl Servey 2007
2007-08-03 05:37:00 Perl Serve y 2007 is taking place. Please take time to take part in it if you have any relation with Perl. The servey form is very short, wont take much of your time. Funny thing is, they listed Bangladesh and Bengali in the coutry and spoken-language fields. That is really interesting, because I am the only ... More About: Perl
Do not run after misleading benchmarks
2007-07-10 06:03:00 I just had to find some time to write about this. This post is aimed to help anyone who feels elevated and impressed by the trendy benchmarks between programming languages and/or frameworks. Benchmarks are tools to help us judge. They have a purpose to serve. But using them to their lowest significance and publishing those ... More About: Programming , Leading , Marks , Lead
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2007-07-05 04:28:00 .???uo? u?op ?p?sdn u? ???1 bu?po? ?? ? ????? ?b?? ?? o? ???q ??b s??1 .p?q oo? .???? ?noq? u??? ????? o? ?ob?o? ? .?1n? pu2 uo ?q p?ss?d ??p????q ?? .????u? u?op ?p?sdn bu?bu?? s? bo1q ?? os .s??p ??? ? ?o? ?snq ?? ? .bo1q u?op ?p?sdn u? bu????? ?o?? ?1?s?? d1?? ?ou ... More About: Life
Flock 0.9 Beta testing ended
2007-06-23 23:06:00 I have been part of the small group of beta testers who were invited to download and test Flock 0.9 beta for last few weeks. Finally the carnival of 10-mails-per-hour mailing-list is quiet. The bugs are verified, listed and assigned for fix. We were adviced not to air the download link as it was under ... More About: Beta , Testing , Beta Testing , Lock
Song: Petula Clark - Downtown
2007-06-18 03:47:00 Petula Clar k - Downtown When you're alone And life is making you lonely, You can always go downtown When you've got worries, All the noise and the hurry Seems to help, I know, downtown Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty How can you lose? The lights are much brighter there You ... More About: Song , Tula , Lark
A research on Web 2.0 webserver demographics
2007-06-08 18:04:00 Background: I had an interesting chat with one of my friends about what technology Web 2.0 uses and promotes. Does it break any trend or at least started to break any in the field of web servers? So for the welfare of science, technology and humanity, I decided to do a research. I can knock ... More About: Programming , Research , Webserver , Demographics
Song: No Good For Me
2007-06-08 15:52:00 “The Corrs: No Good For Me” I see a home in a quiet place I see myself in a strong embrace And I feel protection from the human race It’s not parental But it’s a fantasy, not a reality And it’s no good, no, no good for me, you have no idea That I’m walking through the clouds When you’re looking at me I’m ... More About: Song , No Good
My MySpace account
2007-06-07 15:27:00 One of my friends told me that my myspace account is pretty cool. What do you think? http://www.myspace.com/skywriter14 OK, I am pasting the details here for you: Saifullah Mahmud’s Blurbs: About me: I am too cool Who I’d like to meet: cool people Saifullah Mahmud’s Interests: Generaldoing cool stuffMusicany cool songFilmsonly the cool moviesTelevisioncool channelsBookscool booksHeroescool people technorati tags:myspace, joke, profile, life Blogged with ... More About: Life , Myspace , Pace , Count , Account
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates interview video
2007-06-03 19:34:00 Steve Jobs and Bill Gate$ interviewed together at the D5 conference on 30th May, 2007. This is the highlight video. You can catch the complete 7 part interview in youtube. And this is a cartoon about Jobs and Gates… More About: Video , Steve , Steve Jobs , Bill Gates
Interesting picture from Flickr
2007-06-03 18:38:00 Sci-fi Man SUEÑO AUTECO on Flick r - Photo Sharing! technorati tags:sci-fi, photo, flickr Blogged with Flock More About: Interesting , Photos , Picture
Perl commandline tool for reading google groups posts
2007-06-03 18:25:00 This is a little commandline tool I wrote with Perl to help myself read the posts in google groups. It fetches the thread urls with the latest posts and opens them in firefox tabs. I use it from cygwin command prompt in my windows machine. You can easily customize it to help your needs. Long live ... More About: Google , Programming , Reading , Tool
An article about SQL injection
2007-06-02 08:35:00 This is a must read for anyone who ever coded any application that uses a database. The title says it: SQL Injection Attacks by Example Read on… technorati tags:sql, injection, vulnerability, best, practices, security, tips, hacking, database Blogged with Flock More About: Programming , Article , Artic
Zamzar: online file conversion service and some thoughts about future
2007-05-31 16:06:00 If anybody is interested in online file conversion, I suggest a great service/website zamzar.com. It lets you convert files between most of the common text, document, image, audio and video formats. Just upload, select target format and give it your mail address, it will mail you the result instantly. Let’s share a scenario with you. I ... More About: Programming , Future , Service , File , Thoughts
Pretty Chittagong
2007-05-29 06:10:00 technorati tags:chittagong, bangladesh, photos Blogged with Flock More About: Photos , Pretty , Gong
Hack Day website
2007-05-27 07:07:00 Take a look at the spooky London Hack Day website. Screenshots: Trivia: Can you guess the chypher criteria used here? (Its very easy!) More About: Programming , Website , K Day
About jobs, hiring and resumes
2007-05-27 01:29:00 I just woke up and had to read something to have my brain going and feel that the world haven’t gone past me by the time I slept. Jowel Spolsky wrote a great article back in September on sorting resumes. Jowel stresses on programming ability, passion for programming, likeliness of being able to pick up ... More About: Programming , Jobs , Hiring , Resumes
Softwares I cannot leave without: Episode 1
2007-05-25 23:37:00 I am someone who appreciates great softwares. Let it be a windows or Linux software, an web app or a tool for mobile, I try, judge them all and use the softwares I find best. I am a download junkie too. I download, in my honest opinion, more than anybody else in Bangladesh. I download ... More About: Episode , Leave , Softwares , Episode 1 , Anno
Flickr, Peninsula Hotel, Chittagong, Sumon, Auvi, Memories, Fun
2007-05-24 20:53:00 Front-Elevation on Flickr - Photo Sharing! technorati tags:Bangladesh , Chittagong, Peninsula, Hotel , Memories, Fun, Auvi Blogged with Flock More About: Life , Photos , Home
Interesting picture from Flickr
2007-05-24 19:26:00 IMG_0708 on Flick r - Photo Sharing! What would you call it? Humanity? technorati tags:Flickr, Photo, life Blogged with Flock More About: Interesting , Photos , Picture
Software Review: HeidiSQL, you can get rid of phpMyAdmin now
2007-05-23 20:17:00 I found Heidi SQL today which blows away all other products in the category. It is a third party GUI management tool for MySQL, 100% free, 1.5MB download size for windows and takes only 2.4MB on hard drive, when installed. I found HeidiSQL on www.osalt.com. Somebody commented that, “Better functionality than phpmyadmin”. I wasn’t too optimistic ... More About: Software , Programming , Review , Admin
That?s Al Gore in his office!
2007-05-23 11:27:00 He uses huge monitors, 3 of them. And look at his messy desk! technorati tags:office, life Blogged with Flock More About: Office , Photos , Al Gore , Gore , That
Good news from Gmail
2007-05-23 09:44:00 Good news from Gmail . Still fresh: Gmail Doubles Maximum Attachment Size to 20 MB Gmail upgraded the maximum attachment size from 10 MB to 20 MB. Gmail was quite forgiving and you could send more than 10 MB in some cases, but now it’s possible to send at least 20 MB in one message. Of course, few mail ... More About: News , Life , Good News , Good
Language war: real stuff
2007-05-23 04:27:00 One of the bright side of flame wars between the languages is, they gives the community some real stuff at the end. We love it when people who really knows the ins and outs of the languages/platforms speaks up and one can actually get to know the gotchas and strengths of the languages and the ... More About: Perl , Stuff , Language , Ruby on Rails , Real
I am in bdblogs.com
2007-05-21 19:12:00 I am glad to say that my blog is added to bdblogs.com. bdblogs.com is an attempt to unite all Bangladesh i or Bangladesh related blogs in one place. I thank the people behind bdblogs.com and wave my hands to the bloggers. I hope my blog will add new flavors to the community. Also hoping to make ... More About: Life , Logs |
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