sheep's tale

[Emacs] compile-command

2011-06-30T11:47:00.008+06:00

compile-command is a variable which holds the target for compile command in Emacs. By default, it holds "make -k" , but we can change it if we need a slightly different target. For example, while I am editing my latex files I can set it to "pdflatex myfile.tex".

An easy way to accomplish this is using a file local variable. For my latex file, I added the following comments at the end of the file to set some file local variables.

% Local Variables:
% compile-command: "make -k ch2"
% fill-column: 80
% comment-fill-column: 80
% End:

Local value of compile-command can also be used in source files where someone need to build the whole project instead of only compiling the source targets in the current directory from Emacs.

% Local Variables:
% compile-command: "cd .. && make -k"
% End:

Trek 7100 Hybrid :-)

2010-03-12T06:19:00.004+06:00

You can find more about this bike HERE.

Wiki Compilers

2009-08-16T03:09:00.005+07:00

Wiki compilers are great for those less blessed people who has an account in a web server but only with static pages( i.e University , Corporate Home pages). They work the same way a compiler works, produces ( actually compiles the wiki syntaxes into static html) offline contents of the static site beforehand.

Wiki Compilers

I like the Wiko one a lot. See the creator's(Pau Arumi) page generated by this wiki engine. And the syntax is very similar to Wikipedia and Markdown.

Emacs-Muse
You can also use Emacs-Muse to manage a static web site. Alex Ott maintains a nice web site with Muse.

Markdown
This is the simplest approach, it just generates html from markdown files. Markdown syntax is very easy to work with, and it can readily convert simple text files to html files with footnotes, references, links, etc.

Org-Mode
Emacs' Org-mode can generate htmls (as well as lots of other formats, I use it to take my notes and generate technical documentation for softwares, it helps me to generate info/pdf/html/text documents from a single source. Very handy).

Save your emacs Fingers

2009-06-04T07:36:00.006+06:00

To save my emacs fingers, I swapped all CTRL and ALT keys in the keyboard, and also mapped the CAPS LOCK key to the ALT.

Here is the xmodmap code in my Thinkpad T41p for swapping CTRL and ALT keys.

These keycodes are system-specific. Use `xev` to find out the keycodes in your system before applying this `xmodmap` script.


!
! This is an `xmodmap' input file for
!   PC 105 key, wide Delete, tall Enter (XFree86; US) keyboards.
! Automatically generated on Sat Nov 22 23:28:24 2008 by xxxxx with
! XKeyCaps 2.47; Copyright (c) 1991-1999 Jamie Zawinski; 2005-2006 Christoph Berg.
! http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/
!
! This file presupposes that the keyboard is in the default state, and
! may malfunction if it is not.
!
remove Lock    = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L Control_R
remove Mod1    = Alt_L Alt_R
remove Mod4    = Meta_L Meta_R
remove Mod5    = Scroll_Lock

keycode 0x42 =    Alt_L    Meta_L
keycode 0x25 =    Alt_L    Meta_L
keycode 0x40 =    Control_L
keycode 0x71 =    Control_R
keycode 0x6D =    Alt_R    Meta_R

add    Control = Control_L Control_R
add    Mod1    = Alt_R Alt_L 0x009C Alt_L Alt_R Alt_L Alt_L
add    Mod4    = 0x007F 0x0080
add    Mod5    = Mode_switch ISO_Level3_Shift
!
! For Mouse Swap.
!# pointer = 3 2 1 4 5

Check more tips at , http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/effective-emacs

I just wanted to beat other boys

2009-05-22T03:01:00.002+06:00

G. H. Hardy on his book A Mathematicians Apology:

I cannot remember ever having wanted to be anything but a mathematician. I suppose that it was always clear that my specific abilities lay that way, and it never occurred to me to question the verdict of my elders. I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from a noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.

Source :

A mathematician's apology,
By Thomas Hardy
PDF: A Mathematician's Apology.pdf

HaHa! I am better than you.

2009-02-02T09:48:00.002+06:00

Stan Marsh to Butters Stoch on "You Got F'd in The A" in South Park

But that isn't the point, Butters!
The point is that this is now! It's
on! And there are people who need you
to step up! Look, nobody likes having
to rise to a challenge. But competing
against other people and getting in
their faces saying "Haha! I'm better
than you!" is part of life. And if you
can't face that, then you might as well
sit here and play Leggos until you're
an old man.

Excerpts from 10 Commandments

2008-10-18T13:26:00.000+06:00

You shall not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.

I Will Stop Procrastinating Tomorrow

2008-09-18T07:09:00.004+06:00

Here is one of my favorite videos from Dan Ariely, writer of Predictably Irrational. I am really looking forward to read the book. But right now, I am just watching the videos.

My favorite is one where StarBuck Coffees were involved. I will post that video some day in my blog.

My Favorite book : Cosmos

2008-07-31T07:55:00.002+06:00

One of my favorite book. I really enjoyed this book by Carl Sagan in my teen. I am planning to read it again, found an online copy in scribd.

The Weekender

2008-07-31T07:42:00.002+06:00

I listen to this Radio Programme named Weekender almost every week. I like this show very much, so recommending it for my friends. You can download the podcast/mp3 after the show.

Serving news deliciously

2008-07-26T19:13:00.002+06:00

Interesting idea. They are serving news deliciously. Why don't you check this out too. Serving news deliciously.

World's most difficult logic puzzle

2008-07-26T19:04:00.002+06:00

My friend Muntasir just shared the most difficult puzzle through de.icio.us. I am sharing it here for my friends. World's Most difficult puzzle.

Professor Warwick Sawyer

2008-07-26T19:02:00.004+06:00

For few days, I have been enjoying the articles of Professor Warwick Sawyer. I guess Anybody inclined to mathematics will enjoy his works.

Unix Productivity Tips

2008-07-10T19:11:00.004+06:00

Vnc2Swf

2008-06-21T23:39:00.004+06:00

I am just amazed with the tool named Vnc2Swf.
For a 10 minute video it takes around 2MB I think.

Happy Screen Casting.

Bording Vista && Nintendo Wii

2008-06-21T23:28:00.003+06:00

Bording Vista (Dhaka, Bangladesh) has set up a Nintendo Wii in their office for the employees.
Last time I heard everyone is playing Virtual Tennis with Rackets in their Conference Room. I am so jealous.

Details you can find inside from Bording Vista.

My Favorite PDF Tools

2008-06-06T13:09:00.009+06:00

1. Foxit Reader
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

I use Foxit Reader for reading and viewing PDF files. It is at least 1000 times faster than Adobe Acrobat Reader.

2. PDFill PDF Tools(FREE Version)
http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html

Great Tool. Supports splitting pdfs, convert images to pdf, pdf to Images, reorganizes PDF,Merging, Adding Watermarks to PDF and more.

3. PDF-XChange PDF Viewer
http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer

I use it to fill/type in PDF documents. It has a typewriter tool which will let you fill out the any kinds of forms easily.

Developers are born brave

2008-05-20T07:37:00.003+06:00

I just stumbled in this post. Click on the Image to see a larger view.

Just re-visited Continous Integration

2008-04-26T23:56:00.008+06:00

While I was installing SVN in Blueliner Bangladesh, I used some hooks in the SVN server, so that at every commit the server deploys the whole web application to a web server (I changed the post_commit hook, which was a bat file, very rudimentary trick, nothing marvellous) .... I was not familiar with the term continuous integration then(I think very few PHP devs were !!). I was reading a lot on Extreme Programming, TDD and Continuous Integration recently, and suddenly recognized my first attempt towards continuous integration.....

So what are the benefits of continuous integration ??

It can take care of running all your unit test + automated integration and acceptance test, so developers can freely refactor existing code base...
It helps Test Driven Development , and TDD produces cleaner and better code..
It improves communication between team developers, customers and managers by presenting the nightly build / or the latest development snapshot of the product to everyone.
It catches errors early... We want to fail fast and frequent, right.

I just cannot recall anything else, anyways, these causes are enough to implement a CI system in your production environment, which will take around 0.5 ideal Man-Day, and probably is gonna save hundred times of the investment.

And after more than a year(last time in Blueliner Bangladesh), I have again implemented a Continuous Integration Server(though I am the only user). But this time, no self-implemented hook... I have used CruiseControl, with Ant build scripts with SVN as Source Control Management System....

Wish me luck !!! Probably I am going to be a strong proponent for introducing Continuous Integration in Vonair.

ant build script for xdoclet2 for generating BeanInfo

2008-04-05T19:26:00.004+06:00


<project name="xdoclet" default="xdoclet" basedir=".">

    <description>
            Generate the Beaninfo 
    </description>
 
 <!-- Load the Environment Variables -->
 <property environment="env"/>

 
 <!-- set the Xdoclet 1 Installation Home Directory --> 
 <property name="xdoclet.home.dir" value="${env.XDOCLET2_HOME}"/>
 
 
 <!-- set the Xdoclet Library Directory --> 
 <property name="xdoclet.lib.dir" value="${xdoclet.home.dir}/lib"/>

 
 <!-- set the Xdoclet Class Path--> 
 <path id="xdoclet.lib.path">
  <fileset dir="${xdoclet.lib.dir}" includes="*.jar" />

 </path>
 
 <!-- see whether the XDOClet Is present in classpath --> 
 <available  property="xdoclet.present" 
    classname="org.xdoclet.ant.XDocletTask" 

    classpathref="xdoclet.lib.path"/>
   
   <target name="xdoclet">
 <echo message="xdoclet.present = ${xdoclet.present}" />

 <echo message="xdoclet.home.dir = ${env.XDOCLET2_HOME}" />
 <echo message="xdoclet.lib.dir = ${xdoclet.lib.dir}" />
 
 <mkdir dir="${basedir}/target/xdoclet"/>

 <!-- mkdir dir="${basedir}/target/xdoclet/persistence"/ -->
       <!--path id="xdoclet.task.classpath">
           <fileset dir="${xdoclet.lib.dir}" includes="*.jar"/>

       </path-->

       <taskdef
           name="xdoclet"
           classname="org.xdoclet.ant.XDocletTask"
           classpathref="xdoclet.lib.path"

           />

       <xdoclet>
           <!-- defines the file handled by xdoclet -->
           <fileset dir="src/java">
               <include name="**/*.java"/>

           </fileset>

           <!-- defines the processing of a plugin -->
           <component
             classname="org.xdoclet.plugin.beaninfo.BeanInfoPlugin"
             destdir="${basedir}/target/xdoclet/"

             />
       </xdoclet>
   </target>

</project>

Ant build script for xdoclet to generate todo list

2008-04-05T19:18:00.007+06:00

Note: If you are using JDK 1.5+, don't forget to replace the default xjavadoc with xjavadoc 1.5 snapshot050611 jar.


<project name="TODO" default="todo">
<description>

      Generate the TODO List of the Current Project
</description>

<!-- Load the Environment Variables -->
<property environment="env"/>

<!-- set the Xdoclet 1 Installation Home Directory -->
<property name="xdoclet.home.dir" value="${env.XDOCLET_HOME}"/>


<!-- set the Xdoclet Library Directory -->
<property name="xdoclet.lib.dir" value="${xdoclet.home.dir}/lib"/>

<!-- set the Xdoclet Class Path-->
<path id="xdoclet.lib.path">

<fileset dir="${xdoclet.lib.dir}" includes="*.jar" />
</path>

<!-- see whether the XDOClet Is present in classpath -->
<available  property="xdoclet.present"

classname="xdoclet.modules.doc.DocumentDocletTask" 
classpathref="xdoclet.lib.path"/>




<property name="lib.dir" location="lib"></property>

<property name="src.dir" location="src/java"></property>
<property name="gen.src.dir" location="gensrc/java"/>

<property name="ejb.deployment.dir" location="deploy/ejb"/>
<property name="todo.dir" location="todo"/>





<!-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    target: init                
   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
<target name="init">
<taskdef name="documentdoclet"
        classname="xdoclet.modules.doc.DocumentDocletTask"

        classpathref="xdoclet.lib.path"/>
<!--taskdef name="ejbdoclet"
classname="xdoclet.modules.ejb.EjbDocletTask"
classpathref="xdoclet.lib.path" />

<taskdef name="webdoclet"
classname="xdoclet.modules.web.WebDocletTask"
classpathref="xdoclet.lib.path" / -->
</target>



<!-- =================================
    target: todo        
   ================================= -->
<target name="todo" depends="init" description="Generates TODO List">
<echo message="xdoclet.present = ${xdoclet.present}" />

  <documentdoclet destdir="${todo.dir}">
<fileset dir="${src.dir}">
 <include name="**/*.java"/>

</fileset>
   <documenttags/>
  </documentdoclet>
</target>
</project>

Lessons at work

2008-02-01T18:14:00.000+06:00

Last week my codes went through a review session. One of my seniors reviewed a C# project I am currently doing. It was a very helpful session and I marked some of the mistakes I often make. These are the lessons I learned from that code review.

Write as much assert statements in your unit tests as you can. I don't write enough Assertions in my Unit Tests. And in some cases I completely forgot it !!. I need to think of more innovative use of Assert statements in my future TDD practices.
Get in the habit of writing more and more comments. At least write the description and purposes. Comments are a must for reusable codes, as they allow others to understand your codes. Besides, you get a bad impression if you don't write codes.
Don't forget to synchronize the method calls inside which you modify any collection objects. Do synchronization when you are adding or removing an entry from any list,table etc. And also in the case of enumerating through a collection. If you forget to synchronize you will introduce bugs that are hard to find. As in normal debugging session we often try to find the bug using a single thread. And these bugs occur only in case of multiple threads' access to a single collection object.
Try to avoid singleton classes. Avoid singleton classes, rather pick the practices of Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control. And focus on loading separate class contexts for your main classes.
If you must use a singleton class, make sure that its creation is thread safe. You can use synchronization in the method where you actually construct the object, or go for early initialization.
Don't assume that your core classes will be loaded only once or created only once. Specially note this point when you don't know the use of your developed classes. They can be used in any contexts, and don't assume a single loading of the class.
Logs need to be classified. Don't just write every log statements with the same level. Error and exceptions should be written with proper levels like fatal or error. In production environment, client of your code might switch of the lower level of log statements. Don't risk for loosing the log statements which are critical.

How to make AJAX call with Post Data using jQuery

2007-11-29T00:35:00.001+06:00

Earlier I made a post about ajax call that uses post method to fetch data in your current page using YUI, or Yahoo User Interface. Today, I am discussing the same thing but this time I want to show how it can be accomplished through jQuery. jQuery is the most popular javascript/ajax library. jQuery is much more easier and user-
friendly. YUI was not bad, but it had a big footprint. It required a
big size of javascript file to be loaded by the browser. jQuery is
very small, and hence it is loaded in no time.

So here comes the code.

<html>
<head>
<title>jQuery Front Page</html>

<script type="text/javascript" 

src="http://localhost/blog/jqueryPost/jquery-1.2.1.js"></script>
<script>
 function my_onclick()
 {
  $.post("date.php",
   {input: $("input").val()},
   function(data)
   {
    $("#content").text(data);
   }
  
   );
 
 }
</script>

</head>
<body>
<h3>jQuery Test Code</h3>
<input type="tex" name="input" id="input" />

<input type="button" onClick="javascript:my_onclick();">
<div id="content">
s
</div>
</body>

</html>

Can you spot the ajax call ? let me quote that portion again.


$.post("date.php",
{input: $("input").val()},
function(data)
       {
 $("#content").text(data);
}

);

Versy Simple isn't it ? And kind of a beauty. The "post" method is using three parameter, 1) the url where the post varialbes should go. 2) The name value pair for post data. 3) call back. You can either commit the number 2 and number 3, or only the number 3 parameter of "post" method.

Php for dummies :)

2007-11-17T23:46:00.001+06:00

This evening, I was talking to Arman. He was my junior at IUT, and told me that he just started to learn PHP. Then I started bombarding him with numerous advices which ended up in the following things. I think anybody who is thinking to start learning php should start by the following things.

Basic PHP. Just follow an introductory book.
Any Web MVC framework. You can take a look at codeigniter or cakephp.
Javascript.
Ajax + Javascript library/framework. I would suggest jQuery.
SQL.
CSS

W Morich

2007-10-05T16:45:00.000+06:00

He did not die in the night,
He did not die in the day,
But in the morning twilight,
His spirit pass'd away,
When neither sun nor moon was bright,
And the tree were merely grey.

I joined in Vonair Inc.

2007-10-05T11:20:00.000+06:00

It was a while I submitted a post in my blog. May be its 2 months or more. Well, in the meantime I have switched to another company. I joined in Vonair Software Services Inc. in September and currently working there as a Junior Software Engineer. Its got a great working environment, and the products we are working on are really challenging. They've got a product named Communicator which works with the world's one of the largest SoftSwitch and PBX provider Broadworks. And more over, we are having free snack, lunch, and afternoon snack. Isn't that great ?

The work load was very high in the last 2 months, we have a Huge delivery of Communicator Version 2.0. Thats the reason I am staying my evenings at Vonair. Anyways it will be over very soon I guess, and I will again be regular in my blogs.

CodeIgniter : Create Libraries side by side your Controllers

2007-06-20T15:31:00.000+06:00

MVC framework is all about Model-View-Controller. You place the database and business logic in your model classes, application logic in your Controller classes, and the presentation logics in your View Classes. This approach efficiently alleviates lot of the pain developers face while building web sites. But if your application is not an usual project, and may undergo heavy changes during its development, you need to add another tool to your repertoire besides MVC, You need to consider the options "Creating Custom Libraries".

If you are in a prototypical stage of your project, then you may not have a solid application work flow, or detailed use case scenario. So, your application logic may be changed heavily while you are developing the tool. You willl often find yourself changing the codes in your controller, and thus rearranging the codes very often. I strongly suggest to use the powerful component "LIBRARY" as a way to separate you reusable codes in those libraries. Library classes can be loaded from any controller function, and thus highly reusable. In this way, you can save considerable time of programming by reducing the amount of rework through out your development cycle.

Mahmudul Hasan is currently working at Blueliner Bangladesh, as a Software Engineer. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science and Information Technology, from Islamic University of Technology ( IUT ), Gazipur, Dhaka.

How to make AJAX call with Post Data Using YUI.

2007-06-12T15:17:00.001+06:00

We can use the following code to make an Ajax Call with post data. The last parameter int the following function call includes the post variables. The post variables are formatted exactly as the GET variables.

YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest('POST', 'php/post.php', callback, "new=1&old=2");

You need to url-encode the variable values. YUI will not take care of that.

Dot Project :: OverAllocation

2007-06-12T11:55:00.001+06:00

DotProject is a PHP-MySQL driven web-based open source project management application, with Grantt Chart support. It is growing popular for project management tasks these days, but need to go a long way before becoming the first choice of the project manageres.

We suffered enough for this nifty bug in dotproject module for couple of days. The feature which checks the overallocation is not complete yet, but surprisingly it is on by default. So, if you have problem with assigning tasks, disable overallocation from System Configuration of DotProject.

Hobby : Old News Briefings !!

2007-06-09T23:45:00.001+06:00

Recently, I have started reading old news reports from everywhere and on every topic. Like, currently I am reading an article published on March 8, 2004. This article was about the popularity of Vladimir Putin for their forthcoming election. It said that, at that time Putin was running between seventy and eighty percent: none of his lilliputian competitors have cracked five.

I am still in the middle of the news article, but I have started to think about how we could market our political leaders. In Russia, people sell lots of products, ranging from toothpick to alcohol, using the image of Putin. May be the marketing gurus in our country can use the same strategy here. Leaders of our political parties always get benefit from us, why shouldn't we start selling their image.

I wonder who I will choose at the very first to be the winning horse for any of my product. Dr. Younus may be nice choice in this regard. He could be very useful in marketing of financial services, people are still bewildered with his Micro-Finance achievement. ( By the way, he is from my school "Collegiate School, Chittagong").

Dr. Younus is a big fish for the marketing companies. Let's see who can use him in an appropriate way to promote their product. Grameenphone/Telenor has used his image for a long long period. People(including me) used to believe that Grameenphone is a Bangladeshi owned company, where Younus has the largest portion of share.

And if I go for a Female Candidate, who could be better choice than Rubaba Dawla Motin. She is also uplifting the image of Grameenphone. No one knows the name of the Marketing Director of any other companies, but she is famous. Marketing Department of Grameenphone really rocks.

CodeIgniter.

2007-06-07T11:24:00.001+06:00

Well, these days, I am using CodeIgniter for the Web Projects I am currently working on. I was very inclined to Object Oriented Programming all along my student life. But, when I started programming with php, I was quite disappointed at the very first.

I was crying for Object Oriented Design in PHP, but hell, it is not fully supported in PHP. But I am quite satisfied now to find the MVC pattern of CodeIgniter. It is really helping me to mimic the Object Oriented Style.

MVC pattern allows a lot of room for Reusing code. Now-a-days PhP community started to understand the benefit of reusing the codes, and debating on many frameworks like cake, codeigniter, symphony. I will start investigating CakePhp very soon, but for a while, I am a codeIgniter fan.

How to organize your ajax callback functions.

2007-05-30T11:21:00.000+06:00

The following structure can help you organize your ajax call to load data from Server in your html file.


function load_content(div_name,url){
   this.div_name=div_name;
   this.callback = {
      success: function(o) {
         //Success Code Goes Here
         // example: this.function_to_load_content()
      },
      failure: function(o) {
         // Failure Code Goes Here
      }
   }
   this.get_data=function(){
       // Make Ajax Asynchronous Request Here.   
   }
   // The following Code is executed when the object is constructed. 
   this.get_data();
}

load_content.prototype.function_to_load_content=function(){
   // This function will Insert Data in appropriate portion of the page. 
};

You will have to construct the object in your html file in the following way.


<div id="o_content0"  style="visibility:hidden"></div>
<script>new load_content("o_content0","test.php?data=offering");</script>

Use NetVibes

2007-05-21T19:48:00.000+06:00

I am enjoying the excellent to-do list of netvibes, it is really helping me to organize my works, even my mails. :D :D

Team Profile : Blueliner Bangladesh

2007-05-20T12:40:00.000+06:00

Mahbubur Rahman: Project Manager & Team Leader

Mahbub is the team leader and project manager for the Bangladesh Team of Blueliner. Having several years of web development experience and extensive knowledge over the WWW framework gives him the preference to build sophisticated systems. He has worked on providing solutions for Bangladesh Army.

He is well-adapted and extremely skilled in PHP, MYSQL, ASP, JAVASCRIPT, JSP, AJAX, CSS, FLASH, XML, VB, and APACHE. This ability allows him to manage the core technical team in Bangladesh very efficiently. As a MBA, his vast knowledge in the synergy of business and technical knowledge gives him additional advantage over the projects of mid to large sized organizations and helps him to comprehend and analyze the complex workings of the market and the clients. His imagination imbued with his skills and his knowledge makes him an efficient leader and a skilled programmer and an essential part of Blueliner.

Mahbub is an MBA from North South University with a dual major in Finance and Marketing.

Aktaruzzaman, Senior Software Engineer

Aktar is undoubtedly an expert in the field of software and web programming. His acquaintance with the IT industry is more than 5 years. During this period of time, he has worked as a programmer and a system analyst. Among myriads of his works, he has interacted with several clients such as Bangladesh Army, Garment Industries, Trading Companies, Construction Companies and Food Manufacturing Companies. His most remarkable work includes development of ERP in Visual basic & SQL server for a Construction Company and two Food Manufacturing companies and Attendance, Payroll & Access Control for Bangladesh Army. He is also skilled in port handling programs such as USB, Serial Port & Parallel Port. He is currently working on web development using PHP, MySQL and JavaScript.

His creativity merged with his skills makes him a formidable individual in the competitive market of web programming. His key skills are PHP, Visual Basic, MySQL and SQL server.

Aktar has received B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Acharya Institute of Management & Science in India. He has received professional training in Oracle 8i from CMC Ltd., India.

Shoeb Abdullah, Senior Software Engineer

Shoeb, a specialist in PHP programming, combines his deftness in LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) technology and his creative mind to program the websites. With 2 years of working experience with PHP and mySQL, he has honed and tested his skills of PHP framework and Object Oriented programming. His perimeter further expands into the fields of SEO, RSS Feed, XML-RPC, XSLT, SOAP, PostgreSql, CSS, Web 2.0. He is currently improving his dexterity in MySQL server.

An assiduous nature mingled with a hunger for innovation and creativity forms the major part of Shoeb’s personality. He is driven by his self-motivation to face challenges with vigor and fanaticism. His thirst for knowledge pushes him to remain up-to-date with the latest developments in technology. He not only motivates himself, but also influences his clients to seize opportunities whenever they come by. Thus, it is clarified that a man with such exceptional abilities is certainly a valuable asset to Blueliner.

Shoeb holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science & Electronics from Shah Jalal University of Science & Technology.

Ishtiaque Ahmed, Associate Software Engineer

With a firm believe in the term "Anything is Possible", Ishtiaque joined the Blueliner team as a fresh graduate. His determination and hands on experience and skills of programming languages such as C, C++, JAVA (J2SE) and Ruby augments his credibility as a software and web programmer. He is also acquainted with web technologies such as JavaScript, XML, XSL, XSLT, Flash, Actionscript, CSS and many more. He is familiar with both LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) and WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) development environments. Having a quest for the cutting edge and latest technology like AJAX makes him consistent with current market demand.

He is not bound to only the trainings he received during his course at the university. He has developed his own skills in web application development and web architecture and has personally worked in various small projects. At present, he is working with the Blueliner team in PHP and MySQL and has enriched the team with his programming skills and knack for innovation.

Ishtiaque holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering (COE) from American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB).

Mahmudul Hasan, Associate Software Engineer.

Mahmud joined Blueliner as a fresh graduate with a passion for programming and a thirst for knowledge and zeal to create. He believes in providing his best to the team. Mahmud is responsible for site automation, creating APIs, web analytics, and developing solid piece of codes that can survive concurrent accesses, attacks, and extreme load. He is well experienced with developing distributed applications, as well as reusable components. He invests a large portion of his time to learn about new technologies and their impact on the industry.

Mahmud is skilled in advanced scripting in PHP, solid command in J2SE and C++, and expertise in databases like MySQL and Oracle. His academic interests are in Object Oriented Programming, Software Engineering Methodologies, and Reusable frameworks for software development.

He holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Information Technology from Islamic University of Technology, Dhaka.

Nafis Hasan, Customer Relations Associate

Nafis became a part of the Blueliner team after he graduated from his high school. His age did not prove to be a barrier in his way of learning the ways of internet marketing. He has manifested the potential for his nascent as a link builder and is acquainted with the concept of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). His adeptness in two foreign languages – English and French, has aided him in his quest for his reputation as a customer relations associate.

He has devoted himself wholeheartedly to the success of the team and is seeking to establish himself as a major part of the team.

Navid Rahman, Customer Relations Associate

Navid joined the Blueliner team as a high school graduate. Even though he participated in the job market at such an early age, he has proved his credibility with his skills in the field of marketing. His skills are entirely credible to 1 year experience as a junior marketing executive for ARAC tours and travels. He is currently participating in the internet marketing process as a link builder and is also familiar with the concept of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

He has committed his very best for the team and has already shown the prospect of being a remarkable member of the team.

Inextricable

2007-05-10T12:19:00.000+06:00

While I was writing this post, I used to smoke a lot. Then, I thought of this word, "inextricable", and asked myself, Can I quit smoking. On that very day, I decided that, I am gonna do that.

But, as you know, if you get charged up with motivation very easily, it means that, that motivation does not last longer. Any motive that is followed by emotion, is subject to deteriorate. Like, most of us make lot of impossible promises, right after listening to a great speech, or watching a movie, or reading a inspiring book. But, that charged up state fades away, before the next morning.

And, this is quite natural. Emotion directed motivation shrivel at higher pace. If you want to stick to your plan, you cannot succeed with emotion. The visceral decision needs logical back up. You must convince yourself with loads of logic saying "Why you should do it ? Or Why you should restrain yourself from doing something ? ".

When we don't follow our visceral decision it means that, logic was not available in copious amount for support. And thats why, our brain has left that craved desire.

Well, the thoughts that made me feel mad was that I was a easy prey to the Marketing Strategies of the companies like BAT. They earn billions of dollars and with that, they invest in movies, advertisements, I don't know, maybe even in literature.

Well, you will see that the resistance to cigarette is not that much easy. But, remember , there is no rules in the quirk that allow to take another puff of cigarettes. You have to abandon it for good, and you have to do it now. You can start blogging instead smoking, and I think that is a good option. People may not take you seriously, but you will get your chance to gloat.

Google Started Crawling our Forum

2007-05-09T11:54:00.000+06:00

Yeppie, Google just crawled our website about finance on May 6th. Its time to develop a rich content so that users might find their needed information very easily.

Online Forum to improve the financial sector of Bangladesh

2007-05-07T08:38:00.001+06:00

I was not a business student, but a technical one. But still I have keen interest on the financial sector of Bangladesh, because every other things are dependent on this very sector. One of my close friend always say that, the financial sector of Bangladesh is not mature enough, not even close to be mature.

Well, recently I found a interesting forum. This forum is gonna talk about the financial sector of Bangladesh. It is located in www.bdanalyst.com.

I have very high hope, that the students of different universities in Bangladesh, will discuss in that forum, and share their views and ideas about the financial sector of Bangladesh. And I believe that, BBA and MBA students, will get great help, while doing their courses, especially related to finance. Like they have especial interest towards the stock market / share market, capital investing, investment banking, and I found them interesting too.