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Saturday, March 13, 2004

WebServices HTTP Get in .NET 1.1 - Now not included in default.

.NET Framework 1.1 saw a slight change for the web services, now the HTTP get is now not included in default in fact you have to override the default settings to use the Get behavior of the Webservice as was possible with framework 1.0.

All you have to do is add this entry to the Web.Config file in the same directory or above.

Add this code to your Web.Config file (this is case-sensitive):

<webServices>
 <protocols>
  <add name="HttpGet" />
 </protocols>
</webServices>

I found this annoying change of settings about eight months back but working on a new pair of Webservices for a new project I was surprised to find the problem again and this time I am writing in on my blog as to remembering it better.

Posted On Saturday, March 13, 2004 8:42 PM | Feedback (4) |

.NET User Group Karachi Quiz – Security Symposium - INETA MEA

I got 15 free passes to the security symposium and I am holding a quiz for my INETA based user group in Karachi, The initial response has been over whelming. I am currently thinking of some tricky questions that I will mail to all people on the DNUG mailing list by Monday, and the first 10 participants with all questions right will win a place to the Microsoft Security Symposium being held at Marriott, Karachi on Wednesday the 17th. More information about the event is available here.

I also mentioned about this on  INETA Pakistan (dotnetPakistan.com) a website running but still under construction, I will finish it of as soon as I have the chance. Customizing the ASP.NET Portal Starter kit was piece of cake I even added my own RSS reader to download and show MSDN news (RSS) on the site but there’s something wrong with caching issues there, all the changes I make revert back to default values at random, I don’t know what’s going on even after going throw the source code again and again.

Lastly if you live in the (Microsoft’s) south gulf region visit dotnetPakistan.com for some very good free resources, Cd's and magazines. Lastly all INETA people can visit the INETA MEA (Middle East and Africa) site still under construction again as Zeeshan is not able to get access from the webmaster at INETA.
 

Posted On Saturday, March 13, 2004 5:11 PM | Feedback (0) |

Hurray! I am a Gold Member at CodeProject.com – Authors Needed

Well not the best of the things to happen in a while but it’s worth mentioning. After all out of the one million plus registered users there, only about a 1000 would be anything near touching the gold status.

I have written two articles for CodeProject.com and made around two dozen posts in all but the years in accumulation which are now two have raised me the rank of GOLD users. My own page on codeproject is located at: http://www.codeproject.com/script/profile/whos_who.asp?id=28982

I am pleased, CodeProject is the best website out there with the best '.NET how to content', I am amazed to find quality articles there every week after week. Way to go CodeProject!, and a great thanks to all the helpfull submitters.

I have about two dozen articles half complete sitting on my hard disk and I would really encourage readers to come co-author the articles with me, all articles are on tech related issues and I will be  looking forward to all the help I can get. Please get in touch using the contact me form, now it up and running and I will be glad to respond back.

Posted On Saturday, March 13, 2004 4:51 PM | Feedback (5) |

Ramblings from SZABIST

While kids in the other class are having a difficult time. I am having a bang in my MIS class at SZABIST. I have never been into marks and stuff but can’t help mentioning that my tally is coming real nice. Out of the current allotted set of 70 marks out of 100 I have somehow managed to score 65. So now the 30 marks are just a piece of cake as I see it. I like classes where there is brainstorming but nothing to practice; I tend to incline better towards theoretical subjects other then programming and software development which are an exception to the rule, I guess that makes me more left minded then right.

On another note I was surprised to be appointed the counsel for the IEEE selected team at SZABIST for the upcoming quarter and although I know what IEEE is all about I need ideas from the lot to help me out in promotional activities I can arrange to get the mass at my university to take on the US $ 12.5 (Rs 625) student membership with IEEE.

Lastly I would like to mention how frustrated I am not being able to log in into my email account being hosted on SZABIST’s mail server available at http://www.szabist.net.pk. Actually all my mail accounts forward email to my SZABIST email account as I enjoy infinite amount of space with fast POP access at SZABIST. The problem is that there is no forget my password service running currently and all accounts are linked with the active directory on the domain. As its a holiday today I have to wait, to be in person tomorrow for the damn working Sunday at the university to get access to my email.

Posted On Saturday, March 13, 2004 4:37 PM | Feedback (0) |

Interesting Quotes (Part 3)


The last of the three posts on quotes alone, it’s the icing on cake, real witty quotes from a developers/geeks perspective, read and enjoy.

Quotes For/From Programmers

 

-         C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit.

-         You ASCII stupid question, you get stupid ANSI 

-         Damn the documentation, full speed ahead!

-         Real Programmers don't need comments -- the code is obvious!

-         He who laughs last probably made a backup  - Rai Umair

-         If at first you don't succeed, call it v1.0!

-         COBOL.....(C)ompiles (O)nly (B)ecause (O)f (L)uck 

-         COFFEE.COM not found: A)dd more, R)eheat F)reak out 

-         If at first you don't succeed, work for Microsoft 

-         Hackers: We've got what it takes to take what you've got!- Rai Umair

-         99 percent of programmers give the rest a bad name.

-         Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything.

-         Life would be much simpler if we could just look at the source code

-         I saw, I bought, and I pirated. - Rai Umair

-         Constants aren't; variables don't 

-         I had a life once...now I have a computer. - Rai Umair

-         If you can't fix a bug - write it in the documentation as a feature

-         Avoid Computer virus - practice safe HEX!

-         My computer's sick. I think my modem is a carrier 

 

Posted On Saturday, March 13, 2004 5:15 AM | Feedback (1) |

Interesting Quotes (Part 2)


This is the second installment to the quotes series. This is not as serious as the quotes I shared in my last post but read between the lines and you will find that the meaning goes much deeper.

 

Quotes For/From Rest of the world

 

-         You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

-         You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, and then used against you.

-         Creativity: Not referencing your sources .

-         Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth control! 

-         If a = b and b = c, then we've got a messed up alphabet. 

-         Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

-         He, who laughs last, thinks slowest.

-         Romance is like a game of chess - one false move and you're mated!

-         Income Tax Dept.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got! 

-         If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

-         Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

-         A fool and his money are soon partying.

-         Bumper Sticker: You're driving a car. It isn't a telephone booth, a beauty parlor or a restaurant.

-         Cats, proof that eating and sleeping isn't all bad.

-         Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine

-         Choose heaven for climate, hell for society.

-         A man may be a fool and not know it - but not if he is married

-         Remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty? 

-         Missing dog and wife. Reward for dog

Posted On Saturday, March 13, 2004 5:12 AM | Feedback (1) |

Interesting Quotes (Part 1)

I like to study what others have to say about things that interest me and I have list of humorous, interesting and inspirational quotes from around the web. Here in the coming three posts I will share some of the quotes with my readers. Starting with:

Serious Inspirational Stuff

 

-         A truly wise person knows that he knows not. 

-         I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

-         Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.-

-         You're perfect, yes, it's true. But without me you're only you  

-         You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

-         Children disgrace us in public by behaving just like we do at home

-         You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

-         You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

-         You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.

-         A sin is two sins when it is defended

-         Compromise is always wrong when it means sacrificing a principle. 

-         Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius 

-         You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes, why can't they make the whole plane out of the same substance?

-         Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand Years.

-         Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

-         God must love the common man; After all, he made so many of them 

-         Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment!

-         Good students don't cheat they verify. 

-         Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

-         Consciousness: that annoying time between naps

-         Guns don't kill people (People kill people).

-         Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

-         Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

-         Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.

-         Don’t take your failures to your heart, and don’t take success to your head.

-         Hypertext is more significant to society than the invention of the printing press and the alphabet.

-         I'm not arrogant, I'm just better than you.

-         If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

-         If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

-         If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. 

-         If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

-         If the going seems easy, you're going downhill.

-         If you do a job too well, you will get stuck with it.

-         If your mind goes blank, don't forget to turn off the sound 

-         It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole

-         It isn't what you know that count’s; it’s what you think of it in time.

-         Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

-         Crime doesn't pay... does that mean my job is a crime??

-         A conscience does not prevent sin, it only prevents you from enjoying it.

-         Critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste

-         A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

-         Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused

-         Aim high in your career but stay humble in your heart.

-         All constants are variables

-         If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Posted On Saturday, March 13, 2004 5:10 AM | Feedback (0) |

Bjarne Stroustrup On C and C++

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup

Posted On Saturday, March 13, 2004 5:00 AM | Feedback (1) |

Recycling, Interesting

Looks like the same stuff we flush away in our toilets is going to help us generate electricity. Find out more at:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994761

Posted On Saturday, March 13, 2004 12:08 AM | Feedback (0) |

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