Got this link via N3 post, “Turn your name into a face“, and thought I’m gonna try it as well. Quite amusing how those faces turn out from your name.

Here is the true face behind “May Hnin Phyu“.

Oh lord, did I just see a beard? The mouth and the hair look quite similar but I don’t have a beard for sure. (more…)

The very first time I listened to Korean pop songs (apart from those come in dramas) was a few years back, when my sister brought a CD, “BoA No.1“, from her Taiwanese classmate. Her friend recommended that she listens to the CD since it’s a hit and sure to like it.

The CD was neatly packed with a lyric booklet in which beautiful photos of BoA against each song. I remember, I drew 2 of her photos from the booklet. Oh, did I mention I drew quite well back in my early teen days (I sounded like a Granny now)?; just simple pencil sketches that is. I have a habit of drawing beautiful pictures to make them ugly, especially portrait faces, from the Magazines. Anyway, I remember BoA cos’ her name is very easy to remember compare to other Korean names which I can’t even pronounce. I noted that she sings well and has a nice vocal. I remember her as a young, talented teen who likes (more…)

I came across this “C# Yellow Book” by Rob Miles, MVP and a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at University of Hull, and thought of sharing.

I think this would be good introductory reading for those of us learning C#

The C# Book is used by the Department of Computer Science in the University of Hull as the basis of the First Year programming course.

Download: Rob Miles CSharp Yellow Book 2008.pdf(1.4M)

I rolled his blog also; he posts pop quizzes every now and then.

Just spreading this wonderful opportunity to all those travel bloggers who like to visit Indonesia and participate in this event. Early this year, I went to Bali for similar event; I had a great time there, met lots of people and learn new things. I wish I could go again, but I doubt it since I’m not really a travel blogger. Anyhow…the following is an abstract from the GV email I got, read on for detail info as well:

Indonesian Bloggers are having the 2nd national gathering next month on the November 22nd, last year we managed to get 500 bloggers from all over Indonesia to come.

This year hopefully we can get up to 1000 bloggers to attend the whole day event. The theme for this year is blogging for society.

Leading to that, as a part of the program to promote Indonesia tourism, supported by Indonesian Ministry of Cultural and Tourism, we would like to invite several international bloggers from any country to come and have a trip to three cities (Bali, Jogjakarta, Jakarta) in Indonesia leading to the event.

We are looking for bloggers (travel bloggers) that can post their experience, photos, people they meet, basically blogging about Indonesia and Indonesian people, and join the event.

The period for this trip is between Nov 17 – Nov 22 2009 and this is the itinerary:

1. Denpasar, Bali (Mon, Nov 17 – Tue, Nov 18)
2. Jogjakarta (Wed, Nov 19 – Thu, Nov 20)
3. Jakarta (Fri, Nov 21 – Sat, Nov 22)

All expense will be covered, including flight ticket from your country to Indonesia and back.

And read more about the event in detail below. Their site is fully in Indonesian language but this is from email attachment and it’s in English, so dumping it directly here.

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I was trying to deploy a .NET 2.0 application using ClickOnce Deployment the other day.
I had all the IIS settings configured and folder paths entered correctly.
When I clicked ‘Publish Now’, I got an error message that made me wonder if I needed to reinstall Visual Studio.

Cannot publish because a project failed to build.
Could not find required file ‘setup.bin’ in ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Engine’.

My first reaction was oh damn, I don’t want to reinstall whatever it is that’s broken.
My second smarter reaction was to google the error
Found this post on MSDN forums.

Basically, it was AVG Antivirus 8.0 that incorrectly identified and quarantined a required file as a Trojan.
AVG Free marked the file C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Engine\setup.bin as a Trojan horse BackDoor.VB.DIY

Simply select the file and click the ‘Restore’ button from AVG’s Virus Vault. (So glad I havn’t been emptying my vault!)

Once that little error was corrected, it was a simple matter to click ‘Publish Now’ again and I was happily on my way to my first ever ClickOnce Deployment!
I’m glad it wasn’t a serious problem requiring reinstalls.

Some days, I wonder if I want to keep an antivirus program running on my computer.
I don’t need much protection as I am careful in my mail box and I rarely visit websites out of google’s domain.
Google Reader gets me everything I want to read anyway.
Scratch that thought I lend my flash drive out to other people sometimes so it wouldn’t be a good idea to have no protection.
I trust myself but you just can’t trust people’s machines.

This is definitely something interesting for me to try out; I just read a short post on Blogging Pro about Microsoft Web Application Installerand thought it might interest some of you so just passing on.

Previously, to deploy a php application eg. wordpress, on Windows, we have to use something like XAMPP (that’s what I used anyways) and the like, do some configurations, pull hair and throw some fits to be able to deploy successfully.

Now they’ve released this thing called Microsoft Web Application Installer, which is a freeware and suppose to ease those pain while deploying.

The Web Application Installer Beta is designed to help get you up and running with the most widely used Web Applications freely available for your Windows Server. Web AI provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce and more.

System requirements

• Supported Operating Systems are: Windows Vista RTM, Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008
• You must have administrator privileges on your computer to run Web Platform Installer Beta
• .NET 2.0 Framework
• Supported Architectures: x86 and 64-bit

Detail feature reading and some Q&As here.

Sounds simple enough. Oh yah, me want, me want, I want WP on my Vista!!!
So lets test it out, download Microsoft Web Application Inataller here and instruction to install wordpress.

Alrite, here I go…………..

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I have reinstalled Visual Studio.Net 2003 just to work with some of the old .net 1.1 projects. This one project uses infragistics web components and I’m getting the error on those pages with infragistics controls.

Program Version:

# Infragistics NetAdvantage 2005 Volume2 + hotfixes
# Visual Studio.Net 2003
# Windows Vista Ultimate

Problem:

I have my project with valid references, building and running fine except while browsing to those pages with any reference to infragistics components I’m getting the compilation error as mentioned below.

Error:

Compilation Error
Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.

Compiler Error Message: BC30009: Reference required to assembly ‘Infragistics.WebUI.Shared.v5.2′ containing the implemented interface ‘Infragistics.WebUI.Design.IGetClientSideEvents’. Add one to your project.
Line 1: <%@ Register TagPrefix="igsch" Namespace="Infragistics.WebUI.WebSchedule" Assembly="Infragistics.WebUI.WebDateChooser.v5.2, Version=5.2.20052.1039, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7dd5c3163f2cd0cb" %>

Solution:

In order to run applications that use the Infragistics Web Controls on your machine, you will need to set the Copy Local flag to True for the Infragistics.WebUI.Shared.dll Assembly. This is because that assembly is registered into the Global Assembly Cache by the Windows Forms products, but ASP.NET Web Applications, by default, do not look in the GAC to resolve assembly references at runtime. Therefore, the Infragistics.WebUI.Shared assembly must be copied to the local project directory in order to run the Web application under IIS.

References:
#Knowledge Base Article: KB01932
# More detail explanations: Whats the deal with Infragistics.WebUI.Shared.dll and the CopyLocal property?

If you don’t want to make Infragistics.WebUI.Shared.dll copylocal property to true then, add the dll file in the bin folder and refresh your page, it will work but better to make CopyLocal property to true.