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Text to image in ASP.net C#

Sounds fun? Well it was fun to me at least. Before I forget that I even did this, I thought I’d write about it. 1. Create a bitmap image 2. Create a graphics object from Bipmap image 3. Draw text using graphics object onto that bitmap image 4. Save bitmap image into desired format using [...]

Given digits and values, find suitable expression

/* Write a function that given a string of digits and a target value, prints where to put +'s and *'s between the digits so they combine exactly to the target value. Note there may be more than one answer, it doesn't matter which one you print. Examples: "1231231234",11353 -> "12*3+1+23*123*4" "3456237490",1185 -> "3*4*56+2+3*7+490" "3456237490",9191 [...]

Python and the cloud

Day 3: Previously, I tried web.py. It’s cool. But my hosting does not provide python CGI support. Now what? I had heard that google’s cloud thing –> google app engine , that supports python. So I gave it a try, - created google app engine account - downloaded sdk - ran thru the “getting started” [...]

Internet notepad cl1p.net vs notes.bipins.net

cl1p.net is a well known internet notepad. It has great features and use. Comes very handy and useful. But I felt I can make that thing too . So I made it. http://notes.bipins.net (beta) Integrated with TinyMCE. One can: 1. Save and Retrive Its on beta and I’ve used SQLite for quick POC ( [...]

The python thingy

Python guru used to tell me python is nice, python is easy. I should have listened to him then. But anyway now i felt I had time and I can or I shoud? ( should I ?). I should have actually. At least I should have tried to understand the “user creation script” made by [...]

Non Recursive approach to generate possible combinations of characters in password

Q). Given a password : Write an algorithm to print all possible combinations of that password. /* A non recursive approach to the problem and similar problems which has to generate permutation of certain set of characters. The idea here is to first find the number of possible combinations of output. Say, n is the [...]

implementing printf()

How would i implement my own printf() ? well, using stdarg.h we could create a function that can take any number of parameters. Then just parsing through each argument and writing it into standard output. http://www.careercup.com/question?id=139667&form=comments #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdarg.h> #include<string.h> #define STDOUT 1 #define MAX_INT_LEN 10 //function foo taken from manpages [...]

Setting up SVN in windows within few minutes

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website visitor’s country name image

As one of the use of the ip to country service I've used that service to generate the country name image using the text returned from the country name returned from the web page visitor's IP. It would look like this . you can see a use here. To use this you can just add [...]

IP to country web service

I just started a new xml web service to convert IP to country name. Given It is availabe at http://webservices.bipins.net/iptocountry/Service.asmx Primary function availabe right now is public string GetCountryName(string ip,string authkey) .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space: pre;*/ } .csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; [...]

Internet in windows mobile (WM6) emulator , visual studio

While building my first windows mobile application that uses my web services. I had misconception that the windows mobile emulator that comes along with wm6 sdk or the default pocketpc emulators in visual studio would have the internet connection. But sadly it did not worked directly. After googling about the issue for an hour, somewhere [...]

Windows SharePoint Services on Vista

Sharepoint seemed to be one of the hot thing to know on .net market. So thought of learning it. After downloading the server from MSDNAA account, tried to install it but it did not get installed. Later I found out that it needs a server to get installed, how obvious. I remember back in previous [...]

Mobility in OS using USB live fedora with data persistence

Linux distributions have been very handy to use with their Live bootable media. Live CDs have been popular for quite some time and now the live USB drives. Now a days motherboards supports USB drives as bootable device. If it is not supported then the BIOS can be upgraded to support USB bootablity. But most [...]

.Net for java programmers

I had came across this post long time back which talks about .Net for Java programmers. It is quite helpful for the transition of java programmers to .net. http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive10.html

blog from tblogger

i'm posting this one as a test post from t blogger. tblogger is a new blog post app for windows mobile which currently supports wordpress and metablog. lets see how good it is.

A 10 minute video to scrum

I just came across one of the blog of "Kelly Waters" one of the most popular blogger on agile development, from UK. http://www.agile-software-development.com/2009/01/10-minute-video-introduction-to-scrum.html Its amazing video for understanding scrum and agile. Its been quite long since I've followed his blog and agile practices but seems like its right time to get back to the track [...]

Back again.

Its been so many months I have not posted anything. Ever since we (kurg, enigma and me) tested the GTAA San Andreas Multiplayer I have not posted much. Well the testing of the game engines ended very soon after testing some of the top engines. Now I've finally settled with torque which I should have [...]

GTA San Andreas Multi-player

rent a car bulgariaRecently I got GTA San Andreas, after waiting for so long. I had played in 2003 GTA Vice city. Now the latest one GTA IV has come to the market but could not get it. It used to be a single Role Playing game. Well its original game comes as a single [...]

Long time no blog …….. what i’ve been up to

Long time no blog. Ever since after the daily blog chain broke one day, I have not post anything yet. It is not that there is nothing new. But I do not remember all of them it, in between the last chain blog and today. Lemme write. I got my long awaited stuffs, namely the [...]

Just another blog

Here I am after long time. Sad to discontinue my blogs due to some situations that came suddenly in life. An unwanted disturbance that destroyed the tranquility of my peaceful mind. But I am not blogging about that. Then there was this hurricane "Gustav". I am not blogging about that too. I'm blogging one beautiful [...]