Well, for those of you who swear by C#, here are top 10 reasons as to why VB.NET is better than C#. ๐ Got around to it while reading the latest issue of Programmers Heaven newsletter. ๐
Though there are only 7 at the moment, but they look good enough!! ๐
Read MoreWhat’s cooking? Well, I can’t tell you that, its a well guarded secret. ๐
Ok, enough fooling around, well, I’m testing a few things before I roll out the next version. The ASP highlighting is done, the WP formatting of quotes etc. is done. So, now what? If you remember, those are the two things that I spoke of in my last post. So what’s left now, you may ask. ๐
Read MoreA new port of WordPress, one that uses PostgreSQL database rather than the default MySQL database, is live by name of WordPress-Pg. ๐ Its a port of WordPress 1.2 Mingus, the last stable release of WordPress. WP 1.3 is due sometime soon, maybe the developer might want to upgrade to the WP 1.3 nightlies, so that he’s able to release a PgSQL equivalent of WP 1.3 as soon as its released. Its to be noted that WordPress-Pg is still in Beta, as indicated on the project page of it at SourceForge.net
Read MoreBeen obsessed with my iG:Syntax Hiliter plugin & have devoted all of the little free time I get, to working on it. ๐
I’d say, I’m pretty happy at the way things are going. Just scroll down a post below, there’s an excellent post there for ASP coders & for users of iG:Syntax Hiliter plugin. ๐
In a wake to continue my article Popkin Functions, here’s an extension to the mail() function. The mail() function in that article used CDONTS, the now deprecated eMail sending COM provided by Microsoft. I won’t go deep into it but Microsoft hinted its deprecation in Windows 2000 when it shipped another eMail sending COM named CDOSYS with it. CDONTS was included in it to have backward compatibility but in WindowsXP & Windows Server 2003, its been removed. So, those using CDONTS until now, if their host switches over to Windows Server 2003, might find them in a soup as their CDONTS scripts won’t work.
Read MoreI breathed a sigh of relief. Matt announced that people are not able to use WordPress with PHP5 because of a bug in PHP5 & not in WordPress, as people were assuming. I say assuming & not thinking, as thinking means that you are not sure & you have your doubts, but people reporting failure to run WordPress with PHP5 simply said that there’s some problem with WP & they hope that it would be fixed in next release of WP. Well, I call that assuming, as they pretty much assumed that the fault is in WP & didn’t give a thought to any bugs in PHP5.
Read MoreAn update of iG:Syntax Hiliter Plugin is available immediately. This has some minor but useful updations. ๐
Firstly it supports Line Numbering of code & secondly, the code is now in a box of fixed dimensions & will not be wrapped, meaning that the long lines will not be wrapped & broken, instead a scrollbar will appear. ๐ Many lines would have resulted in the code box stretching vertically, meaning that the page can go un-necessarily long. Now its of fixed dimensions & scrollbars will appear should they are required. ๐
The iG:Syntax Hiliter Plugin is ready to be released. Hold on, there’ll be no trumpets, no champagne, nothing. ๐ Just plain sordid affair. ๐
Ok, lets cut the crap. ๐ iG:Syntax Hiliter Plugin is a plugin that I made for highlighting my code & since its a bit of cool thing, I’ve decided to release it publicly. You can download it here & you can see it in action here. If you already don’t know, this plugin uses GeSHi for all of its syntax highlighting. Currently, this plugin highlights HTML, CSS, PHP, JAVA & SQL code. More languages will be possibly added in future. Its a bit easier if you just look at the implementation & if you look at the language files, its quite easy to create them if you are familiar with a language. So if you create a language file for any language, you can contact me & I’ll include it in the plugin. ๐
iG:Syntax Hiliter is a plugin that I’ve made. It can highlight the HTML, CSS, PHP, JAVA & SQL codes. I know there’s another syntax hilighter plugin. But that didn’t work on my machine, so I made this. ๐
Here’s a few examples of this plugin.
some candy, eh? How about this?
Read MoreAnother much awaited release was the final stable version Mono 1.0 which eventually came out of Beta & was released as final stable version1.0 on June 30, 2004. The Mono-Project is a step to bring Microsoft’s .NET platform to Linux to harness the peaks of .NET & allow non-Windows users to use .NET.
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