Archive for April, 2005

Riding my Honda

Took the Honda for a ride today. It was like heaven driving the Honda after a long time. The feeling was absolutely great. For sometime I was driving a Pulsar. Should resort to driving the Civic at least during the week ends.

Stumbled upon this while searching for something else on the web. This is a free database that you can use to determine the location of a user from thier IP address: Using the Database – IP Address Lookup – Community Geocoding IP Addresses Project
They did locate my country correctly, but not the city. But this [...]

Completed the helper class for OleDb for data access application block. There was nothing much involved in it.
My next task is to convert the Portal Starter Kit to work with MS Access. For this I have already exported the SQl database to Access. But the issue was the SP’s are not exported and I have [...]

I was just browsing though the MS DataAccess App block and suddenly realized that it only supports SQL server. So without complaining about it I decided to code the OleDbHelper class my self, of course by taking the que from the SqlHelper Class.
Thought of just copying and pasting the code and then replacing all ‘Sql’ [...]

Back to work!

Hmm It’s Monday. You know the usual feeling. After the holidays coming to work was a total let down. Specially after a week end out of Colombo, with my baby! That was totally fun.
As usual Mondays are a bit boring and a bit dragging. Everybody is draggin g their feet a little bit too slow. [...]

This time it’s the same story. They say they dont care if we have a long holiday or not. But having said that, what really bothers me is the attitude.
They had two full days to test the system and request mods and to report bugs. But no, they wiat till 5.00 pm on Friday to [...]

An all nighter..

It’s been a long, long time since I wrote anything here. Mainly cos, I’ve been busy and had been a little lost for words.
But since today I am working all night, because our head office told us that they dont care whether we have long holidays or not, I thought I’d pen down a few [...]