Lavanya Deepak: 2004

Friday, October 15, 2004

"My World of .NET" -- WebLog

Feel free to check out my other weblog -- http://blogs.wwwcoder.com/deepak/

Whilst http://deepak.blogdrive.com/ shares anything and everything I would like to share, the abovesaid URL restricts information sharing on .NET alone.

Sunday, October 10, 2004

An interesting date with Lotus Notes

The other day, I was staying through night in my office since the next day, I had some deliverable and left to home only at 4 AM. And I came back to my workplace back next day at 11 AM. I was still feeling sleepy and groping with sleepiness in the eyes, since I had been stretching out for almost three consecutive nights, I took the backups and latest versions from the SourceControl and preparing for the build.

Just noticed that my Lotus Notes ID file has mysteriously disappeared from my desktop. (!!) I had Domino Web Access to my mailbox though but my archives can not be browsed without the ID file. Is'nt it? Just searching experts-exchange and Google for some way of cracking into my mailbox, since I had a backup of my ID file there, but even entering it needed an ID. Deadlock, huh?

Luckily, one of my friend struck with an idea of using his ID file to enter the mailbox, open my NSF database, download the ID file and reopen the Notes with my ID file.The hilarious melodrama reached the climax after a bit of half-an-hour play.

[Imported from Blogdrive]An interesting date with Lotus Notes

An interesting date with Lotus NotesThe other day, I was staying through night in my office since the next day, I had some deliverable and left to home only at 4 AM. And I came back to my workplace back next day at 11 AM.
I was still feeling sleepy and groping with sleepiness in the eyes, since I had been stretching out for almost three consecutive nights, I took the backups and latest versions from the SourceControl and preparing for the build.
Just noticed that my Lotus Notes ID file has mysteriously disappeared from my desktop. (!!) I had Domino Web Access to my mailbox though but my archives can not be browsed without the ID file. Is'nt it?
Just searching experts-exchange and Google for some way of cracking into my mailbox, since I had a backup of my ID file there, but even entering it needed an ID. Deadlock, huh?
Luckily, one of my friend struck with an idea of using his ID file to enter the mailbox, open my NSF database, download the ID file and reopen the Notes with my ID file.
The hilarious melodrama reached the climax after a bit of half-an-hour play.

Posted at 03:22 pm by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

Original BlogDrive Post on Sunday, October 10, 2004

Sunday, September 19, 2004

[Imported from Blogdrive]Page Moved

Page MovedThere seems to be some problem @provider end for europe.webmatrixhosting.net and hence my primary homepage has to shift its location again. Check out the new URL: http://vdeepakkumar.netfirms.com/ The migration is expected to be complete with a brand new set of features and look and feel, in the course of this week. As of now, I have just tried to make the website up, with minimal set of features.

Stay Tuned!!

Posted at 06:26 pm by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

Original BlogDrive Post on Sunday, September 19, 2004

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

A Cool JavaScript Website

I was searching for some cool JavaScript Menu like Microsoft Outlook Bar and came across this website: http://www.dynarch.com/mishoo/calendar.epl

This site is really cool. Check it out. It has a Cool JavaScript DHTML calendar widget with a real exhaustive list of datetime patterns, themes for the calendar, fast loading and appealing to the host application.The Navigation bar and Preference Setting for the website, is sure to enthrall the users and make them visit the website again and again. Add the website to your favorites and check it out...

[Imported from Blogdrive]"My World of .NET" WebLog"

"My World of .NET" -- WebLogFeel free to check out my other weblog -- http://blogs.wwwcoder.com/deepak/

Whilst http://deepak.blogdrive.com/ shares anything and everything I would like to share, the abovesaid URL restricts information sharing on .NET alone.

Posted at 02:56 pm by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

Original BlogDrive Post on Wednesday, September 15, 2004

[Imported from Blogdrive]A Cool JavaScript Website

A Cool JavaScript WebsiteI was searching for some cool JavaScript Menu like Microsoft Outlook Bar and came across this website:  http://www.dynarch.com/mishoo/calendar.epl
This site is really cool. Check it out. It has a Cool JavaScript DHTML calendar widget with a real exhaustive list of datetime patterns, themes for the calendar, fast loading and appealing to the host application.
The Navigation bar and Preference Setting for the website, is sure to enthrall the users and make them visit the website again and again.

Add the website to your favorites and check it out...
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Posted at 02:38 pm by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

Original BlogDrive Post on Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Sunday, August 01, 2004

Launching Visual Studio .NET from within webbrowser

Having a quick reach link either as a favorite or LinksBar is the most simpler and user-friendly solution to any user connected to the Internet nowadays. Searching has become a pleasure with Google Toolbar rather than typing http://www.google.com/ and searching. Is'nt it?

In the same way, just found out a small trick. You can have a shortcut to Visual Studio .NET from within your webbrowser. Type vs:/ and press Enter.

Your webbrowser will prompt you 'This requires launching of Microsoft Development Environment' and when you click OK to this prompt, Visual Studio .NET will openup. Just drag this link and drop on the LinksBar
and you can launch VS .NET from IE by clicking this link.

Friday, June 25, 2004

Remote Scripting Support in JavaScript

There has been days while writing code in ASP and PHP when we wanted our dynamic JavaScript code to contact server and we used all tricks like hidden fields, hidden frames to contact server while maintaining

interactivity of the page with the webuser. Just came across a nice component called Remote Scripting in
JavaScript, which helps us to meet this requirement. Check out some more about JSRS (JavaScript Remote Scripting) over here:

http://www.blueshoes.org/en/javascript/jsrs/

I am sure that this will be of immense use to the web development fraternity worldwide.

Nice Tree Navigation System

Of late, I had to develop a navigation system for a couple of applications and based on the analysis and study, we thought of going for a Tree-based navigation system, which would be quite user-friendly for the user. Whilst searching and analysing the various navigation systems, I found a couple of sites, which I would like to share the URLs with the web development fraternity, who may also be in search of site navigation systems:

http://www.treeview.net/
http://www.blueshoes.org/en/javascript/tree/ (A lot of trees with even checkboxes etc, besides the nodes)

Nice Tree Navigation System

Of late, I had to develop a navigation system for a couple of applications and based on the analysis and study, we thought of going for a Tree-based navigation system, which would be quite
user-friendly for the user. Whilst searching and analysing the various navigation systems, I found a couple of sites, which I would like to share the URLs with the web development fraternity, who may
also be in search of site navigation systems:

http://www.blueshoes.org/en/javascript/tree/ (A lot of trees with even checkboxes etc, besides the nodes)

[Imported from Blogdrive]Remote Scripting Support in JavaScript

Remote Scripting Support in JavaScript

There has been days while writing code in ASP and PHP when we wanted
our dynamic JavaScript code to contact server and we used all tricks
like hidden fields, hidden frames to contact server while maintaining
interactivity of the page with the webuser.

Just came across a nice component called Remote Scripting in
JavaScript, which helps us to meet this requirement. Check out some
more about JSRS (JavaScript Remote Scripting) over here:

http://www.blueshoes.org/en/javascript/jsrs/

I am sure that this will be of immense use to the web development
fraternity worldwide.

Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

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Posted at 08:19 pm by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

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Original BlogDrive Post on Friday, June 25, 2004

Friday, April 30, 2004

ADO.NET Database Access

Accessing the databases has not been that more easy than in a .NET framework environment. Perhaps to make this more elegant and maintainable to access any database, here is a nice DAL application, based on factory design patterns.

Check it out: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/viewUploads.aspx?id=c20d12b0-af52-402b-9b7c-aaeb21d1f431

[Imported from Blogdrive]Accessing databases in .NET -- A Generic DAL...

ADO.NET Database AccessAccessing the databases has not been that more easy than in a .NET framework environment. Perhaps to make this more elegant and maintainable to access any database, here is a nice DAL application, based on factory design patterns.

Check it out: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/viewUploads.aspx?id=c20d12b0-af52-402b-9b7c-aaeb21d1f431

Posted at 07:06 pm by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

Original BlogDrive Post on Friday, April 30, 2004

Monday, March 08, 2004

Free Desktop Financial Planner

Just was searching something and came across this nice freeware. Check this Free Desktop Financial Planner for free at: http://www.freeplanner.com.au/ Looks like this is a VB-based application! Try it out as it is free.

Sunday, February 15, 2004

ASP.NET WebSites

Websites powered by ASP.NET, harnessing its codebehind feature is really an amazing solution. Just I could not get much time to concenterate on my homepage and kept it sleeping for a while. Just got some free time now and tried to update the same in http://vdeepakkumar.europe.webmatrixhosting.net/ Currently it seems to be a mirror of my Brinkster homesite.

Perhaps much of how the coding should be done is based on WilsonDotNet.com It discusses in depth about templated page design having one custom class and having other pages derive from it. Come Whidbey, I admit that this type of coding style would become obsolete, since Whidbey ships with what is called as Master Pages. Anyway, this is a startup coding effort me, thanks to WilsonDotNet.com.

Check it out and do send me your feedback and comments on the same.Don't just get bored seeing it is the mirror of my current Brinkster Page. I have a different content on my school and some online educational stuff in my Brinkster website.

Saturday, February 14, 2004

[Imported from Blogdrive]Homepage (Mirror)

ASP.NET WebSitesWebsites powered by ASP.NET, harnessing its codebehind feature is really an amazing solution. Just I could not get much time to concenterate on my homepage and kept it sleeping for a while. Just got some free time now and tried to update the same in http://vdeepakkumar.europe.webmatrixhosting.net/  Currently it seems to be a mirror of my Brinkster homesite.

Anyway, this is a startup coding effort me, thanks to WilsonDotNet.com.

Check it out and do send me your feedback and comments on the same.

Don't just get bored seeing it is the mirror of my current Brinkster Page. I have a different content on my school and some online educational stuff in my Brinkster website.

Posted at 07:17 pm by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

Original BlogDrive Post on Saturday, February 14, 2004

Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Email Remover -- A Quick-n-Handy Email Filter

How many times have you been confronted with a situation that warrants you waiting for a very important business mail and which is being blocked by a big MP3 attachment being carried forward. Since POP3 sessions have a lock enabled, there is no way out to open a different session and download the mails over separate sessions. Perhaps in those critical sessions, the following tool called EmailRemover, I hope would come in handy to bypass heavy mails or to purge them off the mailserver without getting into the hassles of downloading them.

I just tried to recall this tool out of a need since one big mail was blocking my POP3 downloads today morning. I was searching a bit for this URL and I remembered the author to be Victor Xavier. This URL has some information on the same:
http://servicios.correoadinet.com.uy/informacion/eremover/eremover.html

And this has also been updated and an enhanced version is available from here:
http://www.eremover.bizhosting.com/contents/download.htm

Check it out...

Sunday, January 18, 2004

Security in the Internet

Connecting to the vast Internet via dialup or DSL is not a big thing and it takes only a few seconds. But then on, keeping your system free of viruses and prying eyes of hackers, who can compromise your business-critical data and confidential information is the real challenge that is before us. Perhaps a few days ago, I was sharing with you through this blog, when BlasterWorm was spreading high and low through the emails. Just came across, while casually surfing, about another firewall called ZoneAlarm, which is downloadable from ZoneAlarm.com.

But this one has many flavors and editions like ZoneAlarm, ZoneAlarm Pro, ZoneAlarmPro PestPatrol etc. The URL http://www.zonelabs.com/store/application?namespace=zls_catalog&origin=global.jsp&event=link1.catalogHome&&zl_catalog_view_id=201&lid=nav_ho says Free ZoneAlarm Basic Internet Protection and the checklist that is hyperlinked to this document is really exhaustive and covers different security measures that ZoneAlarm is trying to address. Perhaps you can try out ZoneAlarm also. The other firewall, we were discussing is Kerio Personal Firewall, which is downlodable from http://www.kerio.com/

[Imported from Blogdrive]Free Firewall

Security in the InternetConnecting to the vast Internet via dialup or DSL is not a big thing and it takes only a few seconds. But then on, keeping your system free of viruses and prying eyes of hackers, who can compromise your business-critical data and confidential information is the real challenge that is before us.

Perhaps a few days ago, I was sharing with you through this blog, when BlasterWorm was spreading high and low through the emails. Just came across, while casually surfing, about another firewall called ZoneAlarm, which is downloadable from ZoneAlarm.com.

But this one has many flavors and editions like ZoneAlarm, ZoneAlarm Pro, ZoneAlarmPro PestPatrol etc. The URL http://www.zonelabs.com/store/application?namespace=zls_catalog&origin=global.jsp&event=link1.catalogHome&&zl_catalog_view_id=201&lid=nav_ho says Free ZoneAlarm Basic Internet Protection and the checklist that is hyperlinked to this document is really exhaustive and covers different security measures that ZoneAlarm is trying to address.

Perhaps you can try out ZoneAlarm also. The other firewall, we were discussing is Kerio Personal Firewall, which is downlodable from http://www.kerio.com/

Posted at 07:50 pm by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

Original BlogDrive Post on Sunday, January 18, 2004

Tuesday, January 13, 2004

JavaScript MouseOver ToolTips and Internet Explorer

We normally use JavaScript Tooltips and MouseOver DIV effects to show certain information when the user hovers the mouse over the particular hotspots of the page. But we normally face the problem of our MouseOver effect getting back of certain type of controls like Dropdown, TextArea etc.

Of late, this had been a bit nagging issue with one of my pages and I was trying to make some workarounds like a hidden div and second stylesheet to make the control go back and it worked. Just I came across the following URL, which I hope would really be useful for many developers worldwide in a more elegant solution to this problem:

http://www.wwwcoder.com/main/parentid/36/site/2245/68/default.aspx

It uses a combination of the tricks that I have used like a DIV along with a IFRAME to achieve the purpose.

[Imported from Blogdrive]JavaScript Hover Tooltips over Dropdowns

JavaScript MouseOver ToolTips and Internet ExplorerWe normally use JavaScript Tooltips and MouseOver DIV effects to show certain information when the user hovers the mouse over the particular hotspots  of the page. But we normally face the problem of our MouseOver effect getting back of certain type of controls like Dropdown, TextArea etc.

http://www.wwwcoder.com/main/parentid/36/site/2245/68/default.aspx

It uses a combination of the tricks that I have used like a DIV along with a IFRAME to achieve the purpose.

Posted at 12:11 pm by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

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Original BlogDrive Post on Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Wednesday, January 07, 2004

New and Easy HTML TextArea

Having a Rich Text Editor normally makes us to go for ActiveX Controls. I was searching out a couple of controls in the morning. And just came across the following freeware HTML TextArea, which I think would be very useful for developers of web applications worldwide.

Check out this URL: http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/

It uses simple TextArea and a couple of JavaScript function calls to turn your ordinary plaintext HTML Textarea into a powerful Rich Text Box Control.

Keep watching your day-to-day activities

I was searching for some Reminder tool the other day and came across this nice tool called TODOList, which is also now listed in CodeProject. It saves the activities in Plain XML file format. And it stores all details in a tree-like hierarchy.

Each time, the application is started, it alerts the pending tasks of the day. Perhaps you can check out the freeware downloadable from: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~taradaniel/abstractspoon/

Alternatively, it can be downloaded from: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/ToDoList2.asp

[Imported from Blogdrive]TODO List

Keep watching your day-to-day activitiesI was searching for some Reminder tool the other day and came across this nice tool called TODOList, which is also now listed in CodeProject. It saves the activities in Plain XML file format. And it stores all details in a tree-like hierarchy.

Each time, the application is started, it alerts the pending tasks of the day. Perhaps you can check out the freeware downloadable from:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~taradaniel/abstractspoon/

Alternatively, it can be downloaded from:

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/ToDoList2.asp

Posted at 01:57 pm by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

Original BlogDrive Post on Wednesday, January 07, 2004

[Imported from Blogdrive]New and Easy HTML TextArea

New and Easy HTML TextAreaHaving a Rich Text Editor normally makes us to go for ActiveX Controls. I was searching out a couple of controls in the morning. And just came across the following freeware HTML TextArea, which I think would be very useful for developers of web applications worldwide.

Check out this URL:

http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/

It uses simple TextArea and a couple of JavaScript function calls to turn your ordinary plaintext HTML Textarea into a powerful Rich Text Box Control.

Posted at 01:51 pm by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

Original BlogDrive Post on Wednesday, January 07, 2004