Wordia.com, the new online video dictionary

Posted on October 8, 2008
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Wordia.com is new and it is an online website that presents word definition through video clips. It is a participative website where you create an account then create your video describing a word, e.g. Beer, Hangover, etc. and then upload it to the site.

This website is unique because dictionaries have always been textual. Before dictionaries were made available online, we used to own hard cover dictionaries that weigh heavier than a decent laptop. With Wordia.com, it displays the meaning of a word in text, its synonym and then you watch a video of someone describing the word. It adds another dimension to the joy of learning words. I think some of the videos on Wordia.com are done by professional actors. So if you are up for it, you can create a video, add humour to it and upload it to the website.

It is an interesting start-up. I hope the website will grow virally like YouTube. I included two videos describing the word invention and beer. If you have a few minutes to spare, do watch the video and let me know what you think.

Invention

Beer

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Design by Humans T-shirts

Posted on October 7, 2008
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Thanks to HongKiat.com, I learnt about Design by Humans, the cool tee shirt site designed by humans for humans.

Anyone who is interested in design can upload their design to Design by Humans and if it gains popularity, the design will be printed on tees. If you like a design, you can vote for it. For example I like these two designs so help me by voting for these designs so that they will be printed on tees.
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The good and bad about working in IT

Posted on October 6, 2008
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There are many reasons why I feel strongly about this topic and why I must blog about it. For starters I work in IT and a lot of my friends do not understand what I do exactly. Some think that if you are in IT, you know everything from fixing PCs to virtualisation to databases and networking. That is not true. Like the medical profession a General Practitioner will not be able to perform a heart surgery. You will need to see a heart surgeon. The same in IT. A network administration will not be able to code and develop web application because they are both specialist areas. As for what I do, I build and engineer applications, both Windows and Web but I am more interested in Web applications development. Now that I have made the point, I would like to share with you this brilliant article by Jason Hiner which I stumbled upon on the TechRepublic website. It is entitled 5 things that suck about working in IT (and 5 things that don’t).

What sucks (according to Jason Hiner, which I totally agree with)

1) You get a lot of fingers pointed at you
When error messages pop up and system outages occur, employees and managers quickly start pointing fingers at IT. The pressure is intense to get things fixed quickly to keep users from losing productivity. That’s part of the job and you always have to be prepared for it. In fact, some IT pros even get an adrenaline rush from this type of high-pressure stakes.

The problem is that IT pros hear loud and clear when things aren’t working, but they rarely get much appreciation during the other 99% of the time, when systems are running smoothly.

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Export GridView Data to MS-Excel

Posted on October 6, 2008
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If you have the requirement to export data content from a GridView to a spreadsheet, i.e. MS-Excel, you have come to the right place.

It is not difficult to code this requirement in ASP.NET.

Here is an example of a GridView with data from the product table in SQL Server. A product search functionality is added to filter the product data displayed in the GridView.

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MySpace Music to rival iTunes

Posted on September 25, 2008
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Streaming on-line multi-media content is a hot topic of discussion this week. Just a few days ago I read that IMDB is allowing their readers to watch full length movies on-line. Today MySpace Music made an official announcement that it will allow the entire back catalogue of artists to be streamed online through their website.
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