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Focus on RFID

Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is the next big thing for automated enterprise. With its 99% success rate in the industry, it has got attention of the software giants. According to ORACLE, RFID is the biggest shift in the supply chain management since the Internet.

Here’s what you need to know about RFID:

The Definition and FAQs:

Industry News & Resources:

At Microsoft.com:

 

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BizTalk Orchestrations, Business Rules, and Context Properties

Richard Seroter describes a potential problem when creating BizTalk Server messages with context properties and then sending them into the BizTalk Rules Engine.

Read Richard Seroter’s Blog for all the details.

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My Urdu Poetry

It’s been quite some time now when I started to express myself in form of poetry. I was in my intermediate, in Urdu Science College, when I said my first verse – can’t remember what it was, but I was wondered to have a gifted sense of auzaan (balancing in regular urdu poetry) – since then, I use to say verses and gazals (poems).

These verses have become my trademark:

وہ بھی دل ہے کہ پتھر میں خُدا ڈھونڈتا ہے
یہ بھی کافر ہے کہ پتھر ہی جُدا ڈھونڈتا ہے

تیرا چہرہ، تیری آنکھیں، تیری مورت ہے
میری تنھایٔ خوبصورت ہے

میں بھی جیتا ہوں کسی کی خاطر
جو کبھی ہارا نہیں میرے لیٔے

I’m a deep admirer of Iqbal, not that because my name is Sohail Iqbal, but I really have a high regard for his thinking and contributions for reconstruction of Muslim Ummah, through his thoughtful poetry, writings and speeches. As he says:

آشنا اپنی حقیقت سے ہو اے دہقاں ذرا
دانہ تو، کھیتی بھی تو، باراں بھی تو، حاصل بھی تو

آہ! کس کی جستجو آوارہ رکھتی ہے تجھے؟
راہ تو، رہرو بھی تو، رہبر بھی تو، منزل بھی تو

کانپتا ہے دل تیرا اندیشہء طوفاں سے کیا
ناخدا تو، بحر تو، کشتی بھی تو، ساحل بھی تو

Recently, I read Mohsin Naqvi’s “Azaab-e-Deed”, a beautiful collection of his poetry. Checkout a few verses from his gazal:

ہم سے مت پوچھ راستے گھر کے
ہم مسافر ہیں زندگی بھر کے

گر جنوں مصلحت نہ اپنا ۓ
سر سے رشتے بہت ہیں پتھر کے

Few of his azaad (free form) poems are so enthralling that even I started to think in free form of poetry, and even wrote my first azaad poems as well. So I can say that Mohsin Naqvi is responsible for out setting my azaad poetry.

Here’s one of my short azaad nazms:

اچھا لگنا سب کو اچھا لگتا ہے
تم کو کیسا لگتا ہے
جب مجھ کو اچھی لگتی ہو

See you soon,

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IE Developers Toolbar Beta… a must have!

The IE Developer Toolbar provides several features for deeply exploring and understanding Web pages.

Features I like the most:

  • Click-find elements in DOM
  • Ruler
  • Disable cache
  • Cleared cache for this domain

Plus it has a DOM Explorer better than the Firefox has

Full Details:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=E59C3964-672D-4511-BB3E-2D5E1DB91038&displaylang=en

Direct download link:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/2/1/3215493e-3c31-467f-b421-fbc8c71963ef/iedevtoolbar.msi

cheers

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Win32 API Tools for developers

Here are a couple of useful tools i want to share that i use quiet often for deep Win32 stuff from C#, see their sites for descriptions

API Guide by AllAPI: http://www.mentalis.org/agnet/apiguide.shtml
(look for other API stuff on website too)

API Monitor by Rohitab Batra: http://www.rohitab.com/apimonitor/

thanks

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SerialTerm – An RS232 Terminal Software for Serial Devices

Just published my this piece of software as a contribution to my8051.com community. SerialTerm was my experimental project done in VB6, which i used to play with my modem and other serial devices.

SerialTerm v.1.5.17

I just had to refine a it a little to version 1.5. Thanks to najam47 for a nice header and chall3ng3r for an installation wrapper to bring this project to a deliverable shape 🙂

Visit my8051.com for download and more details on SerialTerm.

cheers

ch3ckmat3

War of the e-paper ships

Imagine you have a blank booklet in your hand that you can fill with your favorite author’s latest edition in seconds by “uploading” the currently available e-books version to your booklet, to read it on without batteries when you cant use your laptop or computer, more over you can change the font size to your choice or even change the contrast of the content.

Not so far but in April 2006, Fujitsu is going to launch its recently demonstrated e-paper to consumer market.

I’m anxiously waiting for the time when I’ll have a photo calendar on my office wall which can pull my tasks and appointment from my Outlook and update the photo every hour from my photo collection on my computer!

Read full story at:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/13/fujitsu_epaper/

More on stories on e-paper and e-ink:
http://www.foodqualitynews.com/news/news-ng.asp?n=61561-e-paper-future
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000570039801/
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20050721/106936/

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