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List Not Found exception by using .RootFolder.Name Property in SharePoint

support.nospam@nospam.beyondweblogs.com (waqas) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:39:31 +0800

In SharePoint, if you use .RootFolder.Name property as shown below:

        1: string rootFolderName = objSPWeb.Lists[strListGuid].RootFolder.Name;

You might get exception on this IFF user changed that list name/title under question. Actually, RootFolder.Name doesn’t get changed once list is created. So, to make code flawless, you should use Title property of the list as shown below:

       1: string rootFolderName = objSPWeb.Lists[strListGuid].Title;

PTCL Landline Numbers Changed to 8 Digits

support.nospam@nospam.beyondweblogs.com (waqas) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:04:34 +0800

Just in case, you guys are failing to go through PTCL landline numbers, remember that PTCL landline numbers have been converted from 7 digits to 8 digits in Karachi and Lahore from Today July 01, 2009.

Therefore, please add 3 before dialing any PTCL number of Karachi and Lahore. (e.g. if a number is 0425861593 new number will be 04235861593)

The city codes remains the same.

For more information call 1236.

On further inquiring, it has been found that:
All numbers beginning with 90 & 92, you need to add 9 i.e. 990 or 992.

All UAN numbers will remain the same

Best form of Ibadat

support.nospam@nospam.beyondweblogs.com (waqas) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:06:03 +0800

عبدیت کی برگزیدہ ترین حالت یہ ہے کہ آدمی یہ دیکھے کہ کس لمحے خدا کی خوشنودی کس چیز میں اور کس انداز میں زیادہ ہے، اور پھر اسی کے مطابق آدمی خدا کو خوش کرنے میں لگ جائے....

چنانچہ اگر کہیں پر جہاد کا وقت آن کھڑا ہوا ہے تو سب سے برگزیدہ عبادت اس لمحے جہاد ہی ہے، بے شک اس کیلئے آدمی کو اپنی عبادت کے معمولات چھوڑنے کیوں نہ پڑ جائیں۔ بے شک رات کا قیام اور دن کے روزے رکھنا اس سے کیوں نہ متاثر ہوتا ہو۔بلکہ فرض نماز جس طرح حالت امن میں بصورتِ تمام ادا کی جاتی ہے، فرض نماز کی وہ بدرجہءاتم ادائیگی اس سے کیوں نہ متاثر ہوتی ہواور آدمی کو قیام وغیرہ کی قربانی دے کر گھوڑے کی پیٹھ پر نماز کیوں نہ پڑھنی پڑے۔

گھر میں مثلاً مہمان آگیا ہے تو اس وقت سب سے افضل کام یہی ہے کہ آدمی اس کا حق ادا کرنے میں لگ جائے بے شک اس سے آدمی کے مستحبات کا کوئی معمول کیوں نہ متاثر ہوتا ہو۔

ایک وقت میں بیوی کا حق ادا کرنا سب سے افضل عمل ہوگا اور ایک وقت میں اہل وعیال اور رشتہ داروں کے حقوق ادا کرنا۔

سحر کا وقت ہو تو سب سے افضل عمل یہ ہوگا کہ آدمی قیام کے اندر خدا کے ساتھ مناجات کرے۔ اُس کا کلام پڑھنے میں مگن ہو۔ اُس کے ساتھ دعا اور پکار کا رشتہ بحال کرے اور بکثرت استغفار کرے۔

جس وقت ایک طالبِ علم اور ایک ملتمسِ ارشاد تمہارے پاس آ کھڑا ہو یا کسی بے علم کو کچھ بتانے سمجھانے کا تقاضا پیش آچکا ہو تو اپنی کل توجہ اس کی تعلیم کی جانب کر دینا اور علم اور بھلائی سے اس کی جھولی بھر دینے کیلئے کوشاں ہوجانا اس لمحے کیلئے بہترین عمل ہوگا۔

اذان ہوگئی ہے تو اس وقت ’سب سے افضل‘ عمل یہ ہے کہ نیکی کے دوسرے سب معمولات چھوڑ کر آدمی اس صدا پہ لبیک کہتے ہوئے پیر سے پیر ملائے عبادت گزاروں کی صف میں آ کھڑا ہو۔

پنجوقتہ نمازوں کے اوقات میں، سب سے افضل عمل یہ ہے کہ آدمی کی تمام تر توجہ اور سنجیدگی اس بات پر مرکوز ہو جائے کہ یہ نماز بہترین سے بہترین انداز میں کیونکر ادا کی جائے۔ اول وقت کو پانا کیونکر یقینی بنایا جائے اور مسجد دور بھی ہو تو بھی پہلی صف کو کیونکر پایا جائے۔

جس وقت ایک غریب محتاج کی مدد کرنا ضروری ہو اور آدمی کا اپنے مال سے یا اپنی جسمانی صلاحیت سے یا اپنے اثر ورسوخ یا اپنی سماجی حیثیت سے کام لیتے ہوئے ایک حاجتمند کے کام آنا اس لمحے کا تقاضا ہو، جس وقت کسی کی فریاد رسی کرنا آدمی سے مطلوب ہو.... تو اس وقت یہی کام سب سے افضل کہلائے گا، چاہے اس کیلئے تمہیں اپنے نیکی کے معمولات اور اپنے مسنون ورد وظیفے کیوں نہ چھوڑنے پڑیں اور اپنی خلوت کو کیوں نہ سمیٹنا پڑے۔

جس وقت قراءتِ قرآن کیلئے بیٹھو تو سب سے افضل عمل اس وقت یہی ہے کہ اس کے معانی میں ڈوب جاؤ، اپنے دل کی پوری توانائی کے ساتھ اور آخری درجے کی دلجمعی اختیار کرتے ہوئے تدبر اور غور وفکر کی راہ سے اس کے حقائق میں غوطہ زن ہوجاؤ، یوں سمجھو اس وقت گویا خدا خاص تمہی سے ہم کلام ہے۔ اپنے دل کا ایک ایک گوشہ مجتمع کر کے خدا کی بات سننے کی جانب متوجہ ہوجاؤ اور اس کے معانی سے اپنی روح کو خوب خوب سیراب کرو۔ اس کے کلام میں اس کے جو جو احکام گزریں ان پر عمل پیرا ہونے کا ساتھ ساتھ عزم کرتے جاؤ۔ ویسے تم جانتے ہو ایک آدمی کو بادشاہ کی جانب سے کوئی مراسلہ موصول ہو تو اس کو بغور پڑھنا اور مراسلہ میں لکھے گئے اس کے احکامات کی تعمیل کا عزم کرتے جانا اس سے کہیں زیادہ اہم ہے کہ اس لمحے تم بادشاہ کی تعظیم ایسے احساسات میں دلجمعی پیدا کررکھنے پر ہی اکتفاءکئے رہو!

9 ذوالحجہ کو اگر تم عرفہ میں کھڑے ہو تو اس وقت ’افضل ترین عمل‘ یہی ہے کہ خدا کے آگے خوب گریہ کرو۔ دعا میں اپنا دل ڈال دو۔ خوب مناجات کرو۔ خشوع وخضوع اور رقت کے ساتھ خدا کا ذکر کرو۔ جبکہ روزے سے، جوکہ اس عمل کی بدرجہء اتم ادائیگی کے معاملہ میں تمہاری کارکردگی کم کرسکتا ہے، اس دن احتراز کرو۔

ذوالحجہ کے پہلے دس دن ہیں تو افضل ترین عمل عبادت گزاری ہے، خصوصاً تکبیر، تہلیل اور تحمید وغیرہ، جوکہ ان دنوں میں غیر فرضِ عین جہاد سے بھی افضل ہے۔

رمضان کی آخری دس راتیں ہیں تو افضل ترین عمل خدا کے گھروں میں ڈیرے ڈال دینا ہے اور مسجد کا کوئی کونہ سنبھال کر خدا کے ساتھ خلوت اختیار کر لینا اور پورا ایک عشرہ خدا کا مجاور بنا رہنا۔ اس وقت افضل عمل یہ نہیں کہ لوگوں کے ساتھ گھلو ملو اور ان کو بھلائی پہنچانے میں مصروف ہوجاؤ۔ حتیٰ کہ اس وقت اعتکاف اور لوگوں سے کنارہ کشی کئے رکھنا علماء کی ایک بڑی تعداد کے نزدیک لوگوں کو تعلیم دینے اور قرآن پڑھانے سے بھی افضل ہے۔

تمہارا بھائی بیمار، صاحب فراش ہوا پڑا ہے، یا بستر مرگ پہ چلا جانے کی نوبت آگئی ہے، اس وقت سب سے افضل عمل اس کی عیادت کرنا ہے۔ تمہارا بھائی فوت ہوگیا ہے تو اس لمحے افضل ترین عمل اس کے جنازے میں شرکت کرنا ہے اور اس کی میت کو کندھا دینے کیلئے نکلنا۔ اس وقت اس عمل کو ہی ترجیح دی جائے گی نہ کہ خدا کے ساتھ خلوت اختیار کر رکھنے کو اور مراقبے اور اس کی جانب توجہ کی دلجمعی کو۔

کوئی بڑا واقعہ ہوگیا ہے، لوگوں پر کوئی آفت ٹوٹ پڑی ہے، تو اس وقت ہنگامی صورتحال پر قابو پانے میں جو کچھ کر سکتے ہو وہ کرنا اور لوگوں کو اس آفت سے نکالنا سب سے برگزیدہ عمل ہوگا۔

لوگوں کو حق بات بتانا اور کسی باطل سے روکنے کا فرض درپیش ہے تو اس محاذ پر ڈٹ جانا ہی اس لمحے کا برگزیدہ ترین عمل ہے۔ لوگ اس پر تمہیں برا بھلا کہتے ہیں تو بدستور لوگوں کے مابین رہنااور ان کو حق بتانا اور اس پر ان کی ایذا رسانی برداشت کرتے چلے جانا، مگر ہرگز میدان نہ چھوڑنا افضل ترین عمل ہے۔ (از روئے حدیث) مومن جو لوگوں کے ساتھ گھلتا ملتا اور ان کی ایذا پر صبر کرتا ہے اس مومن سے افضل ہے جو نہ ان کے ساتھ گھلتا ملتا ہے اور نہ اسے ان کی ایذا رسانی پر صبر کی ہی اسکو ضرورت لاحق ہوتی ہے۔

لوگ خیر پر ہوں تو ان کے ساتھ گھل مل کر رہنا، ان سے دور رہنے کی نسبت افضل ہے۔ معاملہ شر کا ہو، تو ان سے دور رہنا ان میں گھلنے سے افضل ہے۔ ہاں آدمی یہ دیکھے کہ وہ ان کے ساتھ گھلے گا تو اس شر کا ازالہ کر سکے گا یا اس کو کم کر سکے گا، تو اس صورت میں شر کے باوجود ان کے ساتھ گھلنا، ان سے دور رہنے کی نسبت افضل ہوگا۔

پس مطلق طور پر کوئی چیز افضل ترین اور برگزیدہ ترین ہے تو وہ ہے یہ دیکھنا کہ عین اس لمحے اور اس صورتحال میں خدا کو سب سے بڑھ کر خوش کرنے والی کیا بات ہے۔ اس سوال کا جو جواب آئے آدمی اسی کو ترجیح دے۔ پس افضل ترین عمل یہ ہوا کہ آدمی ہر لمحے کے فرض کا تعین کرے اور پھر اسی میں جت جائے۔

یہ ہے ’تعبدِ مطلق‘۔ ایسے ہی لوگ ہیں جو ’عبدیتِ تام‘ کے درجے پر فائز ہوتے ہیں۔

جبکہ اس سے پہلے جن اصناف کا ذکر گزرا وہ ’مقید تعبد‘ کی مثالیں ہیں۔ ایسا شخص جب بھی عبادت کی اس ’شکل‘ سے باہر آتا ہے جس سے وہ مانوس ہے اور جس کو وہ ’اصل‘ عبادت سمجھتا ہے تو وہ اپنے آپ کو اوپرا محسوس کرتا ہے اور گویا اس کے یہاں کوئی نقص واقع ہوگیا ہے اور وہ ’اصل‘ عبادت سے دور ہوگیا ہے! وجہ یہ کہ وہ خدا کو کسی ایک ہی خاص صورت میں پوجنے سے واقف ہے، نہ کہ خدا کو ہر ہر انداز میں پوجنے سے۔

جبکہ وہ شخص جو ’تعبدِ مطلق‘ یا ’عبدیتِ تام‘ کے منہج پر ہے، عبادت کی کسی بھی خاص شکل کے ساتھ اس کی اپنی کوئی بھی غرض وابستہ نہیں ہوتی کہ وہ بس اسی کو عبادت کی دوسری ہر صورت پر فوقیت دینے پہ مصر ہو۔ اس کو تو غرض صرف ایک بات سے ہے اور وہ یہ کہ عین اِس لمحے اس کے مالک کی خوشنودی کہاں پائی جاتی ہے۔ جہاں وہ پائی جائے گی وہاں یہ پایا جائے گا اور جیسے جیسے وہ ایک صورت سے نکل کر دوسری صورت اختیار کرے گی عین اسی اخلاص اور تجرد کے ساتھ یہ اس کے ساتھ چلتا جائے گا۔ پس اِس کے تعبد کا سب انحصار اسی پر ہے کہ اِس کے مالک کامطلوب کہاں ہے۔ پس یہ شخص عبودیت کی ایک منزل سے دوسری منزل پہ جاتا ہے تو دوسری سے تیسری پر۔ جونہی اس وفا شعار کے سامنے عبدیت کی ایک صورت لائی جاتی ہے یہ پوری دلجمعی کے ساتھ اس کو اختیار کر لینے کی جانب لپکتا ہے۔ یہ عبادت کی ہر ہر شکل میں خوب سے خوب رنگ بھرتا ہے اور بندگی کی ہر ہر صورت پر کمال کی محنت کرتا ہے، تا آنکہ اس کے سامنے عبدیت کی کوئی اگلی منزل اور بندگی کی کوئی دوسری صورت لے آئی جاتی ہے۔ یوں، اس کا کام مالک کی منشا اور رضا کے پیچھے چلتے جانا ہے۔ وہ اس کو جب تک چلائے، جدھر کو چلائے، جیسے چلائے، یہ چلتا ہے!!! اس کے سوا اسے کسی بات سے غرض نہیں!!!

پس جہاں تم علماءاور علم کی مجلسیں دیکھو، اِس کو بھی وہاں ان کے ساتھ دیکھو گے!!!

جہاں عبادت گزاروں کے جمگھٹے ہوں، تم اِس کو وہاں ان کے ساتھ پاؤ گے!!!

جہاں تم مجاہدین کو دیکھو گے، اِس کو وہاں ساتھ دیکھو گے!!!

ذکر کرنے والوں کی مجلسوں میں تم اسے باقاعدہ موجود پاؤ گے!!!

اور وہ لوگ جو خدا کو اپنی توجہ کا مرکز بنانے پر خوب خوب محنت کرتے ہیں اور اس باب میں دلجمعی کی نعمت پانے کیلئے کوشاں دیکھے جاتے، اور جو قلب کو خدا کا اعتکاف کرواتے ہیں، اس کو تم وہاں ان کے ساتھ دیکھو گے!!!

لوگوں کی خوشیوں غمیوں میں تم اسے غائب نہ پاؤ گے۔ فقیروں جاجتمندوں کی خدمت، مظلوموں کی فریاد رسی اوردردمندوں کے غم بانٹنے کی سرگرمیوں سے تم اس کو مفقود نہ پاؤ گے!!!

پس یہ ہے مطلق خدا کا عبد۔ نہ یہ کسی خاص صورت کا پابند۔ نہ کسی خاص شکل کا اسیر۔ نہ کسی خاص ہیئت میں محدود۔ نہ رسمیات سے مانوس۔ اس کی سعیِ عمل اپنے نفس کے مطلوب کا پیچھا کرنا نہیں اور نہ ہی اپنی پسند کی عبادت کا چناؤ کرنا۔ یہ اپنے رب کے منشا ومطلوب کا متلاشی رہتا ہے، خواہ اِس کے اپنے نفس کی لذت اور راحت خاص اُس چیز میں ہو یا کہیں اور۔

یہ ہے وہ خوش قسمت جس نے مقامِ ’ایاک نعبد وایاک نستعین‘ کو درحقیقت پا لیا ہے۔ اور جوکہ اس کی حقیقت پر واقعتا قائم ہے!!!

اس کی پوشاک، جیسی اس کو میسر آگئی،

کھانا، جیسا مل گیا،

اس کی مصروفیت، ہر لمحے خدا نے جو مامور ٹھہر ا رکھا ہے،

اس کی نشست گاہ، جہاں اس کو بیٹھنے کی جگہ مل گئی، یا جہاں اس کیلئے گنجائش نکل آئی، یا جہاں اس کا پایا جانا ضروری ہوا،

نہ اس پر کوئی خاص لیبل،

نہ اس کے سوچنے اور عمل کرنے کا کوئی خاص دائرہ،

اور نہ اس پر کوئی خاص ٹھپہ،

اور نہ کوئی بہت ہی خاص حلیہ،

نہ دست بوسی، نہ رسومِ آستانہ،

مطلق آزاد!!! مطلق عبد!!! کسی چیز، کسی صورت، کسی ہیئت کا پابند نہیں سوائے خدا کے حکم کا تتبع کرنے کے۔ جہاں خدا کی فرمائش، وہاں یہ۔ اس کا قافلہ مسلسل سفر میں رہتا ہے اور کوئی مقام اس کا نقطہء اختتام نہیں۔ اس مسافر کا پڑاؤ وہیں جہاں اس کو کچھ دیر رک جانے کا حکم ہو۔ خدا کے سوا کوئی اس کی آخری منزل نہیں!!!

ہر حق پرست اِس سے اُنس پائے،

ہر باطل پرست اِس سے وحشت کھائے،

وہ باران جو جہاں برسے وہاں ہریالی کر دے،

وہ نخلستان جس کا پت جھڑ نہیں(2)،

یہ پورے کا پورا فائدہ مند ہے، حتیٰ کہ اس کے کانٹے بھی!!!

خدا کے دشمنوں اور نافرمانوں کیلئے چبھتا ہوا کانٹا،

خدا کی حرمتوں کی پامالی ہو تو یہ ننگی تلوار،

خدا شناسوں کیلئے بریشم کی طرح نرم!!!

پس یہ خدا کا ہے، خدا کے دم سے ہے، خدا کے ساتھ ہے!!!

خدا کے ساتھ ہوتا ہے تو مخلوق سے ماوراءہو کر،

مخلوق کے ساتھ ہوتا ہے تو نفس سے ماوراءہو کر،

خدا کے ساتھ اس کا معاملہ ہوتاہے تو سب خلائق بیچ سے روپوش ہوجاتی ہیں اور یہ بھری دنیا میں رہتا ہوا دنیا سے نکل آتا ہے! یہ خدا کے ساتھ ہوتاہے تو گویا کوئی دوسرا نہیں ہوتا!!!

اِس کا معاملہ خلق ِ خدا کے ساتھ ہوتا ہے تو نفس بیچ سے روپوش ہوجاتا ہے۔ اور یہ ان کیلئے مجسم خلوص ہوتا ہے!

زہے خوش نصیبی! یہ بھری دنیا میں کس قدر اجنبی ہے!!!

بسی دنیا میں اِس کیلئے کس قدر اداسی ہے!!!

خدا کے ساتھ اِس کا کیسا دل لگتا ہے!!!

معبود کے ہاں یہ کیسی خوشی، کیسی طمانینت اور کیسا گہرا سکون پاتا ہے!!!

خدایا! تیری مدد اور تیرا بھروسہ!!!!!

(استفادہ از: مدارج السالکین، مؤلفہ امام ابن القیم ج1 ص90-85)

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sets up new software company

support.nospam@nospam.beyondweblogs.com (naveed) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:54:00 +0800

Microsoft co-founder, philanthropist and investor Paul G. Allen has established a new software development company called Xiant. The company is focused on creating easy-to-use tools that streamline your existing workflow, and the first product in development is Xiant Filer, a tool for managing and organizing Office Outlook inboxes.

To save Outlook users precious time, the app includes a recommendation algorithm to suggest folders where they are likely to move a message, improving filing consistency, and also provides single-click and batch filing.

A free 60-day beta version of Xiant Filer is already available for download so check out this page and give it a go.

List of Hajj Tour Operators of Lahore Pakistan

support.nospam@nospam.beyondweblogs.com (waqas) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:50:56 +0800

Arfah Travels & Tours (Pvt.) Ltd.
04/A First Floor, Shimla Tower, 5-Davis Road, Shimla Hill, Lahore.
Ph: (+92-42)6364211, 6368875, Fax: (+92-42)6278799
Mobile: 0300-9402565, 0321-9402565
K.S.A.: 00966-567600236

Al-Hateem International Travel & Tours
103-Saki Centre, 81 Ferzepur Road, Ichhra Lahore-Pakistan.
Ph: 92-42-7530238, 7574962

Al-Barka International Travel
1st Ground Floor, Grand Hotel, 9-A, Davis Road, Lahore-Pakisatn.
Ph: 92-42-6309684-86
Mob: 0300-848-3068

Arab Wings Travel & Tours
19/4, Abott Road, Opposite T.V. Station, Lahore-Pakisatn.
Ph: 92-42-6366470, 6303702

Al-Rawia International Travel & Tourism (Pvt) Ltd
16-Ferozepur Road, Mozang Chungi Lahore-Pakisatn.
Ph: 92-42-7585752, 7551970

Al Qadir Travels International
G-26 Hill View Arcade, 5 Davis Road, Lahore-Pakistan.
Ph: 92-42-6310347, 6307720, 6300825

Al-Nasr Group Tour & Travels Specialising in Hajj & Umrah
54-Shadman Market, Lahore-Pakistan.
Ph: 92-42-7564832, 7580200
Mob: 0300-8478047

Ansar-e-Pakistan Travels Hajj & Umrah Services
F-03 Shimla Tower, 5-Davis Road, Lahore-Pakistan.
Ph: 92-42-6370160

Al-Ansar Group For Hajj & Umra Services
P.O. Box No. 243, Post Code 41341 Madina Munawara Sudia Arabia
Ph: 00-966-2-8383171
Mob: 00-966-055313732, 054368970

Baig Enterprises Travels & Tours
56-Liton Road, City Marriage Hall, Lahore-Pakisatn.
Ph: 92-42-7314265-7230344-7234163-4

Bassey Air Travel & Tours
19/2-Abbot Road Opp. PTV Station Lahore-Pakisatn.
Ph: 92-42-6308646, 6309331-32

Golden Hawk Travel Services Tours Operator
10 Abbot Road, (Near PTV Station) Lahore-Pakisatn.
Ph: 92-42-6365436-7

Geneva Travels
G-12, Hill View Arcade, 5-Davis Road, Lahore-Pakistan.
Ph: 92-42-6367591-94
Mob: 0333-4239117

Karwan Sadique & Travel Agency
Opposite Office Sui Gas, Gulberg III, Lahore-Pakisatn.
Ph: 92-42-5873231
Mob: 0300-415-3684

Karwan-e-Qamar-ul-Islam Hajj / Umra Services & Tours Operator
S-2, Business Arcade, Defence More, Walton Road, Cannt Lahore-Pakisatn.
Ph: 92-42-6684891. 6661027

Karwan-e-Arafat Travels & Tours
Samar Plaza, Ground Floor 170-Main Ferozepur Road, Near Shah Jamal More, Lahore-Pakistan.
Ph: 92-42-7553140, 7553141, 7535040
Mob: 0300-4273682

Karavan-e-Ibraheem Tours & Travels
Tahir Centre, 29-Empress Road, Lahore-Pakistan.
Ph: 92-42-6300767-68

Luna Travels Agent & Tour Operator
16-A Ferozepur Road (Mozang Chungi), Lahore-Pakisatn.
Ph: 92-42-7567669, 7533791-2

Labbaik International Travel & Tours Hajj & Umrah & Services
7-F Gohar Centre Wahdat Road Lahore-Pakistan.
Ph: 92-42-5840533, 5840534

Muslim Travels Hajj & Umrah Services
23-G Shimla Tower 5-Davis Road, Lahore-Pakistan.
Ph: 92-42-6301300
Mob: 0300-9491024

Travel & Tour ALi Umra Group
LG-15 Hill View Arcade, Shimla Pahari, 5-Davis Road, Lahore-Pakistan.
Ph: 92-42-6301414
Mob: 0300-4212809

United Hajj and Umra Services

Ph: 92-42-585 5418
Mob: 0332 427 3130

http://unitedhajj.com/

Policy and Plan for Hajj 2009 from Pakistan Ministry of Religious Affairs

support.nospam@nospam.beyondweblogs.com (waqas) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:03:09 +0800

Policy and Plan for Hajj 2009 from Pakistan Ministry of Religious Affairs has been published. Please see following links for the details.

http://www.hajjinfo.org/policy2009.htm

http://www.hajjinfo.org/mrp_adv.jpg

Good Luck!

.Net Framework 4 poster showing new stuff coming our way

support.nospam@nospam.beyondweblogs.com (waqas) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:00:01 +0800

Here is a really cool .Net Framework Poster showing off the new stuff in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and .NET Framework 4.

http://tinyurl.com/DotNetFramework4PosterDeepZoom

Stsadm technical reference based on Silverlight for commands lookup

support.nospam@nospam.beyondweblogs.com (waqas) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:44:15 +0800

Here is an excellent Stsadm technical reference based on Silverlight for easy commands lookup:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/dd418924.aspx

How to change user domain and login info in SharePoint

support.nospam@nospam.beyondweblogs.com (waqas) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:45:25 +0800

When you change login info or domain of the SharePoint users, like for example, adding a new domain or updating old domain for some reason. Problem is that after this change, old users data would not be accessible because it was refferenced by using outdated domain or login info.

Fear not, as the solution is pretty simple. Just use following STSADM based command to change login info.

stsadm -o migrateuser -oldlogin <domain\name> -newlogin <domain\name>

If you are more adventurous, you can also see "UserInfo" table in the SharePoint content db (after taking backup) and update domain of the users there.

Beware, do that change at your own risk :-)

Live Streaming of ICC 20 20 World Cup Matches

support.nospam@nospam.beyondweblogs.com (waqas) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:11:28 +0800

Here are the links for live streaming of 20 20 world cup matches in England:

LIVE 20 - 20 Matches

http://www.stream2watch.com/twenty20.html

www.cric7.com

www.cricwebcast.com

www.webcric.com

How to save life - Steps of CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) for dummies

support.nospam@nospam.beyondweblogs.com (waqas) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:28:30 +0800

Everyone should be aware of how to do CPR!

Here is a very nice article which will guide your how to.

Do Not Call Registrations Permanent and Fees Telemarketers Pay to Access Registry Set

support.nospam@nospam.beyondweblogs.com (naveed) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:51:00 +0800

Telephone numbers placed on the National Do Not Call Registry will remain on it permanently due to the Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007, which became law in February 2008. More than 157 million phone numbers are on the National Do Not Call Registry.

Under the Act, the Federal Trade Commission will continue to remove telephone numbers that have been disconnected and reassigned to other customers. Consumers can delete their telephone numbers from the registry at any time by calling 1-888-382-1222 (TTY 1-866-290-4236) – the call must be made from the telephone number they wish to delete.

The Do-Not-Call Fee Extension Act of 2007 also was enacted, setting the annual fees telemarketers will pay to access the registry in fiscal year 2009 at $54 for each area code of data accessed or $14,850 for access to every area code in the registry, whichever is less. Telemarketers may access the first 5 area codes of data at no charge, and certain exempt organizations will continue to access all data at no charge. For each fiscal year beginning after fiscal year 2009, the fees will be increased at the rate of change of the consumer price index, unless the change is less than 1 percent, in which case the fees will not be adjusted.

TO REGISTER YOUR NUMBER:: Online: www.donotcall.gov
Phone: 1-888-382-1222

How to stop junk mail

support.nospam@nospam.beyondweblogs.com (naveed) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:49:36 +0800

I’ve been learning how to stop receiving junk mail, and I thought I’d share what I’ve learned.

Reducing Junk Mail

There are several services that will help you reduce your junk mail:

- GreenDimes offers a free basic service, but I decided to do their $20 one-time fee because it offered a few extra things I wanted. GreenDimes walks you through some easy steps that will reduce unsolicited mail, and also lets you decline catalogs. Each time you receive an unwanted catalog, you go to GreenDimes and type the name of the catalog in. GreenDimes takes care of removing you from that catalog’s mailing list. I’ve been quite happy with this service, especially since it’s a one-time fee.

- ProQuo is a free junk-mail reduction service. In the future, they intend to make money when consumers opt-in to request offers; ProQuo will make money from those advertisers. I tried this service today. It lets you stop many services with just a couple mouse clicks per service, but for about 50% of the marketers (maybe 10-15 of them) you have to print and send a letter or leave to an external website to complete a form. It’s still better than nothing though, because even if you’re lazy you can opt out of a lot of junk mail with just your mouse for free. Overall, the service is free, easy, and helps you opt out of a wide variety of lists.

- Catalog Choice is a site solely for opting out of catalogs. It doesn’t tackle things like credit card offers, PennySaver, or list brokers, but the site is clean with a really nice user interface. One of the founders, Daniel Katz, has been interviewed by Bill Moyers, so I trust that they’re a legit organization, even though their WHOIS information is private and there’s very little information about the group on their site. It sounds like three different environmental groups formed Catalog Choice as a non-profit. One piece of advice for Catalog Choice: please give a little more information about yourselves (e.g. history, founders, press) so that people can easily see that you’re legitimate.

- 41pounds.org charges $41 for five years of service. The name comes from the fact that they claim to block 41 pounds of junk mail per year for you. I haven’t tried this service.

Contacting services directly

- You can visit the webpage of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) to opt-out online so that you don’t receive mail from companies that use DMA lists. The pretty url http://www.dmaconsumers.org/cgi/offmailinglist takes you to the url https://www.dmachoice.org/MPS/proto1.php where you want to select option #3 (”Remove your name from DMA Member Prospect Lists”). You will have to provide a valid credit card number, but your credit card will not be charged.

- You can opt out of ADVO online.

Other options

- While you’re at it, why not place yourself on the “Do not call” list at www.donotcall.gov to prevent most telemarketers from calling you? All you need to give is your phone number and an email address, and you will be permanently opted out. Read more about the do-not-call list if you’re interested.

All these actions won’t eliminate junk mail completely, but it will prevent a lot of the junk from showing up in your mailbox. These aren’t affiliate links, just stuff that I think people will find handy. Good luck!

Best ever Open Source tools and applications for web developers

support.nospam@nospam.beyondweblogs.com (naveed) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:15:26 +0800

1. Aptana

The Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code.
More about Aptana

2. Eclipse

Eclipse is an open-source software framework written primarily in Java. In its default form it is a Java IDE, consisting of the Java Development Tools (JDT) and compiler (ECJ). Users can extend its capabilities by installing plug-ins written for the Eclipse software framework, such as development toolkits for other programming languages, and can write and contribute their own plug-in modules. Language packs are available for over a dozen languages. (Source Wikipedia)

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3. jEdit

jEdit is a mature programmer’s text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. Being a Java based solution it runs across multiple operating systems including; Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows.

More about jEdit

4. NVU

A Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.

More about NVU

5. Quanta Plus

Quanta Plus is a highly stable and feature rich web development environment. The vision with Quanta has always been to start with the best architectural foundations, design for efficient and natural use and enable maximal user extensibility.

More about Quanta Plus

6. Amaya

Amaya is a Web editor to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium. Amaya started as an HTML + CSS style sheets editor. Since that time it was extended to support XML and an increasing number of XML applications such as the XHTML family, MathML, and SVG. It allows all those vocabularies to be edited simultaneously in compound documents.

More about Amaya

Modelling Tools

7. Dia

Dia is inspired by the commercial Windows program ‘Visio’, though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.

More about Dia

8. ArgoUML

ArgoUML is the leading open source UML modeling tool and includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform and is available in ten languages.

More about ArgoUML

9. StarUML

StarUML is an open source project to develop fast, flexible, extensible, feature rich, and freely-available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform. The goal of the StarUML project is to build a software modeling tool and also platform that is a compelling replacement of commercial UML tools such as Rational Rose.

More about StarUML

10. MagicDraw

MagicDraw is a visual UML modeling and CASE tool with teamwork support. Designed for Business Analysts, Software Analysts, Programmers, QA Engineers, and Documentation Writers, this dynamic and versatile development tool facilitates analysis and design of Object Oriented (OO) systems and databases. It provides the industry’s best code engineering mechanism (with full round-trip support for J2EE, C#, C++, CORBA IDL programming languages, .NET, XML Schema, WSDL), as well as database schema modeling, DDL generation and reverse engineering facilities.

More about MagicDraw

11. OpenOffice Draw

DRAW - from a quick sketch to a complex plan, DRAW gives you the tools to communicate with graphics and diagrams.

More About OpenOffice Draw

12. Kivio

Kivio is an easy to use diagramming and flowcharting application with tight integration to the other KOffice applications. It enables you to create network diagrams, organisation charts, flowcharts and more.

More about Kivio

File Transfer Clients

13. FileZilla

FileZilla is a free FTP client and a server solution. FileZilla is open source software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

More about Filezilla

14. WinSCP

WinSCP is an open source SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager functionality. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also legacy SCP protocol.

More about WinSCP

15. CyberDuck

Cyberduck is an open source FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser licenced under the GPL with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript.

More about CyberDuck

16. FireFTP

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

More about FireFTP

Code Documentors

17. JSDoc

JSDoc is a tool that parses inline documentation in JavaScript source files, and produces an documentation of the JavaScript code. This is typically in the form of HTML, but XML and XMI (UML) export are also supported. JSDoc is based on the (very successful) javadoc tool that was created for the same purpose for the Java programming language.

More About JSDoc

18. Javadoc

Javadoc is a tool for generating API documentation in HTML format from doc comments in source code. It can be downloaded only as part of the Java 2 SDK.

More about Javadoc

19. PHPDoc

PHPDoc is an adoption of Javadoc to the PHP world. PHPDoc is written in PHP. It offers you a way to generate an API documentation of objectoriented and procedural code with certain markup in your source. PHPDoc is an Open Source Project and gets distributed under the PHP Licence. That means you can use it in commercials projects.

More about PHPDoc

20. phpDocumentor

phpDocumentor, sometimes referred to as phpdoc or phpdocu, is the current standard auto-documentation tool for the php language. Similar to Javadoc, and written in php, phpDocumentor can be used from the command line or a web interface to create professional documentation from php source code. phpDocumentor has support for linking between documentation, incorporating user level documents like tutorials and creation of highlighted source code with cross referencing to php general documentation. A complete list of features is available.

More about phpDocumentor

Bowser Plugins

21. ColorZilla

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.

More about ColorZilla

22. LiveHTTPHeaders

LiveHTTPHeaders displays http headers in real time (while pages are being downloaded from the Internet) letting you edit request headers and replay a URL.

More about LiveHTTPHeaders

23. DebugBar

The DebugBar V4.1.1 is an Internet Explorer plug-in that brings you new powerful features such as a DOM Inspector, HTTP Inspector, JavaScript Inspector, JavaScript Console and HTML Validator.

More about DebugBar

24. Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

More about Firebug

25. Firebug Lite

Well this one isn’t a browser plugin as such, however I think it goes nicely under Firebug.

Firebug Lite is a JavaScript file you can insert into your pages to simulate the Firebug console in browsers that are not named "Firefox".

More about Firebug Lite

26. FireBug Lite ++ (IE7Pro)

An amelioration of the FireBug Lite Script used as userscript for observing from all web sites. F12 to open the console
FireBug Lite ++ can :
- Observe errors
- Evaluate expression (console)
- Browse JavaScript Object (not in FireBug lite, added by this script !)

More about FireBug Lite ++ (IE7Pro)

27. Internet Explorer Toolbar

The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. This version is a preview release and behavior may change in the final release.

More about Internet Explorer Toolbar

28. Firefox web developer toolbar

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock, Mozilla and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

More about Firefox we developer toolbar

29. IE7Pro

IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro.

More about IE7Pro

30. Opera Web Developer Toolbar & Menu

The web developer toolbar is a menu and toolbar setup for Opera which brings together functions related to web development, validation services and links to standards and other documentation. It integrates parts of Toby’s W3-dev Menu, MooseCSS’s menu, and countless BookMarklets taken from various places (Jesse, Aleto, SlayerOffice, Tarquin and others).

More about Opera Web Developer Toolbar & Menu

31. Pearl Cresent

Pearl Crescent Page Saver is an extension for Mozilla Firefox that lets you capture images of web pages. These images can be saved in PNG or JPEG format. Using Page Saver, you can capture an entire page or just the visible portion. Options let you control whether images are captured at full size (which is the default) or scaled down to a smaller size.

More about Perl Cresent

32. Feng GUI FireFox Add-On extension

A plugin allowing you to easily find out how people View your website or image and which areas are getting most of the attention.
The ViewFinder Heatmap service, is an artificial intelligence service which simulates human visual attention and creates an attention heatmap.
More about Feng GUI FireFox Add-On extension

33. Lorem Ipsum Content Generator 0.4

The Lorem Ipsum Content Generator creates placeholder content using latin pasages. This allows you to see what a page is going to look like with content before the copy is actually available.

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34. FlashBlock

Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.

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Unit Testing

35. PHPUnit

I understand this is a framework, however, I think it’s a good tool to use in PHP development.
To make code testing viable, good tool support is needed. This is where PHPUnit comes into play. It is a member of the xUnit family of testing frameworks and provides both a framework that makes the writing of tests easy as well as the functionality to easily run the tests and analyse their results.

More about PHPUnit

36. JUnit

JUnit is a simple framework to write repeatable tests. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.

More about JUnit

37. JsUnit

JsUnit is a Unit Testing framework for client-side (in-browser) JavaScript. It is essentially a port of JUnit to JavaScript. Also included is a platform for automating the execution of tests on multiple browsers and mutiple machines running different OSs.
More about JsUnit here
38. NUnit

NUnit is a unit-testing framework for all .Net languages. Initially ported from JUnit, the current production release, version 2.4, is the fifth major release of this xUnit based unit testing tool for Microsoft .NET. It is written entirely in C# and has been completely redesigned to take advantage of many .NET language features, for example custom attributes and other reflection related capabilities. NUnit brings xUnit to all .NET languages.

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Load/Stress Testing

39. OpenSTA

OpenSTA is a distributed software testing architecture designed around CORBA, it was originally developed to be commercial software by CYRANO. The current toolset has the capability of performing scripted HTTP and HTTPS heavy load tests with performance measurements from Win32 platforms.

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40. curl-loader

A powerful C-written HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS load generator, performance and stress testing tool. It uses real HTTP and TLS/SSL stacks, generating thousands of users each with own IP-address. Emphases is given to user authentication, login and statistics.

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Usability/Accessibility and General Testing

41. Xenu

Xenu’s Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.

More about Xenu

42. Vischeck

Vischeck is a way of showing you what things look like to someone who is color blind. You can try Vischeck online- either run Vischeck on your own image files or run Vischeck on a web page. You can also download programs to let you run it on your own computer.

More about Vischeck

43. browsershots.org

Browsershots.org is a free open-source online service providing screenshots of your web site in a multitude of different browsers. It is not as advanced as BrowserCam but a fantastic tool none the less.

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44. BrowsrCamp

If you need to test your websites on MacOSX browsers then this service is the perfect place for you. BrowsrCamp offers two services: a Safari screenshots generator (free) and a testing system based on VNC (paid).

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45. Feng GUI

Find out how people View your website or image and which areas are getting most of the attention.
The ViewFinder Heatmap service, is an artificial intelligence service which simulates human visual attention and creates an attention heatmap.

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46. Watchfire WebXACT

WebXACT is a free online service that lets you test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues. It is very similar to Bobby and usefull to anyone wishing to check the accessibilty level of their templates/site.

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47. DBMonster

DBMonster is a tool which generates random test data and puts it into SQL database. It helps to test how an application can deal with large database.

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Regular Expressions

48. Expresso 2.1

Expresso is useful tool for learning how to use regular expressions and for developing and debugging regular expressions prior to incorporating them into your code. It provides a very cut down version of RegexBuddy but most importantly it is simple to use and free.

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49. Regex Coach

The Regex Coach is a graphical application for Windows which can be used to experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively.

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Image Editing

50. GIMP

The GNU Image Manipulation Program is a Photoshop replacement that doesn’t have "quite" as much functionality but it’s excellent for free. It comes installed by default on many Linux distros and is also available in Windows. Worth a look.

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51. Inkscape

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

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52. Paint.net

A really good, lightweight alternative to Photoshop. It offers layers, unlimited undo, special effects and a wide variety of useful tools. The download is around 2mb too so absolutely worth a look – I use this when Photoshop is playing up.

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53. XnView

XnView is software to view and convert graphic files, apparently really simple to use and supports more than 400 graphics formats.

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54. ImageMagick

A lesser known application but it offers the ability to "create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (about 100)". Use it to "translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and B?zier curves."

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55. Blender

A 3D Studio Max alternative, very comprehensive and full-featured.

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56. Pencil

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X and Windows. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

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57. Artweaver

Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work. You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is thereby so realistic as possible.

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Colour Matching and Sampling

58. ColorJack

ColorJack is an amazing online application providing users with the ability to match colours that work well together. Perfect for those developers who struggle to get a good colour scheme together.

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59. Kuler

Kuler is a very nice application allowing you match colours that will “work well” together. Also allows you to see other people colour pallets. A good starting place and very cool.

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60. Color Cop

A very handy tool for capturing colours anywhere on your screen. Color Cop makes it quick and easy in those situations where you need to know what colour is being used.

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Database Design

61. DBDesigner 4

DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment.

It combines professional features and a clear and simple user interface to offer the most efficient way to handle your databases.

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62. Clay

Clay is a database design tool that runs as a plug-in in the Eclipse development environment. Clay has an intuitive user interface for graphically designing database models. Clay can also create a database model by reverse engineering an existing database. Furthermore, Clay generates the SQL (DDL) code appropriate for your database.

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Source Control

63. Subversion

The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community. The software is released under an Apache/BSD-style open source license.

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64. CVS

CVS is a version control system, an important component of Source Configuration Management (SCM). Using it, you can record the history of sources files, and documents. It fills a similar role to the free software RCS, PRCS, and Aegis packages.

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65. CVSNT

The CVSNT Versioning System implements a version control system: it keeps track of all changes in a set of files, typically the implementation of a software project, and allows several (potentially geographically separated) developers to collaborate. It is compatible with and originally based on Concurrent Versions System (CVS), which has become popular in the open-source world and is released under the GNU General Public License. (Source Wikipedia)

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66. RapidSVN

RapidSVN is a cross-platform GUI front-end for the Subversion revision system written in C++ using the wxWidgets framework. This project also includes a Subversion client C++ API.

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67. TortoiseSVN

A Subversion client, implemented as a windows shell extension. TortoiseSVN is a really easy to use Revision control / version control / source control software for Windows.

Since it’s not an integration for a specific IDE you can use it with whatever development tools you like. TortoiseSVN is free to use. You don’t need to get a loan or pay a full years salary to use it.

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68. TortoiseCVS

TortoiseCVS lets you work with files under CVS version control directly from Windows Explorer. It’s freely available under the GPL.
With TortoiseCVS you can directly check out modules, update, commit and see differences by right clicking on files and folders within Explorer. You can see the state of a file with overlays on top of the normal icons within Explorer. It even works from within the file open dialog.

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69. SmartCVS

SmartCVS is an innovative multi-platform CVS client. It has powerful features, like built-in File Compare/Merge, Transaction display or List Repository Files, and still is easy and intuitive to use. SmartCVS focuses on your day-to-day tasks and usability and is not limited to the available CVS command set.

SmartCVS is available in two versions, a free Foundation version and the powerful Professional version.

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70. Subclipse

Subclipse is an Eclipse Team Provider plug-in providing support for Subversion within the Eclipse IDE. The software is released under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.0 open source license.

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71. JCVS

JCVS is a CVS client package written entirely in Java. JCVS provides a complete CVS client/server protocol package that allows any Java program to implement the complete suite of CVS operations. JCVS also provides a Swing based client that provides a commercial quality GUI client for CVS. Finally, jCVS provides a Servlet that allows any Servlet enabled web server to present any CVS repository on the internet for browsing and download.

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72. WinCVS

WinCvs is a CVS client that runs on the Microsoft Windows platform. CVS, Concurrent Versions System, is a centralized Revision Control System (RCS). SourceForge.net provides CVS service to all hosted projects. In order to access our CVS service, you will need to install a CVS client. CVS allows developers to keep a historical record of changes made to their source code tree, and to allow multiple developers to work on a single set of files at the same time without accidentally overwriting changes made by other developers.

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HTTP Debugging

73. Fiddler

Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.

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74. Fiddler 2

Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.

Fiddler is freeware and can debug traffic from virtually any application, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and thousands more.

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Servers

75. Apache

The Apache HTTP Server is an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT. It provides a secure, efficient and extensible server that offers HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.

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76. Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by Sun under the Java Community Process.

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77. XAMPP

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.

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Databases

78. MySQL

MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database software, with over 100 million copies of its software downloaded or distributed throughout its history. With superior speed, reliability, and ease of use, MySQL has become the preferred choice of corporate IT Managers because it eliminates the major problems associated with downtime, maintenance, administration and support.

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79. PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL, the highly scalable, SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system, is now undergoing beta testing of the next version of our software: PostgreSQL 8.3.

80. Apache Derby

Apache Derby is an open source relational database implemented entirely in Java and available under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Some key advantages include:

• Derby has a small footprint — about 2 megabytes for the base engine and embedded JDBC driver.
• Derby is based on the Java, JDBC, and SQL standards.
• Derby provides an embedded JDBC driver that lets you embed Derby in any Java-based solution.
• Derby also supports the more familiar client/server mode with the Derby Network Client JDBC driver and Derby Network Server.
• Derby is easy to install, deploy, and use.

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Database Administration

81. pgAdmin

pgAdmin III is the most popular and feature rich Open Source administration and development platform for PostgreSQL, the most advanced Open Source database in the world. The application may be used on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSUSE, Solaris, Mac OSX and Windows platforms to manage PostgreSQL 7.3 and above running on any platform, as well as commercial versions of PostgreSQL such as EnterpriseDB and Mammoth PostgreSQL.

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82. MySQL GUI Tools Bundle for 5.0

MySQL GUI Tools Bundle for 5.0 is available under the MySQL AB "dual licensing" model. Under this model, users may choose to use MySQL products under the free software/opensource GNU General Public License (commonly known as the "GPL") or under a commercial license.

This is the MySQL GUI Tools Bundle for 5.0. It includes the following products.

• MySQL Administrator 1.2 Generally Available (GA)
• MySQL Query Browser 1.2 Generally Available (GA)
• MySQL Migration Toolkit 1.1 Generally Available (GA)

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83. phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.

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Site Statistics

84. AWStats

AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers.

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85. phpMyVisits

phpMyVisites is a free and powerful open source (GNU/GPL) software for websites statistics and audience measurements.

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86. Google Analytics

Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that a webmaster can optimize his/her AdWords advertisement and marketing campaigns through the use of GA’s analysis of where the visitors came from, how long they stayed on the website and their geographical position. (Source Wikipedia)

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Other

87. Beautify PHP

This program tries to reformat and beautify PHP source code files automatically. It is a pretty printer for your php source code. The program is Open Source and distributed under the terms of GNU GPL. It is written in PHP and has a web frontend.

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88. PuTTY

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. It is written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham.

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89. WinMerge

WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.

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90. DBG

DBG is a full-featured php debugger. It works on a production and/or development WEB server and allows you debug your scripts locally or remotely, from an IDE or console.

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91. PHP Accelerator

The ionCube PHP Accelerator is an easily installed PHP Zend engine extension that provides a PHP cache, and is capable of delivering a substantial acceleration of PHP scripts without requiring any script changes, loss of dynamic content, or other application compromises.

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92. ajaxload.info

Ajax Load is an online application providing the ability to easily create and download “ajax loading“ images for your website or application. Very Web 2.0

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93. Stripemania

Ever wanted to create a cool background for your site? Well this site allows you to easily generate your perfect background to use as you wish.

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94. FavIcon Generator

Does exactly what is says on the tin. You upload your desired image and the generator does the rest.

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95. YAML Builder

Ever wanted a tool that could build a base HTML Template quickly by allowing you to define the basic layout? Well this is that tool and it works really well too. Definitely worth a look.

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96. CSS Rounded Box Generator

A simple tool allowing you to quickly and easily generate rounded corners for your website.

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97. CSS Optimiser

Online CSS Optimizer/Optimiser is a web tool for reducing the file size of cascading style sheets. In order to save more space optimized files would be messy even so you may output it as a file. Non-valid or hacked (for certain browsers) CSS files may result in error.

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98. CSS Validator

Validates your CSS stylesheets against W3C standards.

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99. Acrobot

To cut to the chase Acrobot is a tool that takes supplied content and adds in relevant abbreviation or acronym tags.

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100. Markup Validation Service

This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. If you wish to validate specific content such as RSS/Atom feeds or CSS stylesheets or to find broken links, there are other validators and tools available.

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