Free eBooks

I came across a web site which provides e-books of most of the .Net topics. We can download e-books on the latest technologies like WCF, WPF from www.free-ebooks-download.org

.CHM warning

I downloaded a .CHM file from internet. I double clicked the file to open in Vista m/c the following popup prompted and I selected Open. The file has been opened but I could not able to see any of the link in the .CHM file is working. Later reopened the same file by unchecking the "Always ask..." checkbox in the popup everything seems to be working. Wounder why it is so...

Online Survey

One of my friend forwarded a survey link. He was doing a MBA project for that he is collecting some survey results. There seems to be an online tool, which we can use to collect such survey results. It was pretty good and we can use when we need to do some generic survey.

www.zoomerang.com

Character Set

Today I was going through the blog sites and found an interesting blog about characterset.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
It is really very basic, which I don't know till I read the blog. Every developer must read the blog.

Application Architecture Guide

Application Architecture Guide which provides various guidance by application types:

• Web Applications
• Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
• Rich Client Applications
• Services
• Mobile Applications
• Office Business Applications (OBA)
• SharePoint Line-Of-Business (LOB) Applications

as well as the various layers of your application, such as:

• Presentation Layer
• Business Layer
• Data Access Layer
• Service Layer

Can be downloaded from http://www.codeplex.com/AppArchGuide/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=20586

Create your own social networking site

Recently I come across the site http://www.ning.com/ which is a great tool to make online discussion forum. It is highly user-friendly with usefull features.

Recently I got a forward.... which is a useful one...

whole world is scared of China made "black hearted goods" Can you differentiate which one is made in Taiwan or China? We can find the same by looking the first 3 digits of barcode 690.691.692 is made in CHINA. 471 is Made in Taiwan.

00-13: USA & Canada
20-29: In-Store Functions
30-37: France
40-44: Germany
45: Japan (also 49)
46: Russian Federation
471: Taiwan
474: Estonia
475: Latvia
477: Lithuania
479: Sri Lanka
480: Philippines
482: Ukraine
484: Moldova
485: Armenia
486: Georgia
487: Kazakhstan
489: Hong Kong
49: Japan (JAN-13)
50: United Kingdom
520: Greece
528: Lebanon
529: Cyprus
531: Macedonia
535: Malta
539: Ireland
54: Belgium & Luxembourg
560: Portugal
569: Iceland
57: Denmark
590: Poland
594: Romania
599: Hungary
600 & 601: South Africa
609: Mauritius
611: Morocco
613: Algeria
619: Tunisia
622: Egypt
625: Jordan
626: Iran
64: Finland
690-692: China
70: Norway
729: Israel
73: Sweden
740: Guatemala
741: El Salvador
742: Honduras
743: Nicaragua
744: Costa Rica
746: Dominican Republic
750: Mexico
759: Venezuela
76: Switzerland
770: Colombia
773: Uruguay
775: Peru
777: Bolivia
779: Argentina
780: Chile
784: Paraguay
785: Peru
786: Ecuador
789: Brazil
80 - 83: Italy
84: Spain
850: Cuba
858: Slovakia
859: Czech Republic
860: Yugoslavia
869: Turkey
87: Netherlands
880: South Korea
885: Thailand
888: Singapore
890: India
893: Vietnam
899: Indonesia
90 & 91: Austria
93: Australia
94: New Zealand
955: Malaysia
977: International Standard Serial Number for Periodicals (ISSN)
978: International Standard Book Numbering (ISBN)
979: International Standard Music Number (ISMN)
980: Refund receipts
981 & 982: Common Currency Coupons
99: Coupons