Iranian Arian Music Band and famous Irish singer, Chris De Burgh, are working on a joint song. According to Mohsen Rajabpour, managing director of Arian Band "A Medlody for Peace" is the name of this song and with the theme of love and respect to human beliefs, and soon will be presented inside and outside the country.

This new song will be shipped with 4th Arian album in the next few months.

 

A few days ago, I found some free time to study some articles and documentation about .netTiers. I tested it on some of my previous projects and result was great. Professional software architecture in generated code, smart code generation based on database tables and columns, ease of use, etc. are amazing features of this open source template for CodeSmith.

.netTiers official website has a documenation you can read online but how I searched, I couldn't find any offline version of this documentation to download. So I saved all documentation sections as HTML files and also created PDF version of each page. You can download this documentation in a compress file here (3.7 MB).

 

I have 9 Jaiku invitations left. Everyone who wants to receive one, please leave his/her name and email address in comment of THIS post.

Forget to say I'm at mahdi.jaiku.com!


UPDATE: I sent all 9 invitations and I don't have anymore left.

 

Recently (and specially after Web 2.0 revolution) many websites started to use more complicated CAPTCHA solutions on their websites in order to prevent spam and bot attacks. There are many free solutions and tools for users and developers to implement CAPTCHA technology in their applications. There are also many ASP.NET controls and components for this approach but many of them are so simple to hijack or don't offer features that these days we see on professional websites (some features like reload function, voice, etc.).

A few days ago I found a link to reCAPTCHA on Yahoo!. reCAPTCHA is a free (but professional) tool for basic users and also developers. To use this service you should first signup, receive an API Key for your website (you can receive as many as you need) and use one of easy-to-install plugnins provided. And good news for ASP.NET developers is that you can download and use a server side control and enjoy reCAPTCHA with two lines of code! The API Key guarantees your website and prevents attackers collect answers from visitors and use them. There are three different themes to choose.

If you want to use reCAPTCHA on a Web 2.0 website you can use AJAX API just by adding this line of code to you html or webform file: I strongly suggest you download and test this tool in your web applications.

Quick Links: reCAPTCHA.net | Live Demo | Why reCAPTCHA | Signup | reCAPTCHA.NET Control | Email Protection With reCAPTCHA

 

Omar Al Zabir has recently listed 10 cool articles about ASP.NET, AJAX, ... which he has published this year. From my personal view these articles are interesting:

• Cleanup inactive anonymous users from ASP.NET Membership Tables
• Prevent Denial of Service (DOS) attacks in your web application
• 13 disasters for production website and their solutions

 

BlogEngine.NET 1.2 released. As you may know it's a free blog tool written in C# and ASP.NET 2.0 and they added many features to this release which you can see here.

In this release BlogEngine supports 26 language packages including Persian language which I had translated its resources for them.

Although, I don't use BlogEngine at present (and I'm using dasBlog), I'm thinking about migration to BlogEngine because of more features. In this version BlogEngline also supports BlogML for import/export (Thanks Keyvan!).

More on BlogEngline.NET: Download Latest Release | Documents | Hosters that offer BlogEngine.NET | Complete Features List | Some Videos.

 

Sometimes it happend that you want to search for something on the web and don't find your desired results in your favorite search engine, you may decide to try another search engine to find the answer. Here's a better and easier way for such times!

metacrawler.com is a website which enjoys metasearch technology to gather best results from various search engines including Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, About, MIVA, LookSmart and more.

You can see all results from all search engines together or select a search engine and see its results only.

 

Since its launch, Gmail has been one of the most popular free email services on the web. Ease of use, huge storage space, amazing AJAX interface, POP3 features, etc. make Gmail a good choice for those who look for a free email service.

I think the sole weakness of Gmail is its very simple user interface. There were some movements to improve Gmail UI; for example Gmail Skins and Better Gmail extensions for FireFox. These days a blog post appeared on various blogs and websites such as Mashabale, Googling Google and BlogoWogo talking about a new Gmail UI. Everything started from a "Newer Version" word translation request on Google In Your Language program that was found by a user [See this image].

After Gmail Mobile inhancements in these days, it seems that Google wants to surprise their users with a great work in near future. We should wait!


P.S.: I think from the beauty point of view, only Google Analytics is pretty and eye catching and all other just offer powerfull features not a good looking environment!