Author: masnun

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Personal

My First Class at KU

I was supposed to reach KU within 9.30 but I reached at 9.15. I knew there would be course registration alone but ended up having “warm up” classes. Such a pleasant surprise.

It’s 29th March, 2009. As the official letter mentioned, I started for Khulna University well before time. I reached the campus at around 9.15 and headed straight way to the BA discipline in the 1st Academic Building. There was a little crowd there, chatting and roaming around aimlessly or better said, without knowing what to do. I soon joined them asking which of my classmates have already arrived. It was then, a young guy guided us into the same room we gathered into the day we got admitted. I found out quickly that this “student looking” guy was no less than a lecturer at BA discipline. I have heard rumors about KU BBA teachers being unfriendly, harsh and strictly conservative. The openness in the approach of this “Enamul Haque” surely made me believe that those rumors were in fact rumors. He made a nice introductory movement helping people know each other and breaking the ice. We were soon having fun in the class as students kept giving out their names and home districts. Soon after he has finished, we were introduced to another teacher who gave us an overview of what we needed to do if I wanted to register myself for the BBA course.

When the class was over, we spread out following the instructions given earlier. It was a long tiring day and I, along with the other freshers had to stand in ques, stand in the sun and walk long distances time to time under the typically hot summer sun. But what really marks the day special is that I attended the first class in my university life, no matter whether there was an academic air or not, it is special and it will remain forever?.

 

PS: I was supposed to post the entry yesterday but I felt so tired and sleepy that I went to sleep halfway through it, leaving behind the incomplete and unpublished post. I completed it today, 30th March and looking forward to publishing it with my another post about the orientation ceremony taking place today morning.

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Uncategorized

Earning Money from the Internet: The Truth

Recently I am noticing on different public places, news papers and posters that some people are arranging workshops to teach people how to earn money online. The other day, I was browsing some CDs and suddenly a package caught my eyes. It was a package of CDs in which, as the vendor claims, is the tutorial video of setting up weblogs and optimizing them to earn money. People who know that I am quite a regular internet user have started asking me for tips on earning money online. They get surprised that I don’t know the exact procedures of “earning 16-18 USD per hour”. Really, I don’t know. My site has never been popular. I earn 2-3 USD MAXIMUM if I am quite lucky that day. I wonder what is in these tutorial videos which train people to earn that much money in one hour. Let alone earning 16 USD per hour, I would be more than glad to earn 16 USD per day. I know that is not impossible when you are popular enough, but wait a minute, is it easy to become popular?

Many of the people in Bangladesh are new to the internet and a class of ill motivated people or better said, businessmen are taking the chance. They are misguiding the newbie. They are assuring that if the blogger puts right contents on their site, hits will come. They also provide some “hard-for-beginners” tutorial to guide them. Beginners, who don’t even know how the Internet works, how are they supposed to understand how SEO works? People who can’t write a single grammatically correct sentence, how are they supposed to be blogging on targeted topics? This is rubbish. It’s time the blogger community raised their voice on this issue. Earning money is never easy. You need to ensure quality first. You need to satisfy the readers. And to tell them the truth, we have to admit how hard that can be.

And the main reason behind starting a blog should never be money. If you wanna earn money online, go to some freelancing sites. That’s what I have been suggesting people for a while 😛

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PHP

Distributing PHP-GTK Applications on Windows

I am one of those few people who want to do everything with a single tool/utility. I have been curious enough to learn bits of every language but I am even more reluctant to memorize curves of every language. From the day I started programming, I have been looking for a single language to do everything. My quest has not completed. I know it will never be possible to find a “all-in-one” language. So, I minimized my requirements. I want to be able to develop web sites, write shell scripts and develop desktop GUI applications. With php-gtk, the last of the problems gets solved and I have chosen php to be my core language.

php-gtk is a php extension that uses the GTK (GIMP Tool Kit) to let developers build cool GUI apps which run on Linux, Windows, MacOS, BeOS and other platforms. I am currently studying the curves of building GUI software with php-gtk. It was going on fine. But the first problem I faced while distributing my php-gtk apps is that I need to port php, gtk and some other dependencies on the target machine. That hurts. So, I was searching on the internet if I can find a good solution to this problem. Luckily, I found one.

The following ZIP package contains a tool kit for deploying php-gtk apps on windows. Download and unzip the package. Then modify and compile the NSIS script that comes in with the package to build a installation package for your own app.

Download Link:
http://www.dreadsoft.org/php-gtk/pgsk.zip

This package requires the NSIS utility from Nullsoft. Get it from the following address:

Download Link:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net

You must first install NSIS to build the setup files.