Archive for July, 2008

McDonald’s Malaysia – Gold Medal Meal

It is being long time that I didn’t see McDonald’s Malaysia come out an attractive set meal’s gift. Just recently, McDonald’s is promoting its new set meal called “Gold Medal Meal“. The combination of this set are:

With each purchase of this “Gold Medal Meal” set, you will be given a free “Coca Cola Contour Glass“.

There are 5 design of sports to choose from for the glass, there are “Swimming”, “Athletics”, “Basketball”, “Volleyball” and “Archery”. Collect all 5 designs today to complete your Coca Cola Contour Glass set.

I am currently having only the volleyball design glass. 4 more to go to complete my set. :)

Windows Live FolderShare (beta)

Having problem to access your file from another pc thru your web browser?

Very hard and troublesome to configure network sharing of a file or folder to your friend thru internet?

If yes, now Microsoft has come out a new beta program called Windows Live FolderShare which is still in beta phase. It is a program where you can share your personal libraries or even allow remote access to your destination computer desktop or laptop from any of your web browser. Believe it or not? It is real and I have test it out.

I believe you have heard of Windows Live SkyDrive, which is another also related to files. By the way, there are different between this 2 freeware. SkyDrive providing online storage of 5 GB for free to anyone. While FolderShare is providing protocol to access the files from your shared remote pc, where shared user able to access the files from web browser. Cool, right?

New Facebook Design on 21st July 2008

Just recently, facebook has their new layout design which providing more usability design to user. Where it have better user experience on the web 2.0 layout. Try it out now www.new.facebook.com

When you first login to new layout design, you will see layout as below:

Zone 1: New header toolbar of welcoming message

Zone 2: All of your profile shortcut area

Zone 3: Your news feed of your friends

Zone 4: Short summary widgets like your friend requests, status updates, bookmarks and birthdays

Zone 1: New features of usage of tab. Clicking on each of the tab will change the content below to the particular topic which I think is very user friendly and fast response. This is the area which I like the most with this new layout enhancement. And most important, there is a cool nice place for me to enter “What are you doing right now?”. It is similar to twitter. If compare this short with twitter, I still prefer twitter. Why? Because twitter is supporting anywhere.

SELECT TOP FEW ROWS in different database platform

Just a simple tip on how to perform SELECT TOP FEW ROWS from your sql query in different database platform.

SQL Server:

SELECT TOP 10 product, descr, email
FROM products

ORACLE:

SELECT product, descr, email
FROM products
WHERE ROWNUM <= 10

MySQL:

SELECT product, descr, email
FROM products
LIMIT 10

Enhanced ASP.NET Tree View with JQuery

Recently I come across to a project which required a tree view with some ASP.NET control to be attach with some tree view node. The default ASP.NET treeview doesn’t provide this feature and there is no way to extending the default tree view. Therefore, I decided to write a composite control from scratch.

The purpose of this control is to allow user to input control such as Button, Drop Down List, Radio Button List, Radio Button, List Box, Check Box List, Check Box and TextBox into each row of tree view. Additionally, I used JQuery assisting this tree view’s behavior of Collapse and Expand.

Result of this Extend Tree View as below:

Click here to see action in video:extend-tree-view

Example of the picture above showing the tree consisting 2 root with 1 level of sub-tree. Let’s see on “TICKET” root, there is a label with drop down list. This enabling user to check on “TICKET” and there is an input control allowing user to select which “TICKET” type (just an example scenario).

To begin with using the this tree, just drag and drop this tree view control from your sidebar or you can code as below:

Attached with this post the source code of this composite control with a demo web project: Download source code here

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Secret Recipe Promotion

Secret Recipe Malaysia recently having set meal promotion for RM 10 each which is very attracting public response. Unfortunately, this promotion only valid on peninsula Malaysia.

secret-recipe-promition

secret-recipe-promition

This set meal consist of:

  • Chicken
  • Rice
  • vegetable
  • Ice Lemon Tea

And you can choose from 3 flavors, there are:

  • Mushroom (Which is the most popular and I always order this flavor)
  • BBQ
  • Black Pepper

This offer is just valid from now until 6th August 2008. Faster grab yourself before this promotion end.

I already had myself on this promotion for 7 times (6 times Mushroom and 1 time black pepper). It is very worth of eating on shopping mall as others food are very expensive and very little as compare to this Secret Recipe Promotin set meal at RM 10.

secret-recipe-cake

secret-recipe-cake

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Hellboy II – The Golden Army

I didn’t watch Hellboy first episode, so I not know what story running on Hellboy first episode. Me and my wife went to TGV One Utama for this movie. Actually I don’t like to watch movie with TGV instead of GSC due to its seat is very compact space to put my leg and the room kind of oldish.

Overview rating:
This red guy Hellboy is a very funny guy, he love to sing and showing off whenever he is on mission. With his super gun, he could defeat anyone especially when he is on fighting with “God of Forest”.

The graphic effect and animation is very nice as well especially on when he is fighting with “The Golden Army”.

You shouldn’t miss this good movie.