Hanif’s Blog

Finally i have finished developing this script. It might not be that big for some ASP people but it was really fun working on it.

I am just testing it out on local server and soon i am going to upload it on my site for demo. The idea behind this was creating a contact form without using any email component. CDONTs has been headache for some people when they don’t get that component with their hosting service.

There is one more advantage of using this script, You don’t need to open your email box to check the messages you recieve through your website. All you have to do is open your inbox on your own website (password protected) and check the messages and delete the unwanted messages.

Don’t worry about spamming, i will also add a captcha very soon, after testing the first version and getting response from you

So give me few days and you will get the script soon. No its not free, the intial price mentioned on my website but i will see if i can reduce it a bit.

Took longer this time, as i wanted something dynamic. Its completely ASP based now and very easy for future upgrading and changes.  http://www.mhanif.com/

First time, i have used different meta tags for each and every page. And that also took time as i wanted to generate all the meta through programming according to the page you are surfing.

Anyways, gotta go,

Well, Finally Waqar Younis has accepted an offer from the England and Wales Cricket Board to tour with their academy team as a bowling consultant.

I always use to wonder why Pakistan always seeks for forien cricket coach for Pakistani team but now a Pakistani cricketer has been offered by England.

Even in other countries in sub continent, they have forien coaches, I think, players are more comfortable with the coach who belongs to other country.

Otherwise i dont see any reason for ignoring the locals and going to forieners.

But anyways, Goodluck Waqar Younis, i hope england academy team does well under Pakistani Coach.

Well, they played cricket since they were child. they are not very educated. Cricket is their profession. If they don’t get chance to play in Pak team and if we don’t improve the domestic cricket system. They have right to go and play for this kind of leagues. (Although it hurts) But Its Fact.

I will leave a question here and after getting few answers from you i will give my comments on that too.

What should PCB do to improve the domestic cricket system in Pakistan?

I am working on Simple Captcha Script in ASP 3.0. And i am going to do it without using any component/object.

Probably you will be able to get it free of charge from my website soon but if it takes alot of time and hardwork, i might charge for it :)      so let me know if you are interested to know about it and if you have any suggestion for it.

Well if you are not using any component/object. And you have just the simple ASP Pages and you want to convert it into .NET just to show off by having your pages with .ASPX extentions.

All you have to do is rename your pages from .ASP to .ASPX and rename Global.asa to Global.asax.

You might want to change your code as well, so make sure u know what you are doing, and always backup your project before making this kind of silly things. I am running my website on .asp and i am not going to do that because i don’t need to.

Goodluck

i came to know that Option Explicit is set to true by default in ASP.NET and it was really irritating for me but anyways for those who are new to .NET must set it to false or declare all the variables (do the hardwork buddy)  its Microsoft

Great movie it was. Watched it twice, will watch it again lol     Well i would love to be jumper …..  i wish i could,

Well, Far from your typical futuristic action adventure. The guy (David) that possesses the awesome power to hit multiple destinations around the planet in seconds and walk through walls. (wowwwww i wish i could do that lol).

But ofcourse this kinda movies doesnt have anything to do with real life but whoever watches it, loves it.

MUST WATCH IT (if you haven’t already)

Geo news reported “PCB has invited West Indies for Test Series.”

Well, Pakistanis are cricket lovers and we need more and more home series , so that youngsters in Pakistan cricket team can gain more experience.

Goodluck Pakistan,

I have always been very careful when it comes to switching to a newer version of any technology. ASP.NET is in market since long time but still i never felt that its time to forget ASP Classic completely.

I found a very interesting article by Tim Walton is the Managing Director of Evesham Solutions LTD

“Tim Walton is the Managing Director of Evesham Solutions Ltd with over 13 innovative years in application and internet development. A geek with social skills and a passion for customer care, razor sharp business skills and an ability to simplify the most complex of ideas – desperately seeking like-minded individuals to take on the world.”

And i do agree with him so i will share those 8 reasons which he has mentioned in his article to Stick with ASP 3.0.

1. I’ve been using ASP for many years now; I can make it do anything I like. Over the years I have built a vast array of functions for all manner of operations from database access to formatting dates nicely. Nimble – that’s me with ASP.
2. ASP.NET has many views of each page. There is the HTML view, the Source view, and the Code Behind view and switching between the three is sluggish in much the same way that wading waist high through treacle is a little slow going.
3. Sluggish is a word to describe the whole of the .NET development environment. Starting a new project? Go make a cup of coffee. Switching between tabs? ‘Go large’ with your coffee. Pressing F1 for help? Make your coffee a take-out and go and have a stroll in the park.
4. Regular ASP has the most lightweight development environment I have ever used - Notepad. Yep, that’s all you need!
                      Installation time? - It’s already installed
                      Start up time? - It’s running in an instant
                      Configuration? - Not needed
                      Availability? - Any PC ever
5. ASP.NET has a tendency to auto-generate code. Is this a powerful and useful feature? Not in my books. Surely a serious developer can’t depend on any code automatically generated by the overweight Behemoth that is .NET! Not only is the code auto-generated, but the client side code is generated on the fly, so you have no opportunity to modify or tweak what Bill’s team thinks is good for you. If there was a smiley that denotes a “pah!” kind of spitting face I would insert it here.
6. Have you tried a quick fix on a regular ASP website? Dead easy. Edit the page as it sits on the web server and view your results instantly. Obviously on larger and more mission critical websites you would not do this, but on smaller websites why not? Have you tried a quick fix on a compiled ASP.NET website? It makes me pull this face or this face
7. Regular ASP hosting is still cheaper and more prevalent than ASP.NET hosting, and even the ASP.NET hosting is slow at moving to new versions. There are UNIX versions of the ASP compiler too so you don’t even need a Windows hosting company.
8. Call me lazy, but I’ve always treated the uploading of a regular ASP website to a remote web server as making an off-site backup of the code. Should my laptop get dropped or lost I can download the website from the web server and continue development. Does this work with ASP.NET? Sadly not. The web server has some compiled code, making it very easy to loose source code.

“The Internet needs to be turned from being a stateless environment, to being a platform with state.”

That’s it, that’s all there is to it. I’m not saying it’s easy, and I’m not saying how it should be done, but until we can write web applications as easily as writing Windows applications we will be stuck with the half-cooked, half-baked, half-hearted approach to web development where things are fudged and tweaked to work, balanced as precariously as a house of cards, that we are currently stuck with. 

People talk of the Web 2.0 revolution, a phrase that is meant to imply that current web development is an order of magnitude greater than any web development gone previously. I propose that we forget Web 2.0 and move straight on to Web 3.0 or even Web 4.0 complete with new browsers, ditching the baggage of backwards compatibility that is HTML, CSS, and client side JavaScript. You may smile a wry smile as you consider my statements as being laid out in front of you so as to tease and to provoke a reaction, but look carefully at my stall of goods, you will see it again one day.  

A slight digression there I think, but until the real web revolution I’ll be sticking with classic ASP where I can. Who knows, maybe I’ll even lead the revolution.

Anyone with me?

YESSSSSSSSSSS I AM WITH YOU;) 

Whatever is written in bold or italic  are not my words. So thanks to Mr.Tim for this great analysis and he has also asked if anyone has 2 more reasons so i will be sending him my 2 reasons and if he likes it, he can make the complete list of 10 reasons to stick with lovely ASP Classic

Best of luck.