Grand launch of Deshi Tender – the best source of tender and procurement information in Bangladesh

It’s a pleasure to announce that today we have released the first online product, Deshi Tender, of our company. Please find it here:

http://www.deshitender.com/

Deshi Tender is the best source of all tender and procurement information in Bangladesh. We collect tender information from various sources – newspapers, websites and sometimes directly from companies.

The purpose of this website is to ease the life of the (1) contractors who collect tender notices from many sources everyday, (2) company executives who publish their tender and/or procurement information to many newspapers, and (3) individuals who keep track of their desired tender information from various places. Deshi Tender works for all of them above.

Deshi Tender is different than other tender service providers in Bangladesh. We classify tender information by category, organization and city/region/division. It’s easy to find and filter your expected tender information. We tried to use the latest web technology so visitors experience never go negative. It is a very sophisticated website with easy navigation, easy to understand & use features,  etc.

We collect all tender and procurement information from national dailies, websites, and all possible tender sources and then publish those to our website. And then we notify our customers (by email) about the latest tender information – once/twice a day.

If you are contractor or a company, please join Deshi Tender today and enjoy maximum facilities in the occasion of inauguration.

Please visit the site. Your comments and feedback are most welcome.

Getting Rid of Thumbs.db in Windows

If you use SVN client on Windows machine, you will experience (or have experienced already) an annoying problem in media folders (especially image) if you have set the “Show hidden files and folders” option in the “Folder Options” window ON. A file named “Thumbs.db” is automatically created in media folders that cause problems during SVN commit – it might be submitted to your SVN server if you don’t notice it.

Thumbs.db is used by Windows to create cache in media folders. If you delete this file from a folder, it wont go away forever…you will see it again in your next visit to this folder. Because Windows regenerates it the next time you view the folder contents.

One of the biggest annoyances to the Thumbs.db file is the way it changes folder settings. You can specifically set all folders in Windows to open in Detail view, for instance. If any folder contains a Thumbs.db file, that folder reverts to the thumbnail view, ignoring your preferences.

To turn off this thumbnail caching, open Tools > Options in Windows Explorer and click on the View tab. Check the box next to Do not cache thumbnails and click OK.

1. Open any folder and click Tools > Folder Options.
2. Click the View tab from the Folder Options window.
3. In the Advanced Settings check “Do not cache thumbnails”.

Getting rid of Thumbs.db

Enjoy!

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Rupom

Avoid being blacklisted for SPAM you did not send

If you ever tried to send e-mail messages that never seem to reach the destination, don’t blame PHP limited built-in mail capabilities! You may be victim of having your mail server blacklisted for SPAM that you never sent.

Manuel Lemos of PHPClasses.Org shares an article that guides through the way to avoid being blacklisted for SPAM messages that you never sent. Here is the key points of his article:

• SPAM traps
• Auto-replying to spam trap messages
• Avoiding sending messages to spam trap addresses
• Using SPF to discard spam trap messages

Read the full article.

I just wanted to share because I found the article interesting.

Thanks.

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Rupom

Google Base Data API Error – You must specify an id for this item

For those who have recently faced this error during product uploading to Google Base, please note that you have to add an additional attribute <g:id> with each of your entries. Google has recently added more documentation on this:

http://code.google.com/apis/base/starting-out.html#products

Thanks.

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Rupom

How to disable laptop’s touchpad in Linux?

I just want to share something that might come to your helps. If you are using Linux on your laptop and don’t want to use the touch pad, please follow this:

1. Open file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and find a block similar to:

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier  “Synaptics”
Driver      “synaptics”
Option        “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option        “Protocol” “auto-dev”
Option        “Emulate3Buttons” “yes”
EndSection

2. Add a line (an option actually) before the “EndSection”:

Option      “Touchpad Off” “1″

So the section now should look like:

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier  “Synaptics”
Driver      “synaptics”
Option        “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option        “Protocol” “auto-dev”
Option        “Emulate3Buttons” “yes”
Option        “Touchpad Off” “1″
EndSection

3. Save the file, logout and login.

Your touch pad should no longer be active. I tested this in my Fedora Core 8.

Thanks.

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Rupom

My Grand Father Died – The End of a Great Life

February 22nd was a very sad day in my life. My morning started with a very shocking news. I got a call from my home that suggested me to start  journey for home as soon as possible. My home town (where parents live) is a 6.5 hours drive from my present town. My father didn’t want to mention the reason directly but finally he had to – when I inisisted too much. However, I started my journey very early in the morning by my personal car and reached home after half an hour of my targetted time. My family members were prepared with everything for the “see off” of my grand father as per the Muslim rules. It was really tough to look at the dead face of my grand father. I don’t know how to express my feeling, but I only know it’s very tough.

However, my grand father was a very honest and kind person. He was 100+ old when he died. In his long life, he did many great activities for the people of the region we live in. He sacrificed his entire life for the people, for the family and for achieving all good things. It’s reality that we can’t get him back among us but only what we can do or try to do is  to achieve his in-complete works. May God bless my family to achieve all he wasnt able to complete.

I believe my grand father is resting in the best heaven. We will be loving him so much as always he did us in his whole life. His soul will always be in peace…peace and peace.

May Allah help me and my family to do my grand father’s  in-complete works!

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Rupom

Election in Bangladesh – Getting a secular democratic government

I’m back again after a long time. I always wanted to write but it didn’t happen. Today I want to share the most important and memorable incident of 2008 happened in our Bangladesh. It’s actually something we were expecting for long.

December 29 of 2008 was a very important day for the nation.  It’s the anchor point for something new for us – as the country was being ruled by a military backed governemt since 2007. I don’t want to elaborate the reason for military-backed governemt – but it has a backend history. The country was in a democracy-less condition in 2007 and 2008.

However, the 29th december election was a turning point for the nation – from a military-backed ruling to democracy. There were two major alliances fighting to win the election. One was the Awami League led grand alliance and another was the BNP led four party alliance. The Awami League led grand alliance pledged for the trial of the war criminals those who killed 3 millions of Bangladeshi in 1971 (of the then East Pakistan) and a digital Bangladesh. It’s important to mention that a big number of people of the BNP led fourt party alliance are war criminals – that’s why they never wanted to start the trial for the war criminals. People compared the pledges offered by both alliances and placed their right to the Awami League led grand alliance. They won in more than 3/4 of the seats in the parliament. People rejected the war criminals and corrupted leaders’ alliance. And thus Awami League – which is known as the secular political party in this country – and its alliance entered into power.

We believe Awami League can fulfill the pledges they offered to win the election. So far so good – they already started initial processing for war criminals’ trial.

We really need a digital Bangladesh.

Lets hope for better!

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Rupom

Beendobox :: Check and Send email without leaving Facebook!

Finally we were able to release an Alpha version of the Beendobox on Facebook. Now we can say there is a web application that makes life easier when accessing multiple email accounts. Currently it supports Hotmail, Yahoo & Gmail and hoping AOL & POP3 very soon.

Find it here: http://apps.facebook.com/beendobox/

Check and Send email without leaving Facebook! Beendo’s Beendobox (Alpha) application provides one-stop access to all your email inboxes from Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, and Google Gmail.

Try it out today. Beendobox is safe and secure. Your passwords are not stored unless your choose to “remember passwords” for extra login convenience.

Add this application if you want to make your emailing life easier!

Please send feedbacks (bugs & suggestions) to us so we can work for a better release.

Thanks.

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Rupom

Google App Engine needs PHP support

Google App Engine was launched but it does not support PHP. This article presents some ideas that may help Google adding PHP support sooner rather than later.

Please read the full story and digg it to let Google know our combined voice.

read more | digg story

My Facebook Applications

I am playing with FB apps. See the ones that I added since yesterday:

1. http://apps.facebook.com/phpresource/ – for phpResource Feeds

2. http://apps.facebook.com/crickets/ - for cricket updates live from cricinfo.com

3. http://apps.facebook.com/cricketbd/- for cricket updates live from cricinfo.com (Bangladesh cricket included)

Do you want to build one? Follow my previous post. It’s very easy to create one.

Thanks.

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Rupom