ICT at a glance in Bangladesh

Information Communication Technology (ICT) encompasses the broad fields of data/information processing, transmission and Communications by means of computer and telecommunication techniques and these modern tools are being increasingly used for organizational/personal information processing in all sectors of economy and society. A dependable information system is essential for efficient management and operation of the public and [...]

National ICT Policy

The ICT sector of Bangladesh is one of the fastest growing sectors of its economy.
The Government of Bangladesh is very positive for development of ICT and
declared this sector as “the trust sector”. Realizing the importance of ICT, the name
of the Ministry has been changed from “Ministry of Science and Technology” to the
“Ministry of Science and [...]

ICT IN BANGLADESH

Now at the dawn of the new millenniuma silent, much more powerful and all pervasive called Information Technology revolution is taking place across the glob. The term information technology or IT has been replaced by information and communication technology or ICT which involves collection, storage, processing and distribution of information. Computers, internet and electronic communication [...]

History of web dev programming languages

There were a huge battle on the topic “The necessary to know the developer and history of a language on which we make our living”. We code a “language” for years and don’t know who was the mastermind behind it, may be it’s silly. Not knowing their name also make us miss some [...]

Checking CodeIgniter out of the Subversion Repository

If you’ve been following the CodeIgniter community, then you’ll know that some time ago, we made an subversion (SVN) repository available. Subversion is a version control system that we use internally to be sure we’re all working from the same page. The SVN is publicly available, and is committed to by 4 of the fine [...]

CodeIgniter vs. CakePHP

I almost fear putting this kind of post together as it’s bound to pull the fanatics (in the negative sense of the word) out of the woodworks. Right off the bat, let me just say that I’ve tried to be as fair and honest in this assessment and I’ve tried to keep it just to [...]

New Akismet CodeIgniter Library

I know many of you are using CodeIgniter to build blogs or similar projects. Well, Elliot Haughin has been building Blaze this week, and for the new blog module, he ended up building an Akismet library for CodeIgniter!
We can’t stand spam.
Who can? You have better things to do with your life than deal with the [...]

Symbian OS Tutorial Links

Getting started
Naming conventions
Layout conventions
Class types
C++ and machine architecture
Object orientation basics
Object lifetimes and cleanup
Multiple inheritance and interfaces
Descriptors
Thin templates
Code efficiency
Defensive programming
Static data
Frameworks, libraries and DLLs
UIDs
Ordinal growth and the extension DLL pattern
How to optimise application start-up time
Exporting and Importing Classes in Symbian OS
Code Clinic
Symbian Developer Library documentation
Symbian Developer Library
Symbian community newsletter
public discussion forums
Developer Community
About Symbian OS [...]

The Hello World example

We will first check that the SDK is correctly working:
Open a DOS box,
just type ‘NMAKE’ (without the quotes!), if you get a Microsoft Error message U1064, don’t worry, this was just to check your path is correctly configured. If you have an error message saying that NMAKE is not a recognised command, you [...]

Getting started with Symbian development

Symbian OS is a proprietary operating system, designed for mobile devices, with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian Ltd. It is a descendant of Psion’s EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors.
Symbian OS was built to follow three design rules – the integrity and security of [...]