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ঈদ নিয়ে গত কয়েকদি ধরে খুব ব্যস্ততা গেল। সবার জন্য কেনাকাটা, বেড়ানোর প্ল্যান আর নিজের কাজ ম্যানেজ করতে করতেই কেটে গেল এই কয়টা দিন। নতুন জিনিস নিয়ে পড়াশোনার সময় করে উঠতে পারলাম না। অনেক কিছু প্ল্যান করেছিলাম পড়ে শেষ করার।

ইদানীং ভাবছি লিংকডইনের মত বাংলা একটা ওয়েব অ্যাপ্লিকেশন বানালে কেমন ‌হয়। ভার্চুয়াল কিবোর্ডেরও একটা রিলিজ দেব সামনেই, সবার জন্য, এলজিপিএল।

WordPress Bangla Date Plugin

Yesterday I developed a plug in for wordpress users. Using this plug in you can display all the dates for your posts and comments in Bengali. So download the plug in from the following link, place it in plugins folder and enable it from “plugins” menu in wordpress administration panel. You are done.

I have released under Ekushey. Thanks to Omi Azad for the work.
http://www.ekushey.org/?page/Bangla_Date_Plugin_for_WordPress

The project was inspired by Humayun bhai from e-Kobi

WordPress Plugin for Bengali WordPressians (?)

Ah ya, let me call you WordPressian if you are a wordpress fan. Last night I developed a small plugin for bengali wordpress users. If you install this plugin you will be able to write in Unijoy, Phonetic and Plain English mode. You will get three buttons as shown here

Then you can type Unicode on se,ecting either UniJoy or Phonetic

And you can write english anytime by clicking English button or pressing Control+C

Thats it. I will release this plugin under Ekushey.org by Tomorrow

Golpo is on the way

I am working these days on my bangla chat portal ‘Golpo’. I am very ambitious about this project and I am trying to make it one of the most accessed website in near future (uh eh, I am overoptimistic, always).. I am adding some unique features which are not usually present in this kind of services. I have also a plan to release it’s desktop version.

I will run this project solely by me, no media or no parenting company, solely by me. Because I always feel comfort while there is no one over my head to report, a common symptom of all developers indeed. So How did I spend last couple of days? Last couple of days I was very bz with pageflakes. Its one of the best company I have ever seen in Bangladesh, really so cool.

I am currently seeking PHP developers for somewherein. Its getting hard day by day to find good developers around.

FCiCQ contributed some cool pathces in my wordpress4sqlite project. A severe bug fixed in one of my old projects. A new moderation panel has been developed for somewherein blog. I am also creating a bdjobs account for me, well, may be useless at all.

Now just finishing the book, hopefull it will release very soon. Ah, I am being a robot, a total robot.

Just a small anouncement from me on localization

I have done couple of projects for the companies I am working in or worked out, which are localized applications. But most of those projects were ANSI based, not unicode. So I made a decision last night that I wont spend my time for any ANSI projects in near future. All my localized projects will be Unicode.

Some of my colleagues will be extremely happy seeing this announcement, I bet that. But I have to mention a few names who inspired me a lot for making such a decision, among those Ekushey, Ankur and Omicronlab to mention.

One more thing, If , by any chance I have to develop a solution for ANSI, be sure that there will also be a unicode port of that project. That means a Hybrid solution.

Thanks to all who inspired me.

Bangla Unicode Phonetic Parsing Script [Transliterator] Released

Finally the project is finished. I developed the transliterator in javascript to parse the english keyboard input in bangla unicode characters phonetically.

The script is released under LGPL, so anyone can use it.

You can browse the online version of this script at
http://www.phpxperts.com/phonetic/example.html

Or you can browse the subversion repository of code at
http://phoneticbangla.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

Lets evaluate.

Dear God-Thanks for Giving me yesterday

Yesterday was a great day in my life. I completed my unicode based phonetic parser after dreaming for a long long time. It was not that much tough as I thought while planning. It works great. Finally at 11:30 PM Hasan suggested a nice change and I implemented it to ease the life of end-developers who will incorporate bangla unicode parsers in thier web apps. It was totally around 15 hours job including planning, learning and implementing.

Yesterday I also managed the data in systech digital and it worked fine.

I am releasing the unicode parser from Ekushey.org and Google open source community. From now on, i can use this project in my upcoming localized applications.

Thanks God for giving me yesterday and thanks for giving me the spirit to work.

Storing Bangla Unicode Text in MySQl Database

Well, If you just set the collation as “utf8-general-ci” that wont do all the things for storing and retrieving bangla unicode texts properly. There are something more to do. Last night while working for a project I just found the solution.

You must add these two lines just after selecting the database, i.e mysql_select_db() function.

mysql_query(’SET CHARACTER SET utf8′);
mysql_query(”SET SESSION collation_connection =’utf8_general_ci’”);

After executing these two statements MySQL will handle the rest.

phonetic bangla?? in webpages??

oh ya, i am developing a phonetic bangla keyboard these days. its by pure JS. 80% work is almost done. I can type more at a speed than i ever did by bijoy layout. I hope it will hel a lot of people to type bangla in their webpages.

i am developing it for our popular bangla blog site http://www.somewhereinblog.net