Waiting for my Sparkle i

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Yesterday I just ordered my new car after that the one I had was totalled by a Honda Civic! (find a pic of my totalled car after the break).

The new car that I ordered is a Hyundai i20 Comfort in a bright Sparkle Blue colour. It has the smallest 1.2 ltr petrol engine, 6 airbags, ac, ABS with EBD, electric mirros, Radio CD Mp3 player with 6 speakers, Aux + USB port, Steering Audio Controls, Alarm, Trip Computer, and much more. I only have one problem…. I need to wait 71 days for it to arrive to Malta!!! :( But I think it will be worth it!! :)

Here are some reviews of the i20.

“It was unveiled recently at the Paris auto show amid much fanfare. The success of Hyundai’s large hatchback, the i30, has people all over the world looking forward to the i20. The 2525mm wheelbase coupled with front MacPherson strut and rear torsion beam suspension promises appreciable space on the inside.”

“Now, pop inside. The first impression is packed with ‘Wow!-factor’. The bold sweep of grown-up dashboard houses neat dials and an even neater centre stack, with easy to read graphics and the tightest of trim shut-lines. Obtaining a good seating position is easy thanks to a wide range of seat base and in/out-up/down steering column adjustment. What’s more, the seats are supremely comfortable, supportive and luxuriously trimmed (part-leather on Style; two-tone cloth on Comfort; single contrasting colour on Classic). The stalk controls and switchgear feel substantial and expensive. In fact, the overall impression of the interior is that it smacks of the highest VW-grade quality, minus the all-pervading blandness. “

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Happy Programmer’s Day

This is to all you programmer’s out there… no matter what language you use… Java, C++, VB.Net, Foxpro, C# (this is the one i use)… Happy Programmer’s Day!! Today Saturday 13th is Programmer’s Day… it’s your day guys!!! and gals!! ;) So a little history how this day came!

September 13th is an informal celebration of the 256th day of the year (2^8 bits=256)! According to Wikipedia, “traditions include: drinking, behaving silly, coding silly programs, mini computer games, playing with old computers, etc.” Read the rest of this entry »

Robots.txt

Robots.txt 

Today my supervisor told me to search some info on the robots.txt file. This is a text file that indicates the visiting robots (web robots or web spiders) which parts of the website they are allowed to visit or not. This text file should be inserted in the root directory of the website thus that when you enter the following address www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt the file will be opened.

In this text file you should enter the following data:

User-agent: *    this means that this rule applies to any robot that tries to get information from the site

Disallow: /        this will specify the URL that is not to be visited (in this case, all the website cannot be visited by the robots)

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/robots?siteUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yellowpages.com.mt%2F&hl=en#results

Count Working Days

Sometimes people need to count the difference between two dates. In Sql Server 2000 and 2005 it’s not a problem. To count the difference between the days you van use the following statement:

DATEDIFF(hh, Date 1, Date 2, ) / 24

The difficulty comes when you want to count only the working days of the dates. Maybe not many developers have this problem… but i couldn’t find a solution. After searching i found this function…


CREATE FUNCTION dbo.GetWorkingDays
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My First Post… Welcome to my blog!!

Dear bloggers, surfers and the rest of the world :) ,

Welcome to my first blog site. I know you’ll not be reading this post about me but who wants to know more you’re more than welcome… my name is clive and i live in malta. I work as an applications developer at the Yellow Pages. I work mostly with the .Net C# language and currently i am developing an intranet application to be used for reporting purposes and other services that are needed by the company’s employees and managers.

But i also use foxpro since the main application that is being used throughout the company is developed with this language, although some time or another this should be redeveloped with .Net. But since then i’ll have many other projects to do!! :)

If there’s any one reading my first post and want to leave any comment… just do it!! At least i’ll know that what i’m writing is being read by someone.

Regards,

Clive