OK What’s Next…

5 years ago I was wanting to become a Network & Security Engineer so badly. I sacrificed so many things to come this far. Specially my precious youth where I could just enjoy so many other things other than writing a program or configuring a router. But everything I planned 5 years ago were archived successfully.

I got a degree from a good university, have industry experience for more than 2 and half years, I have industry certifications like CCNA, MCSA, CCNA Sec and studying for CCNP and CCSP, also eventually step in to CISSP and looks great huh! What a great technology career.

Now I don’t want any of that. Why??? See, the reason behind I needed to become this person called a professional, because I could live the life that I wanted, I get the attention from the people I loved and I don’t have to struggle so much in my life.

Now what I want is my own company. It could be in IT, could be in Clothing, or could be just another Import/Export company. That’s all in my mind right now. So now I am struggling for the 1^st time in my life. I know my IT skills and experience going to help me whatever I do in the future, but all the hard work I have done would it be wasted?

I am in position to start my own business. Yes I am in a great position to start my own thing. Do I have the contacts I needed, yes I do have great contacts. Do I have enough money to get things started, yes I do have money to invest and also I have good investors. Do I have enough experience , probably not, but nothing is perfect in this world.

So if I want to become a company owner should I have to give up my career and step in to whole new world. People say different things, as I always do, should I experience this by myself. Should I still keep reading my articles and studying my CCNP stuff?

Confused for the 1^st time in my life!

A Web Design and Development for a Clothing Company – Casanova Clothing

Site: http://www.casanovaclothing.com.au

Web 2.0 style web design and coded in ASP.Net. Still come things needed to tweak up on product listing page with the cool JavaScript lib that I used.

Casanova clothing looking to upgrade the web next year for full eCommerce enable ordering system.

Ravindu Denawaka

Another Development of mine – Virtua Tech

Site Address: http://virtuatech.com.au

Virtua-Tech is an IT consulting company. I came across the owners while I was working at Members Equity Bank. Initially they wanted me to run there new IT development cluster, but didn’t really want to put my leg in to it at that stage.

The site was done in xHTML, CSS and PHP.

Ravindu Denawaka

How to setup the ScriptManager for JQuery and MS Ajax Framework

Quick note of how to set up JS frameworks using ScriptManager server control.

<asp:ScriptManager runat="server" EnablePageMethods="true">   <Scripts>     <asp:ScriptReference Path="~/MicrosoftAjaxTemplates.js" />     <asp:ScriptReference Path="~/js/jquery-1.2.6.min.js " />   </Scripts> </asp:ScriptManager><?xml:namespace prefix = o />

Thumbnail Images in GridView

Thumbnail Images in GridView using,

http://www.codedigest.com/Articles/ASPNET/102_GridView_with_Thumbnail_Images_%E2%80%93_Part_1.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/Thumbnail_Images.aspx

New Image Generator control in ASP.Net 3.5

Introduction

Storing images in database BLOB field and displaying it on aspx page is one of the common tasks we do in asp.net projects.  Asp.Net itself does not have an in build control to bind the image stored in database. To display an image stored in database, we will write an HttpHandler which will fetch the image from database and do a binary write. We all know that doing a binary write will become cumbersome when the number of images increases and the number of users becomes high. This week Microsoft have released a new control called ASP.NET Generated Image control to display image in ASP.Net page. This article will give you a kick start on this control and some of its features.

http://www.codedigest.com/Articles/ASPNET/119_New_Image_Generator_control_in_ASPNet_35.aspx

How do I talk to Active Direcotry (AD) in .Net

http://wiki.asp.net/page.aspx/462/how-to-query-active-directory-without-hard-coding-the-domain-name/

Beautiful Web Templates

Here is a list of beautiful web templates I came across in my travel

1. http://www.mantisatemplates.com/

Service Pack 1 for VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/08/11/service-pack-1-for-vs-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-released.aspx

YaY ! I am CCNA Certified

It was a stressful day, stressful week, stressful months. Yes I passed my final CCNA exam today, Ehuuuuuu it’s big relief. I can enjoy my weekend freely with my friends and loved onces. I dont know about other poeple, but getting certified and passing the CCNA exam and going through all 4 semesters at Monash and RMIT Cisco Academies wasn’t easy for me. It took me nearly 6-8 months to fully understand the concepts of networking, and Cisco devices, Switching, Routing etc….

But now I have a commanding knowledge to enter to next steps in my career.

I though of sharing my CCNA Experience with other people. Please see my Cisco Note Book Blog for more information.