Marathon training begins today

      Marathon Training Schedule

Week	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat	Sun
1	Rest	3 m run Nov 29	5 m pace Nov 30	3 m run Dec 1	Rest	8 Dec 3	Cross Dec 4
2	Rest	3 m run Dec 6	5 m run Dec 7	3 m run Dec 8	Rest	9 Dec 10	Cross Dec 11
3	Rest	3 m run Dec 13	5 m pace Dec 14	3 m run Dec 15	Rest	6 Dec 17	Cross Dec 18
4	Rest	3 m run Dec 20	6 m pace Dec 21	3 m run Dec 22	Rest	11 Dec 24	Cross Dec 25
5	Rest	3 m run Dec 27	6 m run Dec 28	3 m run Dec 29	Rest	12 Dec 31	Cross Jan 1
6	Rest	3 m run Jan 3	6 m pace Jan 4	3 m run Jan 5	Rest	9 Jan 7	Cross Jan 8
7	Rest	4 m run Jan 10	7 m pace Jan 11	4 m run Jan 12	Rest	14 Jan 13	Cross Jan 14
8	Rest	4 m run Jan 17	7 m run Jan 18	4 m run Jan 19	Rest	15 Jan 21	Cross Jan 22
9	Rest	4 m run Jan 24	7 m pace Jan 25	4 m run Jan 26	Rest	Rest	Half Mar Jan 31
10	Rest	4 m run Jan 31	8 m pace Feb 1	4 m run Feb 2	Rest	17 Feb 4	Cross Feb 5
11	Rest	5 m run Feb 7	8 m run Feb 8	5 m run Feb 9	Rest	18 Feb 11	Cross Feb 12
12	Rest	5 m run Feb 14	8 m pace Feb 15	5 m run Feb 16	Rest	13 Feb 18	Cross Feb 19
13	Rest	5 m run Feb 21	5 m pace Feb 22	5 m run Feb 23	Rest	19 Feb 25	Cross Feb 26
14	Rest	5 m run Feb 28	8 m run Feb 29	5 m run March 1	Rest	12 March 3	Cross March 4
15	Rest	5 m run March 6	5 m pace March 7	5 m run March 8	Rest	20 March 10	Cross March 11
16	Rest	5 m run March 13	4 m pace March 14	5 m run March 15	Rest	12 March 17	Cross March 18
17	Rest	4 m run March 20	3 m run March 21	4 m run March 22	Rest	8 March 23	Cross March 24
18	Rest	3 m run March 27	2 m run March 29	Rest	Rest	2 m run March 30	Marathon

Naan

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of All Purpose flour (Plain flour or maida)
• 1 teaspoon active dry yeast
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• Pinch of baking soda
• 2 tablespoons of oil
• 2 1/2 tablespoons yogurt (curd or dahi)
• 3/4 cup lukewarm water

Also needed:

• 1 teaspoon of clear butter or ghee to butter the Naan
• 1/4 cup All Purpose flour for rolling

Method:

1. Dissolve active dry yeast in lukewarm water and let it sit for 10 minutes or until the mixture becomes frothy.
2. Add sugar, salt and baking soda to the flour and mix well.
3. Add the oil and yogurt mix, this will become crumbly dough.
4. Add the water/yeast mixture and make into soft dough.Note: after dough rise will become little softer.
5. Knead until the dough is smooth. Cover the dough and keep in a warm place for 3-4 hours. The dough should almost be double in volume.
6.  Heat the oven to 500 degrees with pizza stone for at least thirty minutes so stone is hot. Using a pizza stone will help to give naan close to same kind of heat as clay tandoor.
7. Next turn the oven to high broil.
8. Knead the dough for about two to three minutes and divide the dough into six equal parts.
9. Take each piece of dough, one at a time, and roll into 8-inch oval shape. Dust lightly with dry flour to help with the rolling.
10. Before putting the Naan in oven, lightly wet your hands and take the rolled Naan, and flipp them between your palms and place onto your baking/pizza stone into the oven.
11. You can place about 2 Naan on the baking/pizza stone at a time. The Naan will take about 2 to 3 minutes to cook, depending upon your oven. After the Naan is baked(Naan should be golden brown color on top).
12. Take naan out of the oven and brush lightly with clear butter or ghee.
13. wait 2 to 3 minutes before baking the next batch of naan. It gives oven the chance to get heated again to max.
14. Serve Naan with Daal, Chola, Palak Paneer or any vegetable. Enjoy!

JavaScript: Alert.Show(”message”) from ASP.NET code-behind

In highly interactive websites and intranet sites, you probably want to let the users know what’s going on when they delete, save, export etc. on the site. Those kinds of status messages are widely used and are often implemented by a JavaScript alert box on the web page. ASP.NET doesn’t natively support JavaScript functions from the code-behind files. You manually have to print out a script tag and add the alert() call to it.
As easy as it may be, the extensive use of the alert() status message though out a website calls for a unified and simple implementation in order to avoid duplicate code – a centralized method.
In Windows Forms it is very easy to pop up a status message by calling MessageBox.Show(“message”). It is that kind of object model we want in ASP.NET for printing out JavaScript alerts. We want Alert.Show(“message”) in ASP.NET.
Such a thing doesn’t exist so we have to create it our selves.
I’ve written a static class called Alert with one public method called Show. The implementation is as simple as can be. Just put the .cs file in the App_Code folder on your website and you instantly have access to the method from all pages and user controls.


using System.Web;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.UI;

///

/// A JavaScript alert
///

public static class Alert
{

///

/// Shows a client-side JavaScript alert in the browser.
///

/// The message to appear in the alert.
public static void Show(string message)
{
   // Cleans the message to allow single quotation marks
   string cleanMessage = message.Replace("'", "\\'");
   string script = "";

   // Gets the executing web page
   Page page = HttpContext.Current.CurrentHandler as Page;

   // Checks if the handler is a Page and that the script isn't allready on the Page
   if (page != null && !page.ClientScript.IsClientScriptBlockRegistered("alert"))
   {
      page.ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock(typeof(Alert), "alert", script);
   }
}  
}

Demonstration

That class of only 30 lines of code enables us to add a JavaScript alert to any page at any time. Here is an example of a Button.Click event handler that uses the method for displaying status messages.

void btnSave_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   try
   {
      SaveSomething();
      Alert.Show("You document has been saved");
   }
   catch (ReadOnlyException)
   {
      Alert.Show("You do not have write permission to this file");
   }
}
If something was saved without problems, this JavaScript alert box will apear to the user of the website

funny

सावधान !!!!!
अगर   आप  बस  ट्रेन  प्लेन  या  कहीं  से  भी  आ  जा  रहे  हो  और  किसी  महिला /लड़की  के  हाथ  में फूल ,धागा ,चैन  या  चमकती  हुए  कोई  भी  वस्तु  देखें  तो  तुरंत  वहां  से  भाग  जाये .यह  वस्तु  राखी  हो  सकती  है . आपकी  ज़रा  सी  लापरवाही  आपको  भाई   बना  सकती  है .
पुरुष  हित   में  जारी  .....

Javacript image banner random rotator

Phew..enough conditions there ?

So, I needed this javascript image rotator which would pick files from a folder and show them randomely rotating through the images ...

Meh.. here is what I googled and searched and figured out 

First put a placeholder on the page...

 <div id="imageDiv">

                        <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

                            document.write('<center><img src="' + adBanner1 + '" id="adBanner5" width="620" height="250" border="0" alt="Some Alt Text">');

                            document.write('</center>');

                        </script>

                        <noscript>

                            <img src="/Images/rotate/1.jpg" id="adBanner5" border="0" width="620" height="250"

                                alt="Some ALt Text" /></noscript>

                        </div>

Now, getting a random number ...after all the first image should be random no ??

    <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">

<!--

        rnd.today = new Date();

        rnd.seed = rnd.today.getTime();

        function rnd() {

            rnd.seed = (rnd.seed * 9301 + 49297) % 233280;

            return rnd.seed / (233280.0);

        };




        function rand(number) {

            var result = Math.ceil(rnd() * number);

            if (!result) result++;

            return result

        };

</script>

Now that we have a random number, lets populate the image 

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
//the total number of images to rotate

                  var ad_cnt1 = 20;

        var ad1 = rand(ad_cnt1);

        var link1;

        var adBanner1;

        var width1

        var height1

        var i = 0;

        for (i = 0; i <= ad_cnt1; i++) {

            if (ad1 == i) {

                adBanner1 = "/images/rotate/" + i + ".jpg";

            }

        }                                   </script>




Now... using the rotator to rotate through the images

var currentAd5 = 1;

        function cycle5() {

            if (currentAd5 == ad_cnt1) {

                currentAd5 = 1;

            }

            var banner5 = document.getElementById('adBanner5');

            banner5.src = "/images/rotate/" + currentAd5 + ".jpg";

            currentAd5++;

        }

        window.setInterval("cycle5()", 5000);

Hmm so my final code would look like such:

In the head of the page I put this Javascript :

  <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">

<!--

        function clearText(field) {




            if (field.defaultValue == field.value) field.value = '';




        }




        function restoreText(field) {




            if (field.value == '') field.value = field.defaultValue;




        }




        rnd.today = new Date();

        rnd.seed = rnd.today.getTime();

        function rnd() {

            rnd.seed = (rnd.seed * 9301 + 49297) % 233280;

            return rnd.seed / (233280.0);

        };




        function rand(number) {

            var result = Math.ceil(rnd() * number);

            if (!result) result++;

            return result

        };

        var ad_cnt1 = 20;

        var ad1 = rand(ad_cnt1);

        var link1;

        var adBanner1;

        var width1

        var height1

        var i = 0;

        for (i = 0; i <= ad_cnt1; i++) {

            if (ad1 == i) {

                adBanner1 = "/images/rotate/" + i + ".jpg";

            }

        }

        var currentAd5 = 1;

        function cycle5() {

            if (currentAd5 == ad_cnt1) {

                currentAd5 = 1;

            }

            var banner5 = document.getElementById('adBanner5');

            banner5.src = "/images/rotate/" + currentAd5 + ".jpg";

            currentAd5++;

        }

        window.setInterval("cycle5()", 5000);

-->

    </script>

And where I need to rotate the images I put this div 

  <div id="imageDiv">

                        <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

                            document.write('<center><img src="' + adBanner1 + '" id="adBanner5" width="620" height="250" border="0" alt="Some Alt Text">');

                            document.write('</center>');

                        </script>

                        <noscript>

                            <img src="/Images/rotate/1.jpg" id="adBanner5" border="0" width="620" height="250"

                                alt="Some Alt Text" /></noscript>

                        </div>

By the way "window.setInterval("cycle5()", 5000);" does the rotation at 5 sec interval... you can change it to suit your needs

And you are welcome

rang bikharenge toh fariyaad karegi khushboo
kisi phool ko chutki se machchal kar dekho

raat ko shamma ki maanind pighal kar dekho
zindagi kya hai kisi taap mai dhal kar dekho

just a thought

जिस दिन मंदिर की घंटी से स्वर मिल गया अज़ान का

उस दिन रूप बदल जायेगा अपने हिंदुस्तान का

Setting gridview edititemtemplate dropdownlist selectedvalue

This is a very quick way of setting the selectedvalue of dropdownlist in gridview edittemplate...

Just add the following to your dropdownlist

SelectedValue='<%# Bind("acceptance") %>' AppendDataBoundItems="true"


The entire column would look something like this




<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Acceptance">

                <ItemTemplate>

                    <asp:Label ID="Acceptance" runat="Server" Text='<%# calcAcceptance((int) Eval("acceptance")) %>'  />

                </ItemTemplate>

                <EditItemTemplate>

                <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlAcceptance" runat="server"  SelectedValue='<%# Bind("acceptance") %>' AppendDataBoundItems="true">

                    <asp:ListItem Value="0">Acceptable</asp:ListItem> 

                    <asp:ListItem Value="1">Required</asp:ListItem> 

                </asp:DropDownList>

                </EditItemTemplate>

            </asp:TemplateField>


Posting Html code to blogger/blogspot

http://www.simplebits.com/cgi-bin/simplecode.pl

This is a simple but superb utility which lets you customize your html for posting to blogger !!!

Seal of approval from me...

I can be definitely not be the only person who thinks of a seal nodding approvingly every time they say seal of approval... am I ??

Placeholder dynamic controls

So, I had to build on what I started yesterday.

Now I have a spiffy code sample for all the times when I want to add dynamic controls to placeholders..

The sample below adds 5 rows to a table with all kinds of funky controls each having its own properties set separately....

Here it goes ....drumroll !!!!!!

Front End


 <table class="sofT" style="width: 100%">
        <tr>
            <td class="SubClass">
                Course #
            </td>
            <td class="SubClass">
                Course Title
            </td>
            <td class="SubClass">
                Hours
            </td>
            <td class="SubClass">
                Grade
            </td>
            <td class="SubClass">
                Grade Pt.
            </td>
        </tr>
 <tr>
            <td>
                <asp:Label ID="lblCrNo5" runat="server"></asp:Label>
            </td>
            <td>
                <asp:TextBox ID="tbCrNo5" runat="server" Width="300"></asp:TextBox>
            </td>
            <td>
                <asp:TextBox ID="tbHrs5" runat="server" Width="30" Text="0.00"></asp:TextBox>
            </td>
            <td>
                <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlHrs5" runat="server">
                </asp:DropDownList>
            </td>
            <td>
                <asp:TextBox ID="tbGPA5" runat="server" Width="30" Text="0.00" Enabled="false"></asp:TextBox>
            </td>
        </tr>
        <asp:PlaceHolder ID="plCols" runat="server"></asp:PlaceHolder>
    </table>
 <asp:Label ID="lblCounter" runat="server" Visible="false"></asp:Label>
  <hr />
          <asp:Button ID="btnAdd" runat="server" CssClass="btn" Text="Add More Classes"
                    onclick="btnAdd_Click" />

And in the backend 



  protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (Cache["tt"] != null)
        {
            Panel tt = Cache["tt"] as Panel;
            plCols.Controls.Add(tt);


        }
}


 protected void btnAdd_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)


    {
            Panel tt = new Panel();
     
        int courseCounter = Convert.ToInt32(lblCounter.Text);


//this is a fix needed else 5 gets repeated twice.... 
        if (courseCounter == 5)
            courseCounter = 6;


        int numlabels = courseCounter + 5;


//this is getting the data for dropdownlist 
        DataTable ddlTable = createDdlTable();


        for (; courseCounter < numlabels; courseCounter++)
        {


            DropDownList ddl = new DropDownList();


            // Set the label's Text and ID properties.
            ddl.DataSource = ddlTable;
            ddl.DataTextField =  "hrsToShow";
            ddl.DataValueField = "hrsToShow";
            ddl.ID = "ddlHrs" + courseCounter;
            ddl.DataBind();
           
            Label lbl = new Label();
            lbl.ID = "lblCrNo"+courseCounter;
            lbl.Text = courseCounter.ToString();


            TextBox tb = new TextBox();
            tb.ID="tbCrNo"+courseCounter;
            tb.Width= 300;


            TextBox tb1 = new TextBox();
            tb1.ID="tbHrs"+courseCounter;
            tb1.Width= 30;
            tb1.Text = "0.00";


            TextBox tb2 = new TextBox();
            tb2.ID="tbGPA"+courseCounter;
            tb2.Width= 30;
            tb2.Text = "0.00";
            tb2.Enabled=false;


      //I know all this can be single Add... divided it for clarity !!
            tt.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(""));
            tt.Controls.Add(lbl);
            tt.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(""));
            tt.Controls.Add(tb);
            tt.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(""));
            tt.Controls.Add(tb1);
            tt.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(""));
            tt.Controls.Add(ddl);
            tt.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(""));
            tt.Controls.Add(tb2);
            tt.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(""));
            plCols.Controls.Add(tt);
            Cache["tt"] = tt;
        }


        ddlTable.Dispose();
        lblCounter.Text = numlabels.ToString();
    }



And as Disney says ...THATS ALL,  FOLKS !!


Hope to add the processing of dynamic controls thus added to tomorrow's post