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	<title>Raihan Iqbal</title>
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	<description>Life is codetastic!</description>
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		<title>Create Twitter Counter Badge using CodeIgniter</title>
		<link>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/12/create-twitter-counter-badge-using-codeigniter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/12/create-twitter-counter-badge-using-codeigniter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raihan Iqbal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CodeIgniter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[badge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[create]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know this is one of those “re-inventing the wheel&#8217;” kind of tutorials but I had nothing better to do during my Eid vacation  
Things you will need
1. Download and install the excellent CodeIgniter Curl Library
2. You will need an image which will contain your follower count.
The Code
In your Controller class add the following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using MsSqlSpatial with Google Maps</title>
		<link>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/08/using-mssqlspatial-with-google-maps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/08/using-mssqlspatial-with-google-maps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raihan Iqbal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Map]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[T-SQL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google maps spatial sql]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many .NET open-source projects that don’t get the attention they deserve is MsSqlSpatial. This project provides spatial extensions to SQL Server 2005 – meaning you can perform various spatial calculations right in your T-SQL queries! Cool eh? But, this project lacks documentation which is a problem for us developers. I’m sure they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Jquery Grid with ASP.NET MVC</title>
		<link>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/07/using-jquery-grid-with-asp-net-mvc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/07/using-jquery-grid-with-asp-net-mvc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raihan Iqbal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[.net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asp.net]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This excellent article from Phil Haack shows you how you can use the excellent JGrid plugin with ASP.NET MVC. 
Thanks Phil!

http://haacked.com/archive/2009/04/14/using-jquery-grid-with-asp.net-mvc.aspx
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		<title>ASP.NET Maintenance Mode Module</title>
		<link>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/06/asp-net-maintenance-mode-module/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/06/asp-net-maintenance-mode-module/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raihan Iqbal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[.net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asp.net]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Web developers at times need to put their web applications in an offline mode so as to prevent visitors from accessing the site while they are updating it. The classic way to do this would be to upload an app_offline.html file to the root of the web application. The limitation of this technique is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FireFox+Firebug vs IE8 Developer Toolbar</title>
		<link>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/06/firefoxfirebug-vs-ie8-developer-toolbar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/06/firefoxfirebug-vs-ie8-developer-toolbar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raihan Iqbal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first time I used Firebug (back then there was no IE8 Dev toolbar) I fell in love with it and as a Web Developer, life without it is unimaginable. This excellent article by Chris Brandsma tells you why its so. Check it out here.
]]></description>
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		<title>How to add a tooltip to an ASP.NET DropdownList item</title>
		<link>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/06/how-to-add-a-tooltip-to-an-aspnet-dropdownlist-item/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/06/how-to-add-a-tooltip-to-an-aspnet-dropdownlist-item/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raihan Iqbal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to set a common tooltip for all the items in a DropDownList then you can just set the Title attribute for each item like so:
foreach(ListItem item in ddlScorecards.Items)
    item.Attributes.Add(&#34;Title&#34;, &#34;YOUR TOOLTIP TEXT&#34;);

.csharpcode, .csharpcode pre
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.csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; }
.csharpcode .rem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Programmatically extract body of a web page</title>
		<link>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/06/programmatically-extract-body-of-a-web-page/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/06/programmatically-extract-body-of-a-web-page/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raihan Iqbal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[.net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asp.net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[c#]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The technique used in this article can be used to display the contents of an HTML page inside your ASP.NET pages instead of using IFRAMES.

System.Net.WebRequest req = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(Request.QueryString["url"]);
System.Net.HttpWebResponse resp = (System.Net.HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();
System.IO.Stream respStream = resp.GetResponseStream();
System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(respStream);
string responseFromServer = sr.ReadToEnd();
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex bodyRegex = new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(@"(]*>[\u0000-\uFFFF]+?)");
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Match bodyMatch = bodyRegex.Match(responseFromServer);
Literal1.Text = bodyMatch.Result("$0");
sr.Close();
respStream.Close();
resp.Close();


Thanks to ClayCo at the ASP.NET [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perform Batch Inserts/Updates in SQL Server 2005 using XML</title>
		<link>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/04/perform-batch-insertsupdates-in-sql-server-2005-using-xml/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/04/perform-batch-insertsupdates-in-sql-server-2005-using-xml/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raihan Iqbal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[T-SQL]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/perform-batch-insertsupdates-in-sql-server-2005-using-xml/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My current project requires me to download huge amounts of data from a remote server in the form of XML and save them to our local database. Lets see if we can do this using just one simple T-SQL stored procedure. Lets first create our table. For the purpose of this demonstration I will use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look Before You Leap &#8211; Episode 1</title>
		<link>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/03/look-before-you-leap-episode-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/03/look-before-you-leap-episode-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raihan Iqbal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As-salamu-alaikum brothers/sisters
Many of us Alhamdulillah are muslims by birth and thus we &#34;tend&#34; to learn Islam through our peers. But before we do something under the tag of Islam we never ask ourselves the following questions:

What???? 
Did our prophet PBUH do it? Did any of the prophets do it?!?! 
If others are doing it? Why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generating Tree-like UI structures</title>
		<link>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/02/generating-tree-like-ui-structures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raihaniqbal.net/blog/2009/02/generating-tree-like-ui-structures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raihan Iqbal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[.net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[c#]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In many of my projects I have had to generate non-binary trees using information from the database and then display them in a “tree-like” structure as shown below.
 
My algorithm is very simple and it makes use of Dan Vanderboom’s excellent Generic Tree Collection but frankly I’m not satisfied with certain aspects of my algorithm. [...]]]></description>
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