Just got an iPad from friend traveling to US.

From what I have played about a week. I found it really attracted me much more than I think.

- very fast responsive.
- rich of content through iTunes.
- big screen expand the opportunities to do things on the device.

Anyway, from my point of view, it has some flaws.

- a bit heavy?
- I hate on screen keyboard. ;(
- app is a bit expensive when compare to iPhone.

However, I am very happy that I got it.

Cheers,
Seree W.

Today I’m going to share with you if you get stuck trying to learn IoC and implement it into your own ASP.NET MVC application.

I’ll not going to write a deep content about IoC but somehow I will share the short brief of the concept of IoC and how you can easily implement IoC in your ASP.NET MVC application using MVCContrib.

First of all, let’s share together what is IoC? and what it is for?

IoC stands for “Inversion of Control” which sometime it had been named as DI or “Dependency Injection”.

Actually, both is the same, just a different name.

IoC or DI is the concept that looks like how you code your application to make it support for plug-in architecture.

Such as the old days WinAmp which it can output multiple result from audio files such as…

• Output a sound to speaker (playing music)
• Output a sound to MP3 (encoding)
• Output a sound to WAV (decoding)

and blah blah blah…

There are several plug-ins for WinAmp as a DLL, when you need some new to make WinAmp to output to, you just coding a new DLL and implement what you want there.

This way, when you code the main app, you will never know or never care of what the output will do, it (main app) just output the sound stream to the output plug-in.

This is a good pattern and fit for ASP.NET MVC approach as it’s a real separation-of-concern.

And here is a snippet code of how you can implement this type of application. (plug-in enabled)

- Create an Interface for the output such as …
[csharp]

public interface IPlayerOutput
{
void Play(byte[] soundStream);

void Pause();

void Resume();

void Stop();
}
[/csharp]
- In the main app, you should add reference to IPlayerOutput interface and using it like this…
public void btnPlayClicked(object sender)

{

IPlayerOutput *output = new XXX; //Replace XXX with the code to create an instance of the chosen plug-in – usually populate from .DLL files within the output plug-in folder

output.Play(YYY); //Replace YYY with a stream of audio file

}
- This way, the main app will never care of what the output plug-in will do, it just send the audio stream to.

- When you want to code for a send-to-speaker plug-in, you just implement the IPlayerOutput interface and write code to send-to-speak there such as…
public class SpeakerOutput : IPlayerOutput

{

public void Play(byte[] stream)
{

// 1. Decode the audio stream

// 2. Send RAW to speaker

}
}
- If you want to code for WAV output plug-in, just do the same thing but different in the Play function such as…

public class WavOutput : IPlayerOutput

{

public void Play(byte[] stream)

{

// 1. Decode the audio stream as WAV format

// 2. Save WAV data to disk

}
}

- Then, you can let user choose which DLL to be used and load it into the IPlayerOutput interface within the main app. Voila!

So… How it is related to IoC?

Actually, it is the same concept as the plug-in architecture.

The main point is to make each components of application loosely coupled.

To make it simple, IoC is the concept to make your application’s layers independent as much as possible.

You can do IoC by coding like the above set of code in your application. However, it will take you sometime to do yourself.

And that’s why Castle Windsor come into place… They already created this type of things for you!

Anyway, I will not show here how it is being used by generic application. Instead of, I will use Castle Windsor in combination with MVCContrib to do IoC in ASP.NET MVC application.

All I can say is… “It is very easy to do, not that hard like what the concept did”.

To be continued on Part #2…

What is SEO-friendly URL?

It’s a URL that search engine love and will result in a better ranking for your web pages/site.

Let’s say you have an accounting system software and your product URL is http://www.xxx.com/product.aspx?Id=432 //Search engine will never know what the product is all about. They just saw Id=432 which doesn’t make sense for them. Actually, it also doesn’t make sense for human as well.

The SEO-friendly URL is a ‘wrapped’ URL to let people/robot read and know what this URL is all about. Let’s say about the above Product which have a new URL as http://www.xxx.com/product/AccountingSoftware

Search engine will know that this URL is all about Accounting software, then they will forward some traffic to your site with the “Accounting software” keyword.

In the PHP/Apache platform, the developer will usually use URL rewrite module easily. Almost every web hosting support this.

Unlike ASP.NET/IIS which is less flexible for configuration. You have to enable some URL rewrite ISAPI libraries which almost every web hosting don’t allow you to do that.

The good news is after ASP.NET MVC was released, it has a built-in routing feature which let you implement a SEO-friendly URL easily without messing up with IIS ISAPI.

You can provide many samples on Google, or even on Microsoft ASP.NET MVC website as well. See –> ASP.NET MVC –> Learn –> Routing and you will see how it’s easy to implement.

I’ll not provide a sample code here as I just want to mention that now you can easily implement SEO-friendly URL with ASP.NET.

Just try and leave me some messages if you got a problem implement it.

See ya babe!

I just want to share with you that after I’ve changed my ‘buy now’ button to the Belcher button, it converts like crazy.

Here you can see how it looks like…

So, quick note here. If you never heard about the Belcher button. Here is a short brief…

The Belcher button is one of a ‘buy’ button which Perry Belcher do his best split testing on various ‘buy’ buttons.

The result is that he found out what type of ‘buy’ button convert well…

Don’t miss it because it’s FREE and it’s working for REAL!

http://www.belcherbutton.com

Get it for FREE! You can use it at your own risk…

I just want to know how you work with copywriters in this situation?

In my case, I’ve written a draft copy of my sales page and I want to find a copywriter to work for me to…

• Critique my sales page
• Optimize it
• Proof reading

So far so good, I’ve a deal to give a branded iPhone application for copywriter in exchange to work with me.

The app itself would cost at least $1,000 to do.

However, I found a copywriter who claim that app unable to feed copywriter, money does… and tell me copywriter will work on $5,000 not for a sucks $1,000 app.

I’m not sure if he actually understand the tasks I would love him to do… see the above list. I’m not going to let him write me a whole copy.

It’s not taken me to serious much about it but one thing does…

He tell me my copy is sucks…

And this is why I would like to know your comments regard on this statement.

I’m ok to hear that my copy is sucks because I’m not a copywriter. Even I can’t make my grammar 100% correctly!

For you, who will be the person who will judge that your copy is good or bad?

It’s a copywriter who write the copy for you? Does it make sense this way?

I actually laugh to him because if he judge the copy this way, no one will happy to work with him.

For me, the person who will be able to judge my copy is only my ‘targeted prospects’, never think of a ‘copywriter’ or even myself. It’s non sense.

After heard that from him, I black-listed him immediately. hehe.

What would you think? I would like to hear.

Cheers!
Seree W.

After I’ve spend my last 1 year and half to learn and implement Internet marketing knowledge from bad to great marketers, I found that the first thing made you not achieve success is… you are working on not deep enough niche.

Speak simply, it’s a niche that too broad. I’ll give you my example from my experiences after implemented about 4 niches and I got succeeded just one niche.

You might known that I’m marketing and selling WordPress related product. Its name is “FasterIM Opt-in plug-in for WordPress”. Sorry for that so bad name and I’ll made it more appeal in the next major version release on August 2009.

I target this niche with the keyword “wordpress opt-in plug-in” and I succeeded with it.

Other of my niches are targeting on 2-3 words but there are all completely failed.

With the reason of… It’s not deep or long tail enough. However, this might not be your problem if you know how to kick out your competitors but for rookie like me, I don’t know how to do that, I just want a simple prove that I can make a decent income online. So, what I want at the start is a “Simplicity” and actually “Made me money”.

I got that all from the niche “wordpress opt-in plug-in” even it have some competitors but I know my product has a Unique Selling Point that made my plug-in shine above my competitors.

So, if you are a beginner on Internet marketing field, I suggest you to hard work on niche research process.

Take your time as much as you can on this process and I can guarantee, you will made a decent income from it.

Don’t forget to check if your chosen niche is deep enough. 3-4 words will be easier to kick out your competitor.

Thanks for reading and good luck with your online business.

@interface MREntitiesConverter : NSObject {
NSMutableString* resultString;
}
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSMutableString* resultString;
- (NSString*)convertEntiesInString:(NSString*)s;
@end

@implementation MREntitiesConverter
@synthesize resultString;
- (id)init
{
if([super init]) {
//resultString = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
}
return self;
}
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)s {
[self.resultString appendString:s];
}
- (NSString*)convertEntiesInString:(NSString*)s {
if(s == nil) {
NSLog(@”ERROR : Parameter string is nil”);
}
resultString = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
NSString* xmlStr = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", s];
NSData *data = [xmlStr dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
NSXMLParser* xmlParse = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:data];
[xmlParse setDelegate:self];
[xmlParse parse];
NSString* returnStr = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@”%@”,resultString];
[resultString release];
return returnStr;
}
- (void)dealloc {
//[resultString release];
[super dealloc];
}
@end

When you want to decode HTML characters within a string, just call the app like this.

MREntitiesConverter *converter = [[MREntitiesConverter alloc] init];
someStr = [converter convertEntiesInString:@"abcdefghiijXXXYZ"];
[converter release];

Easy enough?

UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] init];
[alert setTitle:@"My Title"];
[alert setMessage:@"My message"];
[alert setDelegate:self];
[alert addButtonWithTitle:@"OK"];
[alert addButtonWithTitle:@"Cancel"];
[alert show];
[alert release];

With this, you can detect which button was pressed by handling the alertView message like this.

-(void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
{
if (buttonIndex == 0)
{
// Yes, do something
}
else if (buttonIndex == 1)
{
// No
}
}

And when I do this in my game, I’ll pause the game first and resume when player pushed on the button. This can be done easily via sharedDirector as well.

[[Director sharedDirector] pause]; //Pause your game
[[Director sharedDirector] resume]; //Resume your game

Hope you enjoy!

What you want to do is just creating your splash screen image in PNG format which have 320×480 resolution for portrait or 480×320 if your app is running on landscape orientation.

Then name it “Default.png”, please note that you have to name it “Default.png” not “default.png”. It’s case sensitive.

Then just put the file into your project and it’s DONE!

You will see your splash screen until your first view was loaded successfully.

Short & Sweet?

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setIdleTimerDisabled:YES];

It just disables the Idle Timer of iPhone OS for my application.

Sweet!

When you run this code, it will capture the current screenshot and add into the Camera Roll.

It’s not yet included in the official SDK but you can get it run easily.

@interface UIApplication (Extended)
-(void) _writeApplicationSnapshot;
@end
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] _writeApplicationSnapshot];

Yo!

Credited to “The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook” which I think is the best book for beginner to getting started on iPhone SDK development.

My son now 7 months and he seems very strong while in my wife’s stomach.

I’ll teach him how to make money blogging since 3-4 years old.

Let’s see how can I do that. (I’ve set up a blog for my son as well, I’ll write down how I will teach him to make money from blogging. If you interest, just visit my son’s blog there with the link below.)

My son’s name is Jia Ler and his blog is JiaLer.com

Hope the posts will useful to you as well.

Cheers!
Seree Woradechjamroen

After I’ve got my PS3 a few days, I’ve downloaded so many demos here to play and found that Warhawk is one of the coolest title for FPS style. So, I willing to buy a full version online through Playstation Store.

I’ve added Gran Turismo 5 Prologue and Bionic Commando into my shortlist as well.

But…

When I try to add my credit card to purchase them, it seems Playstation Store rejects my card even I normally use it for my online life.

After I’ve researched, I found that the root cause come from the region of Playstation Network ID that I’ve registered for.

My Playstation Network ID was registered on U.S. zone but my card was issued on Thailand.

So, Playstation Store reject my card, or I can say, they will reject any cards outside of U.S. as well.

Too bad, I want to pay for games but they didn’t sell it. Funny marketing!?

However, I just found out a way to bypass this problem now. I can do it without using Playstation Network Card as well. (I never seen PSN Card selling in Thailand)

I’ll write here how to do it with visual guide step-by-step.

Keep checking.

Happy gaming!

I’ve no time to write a post about it for now. I’m playing to see what I will write about it.

After my trial for a few days. It’s a really good next gen console. Better than I think.

I’ll write about it later, I’ve to play it a bit more.

Bye!

I decide to write this post due to I’m in consideration to get a new console. So, I research for more information about them and finally I write it here and hope it’s useful for people who is in consideration to get a new console like me.

First of all, I’ll tell you that I’ve no bias with any console and I currently owned Nintendo Wii. However, I decide to get additional console which will be Sony Playstation 3 or Microsoft XBox 360. I’m a Microsoft certified professional and can you guess which one I’ll choose?

Just guess and see the answer below…

What’s the definition of ‘Next Gen’ console?

For me, it must be a new innovative in some area related to gaming experiences. It includes ‘GRAPHICS’, ‘AUDIO’, ‘GAME PLAY’ and etc…

So, for me, I considered Wii as a ‘Next Gen’ console as well even it have such a sucks graphic. (480p -> What do you think? )

Yes, it have a great new innovative on game play which PS3 and XBox360 will never be able to bring to you.

However, even Wii is such a great console. I still unhappy with it in sometime. When I’m alone. Wii is too boring for me to play the game alone. Even I’ve bougth Wii Fit + Balance board to gain more experience game play. It still not suit for stand-alone player.

That made me thinking of my old Playstation 1, 2 which I already sold out few years ago.

So, my decision on this situation is to choose between Sony Playstation 3 and Microsoft XBox 360.

I’ve to say that XBox 360 currently have a great support on game industry. There are so many title for your experience on XBox 360. The most famous title would be “HALO” series.

Sony is going good for PS3 but to be compared with XBox now, it would be a loser on the number of titles.

However, with the same price tag, you can get a higher specification engine from Sony’s and this is a good choice as well as PS3 will stay with us longer than XBox 360 due to its higher technologies.

From my research, both PS3 and XBox 360 now be able to output the graphic on 1080p resolution. (It’s Full High-definition) However, it depends on the game which almost just output on 720p only.

So, the graphic should not much different between these two console. It’ll depend on the game itself.

GRAPHICS : DRAW

As the most highest technology has been used in both is to output both Video and Audio through HDMI cable. It’ll be draw on both GRAPHICS and AUDIO because it’s the same standard.

AUDIO : DRAW

Now, let’s talk to media used by each console.

PS3 is using Blu-Ray disc while XBox 360 is using HD-DVD.

I assume that you’ve heard the WAR between these two medias before but from now on, it’s smarter to go with Blu-Ray disc because Sony have been a winner on the next gen media war.

MEDIA : PS3 (Blu-Ray)

*Note that Wii just use an old days DVD media. However, it doesn’t affected to the great game play.

GAMES : ????

This one I can’t judge because people would like to play a different game. Some people love HALO, then he goes for XBox 360 while some people love Gran Turismo, then he should go to PS3. This is one of the most important factor that you should have to make a consideration before buying your next console because some game is made exclusively for the specified console only.

For example, HALO was made for XBox 360 only and never dream of PS3 version.

While Gran Turismo was made for Sony Playstation 3 only.

So, this factor might be the most important choice for you if you have your own favorite title.

Yes, for me, I want to play Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 which released for both console. However, I would like to play Gran Turismo over HALO as well. So, I might go for PS3.

Another one factor that would made you serious. It’s a problem of the console.

For XBox 360, everyone know it have a “RED RING OF DEAD” problem reside. No one can guarantee that it will never happen to you. I don’t actually know the actual reason and I don’t want to write here.

For Playstation 3, it have somewhat a Blu-Ray reader failure. Some people bought for 3 days and it occurred to him. Some people bought longer than a year and never found it.

These two problems like a myth, however, XBox 360′s “RED RING OF DEAD” is much more aweful because if it occurred, you will unable to turn it on again. But for PS3′s problem, you can change the Blu-Ray reader yourself and cost you a low price tag.

For me, I made a decision to go with Sony Playstation 3 with the reason of…

• I fear “RED RING OF DEAD”.
• I need Gran Turismo experience on my entertainment room.
• I never experience a bad quality from Sony’s product including LCD TV, Laptop, Mobile phone, Digital camera, Video recorder and etc…

That’s enough reasons for me to go with PS3. I’ll post here when I bought it in this weekend.

How about yours?

Today I come to share with you how I choose a javascript library to be used on my new project.

I’m not talk about choosing just an AJAX library but I want some ‘full’ set of library which including both AJAX core and user interface core.

Here are my choices before consideration…

• jQuery
• YUI (Yahoo User Interface)
• ExtJs

Sorry that I didn’t included other libraries because I’m not impressed with any other at all.

First, jQuery, this is by far the best AJAX + effect library for me personally. I really love it because it produces a ‘short’ script. Especially when compared to YUI.

However, what jQuery lack of is UI components. You have to find out 3rd party for yourself.

So, I decide to move on YUI which currently have a bunch of UI components included.

What I can say about YUI is I really impressed with it. It has a BUNCH of UI included in the library which you can select to use or bypass.

However, most of the script produced by YUI is so ‘long’ when compared to jQuery.

So, now, I hold on both YUI and jQuery and finding for a better library in the market.

I finally found ExtJs.

Try yourself and let me know how you feel about it.

I feel the ‘MOST’ impress with ExtJs.

Cool UI and effect and I decided to use it in combination with jQuery.

This will help me reduce much time to develop my project.

Technical details will be continued in the next part while I’m developing my project.

Talk soon,

Seree W.

In this post I want to share you the plug-in made by me to display opt-in form on your WordPress blog.

It”s very easy to setup and use.

See the video below to get the picture clearer.

If you”re interesting, you can download it from FasterIM Opt-in plug-in for WordPress.

Cheers!

Millions watched the Oprah Winfrey show about “The Secret” and listened to the principals talk about it and the Law of Attraction.

Many have visited the plethora of websites devoted to “The Secret” and the Law of Attraction. It has almost become a worldwide obsession.

I am sure that millions of people have tried to follow the instructions and get the Law of Attraction to fulfill their desires and dreams. And, I am also sure that the vast majority failed to see any difference in their life or current circumstances.

It is not because the Law of Attraction does not work. It does, very well in fact. It has to because it is a Universal Law. Just like the Law of Gravity, the Law of Matter and the Law of Energy, the Law of Attraction is governed by physics. You know, that science class we took but did not understand all that well, the one where we dropped weights down the stairwell and slid blocks of wood across the desk. It was the one where we got an idea about gravity, friction, motion and energy. Do you remember it now? Well, that was physics. It is the science that governs and explains action and reaction, repulsion and attraction.

The Law of Attraction is governed by that science and as one of the Universal Laws, it will work anywhere on earth if the proper actions, beliefs, powers and vibrations are utilized.

So, if that is the case, then why have most people failed when they tried it? It is simple really. “The Secret” or the Law of Attraction, has a secret of its own that even the promoters did not know about.

If you take a look at most of the people involved in “The Secret” you will discover that they are people like Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Dennis Waitley, Bob Proctor, Dr. Joe Vitale, Jack Canfield and other similar types. You will notice that they are all people with very strong personalities and passionate drive. To consider them as “ordinary” people is like considering a hurricane as just another gentle breeze.

That having been pointed out, do not despair. It does not mean that “The Secret” or the Law of Attraction will not work for ordinary people. It will. It will work for everyone, even the ones who have tried over and over and have not had it work for them yet.

All of the above-named people did not need to know the secret behind “The Secret” because of the kind of people they are, strong willed, passionate and filled with self confidence and drive.

The average person may wish for a million dollars, but subconsciously they know that they will never have it. As a result, their subconscious mind will not send out the proper vibrations to attract that million dollars to them. Wanting or wishing for something and believing in your whole being that you will get it are two different things.

So, for the average person, the secret behind “The Secret” is that you have to take baby steps. In other words, you have to start out small. Your subconscious mind will never believe that you will get a million dollars if you ask for it, so do not even try. Instead try asking for something simple, say a seat in a crowded subway car or on a crowded bus. Or how about asking to find a parking space on a crowded street or near the doors of a busy mall?

When you buy a lottery ticket, do not ask to win the top prize, ask for ten dollars or 20 dollars or even 50 dollars. Since these amounts are possible and believable, you can convince yourself and your subconscious mind that you deserve it and that it is yours. Give thanks for winning it as if it were already yours. Be passionate and convinced that it is and constantly give thanks for it.

When you see these simple results of the Law of Attraction start working for you, then you can try working on slightly bigger things. Do not go too fast and do not become discouraged. If you check the histories of the aforementioned people, you will find that they did not succeed the first time that they tried. Just think back on everything that you have accomplished in life, such as learning to walk, learning to talk, learning to dress yourself, to ride a bicycle, to read and to write. They all took time, practice, determination and a belief that you could do it before it actually happened. Getting the Law of Attraction to work for you is just the same.

In conclusion, you can get the Law of Attraction to work for you no matter what your current life is like as long as you start small, convince yourself that you already have it and constantly give thanks for having it. When you continue passionately working on it one small step at a time and constantly expressing gratitude for having it, then you will eventually see that the Law of Attraction works for you too.