When I was doing some work for a client, I came across a requirement to set the textbox’s default IME settings into Japanese Hiragana. I know how to do that in a Windows Application using Visual Studio (since it’s integrated in the IDE), but in a Web Application.. I really didn’t have any idea how to do it. I searched the net and found how:

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It’s a bit hard developing in different languages using different databases. And most of the times, I forget the connection string that I should use.

The following three connection strings would probably be the strings that I’d use often:

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Currently at work, I’m doing an upgraded version of an in-house system. It was developed using MS Access, and now, they want a VB.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 version.

One of the reports that I’ll use needs the date in Japanese format. [The Japanese date format uses eras. For example, we're in 2008; in japanese calendar, that's 平成20.] It took me some time to figure out how to do that.

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Welcome to the geeky side of me.

I’d be posting a wide genre of topics. From source codes to Japanese language. Things that I’m currently studying or something that I’ve discovered. Boring or interesting topics. Anything under the sun.