Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Abandoned...

Hi Again...

Well, It's been a Sad thing, and Project BaBIE is abandoned....

Reasons ?

I have several Reasons, all of them True and Valid....

  1. I am a Real Bombyx Moron with a piece of Apple for a Brain (True)
  2. Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Crashed Every Time I Started It (True)
  3. Crashy Components (True)
Generally, The Simple thing is, it failed simply because I tried to accomplish too many things in just the First Release.... Maybe, it is that some people just learn it the hard way....

Well, that's it for now, though...

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Almost Everything Complete.....

Hi Again,
Almost all the Core Features of BaBIE, such as the Download Manager, Tags, Indexing, Search Engines all have their Core Functionality Complete. Only the Popup Blocker and the File Saves and the UI features are still incomplete, the Reason being the bug in VS.NET 2005(see my Previous Post). So, the only thing that is still lackin in the Core is Searching. I am working on an Implementation of the Boyer-Moore String Searching Algorithm, for the searching.

And Now, Me goin to work on some Basic UI things, such as the tabs and other things. These are fairly easy and i should be able to rapidly complete them , provided I can get some time From School. And You Know, the School is getting really tough, now:(.

Bye and If you can help, please do.

Sunday, July 03, 2005

New Feature...

Hi Again,

I have added a new feature to BaBIE, the Ability to Index the Pages You Visit and the ability to search them. How many times have u seen a page and forgotten where it was ? This Feature will Make Sure that will Never happen.

I have decided to use the Lucene .NET indexing Engine to Index the Pages. And for storing the Data, The Two current candidates are MS Access and SQLite. I have a tough time choosing which one to use. If u can advice, Please Leave a comment.

Thanks and Be Right Back.

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Download Manager Complete....

Hi Again,

Although BaBIE Releases are Stopped, Development Isn't. I have Completed the Download Manager, with all the Usuall Stuff. It took me about an Hour, and I could find it only Today.

And, I found a New Feature, from Avant Browser, Which is URL Alias. If i access blogger often, I'd give Blogger.com an alias of Bloger and if i type Blogger, I'd go to Blogger.com. Simple and effective.

And Avant has got so many Cool New Features, Check out My Main Blog at http://yuvipanda.blogspot.com for more details about the Avant.

Bye And Be right back

Sunday, June 26, 2005

Bad News For BaBIE..... Not From Me.

Hi Again,

BaBIE seems to have Bad Luck. I am Developing BaBIE with Visual Basic 2005 Express and Visual C# 2005 Express. Both are in Beta.

But, Unfortunately, I have hit a bug, which Makes it Impossible to Intercept Certain Important Events, Most Notably the OnBeforeNavigate2 event, From My Form. Also, The IDE itself Crashes Most of the Tims, Since BaBIE, even Now has 13 Projects, Mixed with VB.NET and C#.

So, I have No other Choice, But To SideTrack BaBIE and Start Developing the Auxilary Parts of BaBIE, such as RSS and Download Manager. I can Develop these Things in Isolation and Once the Bug is Fixed in VB.NET and C#, I can get Releases out.

So, i Won't be Stopping BaBIE Development, But, I can't get any Releases out since the WebBrowser Control isn't Working for me.

When the Express Editions finaly Mature, I can Just Release them Fast, Since All the Auxilary Components would've Been Finished.

Looking forward to the Final Version of the Express Editions........

Thanks and Be Right Back.

Friday, June 24, 2005

BaBIE is Back.....

Hi Again,

Good News for BaBIE. My Last Entry Introduced a New Project, But Due to some Friendly Reasons, I am sidetracking That Project and Continuing with BaBIE. So, That CTP release might be available by Middle of Next Month. It's Late since I am in 10th Standard and Lots of Pressure is being Put on Me.

Bye and Be Right Back.

Monday, June 20, 2005

Another Block.... And a Good One....

Hi Again,

Bad News for BaBIE. I've to Stop Development.

Why is that ? Is BaBIE Abandoned ?

Nope... Absolutely Not. BaBIE will NEVER EVER BE ABANDONED.

So, Why this Stop In Development ?

Since I have a Quick Project to Finish. It's called PandaYourFriend. It's a Friendly Yahoo Bot.

I'll tell You the Story Behind this. I am a Regular Chatter at the Yahoo Chat Room Programming:3 and have Lots of Friends there. Oneday, The Room was Empty and So, I spent some Time in Programming:2. There are lots of Friendly Bots in Programming:2.

We also have a Bot at Programming:3, But, Agni my friend, Who is the Creator of that Bot, is Busy with Campus Interviews...

And Someone at Programming:2 said that People at Programming:3 Don't have Enough Skills to Build a Bot. And Since Programming:3 was filled with Indians, I took up the Challenge and started Creating My Bot. And since I don't like the Word Bot, Since it looks Sooooo Mechanical, I used the Term "Friend".

And So, Ken_Poet4Life of Programming:2 was able to give me a .NET Yahoo Library and I started to Build My "Friend". It is a pretty Small Project and shouldn't take more than 24 Hours of "Development Time".

And as Soon as I finish That, I'd come back to BaBIE. And also, since BaBIE currently consists of 12 Projects, (7 VB.NET and 5 C#), It's crashin VS.NET Often. Since It's in Beta, I can't help it.... But, Soon, I should split it up and hope to get it up and Running..

And Becouse of my new "Friend" Project, the CTP Release I promised the End of This Month will be delayed. Sorry about that, But hope to get it out soon....

And, If u'd like to Join Me and Contribute to Project BaBIE, please Leave a Comment...

Thanks and Be Right Back

P.S. I'd like to thank Ken_Poet4Life of Programming:2 Yahoo Chat Room for his Yahoo Library. Thanks Ken.