March 2008 - Posts

• Temporarily Bypass Windows Server 2008 Activation

  Disclaimer: This article is not intended to be used as a hack/crack or as a way to bypass the legal activation process required by the EULA. Ok. I have nothing to do with this...I just stumbled upon it on Zain's blog. This is the link: http://www.petri.co.il/bypass-windows-server-2008-activation.htm  Posted Mar 27 2008, 01:07 AM by marl with no comments Filed under: Windows 2008 Acivation, hack Windows 2008 Server, Bypass Windows Server 2008 Activation

• Link a Luv and Get a Swag!

  I've been actively pursuing a path that I really want to settle in for life. I mean, I am talking about career. I think and, more importantly, I feel that I really should go for the programming path. There are thousands of resources and channels to aid one in the process of learning. It is in searching for learning materials that I stumbled upon Zain Naboulsi's MSDN blog. His blog is full of useful information and some insider tips. When I first visited his blog, It just happened that he posted a link-luv contest. I included his blog in my blogroll because it is my own way of helping him evangelize technology, Microsoft Technology to that regard. And I did so also for the swag! To cut the story short, I won the contest. I want to show a belated appreciation to the gentleman that is why I am posting this Thank You Post. It is my belief that he is going to hold another contest with bigger prizes in the near future. Do not forget to stop by his blog when and if you have time.      1 Cool Visual Studio 2008 (OGIO) Laptop Backpack, 4 Visual Studio 2008 T-Shirts, and 1 Silverlight T-Shirt (not shown) Thank you very much, Zain !!!  Posted Mar 14 2008, 08:27 PM by marl with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Visual Studio 2008 Backpack

• {DevPinoy} Will Be There, {again}

  For the second time, DevPinoy.org will be represented in the Heroes Happen {here} event in Anaheim CA next month (April 08, 2008). I am sure I will have as much fun as Keith had in the Los Angeles Event! Posted Mar 14 2008, 05:05 PM by marl with no comments Filed under: Heroes Happen {here}

• PDF to TEXT Using open-source library (PDFBox): Another Sample for Grade 1 Pupils

  Well, the following is based on popular examples available on the web. What this does is "read" the pdf file and output it as a text in the rich text box control in the form. The PDFBox for .NET library can be downloaded from sourceforge. You need to add reference to IKVM.GNU.Classpath & PDFBox-0.7.3. And also, FontBox-0.1.0-dev.dll and PDFBox-0.7.3.dll need to be added on the bin folder of your application. For some reason I can't recall (maybe it's from one of the tutorials), I also added to the bin IKVM.GNU.Classpath.dll.  On the side note, just got my copy of "Head First C#" (on Keith's suggestion) from Amazon. The book is cool! It is really written for beginners. This edition covers VS2008 and the framework 3.5. Here you go...    /* Marlon Ribunal * Convert PDF To Text * *******************/ using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Drawing; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Drawing.Printing; using System.IO; using System.Text; using System.ComponentModel.Design; using System.ComponentModel; using org.pdfbox.pdmodel; using org.pdfbox.util; namespace MarlonRibunal.iPdfToText { public partial class MainForm : Form { public MainForm() { InitializeComponent(); } void Button1Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load("C:\\pdftoText\\myPdfTest.pdf"); PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper(); richTextBox1.Text=(stripper.getText(doc)); } } } Posted Mar 04 2008, 08:51 AM by marl with 4 comment(s) Filed under: pdfbox, pdf to text, convert pdf to text, pdf to text conversion

• Testing my FIOS

  Green = my downstream 15295KB/s Red = my upstream 1859KB/s First file donwloaded: Visual Studio 2008 Prof. Ed. from Microsoft DreamSpark (3.30Gb in more than 2 hours). Cool! Posted Mar 01 2008, 01:57 AM by marl with 5 comment(s)