Parabolic Solar cooker project

This year, on my trip to Nepal, I made this 1.6 m diameter parabolic solar cooker with help from my dad and my sister. This boils about 2 liters of water in 40 min. I put vinyl chrome tape around the center for better performance.  


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Identifying Views with similar names in visual studio .net mvc project

If you have worked on asp.net or any mvc projects, you have created similar view names like index, create, details, delete for different controllers. Now the problem is when you have multiple files with similar names opened up in VS, it gets confusing and you end up reopening the file from the solution explorer. With this solution that I will show you, you can have different color code for similar named view files that belong to different controllers.

Like so


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Simple JQuery Mobile

JQueryMobile is JQuery for the mobile version of a webpage. Its super easy to create a simple mobile page using jquery mobile. [Read more...]

Create your own captcha to verify forms

Recently the forms on my company’s website had been getting lots of spam. The spammers were submitting the forms with advertisements. We needed a captcha. I suggested Recaptcha, but if you have seen one of their captcha, you would think even a human cannot interpret them correctly. So my boss did not want that. We wanted our customers to have a simple, easy to interpret captcha while also serving us some help fighting the spam. [Read more…]

Update on the Android game

The idea of the game is like so. Its war time. Our main character is a pigeon who has to complete missions that involve delivering messages. The pigeon will fly towards right side of the screen until it reaches the destination. In between there will be several obstacles like enemy pigeon, falcons/ hawks, anti aircraft attacks etc. The user has to control the pigeon to avoid getting touched by the obstacles. Like I said in my previous post, the game will be using libgdx game framework. libgdx is an android game framework. First we got ourselves (my partner Ali and I), a copy of a game called Super Jumper made by the creator of libgdx. We modified it to move from bottom-up to left to right. For collision, we tried coding by ourselves. Then I found that there is a better alternative, Box2d. Box2d is a 2d physics engine which is available in different languages. [Read more…]