Happy Ethiopian Millennium! September 12, 2007
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Today we entered the third millennium after the rest of the world celebrated some seven years back. Out calendar is different because we follow ancient Coptic Orthodox Church calendar. The whole new year is based on Birth of Christ either for Ethiopia and the Christian Society in the rest of the world.
Therefore, it is also time to think about Birth of Christ this time again!
It is Meskerem (September) 1, 2000.
Happy Ethiopian New Year! Happy Ethiopian Millennium! MeLkam EnQuTaTaSh! For All Of Us!!!!
- Meles Zenawi - “A thousand years from now, when Ethiopians gather to welcome the fourth millennium, they shall say that the eve of the third millennium was the beginning of the end of the dark ages in Ethiopia. They shall say that the eve of the third millennium was the beginning of the Ethiopian renaissance,”
- Ethiopian President Girma Woldegiorgis pardoned nearly 18,000 prisoners to mark the arrival of the new millennium, the official Ethiopian news agency (ENA) reported.
- Most of the Christian world revised their calendars to account for fifth-century calculations suggesting Jesus had been born eight years earlier than thought, but we Ethiopians have clung to the old system.
Sorry, what year did you say it was?
2007 the rest of the world Christians after the 5th century amendment by re-calculation of the Birth of Christ
1428 the Islamic Hijri calendar began counting in the year of Muhammad’s emigration from Mecca to Medina
1456 the Armenian calendar counts years from 551 when the head of the church declared a new era
2550 Thai calendar counts years from start of the Buddhist Era, the day Thai Buddhists believe the Buddha died
Heisei 19 Japan divides time into eras, commonly associated with the reigns of emperors, and counts years passed in each one
4074 (year of the fire pig) the Chinese calendar began in the reign of the semi-legendary king, Huangdi
Refactoring tool of Visual Studio 2005 September 7, 2007
Posted by addisu in Software - .NET 2.0, Software - .NET General, Software - ASP .NET 2.0, Software - C#.1 comment so far
How much do u use refactoring tool of Visual Studio 2005?
- Rename: i probably use this tool more often. Once you declare a class or a variable and used it everywhere, “rename” tool is the best if you are not happy with the name. Naming is one of best practice and the name of a class or a variable should be descriptive. You might not come up with the best name at the beginning.
- Extract Method: This is another tool i use. Every time there is a reusable portion of code that exist in my method, i used “Extract Method” to have another smaller method. … for two purposes sometimes,..one to reuse the code and two, to make smaller size and readable method
- Generate Method Stub: even though it is not part of the Refactoring tool part, i like to use this tool. I write a method call to an object that doesn’t exist. I use this tool to generate the method stub. The best part of this tool is, it knows if private or internal or public should be used. … the name and type of parameter, return value…
‘ref’ and ‘out’ in C# is Bizarre and confusing… September 4, 2007
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i tried to really see the difference of these key words in C# and i still get it weired.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/aa336814.aspx
- for ‘out’, we can pass the variable unassigned but we have to make sure we assign it before use in the callee method
- for ‘ref’, we have to assign the variable before we pass it…
i still see both as pass by reference kind of thing…
any suggestions….?
