Broadcom wireless 802.11 Installing Wi-fi Broadcom 802.11 driver for fedora 15

As mentioned earlier, I recently installed fedora 15 on my system. Unfortunately, the packages did not include the drivers to my Wireless LAN card. Hence I was unable to use the newly introduced wi-fi feature of fedora. Many of my friends, I presume must have faced the same problem, so here is a little trick I used to get my wi-fi on!

Please mail me at nardz07@gmail.com with any suggestions or doubts.

Windows 8 Developer Pack Preview - The Very First Look

The next generation of Microsoft Windows - Windows 8 is here. Here is a preview of what it holds for the users. Mail me at jeanparker1207@gmail.com with your suggestions for more technological postings. :)

Connecting a Database II

In the last edition I showed how to define a connection string. i.e. How to tell the application the type and location of said database. Here I shall detail how to use said string in the coding. Please feel free to comment on my posts with your doubts and suggestions or mail me at nardz07@gmail.com.

Grub manipulation

Recently, I installed Fedora 15 on my laptop alongside Windows 7. The Grub screen was as provided by fedora, and I wanted to make some changes to it to suit my needs and pleasure.

Here I have discussed how I went about it.

It should be noted that my methods work in fedora, but should work on other linux distibutions as well with a few minor changes. In case of any doubts or suggestions, please contact me at nardz07@gmail.com.

Connecting a database I

Any application that needs to store or retrieve data, needs to use databases. Since we developers make the application layer, it is for us to connect the application to the database and to provide the queries to affect the data.

Here is what little insight i can provide into the databases and their connecting schema. For any suggestions or doubts, please contact me at nardz07@gmail.com.

First and foremost, databases may be operating system dependent, like MS ACCESS and SQL SERVER, or independent like ORACLE or MYSQL.


In this post, let us simply look at these databases and how to define a generic database connection using the MS Visual Studio tools.