I jumped in. I was experimenting with Joomla! and this would be an excellent opportunity to test as well as prove my skills to my peers. A few weeks later, after my GCE A Levels were done with, I officially joined 1di.

Eventually I learned that 1di is more than idle fantasy of people who had nothing better to do. These people were the ones with vision about helping those who needed it, and were committed in doing so. The “team” was built up of teens from all over Dhaka city, from students of different schools I was so familiar with, and from those of which I never even heard of.

Another few weeks later, I finished a working prototype of the 1di site, and with little improvements, published it in an evening of Eid-ul-Fitr. Glued together with different Joomla! components, the finished product looked seamless and met all the criteria I was given, but with obvious room for improvement.

And here it is, my first community website for One Degree Initiative. Although I took it upon myself to maintain it, the site is moderated by people more dedicated to the organization. I will however, of course, keep improving the site as 1di grows more and more :)

This is a class module, and not a program, so only VB6 developers can actually use it. The module allows anyone with a proper ADODB Recordset to export it in three formats- CSV, HTML, or Microsoft Excel (xls). The class comes complete with functions that ease it’s use, including events that are called in various parts of the code to allow complete control for the developer.

Since I published it (which was a long time ago), the project has been featured in Code of The Day, and later, Code of The Month in PSCode.

You can download the entire source, including a demo, from Planet Source Code.