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Thursday, December 30, 2004
Ctrl-C , Ctrl-V (Prince Of Persia 2 -- Rog)
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
New year party
Later I was wondering that I would be missing out on a good party but then I thought it should be worth it.
Here is some information about Prime Ministers National Relief Fund
Monday, December 27, 2004
A few more Pictures.
Wedding (Morning)
Pictures from Sashi's Wedding
Some links given by KG
http://www.35mb.com/
http://www.firewallleaktester.com/tests.htm
should have a read through later.
Saturday, December 25, 2004
Friday, December 24, 2004
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Fayyaz Marriage Pictures
Friday, December 17, 2004
Turntable
Thinking of getting this
Bush MTT1 Turntable (49.99) for home (Bomaby) since there are so many records back home. I can rather go in and get the stylus but I guess the price diff is about 20£ and I dont even know if the stylus will actually work with the AIWA?
Or is getting that a waste of money.
I dont think it is a waste of monney since daddy really liked the player.
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
What I hate about FireFox.
Searching through a page. I know it seems really cool that it searches as I am typing stuff in the searhc box -- that is the good thing.
The bad thing is that in a mutiframed page is searchs through all the frames, so if I wanna search only through a single frame I cannot do that ( like in IE)
I really require single frame searching since I genereally use java docs and I genereally wanna search for a word in the detailed page of a class on the right frame.
Say I have selected JTable from the list of classes and I see the java doc for JTable on the right frame, now I just wanna search through JTable docs for say, invalid entry but that is not possible when I hit Ctrl-F since now is stars searching from the left frame and then goes to the right frame.
Saturday, December 11, 2004
Desktop Blogging Application - BlogJet
Seems to be a really nice Desktop Blogging Application -BlogJet. I think I am going to install it on my desktop PC.
I was thinking that I could not post pictures from this application then I realized that Virgin ( my ISP ) should be giving me free space and I guess I can use that for my postings. Moreover I also configure my phone for sending image pictures as a method of picture blogging, the only problem being, selecting individual pictures and attaching it to an email is such a pain using N6600 ( I think that is what I have ).
Friday, December 10, 2004
Thursday, December 09, 2004
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Interesting problem with InteliiJ regarding the CVS File View Window.
Today I somehow managed to get the Floating CVS File View window off the screen so that I can not longer see the top bar of the CVS FileView Windows when it is floated, I was quite irritated about it since I could not move the window about and I was kinda stuck with the location. The only option that I had was to disabling floating for the CVS File view window, that wasnt that good since I could not use the screen space properly.
So here is how I solved the problem.
Each project has a project file and this file is in xml format (which is realy good since I can read it and make a lot of sense of it), I had the project open and also had the project xml file open in the editor. Whenever I used to save the project in the InteliJ used to get a notification from the editor stating that the file has been updated by an external source ( InteliJ Project save ) and if I wanted to reload. Since this project file was really big I didnt want to go through the entire file to look for the XML tag that was realted to the CVS File View window. So here is what I did
1. Take a copy of the project file with the CVS File View attached to the main InteliJ window.
2. Float the CVS File View window ( in this case I cannot see the top bar of the CVS File View window ) and now save the project.
On diff'ing both the project files in dos I could locate the tag that had to be changed
window_info id="CVS File View" active="true" anchor="right" auto_hide="false" internal_type="sliding" type="floating " visible="true" weight="0.40048543" order="4" x="1442" y="-29" width="493" height="855"
As you can see above this tag has an attribute of y=-29 hence it was jumping off the screen.
Monday, December 06, 2004
Relativity
On Sat I got this book on Relatiivty Understanding Einstein's Theories of Relativity: Man's New Perspective on the Cosmos Stan Gibilisco
It is really very nice book, I havent read a lot but but about a couple of chapers and it really seems interesting. The examples provided in the book are good and moreover the way he explains the stuff really makes you wonder about the size of space itslef. I really am going to go ahead and read more of this book. The initial examples were really good but I guess I may have to get someting on elementary physics since there are some calculations in other chapters. May be I will go in for Physic Demystified
I finally went in for another book on Relativity. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Sunday, November 28, 2004
Gadget that I wanted for my office desk
And I got it from here, I am thinking of getting another one for my dad.
Planet Mobile at Gadgets.co.uk - Gadgets, gizmos & novelties - digital cameras & mp3 players
A total dissappointment
I finally get the Planet Mobile and it doest even look like the picture on the site and moreover one of planets was broken and moreover it was made of plastic, which is shit. Hell I have been waiting for this for a long time and this is what I get it is really bad.
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
A new idea for a mobile application
The mobile application should interface into Transport for London Journey Planner, that would be realy great.
I am not sure about the type of interface that TFL provides but I guess I can drop them an email and find out. Or the other option being hacking into their HTML and fetching all the data that I require.
Here is the TFL Journey Planner
Monday, November 22, 2004
Just happend to listen to this song by the "...Peppers"
Here is the song that I was listening to Soul to Squeze
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
External Database Changes sending notifications to Entity Beans
So I posted the stuff at Java Ranch
Java Ranch
Monday, November 15, 2004
Bluetooth Star Trek Communicator
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/bluetooth-star-trek-communicator-025437.php
Hell I am not using my head enough, not being creative enough. Have to loose a soft or single track mind and look for possibilities.
Having the Mondays after a long time
I have also been sketching on a regular basis, I think I really need to learn to play some music that should be a nice kinda creative kick. It makes a lot of sence considering that I listen to a lot of music, I practically listen to a lot of music and hardly watch any TV -- well that cant be totally becasue I love listening to music but also on the fact that all the stuff on the TV is total crap nothing worth watching.
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
I can only hot deploy stuff to the admin WL server :-(
Now since I am working on 2 projects at the same time I have to set up 2 server envs, since they both of them are using different Connection Pools and stuff. So I thought I will create a managed server to the existing domain.
So here is what I will be having
1. Admin Server - this is working fine with the hot deployment and stuff.
2. The additional Server with the new data sources and differnt EJBs and stuff.
But I had a feeling that hot deplyment only works in case applications are deplyoed to the admin server. I have a read through Weblogic Definitive Guide and it seems so. That is really not good since I wanted to swap between working on the 2 projects and I dont want to go about setting up the local server env every time I switch between it.
Now I have a few alternatives
1. Let go of hot deployment on one of the projects that is not running on the admin server.
2. Create a new domain and the I will hot deplyment on both the projects that I am working on.
Monday, November 01, 2004
Nice review about GTA: San Andreas
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11126-2004Oct30.html
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Hot deplyment in WL8.1
Finally today I solved the problem with a little help from my friends at work. I was very happy about it since now I could make changes to the DAO and EJBs without bouncing the server.( bouncing the server too is not a major problem since I am using WinKey and Ctr-Win-2, starts the server, Win-2 shows the console).
I was just going to write about how I went about solving the problem of hot deployment, when I googled for the same on WL and someone else had the similar problem and posted it on Javaranch ( I wonder how I missed that while googling stuff at work ???). So I decided to write back to his post describing what I did.
Here is that post
Friday, October 29, 2004
Some good books on Finance
by Meir Kohn
ISBN:0195134729
Securities Operations: A Guide to Trade and Position Management
by Michael Simmons ISBN:0471497584
John Wiley & Sons (UK) © 2002 (464 pages)
I think I will be getting them over the weekend, I guess I have to read my existing books before I go into getting any of these.
11Jan05
I finally got the 1st book from bomaby for 1200Rs which is really cheap as compared to the price of the book in UK. I have been reading the book quite regularly in the night before sleeping since the time I have been in london.
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Starting to use GoogleDesktop
Since I get a lot of email(most of them being crap) but that tool is really usefull.
Accessing EJBs using local interfaces
According to the spec local interface access works only for objects that lie within the same JVM but Weblogic container restricts it further to the same application (JAR, EAR) .
The local home interface— If the home interface of the bean extends from the interface javax.ejb.EJBLocalHome instead of the javax.ejb.EJBHome interface, the bean can be efficiently used by other objects residing within the same container. This interface offers bean life cycle methods similar to those of the remote home interface. The difference between the two is that when beans are created using this interface, no network connectivity is involved because both the requested and the requester exist within the same application, which significantly improves performance. This interface works in conjunction with the local interface. Remember that the specification talks about using local interfaces for objects that lie within the same JVM, but the WebLogic container restricts it further to the same application (that is, JAR, EAR, and so on) This is a direct consequence of the class loader scheme adopted by WebLogic Server, which basically uses objects within the same application only.
This has a lot to do with the way the class are loaded in Weblogic 8.1 and the classloader hierchy in Weblogic 8.1, see the docs here
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Planning to view the Eclipse tonight
The only problem being that it is going to be really early in the moring 2;00am
More details here http://www.space.com/spacewatch/041022_eclipse_guide.html
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Was very tired so I cancled the 2am alarm, moreover it was really very cloudy so I could not have see anything anyway(English weather)
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Have to do a few things
http://www.java.com/en/developers/submit_mobileapp.jsp
I also have to have a look at this java application. http://www.qnext.com
Monday, October 25, 2004
Virgin doesnt provide me with the curently playing song...
http://www.virginradio.co.uk/thestation/nowplaying/index.html
Anyways about the song that I just heard .... I managed to get a few words ("Just a kiss on the lips" "she was shaking her hips") and I googled it.
Here is the Song : Cold Hard Bitch
Funny enough on Googling it I get a Virgin.radio link too : http://www.virgin.net/music/singlereviews/jet_coldhardbitch.html
Cassini taking you to Titan
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm
been following it some time now
Prince of Persia - Warrior Within
Nevermind all that crap...
I downloaded some videos of Prince of Persia - Warrior Within and it was really great, I am really waiting for the game.
I tried searching for the demo of the name and I found it, but the site from which I was downloading it only allowed 24k bandwidth so the entire downloading process took about 4hr on an average.
Well I played the game and it took me a while to actually use the so called advanced fighting system ( like using the E key when going to an enemy).
Here is what I thought about the demo version
1. There were many clipping issues.
2. There is nothing great about the game AI it is the same as for Sands of Time.
3. Some of the Fighting moves I happen to use them but I dont know how I managed them ?? It is like it just happens.
4. I dont know if the demo is just like you keep fighting on the ship till you get fedup and quite or is there like a boss that you have to fight ?
The story line of the game seems really good, since it is like a follow up from Sands of Time and it contains a lot of time travel, so that should be cool.
I particularly like the end of 'Sands of Time' - I think I should install that game again.
Mmmm is there a way that I can see all the movies in Sands of Time so that it is something like a movie ?
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Nice Page Transitions
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Monday, October 18, 2004
Google Desktop Search
http://desktop.google.com
The application is great but there are a few things that I dont like about it.
1. I dont like the idea that it is a web based search and it creates a server on your local machine http://127.0.0.1:4664, Is'nt that some kind of security hole?, I can like connect to any machine on the internet that has google desktop runing and searhcing data in their local machine. I am quite sure that it is not possible but I dont mind actually testing that.
2. Web based interface - It is like a desktop seaching Engg but it has a web based interface, I am not too fussed about this but then too I feel it is kinda diff. It would be great if they has integrated it with Google Deskbar, actually there is not much of intergration it is as easy as adding a new Customized Search on Google Deskbar.
3. What I really hate about the application is the fact that it creates really huge Index files in my home dir (i.e C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxx\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Desktop Search') I am not bothered by the size of the index file but I cannot configure Google Desktop Search to move the files to a different location. Since I have just allocated 4Gb for my C partition, and this partition does only contain the OS and a few programs that refuse to instally anywhere else, but as of now I dont have more than 700MB left. This is actually my fault since I should have allocated at least 15GB for the Windows partitions.
I was just having a search around for google desktop and I found some really interesting stuff, like this guys site : http://www.kayodeok.co.uk/weblog/200410/14/google_desktop_search.html
This person mentions something about looking the reg for changing the google data file, so I had a search through the reg and here is what I came up with.
I guess I just have to change the value for the key : data_dir and it should be fine (hopefully)
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Desktop]
"install_dir"="C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Google Desktop Search\\"
"data_dir"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\xxxxxxx\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Google Desktop Search"
"timestamp"=dword:4163573d
"system_active"=dword:00000001
...
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Too much of nothing
Damm good song and a really nice video.
Too much of nothing, is never enough
Too much of nothing means you wanted somemore
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Wanadoo doesn't allow port 25 (smtp) out
Next step was to packet sniff all the outgoing smtp packets, then I realized that I am not getting any response back from either yahoo or softhome, now I know softhome is not like the worlds best pop/smtp provider - they do have a problems at times.
Finaly I tired sending an email using wanadoo smtp and it worked, that is when I realized that it problem may not be with yahoo or softhome, rather the ISP ( wanadoo) dosent allow me to smtp out going to any other server other than itself , which is really crappy. I know never had the problem with virgin broadband. This is when I started googling to find out if this was a well know problem or rahter any one else had faced the same problem...and guess what ...Wanadoo not allowing port 25 out |some one else has the same problem.
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
EJB Client callbacks
I still have to see how this can be implemented by adding multiple client listeners to the EJB?
More details over here http://www.burtbeckwith.com/blog/ Search for 'EJB to client callbacks'
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Taskbar for a multimonitor application
This application solves the problem.
http://www.mediachance.com/free/multimon.htm
disabling 'Synchronizing with external changes' in TogetherSoft
The only problem being that whenever I switch task to TogetherSoft, it does its stuff of 'Synchronizing with external changes' and that takes about 30sec ( since the project is big ) most of the time I have not changed the code externally I am just switching between applications.
I have searched through all the setting is TogetherSoft but I am not able to find the setting that would disable this automatic 'Synchronizing with external changes' when ever I switch task.
Posted it on Javaranch
Actually using the WinKey Application
Actually utilities like winkey should be supplied as a part of windows os and not as a seperate add on.
Moreover since I dont use the Windows Key for stuff other 'Show Desktop' and opening windows explorer, so it will take me a little time to get used to it.
Sunday, October 10, 2004
Winkey
Saturday, October 09, 2004
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Wooo Hooo ...Google deskbar
http://toolbar.google.com/deskbar/index.html
I have just installed it and it super cool, ofcourse I need to remember all the shortcuts so that it can cut down on the number of clicks and the time taken to search for something
it is a super cool application, I can have browse through the net without having the stupid IE opening up all the time, moreover I also can keep the window open and carry on working in another application.
I guess I should betting my faster PC in office and also a dual monitor so I guess it will be even more usefull.
When will i see JB2005
Borland finally added the download for JB2K5 and it seems really cool, since I dont have broadband connection with me I asked Hermit to download it for me. I installed the application on my home machine but I dont get much time at home for any programming. I dont even get much time in office to try out all this stuff.
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
The article that I wrote
Load Balancing Web Applications
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Regularly visiting the forums
There are multiple reason for that, it could be possible that I am definately not smart enough to provide any kind of help or I dont take the time and the interest in posting someting.
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Remotedesktop through Proxy Server
I was just reading through an article on using Remote Desktop Connection through a proxy server and this dude tells me that if either the client or the server if behind the firewall and the port 3389 is not open the connection is not going work -- this is realy crap.
I guess I will have keep searching to find some indy software that can do the job.
Monday, September 20, 2004
New ideas for mobile applications
5 day Weather information: Since I am living in london the weather is total unpredictable and basicly shite, if you dont watch the weather report you end up wearing a jacket when it is warm and just a shirt when it is cold. Moreover there are other problems like it rains without any kind of warning.
I am working in london city so I depend on the tube and the DLR to travel into london alternatively I can take the bus to work (which I have never done uptill now). There are days when a certain tube line are down or running late, now if it is one of the lines that I am using then I need to be informed about those delays before hand so I can probally leave early or take the bus or someting on those lines.
DLR schedule: The DLR web site provides information about the trains arriving at a particular selected station, I would like that information to be visible on the phone.
I would require the 5 day weather forecast and the tube delay information to be pushed into my phone every day in the morning rather than manually clicking on receive and wait for the information to be received. I can just schedue it to run at say 7am.
As for the DLR schedule I would rather manually execute that to give me information about a particular tube station.
Now the question how do I go about getting all this done.
Weather information: I generaelly have a look at weather information at www.bbc.com/weather so I would prefer if bbc would provide some sort of XML based request repsonse providing me with XML response consisting of the 5 day weather forecast.
As for the tube delays I generally listen to radio and then I come to know about the delay but I gues there should be something on their site that also provides some live information about it.
DLR live information is avaliable over here.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/dlr/service_info/index.shtml
I think I have some kind of scheduling feature in MIDP2.0 where in I can schedule an MIDP Application to run to run at a particular time of the day.
Well, all this is something that has just come into my head on a monday morning but I really have to get and down and put my head and my determination into developing something, and comming up with a plausable design.
22Sep04
Some update on getting live tube updates, on the Tube Site there is an applet that retrives live Service Update Messages from the the server, I deompiled the class file and found out that it gets it live feed from this URL
http://tube.tfl.gov.uk/realtime/nexus/underground_ban.htm
At times this page may not return anything since there is no disruption (ya that actually happens).
Friday, September 17, 2004
Copying latest file from a dir using ANT
I am not able to the latest file from a dir using ant??
It seems quite difficut since ant is a very low level build tool and doenst actually do anything much, rather it doest do the stuff that I want it to do.
Here is what I want.
1. Clean the local classes dir (done)
2. Clean the k drive classes dir (done)
3. Pick up the latest prod jar file and copy to local k drive ( this is not possible since there doesnt seem to be a method on ant that I can use to pick up the last modified file from a dir )
4. Unjar the file.
All the above steps will just get me that latest files
Next I need to do that following in a sort of loop
1. Prompt for Package Name that I would like to migrate (manual entry)
2. Clean the corresponding folder in the k drive classes
3. Check out the head from cvs into the dev/src
4. Get the log for build.xml from the current package, this will display all the tags etc.
5. Prompt to enter the tag to update too
6. Incase of differences display and pause. So that the user can open another window and solve the problem and then reexecute step 5.
7. Call a target from the build file for clean compile
20Sep04
After having a look around I realized that I cannot all this stuff using ANT I needed some kind of scripting tool like UNIX shell script, I had a talk with Hermit Dave and asked him if he had any information of a scripting tool in windows and he suggested that I use 'Windows Scripting Host', rit now I am having a look at and it seems that I can achive what I want using 'Windows Scripting Host'
22Sep04
Hmm tried using windows scripting host, I guess a lot can be achieved by this method raher than ANT but I am not that good at WSH so I think I am not using the correct ActiveX object to get the job done, anyways I have some work now (real work) so I am getting back to that untill the next release where I again feel that I should have done someting about automating the migration process.
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Migrating to Outlook express
No Land line
This is realy crap, so I have decided to go into some wireless broadband, or something like that.
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Adding google to blogger
http://wbloggar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=711
Incase the url is dead here are its contents
...
if you want to add google search to your blog go to
http://www.google.com/services/free.html
to register and
http://www.google.com/searchcode.html
for the code.
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