Some pictures from my school days

Just posting some pictures from school

LKGC


HKGC


1st STD


2nd STD



3rd STD


4th STD



?? - STD


8th STD

Fayyaz Marriage Pictures

Every one
Left to right: Vivek, Elton, Fayyaz, Fatima, Monisha

Vivek and Elton

Vivek & monisha

Monisha & Elton

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.

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.

 

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 ).

Interesting story about a Lonely Whale

Read the interesting story about the whale

Office Party

Sean and Aaron

Aaron

Dunno who this is

??

Tom

Sean

Interesting problem with InteliiJ regarding the CVS File View Window.

InteliJ has different windows like the CVS File View, Ant Build, Debug, Run etc all these windows are by default attached to the main InteliJ windows but they can be floated out as a sperate window. I did the same for the CVS File View window, since I have to monitors and wanna use up the space properly.

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.

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

 

Gadget that I wanted for my office desk

I finally got the 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.

Nice windows software site

http://www.sysinternals.com

A new idea for a mobile application

After a long time I have come up with a new application for mobile, I dont know if I have blogged about it before ??
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

Just happend to listen to this song by the "...Peppers"

It has got a nice beat to it, that reminds me that I still have to completely setup my iPod and organize the songs.
Here is the song that I was listening to Soul to Squeze

Nice article about work place doodies

Work Place 'Doodies'

External Database Changes sending notifications to Entity Beans

I wanted some kind of notification in EJB of any changes to an entity

So I posted the stuff at Java Ranch
Java Ranch

Bluetooth Star Trek Communicator

Oooo this is really cool, and if it is actually a mod'ed garage door remote control: It is really a very good idea.

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 am having the Mondays after a really longtime, I think that last one was about a month back. I dont think there is someting missing and I cant put my finger on it!

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.

I can only hot deploy stuff to the admin WL server :-(

About a couple of days back I configured my WL for hot deployment so I didnt have to bounce the server every time I changed the code and recompiled the stuff.

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.

Nice review about GTA: San Andreas

What is really liked about this review was the thing where in they talk about how CJ's health changes as he moves through the game, running around and jumping, the type of food he eats etc.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11126-2004Oct30.html

Hot deplyment in WL8.1

I have been working on setting my development env for hot deployment into WL81 for a couple of days. At times I have stopped looking aroung and just bounce the server to get the work done rather than spending my time searching through all the docs and books.

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

Some good books on Finance

Financial Institutions and Markets, Second Edition
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.

Starting to use GoogleDesktop

I have actually started using GoogleDeskto, I generally use it for searching throuh emails, and it seems really usefull.
Since I get a lot of email(most of them being crap) but that tool is really usefull.

Accessing EJBs using local interfaces

I was having a problem accessing the local interface of an EJB, that have been deployed as separate jars. i.e 1st EJB is in a Jar file and it attempts to access a local interface in 2nd EJB in another jar deployed on Weblogic8.1

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

Planning to view the Eclipse tonight

I was just having a read through the news and there is a total lunar eclipse tonight, there wont be a total eclipse till 2007, so I am planning on seeing this one.
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)

Have to do a few things

I have to register with Sun Developer Program for Mobile Development and probally submit my mobile application.

http://www.java.com/en/developers/submit_mobileapp.jsp

I also have to have a look at this java application. http://www.qnext.com

Virgin doesnt provide me with the curently playing song...

I was listening to a really nice song on Virgin Radio but I missed the name but there is not way of getting the currently 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

The other day I saw a serial on Cassini and its journey to saturs mooons

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm


been following it some time now

Prince of Persia - Warrior Within

I finally got broadband on Sat morning, I have been waiting for this a really long time, and now that I have got it i feel really stupid thinking about they way I was getting upset about not having internet and broadband.
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 ?

Nice Page Transitions

This site has some nice page Transitions that can be added, I got the idea looking up someone elses blog site.

Nice one about the Halo 2 leak

http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2004/mft04101821.htm

Google Desktop Search

This is something new that I tired out the other day, it takes a while to get the data indexed but it works quite well.

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
...

Too much of nothing

LowFive - Too Much of Nothing Watch it Free at Alternative-c

Damm good song and a really nice video.

Too much of nothing, is never enough

Too much of nothing means you wanted somemore

Wanadoo doesn't allow port 25 (smtp) out

Since I am waiting for my broadband connection I have I signed up for wanadoo dial up internet connection, I have also noticed that I am not able to send outgoing smtp email (using my paid yahoo account) I was hitting my head against the wall and cursing Yahoo since the main reson that I went in for yahoo plus ! paid account was so that I could get pop and smtp access to it (and ofcourse 2GB space - leave messages on server forever option). After running a few tests with other pop services like softhome I realized that the problem was at a higher lever and probally nothing to do with yahoo.smtp. So I went through my firewall setting just to see if it is blocking outgoing smtp - the firewalls setting were perfectly fine.
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.

EJB Client callbacks

I was looking to EJB Client callbacks, so what you can have is a Client send a remote object to the server and whenever the server changes it just calles the callback method on the clients remote interface.

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'

Taskbar for a multimonitor application

Windows has this nice feature of allowing you to add multiple monitor and it work great. Only problem being there is only a single taskbar on the primary monitor and noting at all on the other monitors.
This application solves the problem.
http://www.mediachance.com/free/multimon.htm

disabling 'Synchronizing with external changes' in TogetherSoft

I have set up Togersoft to work with the project code, which is really good since it makes it easy for me to analyse and understand the internal working of the code.
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

The WinKey application is realy great since there is a lot that you can do with this stupid Windows Key, which has been provided but windows has not yet made any special use of it in many of its versios.
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.

Winkey

Supposed to a nice program for adding some nice short cuts to the windows keys, so it should be good since I want to get rid of the quick launch toolbar on my desk top and add someting usefull overthere like the google toolbar or something like that at least I have some free space. Let me see how much I am going to actually use it ?

Nice one to pull

How much do you pull

Wooo Hooo ...Google deskbar

This is something really very good from google
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

Since the time I read in the news that Borland is going to come up with JBuilder 2005, I have been really waiting for an Enterprise Trial for the same, I check the borland site practically every day for it.

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.

The article that I wrote

I wrote this article about load balancing web application and it got published on www.onjava.com

Load Balancing Web Applications

Regularly visiting the forums

The number of times that I am facing a some technical problames or other and I have searched for any possible solution on the net. I was just thkning about the number of times that I have actually gone through a forum and helped someone out or provided solutions, it is probally just a handfull of times.

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.

Remotedesktop through Proxy Server

I am wondering if I can remote desktop through a proxy server? Rather where do I specify the proxy configuration in the 'Remote Desktop Connection' client application.

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.

New ideas for mobile applications

This is some idea that I have come up with, which would be realy nice for a mobile application. Since I havent thought about a name for it I am just going to describe the features that I am going to include in it, and how I came up with those features.

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).

Copying latest file from a dir using ANT

I was using ANT to create the entire migration process, part of this process involves copying the latest jar from a location into my location machine and unjaring it. But I am not able to locate an ant task that picks up the latest file from a dir and copys it to the local machine.

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.

Migrating to Outlook express

I was just using outlook to store all the address and then I was thinking that I would like to migrate all my Palm Address data from Palm Desktop to Outlook since it seems to be more effective and I think using that I can also interface with my phone.

No Land line

I have shifted to this new appartment in london (zone 2) and I dont have a phone line, rahter I should say that I cant get a phone line. I asked for the BT phone line transfer from my old address ( which is about 2 stops away) to this new appartment, sicne this is a new development BT has told me that they cannot give me a line since they have to do some digging work. This is what they have been telling me since 1st Sep and then they call up on the 7th Sep and tell me that they have to go over a bus route and so the counsil has sanctioned them 1Oct as a date for digging over the bus route, so I guess I wont get a phone line till the 10th Oct , provided they dont hit into anyother problems, but just think about thi; living in central london and it is taking them about more than a month to just give me a line, it could me more than month too...we dont know.

This is realy crap, so I have decided to go into some wireless broadband, or something like that.

Adding google to blogger

This is something really interesting that I happend to find, I have still not tried it out but then it should be good here it is

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.
..

White paper on MobiMap

I have to write a white paper on MobiMap explaining the details of the architecture and the design of the application.

Problem accessing YAhoo Mail

Having a problem with yahoo mail while logging in I am getting a file download box ???? Really weard stuff I have to have a look into it, I guess it has got someting to do with IE thinking that what it is dowloading it a program file or data file ?

List of Certifications

I was just having a talk with a really old Collage friend of mine and he asked me about the latest certification that I had done.
So I gave him the entire list that I had done uptill now .

1. Sun Certified Programmer, Java 1.2
2. Sun Certified Developer
3. Sun Certified Enterprise Architect
4. Sun Certified Web Component Developer
5. Sun Certified Mobile Application Developer
6. IBM Certified UML
7. IBM Certified J2EE v1.3 developer 
8. IBM Certified XML and other Technologies 
9. Ms Certified C# Developer for Windows Applications 
10. Junior Level Linux Professional (LPIC-1)
11. Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform, Standard Edition 6
12. Unit 07 - Financial Derivatives
    

New ideas for Mobile application using Location based information

Since Mobile communicate with their base stations, the Mobile Service provides knows exactly where the mobile user, it called traingulation ( I picked this off some movie ) by which I assume they get the exact location using 3 base stations and getting the exact location of the mobile phone.

Why dont they send this information to the mobile phone and probally provide acess to this data using some API.
For j2me the answere is Location API ( I think )

I wonder if I could integrate MobiMap with the location based information if that is possible the user can use MobiMap and ask questions like 'Where am I right now?' and it can use location based API and MobiMap services to show the exact location of the mobile user.

I guess I will have to look at the JSP for Location API for j2me devices and if they (sun) have a reference implementation out use it to write the program. I know I will not be able to use the program using Location based API on my phone, but then too I would be something interesting to try.

Why dont chat application have blogging facilities

I was just wondering as to why dont these chat applications have a blog facility, and they should probally have a facility that would allow a user to blog a full conversation. Why would a user do that ....no idea.

Using MobiMap while on the Road

I had been to Oxford Street today, took the bus for a change. Since I was in the bus I decided to use MobiMap just to see how good it was in a so called live environment.
It was particularly interesting
Initially I could not get any connection to multimap server, I guess the server was down or profile my user access had been terminated since it may have been more than a month since I have been using this service. I managed to get connection to the server after about a couple of retry I guess the server were over loaded that instance. Here I should probally provide some detailed error message saying that mutimap server has been heavily loaded and so it cannot service your request, this is something like putting the blame on multimap, but hey it is not my fault.!!!!

I was looking for Regents street as I was going by bus and I realized that it took me about 3 Map Images to locate exactly where I was I guess this was due to the fact that I was moving on the bus, but then too I was in London and with traffic so how fast could I be moving. I still have to fix up something with the Up,Down, Left and Right Navigation stuff. Since when I say navigate Left the new map image is shown with the Viewable window at the center of the map which doest help much since I have just navigated left so I would like to keep the Viewable Window at the right so I can sort of connect streets from the previous screen and the current left navigated screen.

Another think that I noticed as I walking through Regents street and a few other cross roads, was that I as I move off the location on the map I will have to navigate left or right (depending on the direction that I am walking in) this sends the request to the server to fetch a new map image it take about 40 sec on an average to get the new image, and when the new image is display the viewable window is at the center of this new map, it takes a while for me to pan around and get to the point where I am on the new map, this is even after me having a rough idea of the different places around. I guess I should allow a sort of 'Previous map Image' operation that would show me the map image of the previous screen.

I guess MobiMap is a really interesting application and very usefully but it is definitely not a complete replacement of a paper map ( the onces that require a talent to fold), MobiMap can be used only in emergencies and probally when you are going for an interview to an office in the city.

Dave sent me a site which gives me the temperature of my CPU

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Issues with the program uptill now

1. How do I set up the default select command while I am displaying the list of saved images.
2. When I save a map in the actual phone, I am not taken to a different screen after clicking on OK for the sucessfull save dialog.
3. Possibly have a different message to be displayed depending on the type of operation being performed, like "Sending Request for Image", and "Sending Request for Search"
4. The name of the map to be displayed in the title for the map display screen.
5. Handling the case where in I cannot save the map since I have run out of phone memory space.
6. Probally porting the application to MIDP1.0 so that it can run in older phones.
7. Addiing bluetooth facility to the phone.
8. I am not able to zoom into a saved image, I guess I am also not able to navigate in anyother direction using a saved image.

~What is MPC file format

I wanted to listen to Telegraph Road By Dire Straits and I got this file format called MPC and I have not idea what it is. I think I have tried to convert from that format to Mp3 before but I dont quite remeber if I was successfull.

Some usefull urls for MobiMap MiDLet development

Used this article and the corresponding code to create a compressed ( rather Quntized) png image for my mobile application.
Color Quantization Article at MSDN.com
Image issues with J2me(Nice Article from sun site)
Url for testing my ASP.NET application for image Conversion
Url for testing my ASP.NET application for image Conversion using Quantization

I used some PNG and JPEG FAQs from this site to get some information about
JPEG and PNG format and Quntizations and compression etc.
Nice site for all FAQ.s

Formula 1

Ranjay took this since he liked the female

This is the pic he was actually supposed to take

And one more

One more

Ranjay is 2 pints down

On the road

asking for directions

Crowd , I guess most of them are for f1


We had plans to go to Masala Zone after F1.


We had to take this once - Look on Ranjays face after he had the great Biryani at Masala zone

He really loves the Biryani ...with dal all around it. Something that he always wanted

Weekend - Ashish,Goldie,Vivek

Some pictures taken when; I, Ashish and Goldie when to Walkabout for some drinks











Temple Station

Temple Station

In the train going back



Shrek 2

Dont know who this is ..but he wanted to be clicked