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Reference - java.html

2009-06-24T22:11:00.001+05:00

This file contains all the information: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/tooldocs/windows/java.html

Closing this Blog and Moving to new...

2008-11-07T10:45:00.002+05:00

311 posts in last 4 years! - A long way this blog has came across. I have managed to purchase a domain name http://ExcuseMeWorld.com and decided to continue blogging there... However, this blog content will remain here.. I remember I've posted some useful stuffs here eventually... So, they will remain here for ever.

Here by, closing this blog and moving to ExcuseMeWorld.com... Welcome all you there...

Wayanad.

2008-10-19T00:58:00.004+05:00

We had a trip to Wayanad two weeks ago. We (classmates of B.E), eventually arrange trips to outstations. It was a four-day trip. I would say this trip was quite different from others. Started from Chennai central on Friday night (1st Oct). Reached Bangalore on the next day morning (2nd Oct)…. Bullshit, I hate this way of writing traditional travel blogs. So, will simply give some highlights in bullet points.

We went to Kamat Lok Ruchi, a kannadiga hotel located on Bangalore – Mysore highway. I visited the same hotel, one month back (on 7th Sept. For more, refer the post: ). On that day, I told my friend that I may never have a chance to come back to this nice hotel in future. Great to my surprise, I visited the hotel back within short span of time. (looks like a chaos theory or some crap theory, isn’t ? :) )
We went to a wild life sanctuary in Wayanad (TholPatti Wild Life Sanctuary is the name, I guess). Damn it, I won’t even believe my eyes, the circumference of the sanctuary was 24 km. We took a safari ride. It was really cool. It was a dense forest. We could see only elephants and spotted deers. We couldn’t see tigers, but we were told tigers would be spotted eventually. I asked one of the guards whether they allow any trespassers in to the forest. He said there was a trekking program which allows a group (five people in a group) to trek through the forest. A guide and a gun man are sent along with the trekker group. And the trekking costs 800 R.s. Listen, it is not yet over. Before starting the trekking, all five persons in group have to sign in a paper that the sanctuary is not responsible for bringing them back safely.  Anyway, I am very eager to go, let me know if any four of you are willing to join me :)
A fabulous but dangerous water falls was MeenMutti. We had to invade through steep rocks and dense forest. Need to walk for almost 3 to 4 km, down the hill and take a return path then!. The water falls was so tall and nice. I took bath and tasted the water. It was so fresh and clean. I felt so exciting when the water was pouring right top on head.
Kerala cuisine. Mallus eat a lot of fishes. I too like fishes than any other non-veg dishes. Their ghee rice was too good. I liked their life style. (FYI, Ravi! You missed it all!)
Last but not least – we could easily figure out in the trip that our excitement and interest had degraded little bit. Because, we all turned almost 24.5 years old, and seems getting aged gradually. But I tell you what, you always need to keep your life engaged in same way. Otherwise, you will see it decaying in front of your eyes! I recall this poem quite often: (better readable in Internet Explorer)
"ஏதேனும் ஒன்றை சார்ந்திரு.
கவித்துவம்
தத்துவம், காதல்
இங்கிதம், சங்கீதம் - இப்படி
எதையேனும் ஒன்றை சார்ந்திரு.
இல்லையேல் இந்த உலகம் காணாமல் போய்விடும்"

Mail Goggles - Stop sending mails you regret later!

2008-10-14T22:52:00.002+05:00

This is really a nice gmail feature from Google Labs. When we are not conscious or emotionally charged, we tend to do things we regret later. Sending hate mail, or offensive mail is an example too. So, this feature 'Mail Goggle' will test your conscience, before your mail is sent! Yes, it will present you simple maths problems to be solved, before your mail is sent (this feature is active during Friday and Saturday late-nights! ). Your email will be sent only when you give correct answer to the problem. Otherwise, you will be advised to have enough bed and water :)

Funny feature, read more and try it out!

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-stop-sending-mail-you-later.html

Case studies on highly scalable architectures.

2008-10-10T22:44:00.000+05:00

This site has a lot of articles on scalability. Especially, the case studies on amazon.com, google.com, ebay.com are good!

Nice link to go: http://highscalability.com

Mysore trip

2008-09-17T00:47:00.010+05:00

I was so eager to visit the legacy temples in Sri-Rangapatna, near Mysore. I had a chance to go there by bike. From Bangalore, it is 3 hours drive to reach Sri-Rangapatna. (120+ K.M). With my friend, I started at early morning 06:30. We reached 'Kamat Loka Ruchi', a fantastic Karnataka cuisine hotel located on the BangaloreMysore highway. It was very much traditional. We had our break-fast there. They serve special idlies - 'Kaadu Idly' which is wrapped by banana skin. Never miss to stop by the hotel, just in case if you drive on Bangalore-Mysore highway. You'll love it when you are there.

We reached Mysore by 10:30 a.m. One of my classmates, who works in Infosys- Mysore, took us into the beautiful Infy campus. Awesome! You may miss the Mysore palace, but do not miss Infy campus!

Then we parked in front of Mysore palace, and I purchased some show-case goods for my new house. We came back to Sri-Rangapatna by 04:00 P.M. The city resembled as if it was a capital of some kings few centuries ago! Who knows, it might have been too. There is a Ranganathar temple, which is pretty old. I saw the Ranganatha Perumal statue in lying-on-bed-of-snakes position. I had the same feel as Rangarajan Nambi had in Dasavatharam.

We visited some other places too in Sri-Rangapatna. Dippu sultan's grave and Triveni Sangam. The former is a kind of palace cum grave of Dippy, and the later is a joint of three famous rivers in karnataka including kaveri. I had come to the same place during my third-year-days in college. I was here with lot of friends, that time! Now I am alone! thats life!

We rode back to Bangalore. We stopped by 'Kamat Loka Ruchi'. Then left the hotel by 07:00 P.M. We had been talking a lot while riding ... starting right from child-hood to the last day in Oracle! May be that might be the last time, I was there in those places, who knows when I'll get another chance to come here ....

We reached Bangalore by 08:00 P.M in the evening. Thats all the end of my days in Bangalore and the state of Karnataka!

(So, I forgot.. I did not search my wife/house in mysore...! I would have done it!)

Train-bridge - nice view (click on the image to enlarge the view)

Infosys Campus (click on the image to enlarge the view)

Dippu's grave- (click on the image to enlarge the view)

Triveni Sangam -(click on the image to enlarge the view)

On the highway (click on the image to enlarge the view)

Movie: Catch me If you can

2008-07-27T22:55:00.006+05:00

No, I am not saying so. It’s the movie name, I am talking about. Released in 2002 and directed by my favorite director Steven Spielberg. The film is based on a real story. One should have enough patience to watch the movie. Here, I am not going to give any review comments or story detail, since it can be found in several other web sites.

Will talk about other few detail. Usually, it’s my habit to ‘understand’ the movie rather than simply watching it. That’s, after watching any movie, I go to google, check out the complete artist detail, filming location, movie mistakes (let’s talk about it later) and etc.

Retrieve the artist detail, filming locations from: http://imdb.com
Movie mistakes from: http://www.moviemistakes.com/

Coming to movie mistakes, it captures logical mistakes in the movie scenes or in screen play. it’s a real fun to know the mistakes made in movies. The http://moviemistakes.com is a best source to find all movie mistakes and laugh out ourselves.

I am totally surprised to see the kind of mistakes people have captured from this film. Especially this one is a too good catch!

At one scene, the hero looks out the window of the jet and says, "there is La Guardia Airport, runway 44." But, one guy has caught it – “Airport runway numbers are derived from their compass heading and go from 01 to 36, so there is no such thing as ‘runway 44’ The runway number should be within 01 to 36, and hence runway 44 is invalid”.

How crazy people are they to catch such mistakes? :)

Also, now I like the kind of audience out there!

Hosting, Domain name - cheap price list.

2008-07-14T21:41:00.000+05:00

Following is the list of few companies that offer domain name registration service at cheap price (less than $10 per annum). Note that this is the price only for domain name registration. Hosting and other services will be charged separately.

As on Jul 2008:

Company	Price
NetFirms	$4.95
Yahoo	$4.98
EV1Servers	$5.99
Hostway	$6.95
Stargate	$6.95
Interland	$7.95
Web.com	$7.95
AIT Domains	$7.99
Go Daddy	$8.95
RegisterFly	$9.99

And the Answer is...

2008-07-08T00:08:00.003+05:00

Thanks to Shan, and Yasar for spending their time at answering my question in the previous post!

Even I too don’t know the exact answer, but I am happy with your answers. So, you may be called ‘Mr.Smarts’ as going forward! J

Ok. Let’s once again become energetic Comp.Science students and discuss this issue in detail.

Question is: “Whats the most efficient way to sort a million 32-bit integers?”

I went and searched for the answer a lot on google, but no direct answer was found. Google is very smart in asking such interview question, which you probably can’t find from internet.

Let it be.

My answer goes like this:

In Comp.Science, there are lots of classical problems. When you encounter such question, try to see if you can match it with some existing problem. Or, try to find out the base ‘Problem Class/Type’. Yes, you can map most of the problem to a Data Structure or Algorithm!

Consider the priorities and scenarios in this case.

(Before that, remember Sorting Thumb Rule #1: Bubble Sort is a wrong way to go! :) )

1. If memory is a constraint:

Suppose, if you need to sort a million integers in a system which has a tight memory constraint, and then go for External Sorting or Merge Sorting or External Merge Strategy (Combined).

Since, Merge sorting takes only O(nlogn) time (at average case and as well as at worst case)!. The combined External sort mechanism can help you to assist ‘Divide and Conqueror’.

2. If speed is the constraint (and not memory):

Two choices: Quick Sort, Heap Sort, Merge Sort.

Quick Sort: Gives you O(nlogn) speed. But, this sorting approach is little dangerous. Because, if your input (1 million integers) is close to already-sorted form, then the Quick Sort will slow down to the speed of O(n^2) .

Also, Quick Sort is unstable sort! Quick sorting is based on recursion (recursion means stack.. stack means more memory). So, the repeated recursion calls can tend to hog more memory.

But, you stand a good choice to use parallelism. That’s quick sort creates lots of temporary partitions. So, you can distribute these portions across various processing units (say, across a cluster).

One important thing is, if you have N number of processors, each processor can process a partition, than you can complete the sorting by O(nlogn)/N = O(logn) !

That is an extreme performance as it is in Linear Time!

Heap Sort:

Takes very less memory – good point.

Runs at O(nlogn) time, even at worst case – Too good point! :)

Not sure about partitioning.

One should definitely consider HeapSort, when speed is a constraint.

PS: I have NOT taken or NOT got this answer from anywhere/anybody! The answer is purely based on my own thoughts, so it MAY NOT be 100% correct!

Tough Question, Excellent Answer!

2008-07-07T00:32:00.006+05:00

Just happened to see this video in Youtube: Barack Obama (U.S Presidential Candidate) is being interviewed at some Google office (a funny interview).

Not sure, why Obama gave an interview at Google (may be a kind of social, or industrial issue based interview).

The interviewer says “winning U.S presidential election and getting a job at Google – both are equally tough”. So, the interviewer throws some tough computer science interview question to Obama just for fun.(If you are Comp.Science student, then you would be already knowing how tough the google interview questions are!)

The question is: “Whats the most efficient way to sort a million 32-bit integers?”

Don’t know how many of you would start thinking and try to answer some thing immediately..!

(Youtube video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nnj7r1wCD4 )

But, great to my surprise, Obama suddenly responded “I think… Bubble Sort is the wrong way to go!” – Excellent answer.

I could have clapped, if I were sitting at the audience side. Even a computer science graduate cannot suddenly answer this kind tough question. Anyway, though he didn’t tell in what way it can work, he told an other way in which it cannot work. May be that’s should be a personality identification for some high profile jobs like U.S President :-). All the good luck to Obama!

Let it be.

I am very curious to know how many computer science graduates can bring out the right answer (or any relevant correct answer) for the same question. I’ve some answer in my mind. Don’t know how far it’s correct.

If you are a computer science student, you could refer any books, internet, discuss with people and do etc. Post the answer within one day – I’ve a very nice title waiting for you – if your answer convinces me :)

Question is repeated:

“Whats the most efficient way to sort a million 32-bit integers?”

Software Engineers spoiled the culture!

2008-07-02T00:38:00.003+05:00

This is what I hear wherever I go!:

You Software Engineers spoiled the culture!
You Software Engineers hiked prices, increased the inflation!
Because of you guys, the real estate prices gone up!
Because of you guys, all the prices are going skyrockets!
And because of you guys, it is not raining nowdays! (Somebody told this too!)

I am just shy to say that I am also a Software Engineer.. Whenever somebody asks what profession I am into, I simply say I do designing and coding work for a specific future of a product module.. that may work or may not work.. and whatever the case it is, I am paid for that.. (totally giving a confused answer to that guy)… so, that the guy gives up his question. (but I am very careful in not using the word ‘software’ in my answer :) )

Whom do you think has spoiled the culture?

Nowadays, boy friend, girl friend, dating & etc – all these jargons start from school level. But, they are controlled by the parents, teachers, and the school administration. But, still they are not convinced and awaiting for the chances. When you get any decent job (note: any job, not only the software jobs!) you stand a good chance to enjoy your life – especially when you are totally away from parents. It’s up to individual’s wish to be in control! If you run out of control, the mistake is yours, don’t blame software jobs. As years pass by any culture will be liberated – that’s a common truth. Just in case if there is no single software job in the country, you will still see the same culture lasting or even it is going worse! Because, it’s matter of time that changes the culture!

Remember, Gandhi was advising people in early 1940’s and people followed him. Now, do you remember how many followers were there in 1990’s, (before Software Jobs come in)? Now how many do you expect in 2008? The culture is being liberated in a proportional order with time!

In 1990’s you blamed cinema actors and models. Now it is the turn for software engineer.

Whom do you think has increased the price?

Software jobs pay multifold of what a common man can get from other jobs. So, because of this, the prices go up. True. But, do you want to stop it? Just hold on.

Some 10 to 20 years back, when Software Jobs were not there in India, still there were people who used to get multifold salaries – say Engineers, Doctors, Collector and etc. At that time, didn’t you see prices were going up? When our fathers were into none of these professions, did we go and blame others for their multifold salaries? No. So, why are you blaming us now?

When the junior generation is getting multifold salaries, growing like rockets, you need to be happy about it and try to join it, if possible.

See, we never thought that an Indian would become world’s No 1 rich. It happened. We never thought that lots of money will flow in India. It is happening now. You should be either working hard to compete with the growing generation, but not to be fighting with them or stopping them from growing.

I can tell you one strong comment from my observation. It’s very easy to win senior generations. Mean, it is very easy to break the records of your father; but, it is always tough to compete with junior generations;

Who knows, our juniors may be getting multifold of what we software engineers are getting now! That’s how it will grow for sure.

Movie: Dasavatharam

2008-06-23T23:39:00.003+05:00

Man, I wonder how much things Kamal really knows! He knows right from 12^th century’s lifestyle to George Bush’s body language! Damn. I was wondering throughout the film about his knowledge over various country and culture.

I think Kamal is not much educated; I remember once I’ve read that he didn’t continue studies after 10^th std. Then, wondering how come he knows this much from history and world lifestyle!

I don’t think people, or even educated people might know so much of things technically and historically. I couldn’t understand some of the parts in the movie. I also went and searched for following topics for clarification.

Chaos Theory (http://www.extramirchi.com/movies/dasavatharam-chaos-theory-butterfly-effect/)
kulothunga cholan II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulothunga_Chola_II)
George Bush (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqLvBUSJucg)

And etc.

It was a great surprise to read the information about kulothunga cholan II from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulothunga_Chola_II. Whatever was shown in the movie about this Chola is 90% a real story it seems. I did not know about this Chaos Theory/Butter Fly theory before watching the movie. Surprised to know all these theory. There shouldn’t be any surprise, if Kamal is going to talk about ‘Theory of Automata’, ‘Finite State Machines’ and ‘NP Complexity Algorithms’ in his future films! :-)

George Bush role! First, I was thinking that was some different guy, not Kamal. Because, his body language and accent was looking as if he was a native American. After 15 to 20 minutes passed, I came to know that that was also Kamal!

Balaram Naidu. Audience breaks out in laugh! Damn character. His acting was awesome! Looking as if he was from a typical Telugu family

Fletcher – He can be recommended to James Bond roles!. May be this holly wood can give a try with Kamal.

I simply don’t want to say this movie is good/bad/ok. Those one word comments cannot stand against this movie, when realizing the awesome knowledge of Kamal and the great acting done by Kamal. Dasavatharam can be a PhD topic, to explore the culture and legacy of India starting right from 12^th Century to 21^st Century!

Kudu Kuduppaikaran

2008-06-23T00:05:00.004+05:00

It was a Saturday early morning, say 5’o clock. I couldn’t continue sleeping as I was hearing a strange sound continuously. That sound was not new to me. I remember I heard the sound some where at sometime long ago. I woke up and sharpened the ears close to the sound. That was clear then. It was a KuduKuduppai sound. I don’t know how many of you could have heard this sound in your childhood. Not sure, what kind of feeling you have had when you heard the sound of KuduKuduppai at that time. But, I've had a scared feeling at my childhood whenever I heard that sound. The KuduKuduppaikaran (couldn’t find an English equivalent for ‘KuduKuduppaikaran’ anywhere!.) walks along the streets in the mid-night. He has a terrific make-up as if some ghost comes along with him and he tells fortune at each house in the street.

Also, I’ve heard so many rumors about this KuduKuduppaikaran in my childhood. My mom used to tell me that people would not attempt to meet this KuduKuduppaikaran face to face at mid-night, when he is coming on the streets; because he would be coming along with ghosts. Also, my childhood friends used to tell stories that this KuduKuduppaikaran visits grave yards in the midnight and does some special pooja with skulls, bones and then come into streets to tell the fortune. I scared to the maximum about this KuduKuduppaikaran then! Thereafter, whenever I heard this KuduKuduppai sound in the mid-nights, I scared…embraced my mom and used to cover my face using her saree due to fear! Though they were rumors, I didn’t have a choice other than believing it – as I was a child.

Days passed by. I’ve grown. Live in boring Bangalore – where I don’t have any such interesting story tellers. After many years, I heard this sound at an early morning! Instead of scaring, I felt happy this time! I was happy that this guy had not yet gone missing. I just opened my windows and watched around. He was singing some strange song, probably it was a mix of Kannata & Tamil languages. He stopped at each door step and was telling fortune. He was walking on his own way then.

I feel sympathy for him now. He cant get a job it seems. Same time, he doesn’t want to beg. So, he does fortune telling, what his ancestors used to do. Nowadays these people are decreasing in number. In childhood, they told me hoax stories about this KuduKuduppaikaran. Then, who can tell me a correct story about him now?

Mr. Google.

Intially I couldn’t get any results on Google about this KuduKuduppaikaran. But, I didn’t want to give up. Rephrased, refined the keywords and shot again. Then, google returned some shocking news about these KuduKudppai Community. This the result, I’ve got from google (text is in Tamil, better readable in Internet Explorer or FireFox3):

http://photobala.blogspot.com/2007/07/blog-post.html

Shocked. I am really heart-broken to read that this community is denied education & work! I wish them one day they get all the benefits and rights in the society that we’ve today.

I scared to see this people in my childhood. Now, mind-set had totally changed.. I am happy to see such strange things back in life!

Bangalore Life style

2008-05-18T21:23:00.002+05:00

Bangalore – I always like the city for following simple reasons:

It is very ‘cool’ all around the year.
It has a rich look.
More towards western culture.

Now, I doubt about point #1, as the temperature is increasing drastically. When newspaper talks about environment no body continues reading it (me too). Now, I realize it practically. Last year, this time, I was going out with jerkin. This year, couldn’t even sleep during power-cuts. It is sweating all over the day time. Sure, the environment started the revenge over people who spoiled it.

What can I think of doing some thing for this from my side? Thought of growing some trees. But where? I live in an apartment where everybody shares their wall with neighbors. The only space left for us is stair-case and terrace. Almost, everywhere it is the case in the city!

All I can do is just to recall the ‘Cool’ Bangalore and tell stories to children like ‘You know, once Bangalore was so cool and it was the climate what you see in Ooty and…’

Kamals speaks about Virumandi..

2008-05-15T11:30:00.002+05:00

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Web Hosting companies – review

2008-05-14T22:12:00.000+05:00

Here goes my review of hosting companies.

IxWebhosting.com

used their Business Plan service for hosting few of my web sites. The service offered by them is good. But, it is bit costlier when compared to other hosting providers. One drawback what I found with them is none of their hosting product includes unlimited mysql database space. I called up the IxWebhosting.com customer support and they responded that they can’t help with unlimited mysql space. But, their hosting products offer lot of utilities.

hostgator.com

Hostgator is comparatively cheaper. They offer unlimited mysql space, web space and traffic. I didn’t try their hosting service, but my one of my friends said their service was good. Even, I myself found lot of good reviews about Hostgator.com

1and1.com
I have not used their service, but heard from friends that their service is good. Hosting charge is reasonable, neither cheaper nor costlier.

Best 5 movies of all time.

2008-05-10T15:15:00.003+05:00

I have been recalling the best 5 movies, I enjoyed watching so far. This is absolutely my personal rating out of all the ones I watched. There are even too good movies, but these are the ones I enjoyed a lot and willing to see again and again. Here goes the listing.

#1: Braveheart (1995) – The most touching movie.

The first thing in the movie that grabbed my attention is theme music. It is Bagpiper music with an unknown sadness. Then the dialogues – most bravery dialogues I ever read. And, then, a beautiful love that lasts only for short time. Very much liked the hero’s real brave heart that continuously fights for freedom. As expected the hero is killed, but his braveness is portrayed over centuries.

No of times watched: More than 5
First time watched: 3 years ago
More info about the movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braveheart

#2: Nayagan(1987) – Tamil version of GodFather

All glories to Kamal. I would rate that is a superlative performance of Kamal, out of all his actions. Movie is a complete depiction of a Don’s life right form his childhood to old age. With Maniratnam’s rain drop dialogues, the movie is one of the unforgettables in my life.

No of times watched: 2
First time watched: 1 year ago
More info about the movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayagan

#3: Thillu mullu (1981) – Laugh out Louder

Actually, I watched the complete movie . The movie is 27 years old, but still I break out in laugh while watching it. There have been lots of full length comedy movies, but they still stick to formulas like – fights, sentiments, and etc. This movie is a clear exception – I couldn’t see any fight scene or serious scenes going in the movie. A complete full length comedy and happy ending.

No of times watched: 2
First time watched: 2 year ago
More info about the movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thillu_Mullu

#4: Anbe Sivam (2003) – Unhappy to hear it is not a hit!

Frankly saying, I didn’t watch the movie completely. But found it so good. I don’t understand why people thrown out this movie to go as a flop. I have not watched any such movies even in any other language. One really needs to be educated or to have lots of common/social sense to understand Kamal’s movies. He should have been very successful actor, but because of little complex stuffs in his movies, they are not hits! I am really unhappy to hear this movie was not a hit!

No of times watched: ~1
First time watched: 2 year ago
More info about the movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anbe_Sivam

#5. Jurassic Park (1993) – Till date Thriller

I was a child when I watched this movie first time. It was a big thriller for me at that time. I still feel the same thrill ness when watching this movie even now! Thereafter lots of movies came out based on Dinosaurs and its kind of animals. But, they are not that good to compare with the former. The best thing about Spielberg is, he has been the first guy to make different skins of movies for firs time. Jaws, Star of Wars and this Jurassic Park are samples. I still love the sceneries and the island kind of landscapes coming throughout the movie. I still do not miss Jurassic Park, whenever it is played in TV channels.

No of times watched: 4
First time watched: ~ 14 year ago
More info about the movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park

Java/J2EE Project Name proposal.

2008-04-15T13:00:00.004+05:00

Choices of names proposed:

William Wallace
Great Alexander
Gladiator
Big Boss
Ashoka (Why not Indian Names?)
Sivaji

I like to choose any one from the list. I would be happy if you could pick up one name and vote it!
Or I can go about choosing one name to separate dev/build release cycles.

So, for whom this name?

I have planned to evaluate Light Weight J2EE Architecture. I am planning to re-engineer SAB with LW J2EE. Or, I am planning to build a biggest sample application that will cover all application life cycle scenarios. I have sent a re-engineering architecture proposal to some of my friends. They wanted me to think about a new one to start from scratch.

I might work on coming up with a new application architecture that will cover

Complex persistence scenarios
Complex Integration Scenarios
Commonly used architectural patterns
Light Weight J2EE Components trade off over Heave weight Components to satisfy Non-functional requirements.
A complete product development life cycle (including development guide, source control, various testing process, build maintenance, releases, patch releases, bug tracking, etc)
Comparing and contrasting different stacks of J2EE/Generic Enterprise application.

Let me work on it for some times.

Fastest Ride on road, ever!

2008-04-15T11:20:00.003+05:00

I was so excited to ride my bike towards home. I had planned to take my bike to home. So, I loaded the bike into a Volvo. I got down from Volvo, 80 k.m away form home. Decided to ride. I think it was NH-45, if I am not wrong.

I revved up the engine, and picked up high speed on the road. Here goes all the fun!
It was very morning 7:15 AM. I started from Dindigal bye-pass road. I was very sure about the route. There is a junction, just after Dindigal town. It separates NHes. So, I was riding so fast to reach the junction. Seems, people were working on repairing the roads. So, they kept lots of ‘Take Diversion’ boards. I was going so fast, so, I took quick cuts, as soon I saw the boards. After passing ahead some kilometers, I had a slight doubt whether I was going in right direction. Because, I did not have seen the junction that far! One stranger on the road, made it sure that I was going in wrong route! I asked that guy why I didn’t reach the junction even after riding about 5 km. He said that the ‘Take Diversion’ boards should have misguided me! (There is a joke in tamil movie: Vivek is searching for his interview venue, but he is misrouted to Tirupati!, because of ‘Take Diversion’ boards). At least in my case, I went only for 5 km in wrong direction. (At least, I am lucky that I was not misrouted to Kanyakumari!)

The road was so neat and wide that anyone would drive mad. I am too not an exempt, but not a mad. In my childhood, I traveled many times on the roads by corporation buses. But, they were slow sometimes. I was wondering why not they could be fast on free NH roads.

But, now I am doing it. I was overtaking any vehicle running in front of me. I remember I was driving at 80kmph continuously for 15 minutes, and crossed about 20 km within 15 minutes.
Averaging the speed at 70 to 75 kmph, I passed ahead of 75 km within 1 hour 10 minutes. Our corporation buses take 2 to 2 and half hours to cross the same distance.

I should say, I got so excited at this ride. The white bars on the road were going back so faster; the trees were going back; I felt like I was, kind of flying alone; I realized every tree, plant, on the road was happy! I wanted to still ride, even after reaching home.

Facts behind the ride:

It is the fastest journey on earth in my life. (Volvos, Sadapdhi express couldn’t win! :-))
It took 1 hour and 7 minutes to cross 77 Km (Including break). Most of the time hitting 80+ kmph, and averaging at the speed at 75 kmph.
I overtook all the vehicles hit at my eye-sight. No other vehicle overtook me! 
I was listening to the music, while driving for the whole 75 km. (I had to take care of vehicles coming/going in the front only. No need to look back! Because, I am sure, no body is going to come closer to me in that speed)
I have not set my front mirrors, during the ride. – (reason is same as above)
I was trying to take a right-cut at full speed, the bike was about to skid, I controlled it (just like it happens always!)
By reading this post, do not conclude that I am a mad driver. I am very careful at driving, you won’t believe that! :)

The 300th Blog post!

2008-04-10T12:38:00.005+05:00

This post is somewhat special. Yes, it is the 300th post in my blog, following 4 years of blogging history! I published my first post on 5th Oct 2004. Time has gone in its own way.

Here goes my personal view on blogging:

What do you like about blogging?

I like to blog. Either, let it be a good moment or bad moment. Blog can be thought as log for life. My blog captures my lifestyle, almost all incidents in the recent years. If I want to recap what I have done in the past, I go through my blog simply. So, I like blogging.

How frequently do you blog?

Depends. Depends on mood, time availability and etc.

How much time does it take to publish a single post?

I usually do not think too much while writing a post :-) I just put in whatever it comes to my mind. It usually takes less than 20 minutes. Also, I type faster on keyboard. So, it does not take much time for me.

What do you like to post and what not?

I prefer posting only personal stuffs. I do not like posting any social matters. Because, it leads to unwanted issues. Also, I do not want to post any specific technical junks/code here. Because, I like to keep the blog to be a complete personal space. I write about technical stuffs here: http://java-j2ee-architecture.blogspot.com/.

Whom do you think, your readers?

Actually none. I do not think about any readers/audience while writing a post. As I said already, it is personal stuff. But, I am forwarding some posts to some people, thinking their interest will also be on the same lines. However, all the readers are warmly welcome!

Thanks to all readers! Happy Blogging!

The real Hitler's speech!

2008-04-08T23:29:00.004+05:00

When somebody is arrogant or very aggressive, we curse him as Hitler. Then, just thought how the real Hitler should have lived. I watched this video 'Hitler's speech' in youtube.! damn, he throws sparkles in his speech. Though I could not understand his language, I am getting scarred to see his body language. Till date, I never ever seen any politician or any leader has spoken in that aggressive/motivating style! This 55 seconds speech can wake up any lazy human being.

ATM Machines..! Who has written?

2008-04-07T22:43:00.002+05:00

It was late night. I reached my home by a taxi. As the taxi driver did not have change, I asked him to park at a near by ATM. I came running to the ATM Machine to draw some hundreds. Here goes my interaction with the ATM:
---
Enter the card no: xxxx

Enter the Amount: 400

Choose Type: Saving Account

Confirm: OK

Output: Error: Please enter amount only in multiples of hundred (100).

---

I repeat the same use cases multiple times but, the output is the same error message. Even, I cross checked many times whether 400 is entered correctly. I am totally confused myself, whether 400 is divisible by hundred or not! Then, I couldn’t understand why the error message was displayed. I ran to another ATM, and I was getting some other error message there. Error: You have exceeded the maximum limit. (I have not drawn any money using my card for the last two days). Are the machines gone drunk?

Whenever, the ATM machines are ‘out of service’, I am not upset. Because, there might be ‘N’ number of reasons. It is agreeable. But, when they display such misleading/incorrect error messages, I easily get tensed. I am searching for the guy, who has written that kind of software.

It is not that, only the functional deviations are bugs. Also, if a system does not handle a error situation, or does not display a proper error message, then that is also a bug. It is a serious bug, at customer perspective. Leave the customers aside. Just few questions to the guy, who has developed the ATM software:

With this incorrect error message, how will you find out what has gone wrong/failed in the system?
Without knowing the actual failure, how are you going to fix it?
What do you think, either an end user (me), or the bank people can react to the incorrect error message?

Java: Collest bug, ever seen!

2008-04-02T19:35:00.005+05:00

Recently, I was a fixing a bug (which was introduced by me!). The bug is very silly, you may never catch it!

Issue is, a there is a java bean factory class with factory methods. In one of the factory method, a recursive call was there (which was not supposed to be), it was causing a stack overflow exception.

The factory method is supposed to be like this,

(I am providing a sample code, not actual code)

public Employee newEmployeeImpl()
{
return (Employee)new EmployeeImpl();
}

Instead of this, the code was mistakenly written as,

public Employee newEmployeeImpl()
{
return (Employee)newEmployeeImpl(); //there is no space in between new and EmployeeImpl!
}

It was accidentally typed without leaving a space between new and EmployeeImpl class. It is syntactically correct. So, the compiler didnt crip for the expression. But, at runtime, it goes as a recursive call!

So, the newEmployeeImpl() factory is getting called at infinite number of times and results in Stack Overflow Exception...

I laughed out to myself when I found this issue!

I am a J2EE Architect! – Says Sun Microsystems.

2008-03-27T15:16:00.003+05:00

Now, it is mid-night 12:33 AM. A windy night and rain is pouring heavily outside. Weather is so cool, and my heart is too. Though I am feeling like running outside and shout louder in the rain…, I can not do that now. Because, I am 24, and yet, the time is mid night 12.

The much awaited result is out..! I have been waiting for this result, since last 3 to 4 weeks. My Architect exam result. Why I am so excited about this is, I am only 23.7 years old – too young to have Architect Certified! :-)

Out of all my learnings till date, I consider this exam is pretty worth. The perspective of looking at software systems has changed, after looking them through the architect view. I don’t see software as a program or piece of code; I see software is assembled of components and constructs. They are like bricks and stones that give the infrastructure (I am more or less has become as a mechanic!)

I will cherish this great moment till life long. Let me recall, what I have done, lost, tried and given up to get this Architect Exam.

The Exam has 3 parts. In Part-I, we need to answer for multiple-choice questions. In Part-II, we need to workout a J2EE based architectural solution, for the problem given by Sun Microsystems. In Part-III, questions will be asked from our Part-II solution. Part-III is an essay type exam. We need to answer their questions in paragraphs.

Sun Certified Enterprise Architect – Part I

Date : 25^th Sept 2007

I have already published a post about this Part I exam, here: http://manivannan57.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html

Sun Certified Enterprise Architect – Part II (Assignment)

Date: 28t^h Feb 2008

Here is the stage, you host your skills! I registered for the part II – Assignment exam. I received the assignment, and started reading the requirements about a week. I understood what the requirements were, but did not find even a single clue about how to derive solution

I started reading advises from saloon forum http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=26 at my free times. Needless to say, more we listen to people’s advice, the more we get confused. So, I gave up reading the forum, as it had ‘N’ number of views, arguments, advises, approaches and etc. (But, one should really read through the forum, just to see how different people mind can think to derive a solution for a given single problem! :-) )

I was helpless to bring solution and to verify my solution is correct. Because, I have not met any real world architects so far. Also, I had a fear that, they can misguide me to give a Design Solution instead of the required Architectural solution. Because, most of the techies do not distinguish a ‘Design’ and an ‘Architecture’. (And there are cases, where people have failed in the exam, as they submitted a design kind of solution rather than the architectural solution).

I’ve decided to keep my architectural solution very simple and straight-forward. I have strongly decided not to use any Framework (that is not a part of J2EE) in my solution. I did so.

The difficult part in my assignment, which I feel is, session handling decision. I needed to give a session handling solution for JSP and Swing based clients. First, I have decided an approach. I went out for coffee and cam back, and then changed the approach. I went out, looked at the children playing in the street, cam back then, and changed the approach. Likewise, it got changed many times, that I cannot even remember.

I was very strong in one thing – the examiner should be able to understand my architectural solution without any difficulties. Keeping that in mind, I put lot of details in supporting documents. I explained the approach over several pages; also, clarified the reason why I opted that approach over others.

Also, I have presented a Traceability Matrix for Functional and Non Functional requirements. That might be impressive. But, that is dangerous too. If I forget to add any requirement in the Matrix, then he will catch me. I spent lot of time to make sure that all the requirements are addressed in the Matrix table.

That’s all.

One early morning I submitted the assignment to Sun.

Sun Certified Enterprise Architect – Part III (Theory Exam)

This exam was an interesting one. We need to write the answers as paragraphs. No! we cant fill the paragraphs with some legacy stories; the answer we provide here will have to match with the architectural solution submitted for Part-II. So, I reloaded all the assignment requirements and my solution into my memory, before taking up this exam.

All of the questions were about Non Functional requirements. That’s, about performance scalability and the kind of stuffs. I gave only valid points to fill up the paragraph. I repeated most of the lines from my Part-II supporting documents. Because, it should match right.

Finally

Part II & Part III Score: 88% (Pass)

Part I Score: 95% (Pass)

Overall Grade: Pass

That’s it!

I am so excited to get passed in this exam. I am happy that I have passed in the top most level of J2EE exam, in this young age. Many people advised me that one should have minimum 6 to 8 years of experience in designing and architecting software applications to give such exams. But, me poor guy has only 2 and half years. But, I have endless passions to do.

This is the last level of the exam. So, I have decided to not to take any more certification exams in the future.

Dream #2: Stamina.

2008-03-18T23:17:00.004+05:00

My mom is 55 years old (I am the only son and was born 14 years after their marriage). She used to get up at 5 o clock in the morning, irrespective of whatever the time, she goes to bed. She is able to do all the house work through out the day without showing any tiredness. I force her not to do any work in this age, and take enough rest. She says it has become her routine, and she can not stop doing work.

I am not even 24. But, I can not even do a half of the manual work that she does in these days. Because, for me too, it has become a routine – not to do any manual work. I am not strength less; but, am stamina-less, just like every other young living today. Spending whole of the day with computer, and living a ‘virtual’ life, spoils our stamina. You can really realize it, when you have to run for some distance at emergency.

I have a dream to mould my body just like I want – a six pack abs, muscles over muscles, very strong fist, and totally a flat body. It is not a crazy dream to attract somebody! :-) It is a kind of dream, that every one should consider for themselves too.

Let’s go one by one.

Six pack abs – If you have recently watched ‘Om Shanti Om’, then you might be knowing a lot about Six Pack Abs (unluckily, I have not watched the movie) . Shah Ruk Khan had hardly tried for more than 4 months with strict diet and exercise to get his six pack abs. If you watch that song, in which Shah Ruk appears without his shirt, don’t miss to look at his Abs. It is very tight and tough. Too hard to get such Abs. It gives a flat shape to the whole body. Without maintaining the Abs, a man cannot maintain the body; without maintaining the body, a man cannot be a complete man! It’s my craze to have my Six Pack Abs!

Muscles over Muscles – The world could not have forgotten the great martial artist ‘Bruce Lee’ so early. He didn’t simply have muscles. His peer fighters used to say, he had muscles over muscles. A different kind of muscle structure. Even, Lee too said many times that the Abs muscle is so important than anything else. If you get some time, you can google for Lee’s strength and workouts; you will get amazing info.

Very strong fist - I want my fist to have more power. To carry or to pull objects. Or to do any thing manually, we require lots of hand power.

Flat body - None of the animals has belly; none of the animals put over weight; none of the animals eats unnecessarily. Only we human being do it. We need to remember that any unnecessary or etc flesh in the body can lead to any disease. I am not talking about fitness stuffs here; I am talking about keeping the body flat and tight. Its good health wise and look wise.

To tell in frank, its my dream to have a body with aforesaid things. Its not a crazy dream. It’s a meaningful dream.

Dream #1: Harley Davidson

2008-03-16T21:48:00.005+05:00

Here I go about writing my (costliest) dreams one by one:

Harley Davidson Ride..
(click on the image to enlarge)

I am becoming crazy about different bike models in these days. Harley Davidson is my craze. I like big bikes with full of guts! Harley is a charming bike, with 1100 or more CC power. I have a passion to ride Harley Davidson over long high-ways about several hundred kilometers.

Harley Davidson bike price ranges from US $16000 to US $26000! (6 lac Rs to 10 lac Rs). The bikes are not manufactured or sold in India. If it is to be imported from US, with 60% import duty, then calculate the net price!

To ride such bikes, one should really have a strong body indeed. A tight body, with lots of stamina. Yes, I wish I can mould my body to fit in.

If I become rich enough one day, then I will definitely buy a Harley Davidson. I wish to ride the Harley on the street where I was born!

(click on the image to enlarge)

American Gangsters (2007)

2008-03-10T19:00:00.005+05:00

American Gangsters. Recently watched this movie. A crime movie, based on a true story (that’s what the film title says). Denzel Washington (a drug lord) and Russel Crowe (detective) drive the film. Hope, you don’t mind to read the story or screenplay using Google.

I couldn’t say in a single word, whether the movie is good or not. Sure, everyone will get confused like me, after watching this movie :-). If you have not watched ‘GodFather’ or that kind of movies already, you may find this movie in a different skin. Otherwise, you have to keenly search scene by scene what is different or what is interesting in it.

The film rolls over 1970 era. The film skin almost Black and White. I slept unconsciously many times, while watching it.

Nothing was much interesting until it comes to climax. Especially, I liked the conversation going between Denzel and Russel before climax. Denzel is arrested and released at the end, what else then?! It is incomplete! What did he do then … No clues.

As it was already said in the title that the film was based on a true story, one cannot go on arguing why this is so and that is so... Because, this is not based on the imagination of a director or some body else. It’s a true story. Full stop.

Still, I am confused whether the movie is good or not. The problem is, we ‘used to’ watch these kind of movies.

Feeling free, peaceful..

2008-03-07T23:39:00.001+05:00

I have lots of free time now; bad thing is, I don’t know what to do in free times; In the last ten years, I was rarely free. I was such an ignorant that I learnt to work and not to enjoy life. Whenever I get free time, I am stuck! If I think of at least doing my wish list stuff, then, definitely I will be screwed up technically. So, I don’t want to do that.

Music/guitar class, Hindi class, Painting class are in consideration.

Die Hard or Live Free [Not a movie review]

2008-02-29T18:39:00.004+05:00

I make sure my mobile is safe in pocket, helmet is properly set, fuel is sufficient... Seated at bike, I commit myself to reach the destination in 20 minutes, at any cost... Accelerate it, go faster... faster and faster... as far as it can go faster... Looking at the speedometer, my heart beats increase... the bike touches 60.. 70.. and then 80.. and then....can't see... I am going alone in the road, just like a jet... Reach the destination in 25 minutes... - I feel unhappy as I come late by 5 min (though I had started several hours late).

That's how I learnt to live the life; a hasty life; full of hurry; full of useless commitments; unnecessary worries for unnecessary things; hard work that kills the body and brain; "Get it done at any cost - We must do it." - this was the command from brain to heart always!

I just want to get rid of all these hells and go to the river bed in my home town, raise a corp there and live a peaceful life.. I dont know how long I am going to live in this planet, but I am really scared that I am going to live every single minute in a hurry or working out some tough subject.

I am seriously thinking of freely living. To live every day as there is no more tomorrow. I am not going to stop working also. But, at least not going live this life style for sure; more minutes for me; more minutes for life.

Jargons of Java Releases!

2008-02-01T14:11:00.002+05:00

It's nice to have such question! Also, nice to explain such things. There are so many jargons with Java releases, which confuse people. My friend has asked a fundo question. He is a too very fundo..!! I am hereby posting the mail, hoping it would be useful.

----------------------Forwarded Message------------
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:54:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Manivannan yahoo.com
Subject: Re: one small basic doubt]
To: ravishankar.dhamodharan

Hi Ravi,

How do you? Long, since heard from you.
Nice doubt Ravi! I often came across people having this doubt in common. Please find my comments below.

JDK/J2SDK – JDK is a SDK for Java. After standardizing Java as a ‘technology’ JDK was re-branded to J2SDK. Yes, they are same (alias).

Java/J2SE – Earlier Java release went like Java1.1, Java1.3 and etc. Later up on, Java releases are standardized as J2SE. So, J2SE1.5 or Java 1.5 or J2SE5.0 or Tiger – they refer to same thing – ‘A version of Java release’. Also, Sun used to give pet names to Java releases like Tiger (Java1.5) and Mustang (Java1.6) and Dolphin (Java1.7 – coming soon).

Ravi, If I am not wrong, JDK is obsolete name, and Sun will no more use the name ‘JDK’.So, you can download J2SDK’s instead of JDK.Doesn’t matter, it’s an alias name for JDK.

If you don’t bother, I am blogging this mail, hoping it would be useful!

-Mani

------- Original Message --------
Subject: one small basic doubt
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:55:24 +0530
From:ravishankar.dhamodharan
To:Manivannan yahoo.com

Mani,
Is j2se1.4 is the java 2 standard edition is one and the same as the jdk1.4 java development kit and the j2sdk1.4 is the java 2 software development kit. Am I right.
My understanding is j2se1.4 and jdk1.4 is the same and the j2sdk1.4 is different.
The following which depicts the same I think.

Mani when I tried to download the jdk1.4 for Linux it takes me to download the j2sdk1.4. I don’t want j2sdk to be installed in the machine , I want only jdk. Where to download , in sun site it takes me like that.
Thanks,
Ravi.

Ugly and Handsome.

2008-01-17T23:36:00.000+05:00

I am scared at some times; scared of people; scared of situations; scared of future; scared of etc in life. Bad moments in life are they, when I look scary. I do all the mistakes when I am scary. I hate myself to be scared. I feel I am ugly when I am scared.

The only moments when I‘ve done big things are when I was very bold. Bold like a warrior. I see myself handsome when I am bold.

Story heroes can make us bold sometimes. My favorite story hero is GodFather. Whenever, the story or the name strikes at mind, I am bold. I am looking handsome as it comes to my mind now :-)

Free project hosting at sourceforge.net

2008-01-14T22:39:00.000+05:00

I have hosted some of my projects at sourceforge.net.

http://sab-archer.sourceforge.net/
http://j2ee-examples.sourceforge.net/

SF (SourceForge.net) provides source control, free hosting service and a lot more other services. Here are the steps for hosting your project (not using CVS )

1. Activate your free web hosting account.
2. Upload your html, image and other document files using following command:
$scp –r username@projectname.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/p/pr/project-name/htdocs

username – your SF login name
project-name – the name of your project, hosted at SF

This command recursively uploads all files from directory to the your project’s htdocs directory at SF

3. If you want to login to your SF a/c and view directory from console, then use following command to login:
Ssh –l username –p projectname.sourceforget.net

Billa 2007

2008-01-01T18:36:00.002+05:00

Billa – the most stylish, modern and the first movie to be completely shot in a foreign country (not even a single frame was shot in India). Though this is a remake of a 1980’s blockbuster Billa, the film has taken Tamil film industry standards to some heights. I have watched Billa-1980s many times. Looking at this remake, I just wonder how far the technology has grown in last 27 years.

Don role is a highly prestigious role. Don is a professional, charm looking, less talking role. Tamil films unnecessarily overused Don roles in recent years. They added all masala ingredients to Don role and turned the prestigious, professional Don to a masala Don. But, happily Billa has not repeated the masala Don.

Ajith appears in blazer with cool black class and looks very very charming. It’s good that Ajith has got his fitting role at least now. Personally, I don’t find any other Tamil hero will fit the role.

I am personally very happy that a Tamil movie can be this much stylish and modern!

We both are on same page.

2007-12-11T16:39:00.000+05:00

Rajini came to such a matured state when he turned old; I realize myself coming closer to such a state when I’ve not even crossed 24.

Whatever he talks about life; career, family, friends, and etc, I too feel the same. He does not speak philosophy! Seriously! He does not speak philosophy, all that comes from his own experience or from the perspective he looks at the life! He was not the kind of guy he is now some 10 or 20 years ago. Same would apply for me some 2 or 3 years ago.

When we come to know every secret of life, the life starts boring slowly. When we foresee many things and realize the facts, we become normal and calm. And so many such things in life! He knows that. I am too.

Rajini is one of the rarest people kind, who never fake/act/pretend in life. Because, we don’t need to maintain multiple faces according to people and places. And only that can be a person’s own identity and personality! That’s the kind of personality he has.

He likes being alone and me too. Because, what could he do with all such poisonous people around?

For him, God is a philosophy. For me, it is more than philosophy. For both of us, with God, it is ‘a sacred relationship’.

All he wants now is, to walk all along the streets of his birth place, to roam around in his own town and to do all the childhood funs with his childhood friends!. Why not, I am too longing for the same!

Rajini! Though you are now aware of me, we are on the same page!

The 3 Good news.

2007-11-26T14:17:00.001+05:00

I was awaiting for this break. Its again very long time since last post. Though I had many good news to post in this blog, I didn’t post any thing. Because I sold off all my time to my employer. Now, I am little free; free man I am – for a while!

Good things happened in the mean time.

1. SAB Update.

Initially, I was struggling to write one parser program in SAB; it was the core program in SAB; also the parser logic was deadly complex. I was breaking my head to code it and badly wasting all my free times for more than two weeks. At one night, again some magic happened! Yes, I’d rewritten the parser logic again in 2 hours and it worked well. What else I can say; God must be a crazy architect to design human brains.

After completing the business coding in SAB, I spent lots and lots of time on refactoring the whole SAB source code. It’s very clean now. And, its ready for client-server and service oriented architectures. I have done only functional testing and didn’t do any other testing. I’ve created a simple javadoc for SAB client APIs. So, the ‘Maximus’ release build2 will have following deliverables:

1. SAB Maximus Build2 server jar

2. SAB Maximus Build2 client jar

3. SAB Maximus Build2 simple javadoc

4. Simple web based client interface (JSP).

I just recall the moment; if we roll back the clock one year ago, I could still remember – all I wanted is a program that will load some data from internet. But, I never thought I will end up developing a big platform! Every software grows like this only..

I am happily done with my personal, pet platform, without knowing it is a platform. I just drawn the architectural diagram of SAB in a paper using pencil.

2. My new blog:

I often intend to write technical stuffs in my blog. But, two obstacles: 1. If I start writing stuffs technically, don’t know where they will go and end (too lengthy). 2. I dont want to mix up my personal posts with technical posts – because I just want to live a life that’s non-technical.

So, here by I am starting a new blog:http://java-j2ee-architecture.blogspot.com . This blog is guaranteed NOT to discuss any technical junks! Yes, no technical posts or information. This blog will have posts about design and architectural issues in Java/J2EE. Anyone knowing any OO language will find this blog useful. Any engineer, interested in system design and system architecture, will find the blog interesting. It’s all about high picture, not yet another technical junk.

3. Accessdenied Trust

My friends have started a trust ‘Accessdenied Trust’: (http://accessdenied-trust.wikispaces.com). I was so happy and little scary. Because, starting anything will be exciting; but continuing the same till end will be the toughest game. At lease some of my friends have agreed to continue running this trust as far as they can. Simply feeding the poor or orphans will not solve the problem. It should light up some people’s life – in any way. So, we cannot do much with some money. Have to do something. I believe money is not the only factor for every one’s problem. Some people need something that’s beyond money. Have to sit with friends and discuss. I don’t know what all I can do in the 24 hrs time. But, again…. Some magic can happen! :-)

Maximus - The Gladiator. (NOT A MOVIE REVIEW)

2007-11-01T19:11:00.001+05:00

Maximus:

I have chosen this name (Maximus) for the next release of my pet project.. , to be more frank, mini product. Yes, it has grown as a product, with all such composite eligibilities. Personally, I would like to call it as a platform, not a project or product. Because, it is ‘programmable’ rather than ‘usable’.

People usually consider birds, trees, and pet animals for naming their company/product/children. I like choosing brave names. A fighter or War hero or brave man ever lived. I chose ‘Archer’ as the name for the first release. Now, I am half the way to release next version. I was looking for a name, and hardly satisfied. I chose ‘Ajax’, which is a brave king name, but dropped the idea later, as it may conflict with the existing ‘Ajax’ language.

And, I am satisfied with ‘Maximus’ – Gladiator hero. Gladiator means, a continuous fighter; a fighter who fights for survival. It makes lots of sense to me personally. So, I chose this name ‘Maximus’.

This second drop may happen before Jan-2008. Currently, I am trying to complete business logic coding. Once it is done, I will refactor the whole code against various standards.

Then, I’ll expose the whole project platform as a service, so that it can constitute to SOA.

I am not sure how much time I can spend on this project daily. I have millions of other works going ahead in parallel. I will be the single and only developer in this Maximus release. I don’t find people joining in and I am not going to ask anybody to join, anymore :-)

I have spent so much of time on this SAB (Stock Analysis Base). It has helped me than the level of my expectation. I don’t know anything about stocks or investment earlier. I am techie; hardcore techie; if I had been into investment earlier, then this might be a killer combination. :-)

I enjoy architecting SAB! My first architecture assignment! :-)

-- Manivannan.P(@) gmail.com, SAB Architecture.

The terms were different :-)

2007-10-16T18:25:00.001+05:00

It was true that the terms we used today, were meant for different things, long back. Computers and Internet changed the life in an unpredictable way. I like the below forward mail.

I wish if the terms are reverted back :-)

----- Original Message -----

From: Govind

To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;

Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:03 PM

Subject: 25 Years Ago

25 years ago......

A program was a television show
An application was for employment
Windows were something u hated to clean
A cursor used profanity
Keyboard was a piano
Memory was something u lost with age
A CD was a bank account
If u unzipped in public u went to jail
Compress was something u did to garbage
A hard drive was a long trip on the road
Log on was adding wood to fire
A backup happened to your toilet
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
Cut, u did with scissors
Paste, u did with glue
A web was a spider's home
A Monitor was someone who used to keep watch on classmates in absence of teacher
A Desktop was desk's top surface.
And a virus was the flu!

Time surely has changed ………………

6 years after....

2007-10-10T00:47:00.004+05:00

Few weeks back I went to my college, where I was 'educated'. There was going a faculty training program, sponsored by ISTE. They were looking for a guy to give a presentation on Networking & Webservices in J2ME and also to talk about J2EE in general. I agreed to speak, only because the audience would not be students; because I know, what the student’s mentality would be. The audience was mainly lecturers, few professors, and some M.E students from various colleges.

I reached Erode at morning 5.30. By 6'o clock, there was car to pick me up. I was dropped in Guest House, served breakfast and told that there would be a pick up to the venue at morning 8.30. A car dropped me in front of IT-Park! Some unknown fear and unknown silence started waving in heart. Because, that was the feeling I always had, when I was there 2 years back. History repeats itself!

I met few of my lecturers and professors whom I knew or who remembered me. Lots of people left the campus; hence most of the faces were quite new to me.

The venue was ITP - Seminar Hall 2. After briefing my self introduction, I just started the session….

“Java is yet another cancer (after Linux), it starts spreading everywhere today; Java runs in computer, laptop, big fat servers, my mobile, Tv, Smart Cards, Mars Rovar...and etc”

I gradually landed in J2ME. And discussed the architecture of J2ME and explained how stuffs are programmed in J2ME, with lots of sample snippets. After discussing various networking connections in J2ME, we went into SOA, and Web Services.

I don’t like to listen continuously and also don’t like to speak continuously in front of others; so I broke the session in every 20 minutes. I think it went around 3 hours. Later, we had a Q&A session on J2EE. Really, very curious people they are, they asked lots of interesting questions. I encountered lots of questions on EJB3.0, WEB 2.0, OR Mapping, J2EE Design Patterns scenarios – it is really a healthy situation that those people had spent time to know latest stuffs.

I extended the time to separately discuss J2EE architecture and what components to use at what situations. And also, discussed some architectural design patterns, like Middleware Oriented Architecture, SOA and etc.

After noon, I showed some demos, by loading the J2ME applications into my mobile and running some GUI, Networking applications in my mobile. They felt happy to see the theory was working!

I didn’t go and meet any students. I met some second year students, a month back. They were plain, without having any idea of what to do. But, I told them they would have very bright future than anyone else. Because, opportunities are hell a lot today, you can find another one as soon as you miss one. Getting a job won’t matter any more; But getting a job in your dream company, with fat pay, and interested technology will be tough, unless you work hard – this is what nowadays I say to whomever I meet.

In the evening, a car arrived to IT-Park for pick up. I was picked and the car started running towards Erode. I was filled up with lots of old memories on the way. I first stepped into the college by Aug 10th 2001; On that day, I was clueless, shy, and filled up with lots of questions about everything. I had only a blind confidence towards future. To be frank, I never thought I would live a life, that I am living today. 6 years gone now! I am happy with whatever I have done till today, and whatever the position I am in today.

I am no more connected to this college; but, I can’t deny the memories of those days, that often put me in an unknown silence.

Mind your Bandwidth

2007-10-03T19:54:00.000+05:00

While hosting your web site, you need to optimize the data transfer, since bandwidth is very costlier to buy.

How bandwidth is calculated?

Bandwidth indicates the data transfer. Just in case if your site serves a single web page of size 100KB, and 15 users visit the site every single day, then the bandwidth is: 100KB * 15 = 1500KB per day.

Bandwidth Optimization tips:

Keep the web pages as simple as possible. Do not put big image files on the web site.
If you are very sure that the web site content is not going to change for certain period of time, then you can set the cache-expiry header in every web page. So, that the users will fetch the web pages from their local cache and hence the data transfer will be less.
Suppose, if you need to display some images or documents from other sites, do not copy them in to your site. Instead have reference links to other sites,so that the partial traffic will be routed to other sites.If your site allows downloading, then zip the files and then transfer the zipped content. It may help to reduce the data transfer.

Chennai - 4th trip.

2007-10-03T00:25:00.001+05:00

I went to chennai last week. No purpose; just to meet friends. Went to all the places, I usually like to go. This is my 4th trip to chennai, in this year. A last moment decision.

Some places remind me some people; I can't forget the 1.5 years, I stayed in chennai. Good moments, and lots of bad moments crushed my eyes. I dont have any job left over there, but I often wish to go to chennai - again, 'No purpose'.

Some snaps, taken using my mobile:

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Brindavan Express - On the way.
Ragavendra Math - T.Ngagar
Ramakrishna Math - Mylapoer

Ramakrishna Math - Mylapore

Ramakrishna Math - Mylapore

From Photo gallery @ Vivekanandar Illam (Ice-House) - taken at Chicago Conference.

Vivekanandar Illam (Ice-House) - Marina Beach

Marina - Beach Road

Marina Beach

The Architect Dream :-)

2007-09-27T19:01:00.001+05:00

In the recent days I became crazy about architecture; better design; better code; As a chain effect,I decided to take up J2EE Architect exam. Sun itself recommends (not mandates) that the candidate should have minimum of 6 to 8 years Java/J2EE experience to appear for this exam. Last Saturday, I decided to take up this exam. I am not sure how dare I was, at the point of time, to take such decision. I booked the exam within 6 days.

My background is: I know EJB concepts/UML/Networking layouts/Server architecture basics. But, this skill is really poor to take up such an exam. I was left with no clue. Sometimes, some strange things happen right! I got a mad curiosity towards architecture and started reading books so fast. I've never read a book that fast in my lifetime, and never had such a capability to understand/interpret/memorize the stuffs. But, it happened. Within 4 days I grabbed the confidence to pass the exam. In the last two days, I went through lots of mock exams, short notes.

I have myself created many Thumb rules for my understanding, from various sources of books, and sites.

Exam questions were really simple and I was able to score more.My score is 95%, missing two questions, on the whole. (good number, isnt it? ;-) )

I don't remember exactly why I choose this exam; I probably would have thought putting a full-stop to the certification hierarchy, because this certification is the highest level of Sun's Java Certification hierarchy. But one thing is for sue -- I like Sun's java exams. They are very good learning aids for Java/J2EE. The syllabus for every exam is designed with great care that the candidate should know the hardcore stuffs in the specific technology.

Refer the exam objectives here:

http://www.sun.com/training/catalog/courses/CX-310-051.xml

Search Engine Listing and Optimization Tips

2007-09-20T23:28:00.001+05:00

Its momentum with Google!

Tell me who wont just juggle in joy, if happens to see his name appearing in Google – with bunch of result!? I am now. I have a habit of tracking my name in Google. Whenever I am getting bored, I just enter my name in Google and see what happens. I do get some search results always -- but today, Damn! I have got 1010 results for my complete name

“Manivannan Palanichamy”.

My name is associated with mostly Java/J2EE based sites/mailing achieves/forums. Anyway, happy to see google lists me!

Here are tips to optimize your pages (SEO - Search Engine Optimization)

1. Describe the purpose of your web page in the meta data link.

2. Let the title tag contain the actual keyword/theme of your web site.

3. Emphasize or Bold the keywords in your web pages.

4. If you have friends, who are running their own website, ask them to make reference to your website. In this case, search engine will give high importance to your sites.

5. Associate the keywords with your URL in many sites and forums.

Framework ?

2007-09-06T00:02:00.001+05:00

Software people should often hear this term ‘Framework’. What is it all about? The picture you see looks like an exploded building. But, you see the steel skeleton standing alone right? That’s Framework. That is some thing that supports the building architecture and gives a structural support.

I am thinking of writing a framework for my pet project. Especially for database persistence and queries. It might simplify coding complexity and speedup writing of code. Because, frameworks can provide basic structural support for projects. Also, it can help to eliminate boilerplate code found here and there in projects. When I imagined, how the coding style could change if I develop a framework, it turned me excited.

Few lines about Framework:

1. Usually, at the beginning of projects, Architects do some basic works -- one of them is building a Framework.
2. A Framework will offer basic structural support and services. For example, accessing a database is a common scenario in any project. We end up writing database access calls every where in project; every where we need to handle transaction, synchronization and etc. This plate of code can be moved into Framework and can be accessed from any part of the projects. Like wise, a Framework can have basic and structural functionalities for a project. Change/upgradation in code/functionalities can be done in one place, that’s in the Framework level, and dont need to change every part of the project.

A cool example,
Suppose, if you want to insert some values into database, you write painful code like this,

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DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver());
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionURLThin, userID, userPassword);
PreparedStatement preparedStatement = con.prepareStatement("insert into emp(?,?,?,?)");
preparedStatement.setInt(1, 100);
preparedStatement.setString(2, "mani");
preparedStatement.setDate(3, new Date());
preparedStatement.setDouble(4, new Double(46000.50));
preparedStatement.executeUpdate();
con.commit();
preparedStatement.close();
con.close();
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Ssshh! Take a break and come back :-) Just think what will happen if one need to repeat this code everywhere? That’s something called 'boilerplate'.

Rather, this can be abstracted/wrapped into a Framework, like

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MyDatabaseFramework.persistValues(100, "mani", new Date(),
new Double(46000.5)); // this single line code will insert, commit & save your head.
-------------------------------------------

That’s what Framework is, and that’s something, I am planning to write. Now Framework can be abbreviated into single word, "COOL" -- isn't?

Books in wish list.

2007-09-04T23:34:00.001+05:00

Books in wish list:

I wish to read the following books whenever get time,

1. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
2. Design Patterns: Elements Of Reusable Object Oriented Software
3. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

(I've just mentioned that thats my wish list -- no written/oral guarantee that I'll read those books!! God needs to consider extending a day's time beyond 24 hours.)

Art of designing it.

2007-09-03T23:16:00.001+05:00

I am planning to add a new module to my pet project. This is the proposed class diagram design for the new module. Nowadays I am becoming very crazy about better design and better architecture. I spent a lot of time on these diagrams, to get it better and better. First, I drew this diagram in one shot with few classes. Within few minutes, I thought that the design was bad, so I crushed the paper and thrown out. Like wise, three papers went to the dust bin and finally, I got something better on the paper. This is a reusable, modular, pattern oriented design. I thought of drawing other diagrams also. But, this is my personal project and why I should take much pain! :-)

I might start coding slowly. I am expecting a developer gang to join for the code development. Let's see again how it goes. I dont have plan or schedule for release, because this is absolutely my personal project, based on personal interest, and a base for personal learning :-)

(Click on the image to enlarge it)

சலித்துப் போனேன் மனிதனாய் இருந்து...

2007-09-03T00:22:00.001+05:00

When I am bored or feel alone, I just fall back to my childhood memories. My childhood age, school days, and that kind of ages wave at mind. I almost feel alone most of the time. Sometimes, I even worry very much that I can not live a life again with those friends in the same places we lived. It's gone. People are busy on their way. They are more towards personal concerns, tied up with own family, problems. Somebody settled down in life, somebody still searching their life, rest just got vanished -- dont know where and how they are making their lives.

I am very eager to see every one else I met at my little age. I couldn’t even find a trace for some people. This is the reason why I panic to leave my places. When I left my home, all the relations had gone. When I leave a city and move to another, a gang of friends and contacts vanish off. And because of this, I just dont want to move between places. I never even think of leaving this country at least. I can make my fortune here itself. If I can't, then I am really not going to feel bad. I am at least thinking of living my rest life or last years in my home town; in the places where I was born, I was roaming.

Nowadays I seriously like to live at my home. I like the rivers, temples, dams, and every dust around my home. I had lost all my stamina and peace in this hasty life. When I go home, I feel my heart easy. One simple solution for this, would be to change my profession. However, I dont know any job, other than 'Programming in Java'!

I can not do any magic

2007-09-01T23:59:00.000+05:00

One of my bad habits is, if don't continue doing anything in at least 30 days interval, I will just forget it in rest of my life time. Now, this blog is a victim. I had forgot my blog in recent days. I don't want to say that I was busy(though I was). I aggressively hate the word 'busy'. I have had number of works queued up. As usually I ended up messing them and collapsed all my plans. In these days, my life is more volatile than the stock market! I don't want to crush my self and stick to plans.. because that leads me to feel frustrated... makes me sick... increases my heart beats... I just want to be very frank of what I can do at the maximum, in the given situation. I cant do any magic to achieve my targets. I can just do my work.I cordially accept any slippages from regular works. At least, I can sleep peacefully, no matter it happens or nothing happens.

This is my inner feeling since last fews weeks. "I can not do any magic to achieve my targets! I can just work, may be hard."

Ramakrishna Mission Math, Bangalore

2007-07-22T23:47:00.003+05:00

Vivekanandar – an outstanding spiritual word from my childhood. When I was studying 6h std, I used to read his life and legacy. One of the greatest personality, luring me till date. He is not like other monks or sages – to advise people for chanting god’s mantras.

He pointed out people’s weakness and advised to be strong and very bold always. He redefined the meaning ‘god’. His guts and peaceful face attract me whenever I look at his pose. Like wise, there are hundred and more things I like about him. As of I know/read/researched, he was the one to keep ‘Brammacharyam’ life long.

When I was in Chennai, I used to visit Ramakrishna mission math, which was/is in Mylapore. After coming to Bangalore, I often thought of visiting it – then it never happened. Gladly, I happen to know about Ramakrishna Mission Math in Bangalore.

This Sunday evening I went to Ramakrishna Mission Math, which is in Ulsoor, Bangalore.
An unknown peace is lasting in heart, after long time.

Not because, I am visiting temples, or the kinds its because, sitting in a place and reminiscing a great spirit!

He is a brave, bold, but peaceful soul, I ever like to worship.

Ooty trip

2007-07-17T23:46:00.002+05:00

I was not sure, whether I would go and be there.. Mood was keep on changing in jiffies. In one midnight, at last, I’ve decided to go and attend my friend’s bro’s marriage reception in Ooty.

It was a big break from regular work. The climate was so cool and going worse further. I was bit shivering, and looking for a coffee shop in every small interval. AccuWeather.com was forecasting the temperature to swing between 10 to 15 degree.

Many times, I have been to here: Botanical Garden, Pykara, Dodabetta. So, this time, we all (my friends) have decided to go to somewhere lonely – a landscape, where you cant really see humans around you.

Cab driver suggested an idea. That’s a trip from Ooty to Kerala border – on the mountain way, covering around 60 Kms. He said that it should be a quite different journey, as we wished – visiting human less landscape!

We all agreed and journey started. All the way around the road, we were seeing only Tea estates. It was really different, really. Density of people was decreasing, at some point, no body hit at eye sight – I realized we had gone unreachable!

On the way, there was a view point. It was so terrific than suicide point view in Kodaikanal. I was just looking down and searching for the foot hill. It was deep, very deep, indeed. Midst was playing around – it was just crossing us, covering us, hiding us, showering at us!

There were few people, used to live on the roadway. I don’t think they all were well educated and have exposure to dangerous things like computer and internet. I am pretty sure, they still don’t know about java and its history – they were looking happy, frankly happy. My mind went on comparing my life with theirs and both were like South and North Pole. I often think this computer life is just a virtual life. If somebody can ask me how I make my livings, then I will have to answer: “Java” and yet ‘J2EE’. But, both don’t exist in the world really. People could have seen God or Ghost, but no body have seen Java! That’s virtual! Something that doesn’t exist physically, but, lots of things happen because of that! Virtual life, Ice cream life, that I live.

It was evening 6’o clock when we returned.

The next day, I went alone to Botanical garden. It was an evening. Two years back, we were here -- all my classmates. We were sitting in the same grass land, playing an unknown game. I was standing alone and reminiscing everything. I don’t know exactly where every one is now. Now, it is just a history.

Ooty to Kerala -- hill way

Tea Estate -- on the way

Colorful Tea estate..

Small stream...

Botanical Garden

Coffee, everywhere, anytime..

Two years ago memories -- now history!

Pet project

2007-07-04T15:56:00.001+05:00

I was running in irritation since last few weeks. I gotta code hell a lot of things in java. Officially & Personally. Life was stuffed with full of NullPointerException and clueless traps in programs.

Also, using all my free times, I've developed a pet project, for personal use. It is a stock analyzer -- loads stock data daily from internet and helps to do complex cross queries over the stored data. Carefully developed it, keeping in mind that, any mindless barbarian should be able to understand the source code. I often used to read best practices/design/principles in coding & developing softwares. But, I never got time (or) chance to apply all those magics. So, I took this pet project as a chance for everything. I had almost lost my mind in thinking better, better, the better design round the clock - there were might nights, when I was thinking why PrintWriter is not appendable in java 1.4 !. Every single variable is designed carefully.

She helped a lot on this. She coded parser & data loader parts. I didn’t know how much time she caught headache. Thanks a lot for her, her work & interest. [She = Jeya]

The first drop of the project is here: http://sab-archer.sourceforge.net I've licensed it under CPL2.0. ('free download & modify the source, as you wish!'). I dont have energy to spend time on it any more. I am looking forward some interested people to join it. Let' see how far it happens.

Sivaji - The biggest Rajini movie of our age.

2007-06-18T21:40:00.001+05:00

Gun Gun என் sten Gun
Rooger Moore போலே - dishyum
முன்னால் பெண்ணுன்டு
எந்தன் பின்னால் கண்ணுன்டு - பார்.!

After hearing these lyrics, my mind gone mad by imagining Rajini in James Bond style! It wasn't only me infected by 'Sivaji Virus', right from the New York's Wall Street to Japan's Tokyo city, every fan was hit so worse and awaiting for the film. In those days, we had channels like Sun, Jeya, and Vijay to track his film news. Now, the craze has spread to NDTV, CNN IBN, and Times Now. CNN IBN was doing its best to make a Sivaji news, whenever it found a little spark. CNN IBN even made a poll on Rajini, gone comparing Bachan with Rajini and declared Rajini to be India's Superstar.

The boss:

Rajini has been used to deliver his best ever since his days. I think it should be the 'maximum', his fans can expect from him. Except one or two frames, the movie was excellent on the whole. I'm sure there is no more Rajini film in future, going to beat Sivaji. He has done everything, -- whatever you want him to do, and whatever the way you want to see him.

The fun

First half - Rajini appears very smart, as he was in 1980s. In an interview, Shankar said, he had done a research to choose Rajini’s hair-style. Vivek accompanies Rajini in whatever he does. Both blasts out all the fun without bothering any image issues. First half, to move very slow, with lots of fun, not exciting much. You have to wait, until you are prompted for interval!

The lover

Shreya, as Rajini's pair, appears so beautiful on screen, and she is the drive for the film in first-half. Rajini and Vivek crack out all funs to make friendship with her family.

The terror:

Second-half -- here comes the start of Rajini film. Just few seconds before the interval, dont miss to watch it! Rajini's hair-style changes to new style by a single head-shack! He decides the 'terror-way' to take revenge of his enemies. Whatever the magic he does, no one audience in theatre declines it. Simply, we all end up clapping and enjoying the 'Rajinism'. Here after the film flies in full-speed, with little messy logics . Rajini appears in tonsured getup after executing his 'death drama'. Climax fight goes in Matrix style!

The reformer

Rajini reveals all the black money holders, convert them into white money and spend it for Sivaji foundation, that’s a non profit social organization, running school, colleges and hospital.

If you can wait after the climax, they show how India becomes developed country – by following Rajinism.

Songs:

Shankar has used all the available technologies in cine market. Rajini takes 15 different getups in songs. The song, I was very much attracted by, is 'Athiradikkara machan'. It was shot cooler than how I had imagined it. He really fits very well to James bond role! .And 'Oru kodai Sun light' is an yet another cool song. It seems majority of the money should have been spent for the songs alone. Such big sets, and graphics to prove.

As a Rajini fan,

People are gossiping the film to turn 450 crores, if it can continuously run houseful for next 50 days. If it can happen, then it should be an ice-breaking history, that no one Asian movie had achieved so far.

As a fan, it’s my wish that, Rajini should take a James Bond role in Hollywood, - at least once! Then, the world will excite to see the ‘Super Star’(ism).

Some facts about Sivaji (from various sources):

Sivaji has raked 60 laksh in Malaysia on opening day itself.
Rajini’s daughter Soundarya is making a 3D animation film on ‘Rajini’. (Sultan the Warrior) official web site: http://www.sultanthefilm.com/
Director Shankar used 2500 junior artists for the introduction scene of Rajnikant.
A huge set of glass house was built to shoot Sahana song.
4K DI (Digital Intermediate) digital camera is used for the first time in India for this film.
Helium Balloon light is used to shoot a song. The crew has to use 13 helium cylinders for the lighting.
The team of Shankar saw important footages of most of Rajnikant’s films since his debut in 1975. They found that Rajnikant looked best in Padikkadavan (1985) film. Then Shankar summoned the make-up artist to come up with a similar hairdo for Rajnikant 22 years later.
Rajnikant donned 15 different hair styles for this film. He also tonsured his head and shaven off his mustache for a get-up in this film. A make-up artist from France is flown in for this purpose.
A few songs of this film are shot in USA and Spain.
Soundarya - daughter of Rajnikant - supervised the 600 scenes of Computer Graphics work that lasts for 50 minutes in this film. It took over an year to do this CG work.
Bellamkonda Suresh is said to have bought the Telugu remake rights (excluding satellite, overseas, ringtones, audio etc) for a whopping 14 crores. It is also learnt that this film is sold for 20 crores in AP (4 crores for Ceded, 6.75 crores for Nizam and 9 crores from Andhra).

How to top on search results?

2007-05-29T23:39:00.001+05:00

It is interesting to find our names listed in Google search result. I do often search my name in Google, and see how many number of results it returns.

222 results for my name:
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For the search string “Manivannan Palanichamy” (my full name), it returns 222 results. (Almost all are technical forums, mailing lists, where I post my queries and answer )

My home page is ranked 4^th
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For the search string, “Manivannan” , my home page (http://geocities.com/manivannan57 ) is listed in 4^th place. It was in I st place, few month ago. I’ve not reserved a domain on my name. If you want your website to be top listed on search results, then better you reserver a domain name similar to the search keyword. For example, for a search keyword, "manivannan", the first match would be, manivannan.com, manivannan.in and etc. \

These people give reference to my home page:
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Reference link is very important. More the people refer you, more the importance your website gains!

Inflation control

2007-05-27T22:46:00.000+05:00

Feeling little uncomfortable with current going.

1.I think technology has taken next big jump. I gave up reading technicals long back. So, huge gap formed. Have to sync with it. Should plan a workaround.

2. I realize I spend lots of money in these days; Though it is reasonable, should control it.

I don’t have time to do anything in these days. My workload is 200% peek. Though I try to prioritize them, everything sits in ‘Very urgent & important’ bucket.

Best of ever written, in 4 years :-)

2007-05-22T23:41:00.001+05:00

Programs as poems:

If you look at some body’s code, you will see it as a poem, not merely a software program. That’s how they write it. Impressed by those cool programmers, I tend to follow lots and lots of code tricks and style in whatever I write. Recently, I was developing a java based application for my personal use. If you are interested to listen, I could continue telling the best I have don’t in it,

No use of Class level (or global) variables. (Because they confuse programmers to trace the parts, where they are initialized & modified.)
No hard-coding. (Because, tough to change later)
No bad smells in code. (no big methods, no big expressions, no big conditions, no complex loops)
Standard, naming conventions (I use some times underscore too, in java. why dont you ask 'why'? )
Exception handling – (Anti pattern imitated)
Large scale of reusable code. (Seriously)
Use of Design Patterns – (that’s a sign of great future)
Proper (styled) Java doc comments, (you will be impressed if you see it.)
Code refactoring, using tools.(one should really do)
Code inspection, using tools. (rare tools)

I couldn’t post the code here; I would post the code somewhere & give the link here.

Week end, hang arounds.

2007-05-20T22:49:00.001+05:00

Karuda maal (MG Road, Bangalore)

Ganapathy temple, (Koramangala - Bangalore)

Forum (Bangalore)

smiling kid at a shop.

Schindler's List - Best of ever made.

2007-05-11T13:27:00.001+05:00

I've been watching this movie since last 15 days, with 5 intervals. Pch.., life has gone so worse that, not even able to see a 2 hr movie in one shot!

Anyway.

You google it for Steven Spielberg's top 5 movies & follow any link, you might definitely see there 'Schindler's List'. Thought it came out in 1993, it's been ranked as 7th/250 in world's movie database till date.

Story in few lines.

1943: Just the world war has begun. Germanians treat Jews as 'viruses' and go on killing them. Schindler, coming as an unsuccessful businessman, member of Hitler’s nazi party, plans to start a factory using the slaves(Jews) and make money out of it. As the German officers are against Jew’s living, Schindler gives bribe many times to save his slaves. Jews feel happy to work in his factory, because that should be the safest place & the only way to escape from German force. Time passes by. As the situation goes worse, Schindler is asked to move out of the city. Schindler decides to move his factory to his born city. He prepares a list of Jews, that he wants to take along with him. And he gives a big bribe to German officers, to allow those Jews to go with him. Jews feel that the worst is over for them.

One day, the war comes to end. Soviet force defeats the German & the Jews are liberated.

His workers, offers Schindler's a gold ring. Schindler says he would have saved more, if he has got more money to give the bribe. But, his workers console him, saying still he has done a great thing, that no one else did. There will be generations because of what he has done. And they all give him a letter of thanks, with every worker's sign. Schindler leaves. The story is over.

Black & White.

The whole film goes in black & white. Though you are bored for first 30 to 40 mins, you will become keen afterwards. No big turning points/ exciting turns in movie, but every scene makes sense.

The Message

I was wondering what kind of message could be conveyed in such a war movie. But, if carefully noticed, you would see one greatest, touching message. Schindler explains the real meaning of 'Power' to the German officer, as

"You kill Jews, because you have power. But, power is not meant in that way. See, Kings had power. A thief is pulled by public, to King's court, and set to kneel down in his front. The thief knows he is going to be death sentenced by the King. He very well knows that he is going to be killed. But, the King says him not to do it again, and allows him to go out - That’s not forgiving, that’s not mercy. That’s the power. Real power. That’s some thing, the 'King' only can do using his power & no one else".

After this incident, the German officer changes a bit in life. When he finds some Jew slaves not working well in his command, he just says them not to do it again & leaves them go, without killing.

Steven Spielberg - his way of making.

The movie is very much violent. But, that’s what happened during II world Word. The best thing about him is, there won’t be any gap between the movie & real incidents. That’s how the real art should be. 'Manipulated' movies dont attract people that easily.

Best lessons, I ever learnt from him..

2007-04-17T15:04:00.000+05:00

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Shree – Rakesh JhunJhunwala – India’s high profile Investor.

(Quick Intro: He is a Chartered Accountant by profession. He is a big icon of Indian Market, who turned a 5000 Rs into 2000 Cr)

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At every good & hard time, I used to reminisce his sayings. His words are not so popular, as they are very much limited to equity-market. But, it should well apply in any value based, professional business. I dont have any other solid reasons to justify him or his words, except in one sense, that he is very successful and has created a big story around him, since 1985.

I am curious to explain, expand & negotiate his golden sayings:

As a trader, react to Price. As an investor react to fundamentals.

It fits very well to all of us. Rakesh really wants to differentiate a Trader from an Investor in a big way. Trader is someone, who always has intention of just making money out of all the fortunes, ups & downs of market. Investor is some one who sees the value of the business deployed in a company, and invests in it.

People fear about market when it goes down; sooner they become excited when it flars up. Both attitude are bad, since such a mindset is 'Trader' mindset. It is all about gaining all the time, not about losing at all. Traders minds are short-term & mid-term. An Investor's mindset is towards long term.

I would interrupt this saying, Indian Markets are driven by sentiment at least about 99%. Either be a trader or an Investor, one should react very well to every event, every cycle, every consolidation, every correction, every pullback, every bull rally happening over time. That'll be a painfull but, most successfull strategy, one can ever experience.

Despite all round optimism and unprecendented gains, never forget the 4-letter word, associated with equities - RISK.

Its self explanatory. The best example would be 'DotCom boom'. When every body running with buy, buy, no one gotta time to see the four letter manta- RISK. Later, they paid for it.
Risk is not always about the price or volume decline. It's also influenced by many player, who make the big games & clouds. The most dangerous people, I always worried of are 'Stock Operators'. Never/ ever, enter into it, when there is a sign of these Operators playing the game.

Be greedy, but Long term greedy.

It is not bad to be greedy in market. But, he advises to be a long term greedy, just like he used to be. Since, there is no proper definition for long term, I am always confused about it :-)

Superior investment returns are not gained without pain, time, introspection & doubt.

Thats a great lesson, ever glowing. People make it as a mistake in many cases. When they buy a scrip, they themselves, are not sure of the entry & exit positions. 99% of us make mistakes just in entry & exit levels. Since, we look at many indicators, indexes, charts and it put us in pressure to take an immediate decision of buying/selling. Thats baseless, since these indicators do not have any moderator power over the real business associated with co-. Indicators are for time being.

Despite all round pessimism, never forget the opportunities in Equities

Thats something, always gives courage to re-enter :-)

Trend is back.

2007-04-16T20:30:00.000+05:00

Have grabbed a steady grip now. I think once again the trend is back. I’ve been attempting many things in the recent days. No regrets, despite it couldn’t bring much. Since, it’s all about learning, not about success or failure.

I am also very happy in the way, my career moves. As I’ve done lots of correction in attitude, it looks really cool to foresee things. One more thing that compromises me is that, I am 22 only. So, still having enough time to do!

One afternoon, shot this snap. (My employer)

(click on the picture, for clear view)

Those moments..

2007-04-10T20:09:00.000+05:00

Despite of being careful of not losing the life in day to day rushes, I had lost it. But, each and every second was memorable;

New problems, new excitements, new mistakes, new lessons, new people as a new life..

Few moments to reminisce:

BreakFast:

Coffee:

lunch:

Pesonal Plans, that live only on diary

A Saturday morning, walking through lalbaugh garden:

Forum:

புதிய அதிகாரம்

2007-03-15T23:58:00.000+05:00

New Chapter

[This is my 250th post in this blog! :-)]

I’ve made lots of correction in attitude, life-style and my day-to-day doings, since the last one or two months. Definitely, it’s a right break to write about those defining moments.

I was very much careful about the life style, I never wanted to live.

To be specific, this is the lifestyle, I never want to…
( PS: I observed these behaviors from many people, and am not trying to finger point anyone.)

1. Don’t want to get locked in a selfish family man life.
2. Don’t want to put money in LIC, National Saving, blah… blah… and discuss about Tax-Saving round the clock.
3. Don’t want to live a traditional life, just like, every one has a dream to buy a flat/car using all his earning, and settle down.
4. Don’t want to mock US lifestyle and try to act like a decent, cool guy all the time!
5. Don’t want to claim myself that I am different, by doing all the nonsense, silly, idiotic things!!!
6. Don’t want to loose the life in a daily rush..

Rather I like to live this….

[I am not listing the points as I am practicing them one by one, better will update them as it happens one after one]

These are the big highlights in the last one to two months:
(I’m just quoting Bharahi’s 'Puthiya Authisudi' for the highlights)

அச்சம் தவிர்.

Yep, I have been doing this aggerssively since last 6 month, that helped me to break unimaginable barriers one by one!

ஆண்மை தவறேல்.

இளைத்தல் இகழ்ச்சி.

ஈகை திறன்.

உடலினை உறுதிசெய்.

Absolutely. I am trying to gather strength in body by exercising it and adding food.

5 ஊண்மிக விரும்பு.

எண்ணுவ துயர்வு.

ஏறுபோல் நட.

Cool. I’ve even changed the way of walking… Also, got away from laziness and
try to do things quite fast.

ஐம்பொறி ஆட்சிகொள்.

ஒற்றுமை வலிமையாம்.

10 ஓய்த லொழி.

ஔடதங் குறை.

கற்ற தொழுகு.

Yeah, I am following at least some of your sayings Bharathi!.

காலம் அழியேல்.

கிளைபல தாங்கேல்.

15 கீழோர்க்கு அஞ்சேல்.

Yep, I dont panic at them; but move with them carefully.

குன்றென நிமிர்ந்துநில்.

Yes, that has begun now.

கூடித் தொழில் செய்.

கெடுப்பது சோர்வு.

கேட்டிலும் துணிந்துநில்.

20 கைத்தொழில் போற்று.

கொடுமையை எதிர்த்து நில்.

கோல்கைக் கொண்டு வாழ்.

கவ்வியதை விடேல்.

I’ve set tight locks around me. I can not break them at all! So for sure, will hold the dreams and attitude steadily.

சரித்திரத் தேர்ச்சிகொள்.

25 சாவதற்கு அஞ்சேல்.

சிதையா நெஞ்சு கொள்.

I am trying to develop such kind of steady heart. But, in real world, it seems not working, as one needs to react to many things!

சீறுவோர்ச் சீறு.

சுமையினுக்கு இளைத்திடேல்.

சூரரைப் போற்று.

30 செய்வது துணிந்து செய்.
Correct. Am fearless in doing it. I am always bullish about my instincts :-)

சேர்க்கை அழியேல்.

சைகையிற் பொருளுணர்.

Nowadays I observer people’s action. I do react accordingly.

சொல்வது தெளிந்து சொல்.

Yes, I see a slight difference in the way I converse. I make my side clear at least.

சோதிடந் தனையிகழ்.

35 சௌரியந் தவறேல்.

ஞமலிபோல் வாழேல்.

ஞாயிறு போற்று.

ஞிமிரென இன்புறு.

ஞெகிழ்வத தருளின்.

40 ஞேயங் காத்தல் செய்.

தன்மை இழவேல்.

தெய்வம் நீ என்றுணர்.

தேசத்தைக் காத்தல்செய்.

தையலை உயர்வு செய்.

50 தொன்மைக்கு அஞ்சேல்.

தோல்வியிற் கலங்கேல்.

தவத்தினை நிதம் புரி.

நன்று கருது.

This is a fantastic fact. All my actions rely on a basis, that’s good for every side. They take long time to be ex ecuted, but it happens. Good thoughts & attitude are immortal – realized it now.

நாளெலாம் வினைசெய்.

55 நினைப்பது முடியும்.

Yes, yes! But it takes enough time and gives lots of pain!

நீதிநூல் பயில்.

நுனியளவு செல்.

நூலினைப் பகுத்துணர்

நெற்றி சுருக்கிடேல்.

60நேர்படப் பேசு.

That creates problems many times. But, I am comfortable as long as I don’t hide anything.

நையப் புடை.

நொந்தது சாகும்.

நோற்பது கைவிடேல்.

பணத்தினைப் பெருக்கு.

I am thinking of it! But, I am 101% comfortable with whatever God has given me now and giving!

65 பாட்டினில் அன்புசெய்.

70பெரிதினும் பெரிதுகேள்.

பேய்களுக்கு அஞ்சேல்.

பொய்ம்மை இகழ்.

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யாவரையும் மதித்து வாழ்.

Fantastic! I am pursuing it from my childhood! As every human being weighs on earth, and has purpose to live!

சில நேரங்களில், சில ஆசைகள்.

2007-02-18T19:44:00.000+05:00

Since, being away from TN, I couldn’t watch many Tamil films from my ‘wish-list’. ‘Pachai kili Muthucharam’ – was expecting this film as it is an ‘Yet Another’ Gowtham’s film. Now, it is on the move in screen. But, couldn’t be able to watch it. Seen the trailer, and it stimulated my eager towards the moive!

‘Veiyil’ – I tried many times, but didn’t get a chance to watch it. Not even able to download the song. Have seen few scenes from that film on TV. Will give more try to see it :-)

‘Periyar’ – Much eager to see this at least. I wish I shouldn’t miss it. The stills look classical. It could be a milestone in tamil classical movie list.

And for no reason, I will miss to this ... :-)

இந்தியர் என்பதில் பெருமிதம் கொள்வோம்...

2007-02-11T17:41:00.000+05:00

My friends used to say this, 'one cannot grow big, make money/become rich in this india... thats the reason why we like to fly oversees (especially they pointed out US, UK, and Emirates) and make the fortunes.. we don't see this country growing.. because of so many issues/dormancies in economy, politics etc..!'

Even, I too had such a bad impression about this country in my earlier ages. But, looking at what India has turned to be, from the darken days, I am very much proud to live in this age, in this country. India is not just a growing country. It is a fast growing country.Very very fast.

One should see it's growth and history from all the possible angles. Leave the hurdles and threats aside. See, the country has got up like anything now. 'Money flow/Economy' is not the only measure to scale the country's progress. Even if you say it is, then the country has done that too, much better.

One should not simply blame that he is unable to grow big in wealth by being here. See, how other legends have grown from their feet. What kind of attitude, dedication, energy they had put in this country.

All you wanted is a good paying job. This country offers you that too!

I trust this country. I have faith in India & myself. Rather, very lucky, to live here in this age.

These two lines were printed there at all my school text book's back cover. I used to read them loudly in childhood:

"இந்தியர் என்பதில் பெருமிதம் கொள்வோம் -இணைந்தே
இன்னும் பல சாதனைகள் புரிவோம்!".

No 'U' turns allowed

2007-02-01T20:37:00.000+05:00

No ‘U’ turns allowed.

“No ‘U’ turns allowed”. This warning message board found on the roadway stirred up many things in mind. I was completely upset with a kind of saturation in every direction of life. Life was likely to take an ‘U’ turn some days ago! J Means, ‘Its enough. What is to be done any more?!’ was the waving question in mind. I did not realize that I had not even started living the life. There are billion things to be done at my side and for others. I had it in mind. But, so far, nothing came out. Ok, I will not blame anything/anyone.

I would have defined some scale/measurement/index to see the progress. I need to, seriously. I had done it offline. And had set some exciting targets J. Nowadays it is good that, I keep my promises and words at any cost. At the least, I suffer my best to finish it off.

This year beginning was not that favorable. I met with lots of eye-openers (in my language, eye-openers=mistakes). Later, situation is picking up. I will keep it under full control. I will keep it out of any slippages.

Now the U – turn mindset gone away. Now, “1000 Miles Ahead’.

Guru

2007-01-18T12:09:00.002+05:00

I stopped watching Tamil films for a while. It should be less than 5 or 4, I had seen, from the last 5 years. Because, we seriously fed up with all these nonsense masala stuffs that easily dull us.

Guru

I saw this movie’s Hindi Trailer few months back. First time, I worried for not knowing Hindi! :-) This is the kind of film, I always thirst to see. Luckily, it was dubbed in Tamil too. However, Maniratnam refuses that the story is not about ‘Thirubai Ambani’, I am sure it is about him only. Mani has customized Ambani’s story in line with his imagination. The story starts from 1950 and spans across next fifty years. In a single sentence, the story is “(guru) VILLAGER (becomes) VISIONARY (becomes) WINNER”. As the story begins some 50 years back, they had done lots of work in lightings and sets, it seems!

Guru leaves his village, and reaches Bombay for setting up his business. We could see how Bombay stock market was in early 50s in this film. They use chalk-piece and blackboards to list the share prices in those days! Guru suffers to become a trader among them; he becomes and then grows like Giant. Madhavan, a reporter, casually comes into scenes, and strip-nakes Guru’s other face – that is, all the unethical short-cuts Guru used in his business. Aiswaryarai’s character – one should have a life-partner like her in life! It was that much touching.

Abishek Bachan – the tall guy in safari, resembles the one who was really meant in the film :-) Mani has sculpted him as what he imagined.

Mani has written dialogues in his own way. Every character drops words, not actually speaks! J I liked every frame – it was that colorful. I was keenly looking at every character, what they speak out, because one can hear such touching dialogues in his film only.

I really wonder how Guru could justify his deeds in the Climax. When there are people who came up in ethical ways, how could he justify his unethical behaviors? Anyway, this is cinema and Guru is hero!

After a quite big gap, I am very much satisfied of seeing a ‘Tamil Film’.

My Super stars #1: பாரதி...யார்..

2007-01-08T20:05:00.000+05:00

(உண்மைச் சம்பவம்....)

ஒரு நாள் பாரதியார், ஊரில் தண்டோரா போடுபவனை அழைத்து, "சாகமல் நீண்ட நாள் வாழ்வது எப்படி" என்பது பற்றி தான் பேசப்போவதாகவும், அதனால் ஊர் மக்கள் எல்லோரையும் ஊர்த் திடலில் மாலை 5 மணிக்கு கூடும் படியும் அறிவிக்கச் சொன்னார். அவனும் ஊரில் சென்று, எல்லா தெருக்களிலும் அவ்வாறே அறிவித்தான்.

பொது மக்கள் மாலையில் ஊர்த்திடலில், பாரதியாரின் அந்த பேச்சை கேட்பதற்கு ஆவலோடு காத்திருந்தனர்.

சிறிது நேரத்தில் பாரதியார் அங்கு வந்தார். திடலில் ஒரு கல் மீது ஏறி நின்றார். எல்லோரையும் ஒரு பார்வை பார்த்தார்.

"சாகாமல் இருப்பது எப்படியென்று தெரிந்துகொள்ள வேண்டுமா? அதெற்கெல்லாம், முதலில் உயிரோடு யிருக்க வேண்டுமே! எப்பொழுதும் அடுத்தவரைப் பற்றியே குறை பேசி காலத்தைக் கழிக்கும் நீங்கள் எல்லாம், ஏற்கனவே இறந்த பிணங்கள் தான்!" - என்று பேசி விட்டு, இறங்கி வேகமாக நடந்து போய் விட்டார். பொது மக்கள் அவரை கிறுக்கன் என்று திட்டிக் கொண்டே சென்றதை என் காதால் கேட்டேன்.

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( -- ஆனந்த விகடனின் ஒரு கட்டுரையிலிருந்து..)

யாருக்கு வரும் இந்த தைரியம்? யார் இப்படி மனதில் தோன்றியதை அப்படியே சொல்லியிருக்க முடியும்?

பாரதியார்!

அவர் ஒரு கவிஞர் என்பதையெல்லாம் தவிர்த்து, தன் விருப்பப்படியே கடைசி வரை வாழ்ந்த ஒரே மனிதன் என்பதால் அவரை பிடிக்கும்.

மற்றவர் போல், சமுதாயத்தை திருத்த முயற்சிக்காமல், அதனை கேலியும் கிண்டலும் செய்தே திருத்திய ஒரே மனிதன் என்பதாலும் பிடிக்கும்.

பிராமண குடும்பத்தில் பிறந்த போதும், எல்லோராலும் ஒதுக்கப்பட்ட ஒரு வித்தியாச மனிதன்.

வயிற்றுக்கே சோறில்லாமல் இருந்த போதும், பறவைகளுக்கு இரை போட்டு ரசித்த ஒரு கவிஞன்.

கோபம் வந்தால் கடவுளையே திட்டி கவிதை எழுதியவன்! வெள்ளைக் காரர்களுக்குத் தமிழ் தெரியாததால் தப்பித்தார்கள்!

இங்கு கவிஞர்கள் உண்டு. மீசை வைத்தவர்கள் உண்டு. கிறுக்கர்களும் உண்டு. ஆனால், எங்கு போய் பார்ப்பது? இன்னொரு பாரதியை!

New year Resolutions:

2007-01-05T18:08:00.000+05:00

* * * * * * * * * Big Blasts: * * * * * * *

I realize I have come up such a long way through out the life. Its now 2007, which otherwise means, it’s the inception of the ‘second half’ of my life! :-)

I am almost 22.5, while writing this post. If some one could ask me how the first half was, I can give this single line comment “it was a hectic construction phase”. Yes, it took such a long time to construct a man that I wanted to be always. I am very sure, this is the point I almost feel the satisfaction of living a complete life. I have no regrets if could die tomorrow, because one cannot expect a lot from life. :-)

Definitely, I need to give something back, or leave some thing, for the ones, I always think of. I already started working on it. :-)

God, I am not sure, what you have in mind. But, if my second half is going to exist…. then, sure, its going to be….

............

.........................

Blasting....!

இப்படியும் ஆசை..

2007-01-04T08:28:00.000+05:00

நதிக்கரை ஓரம் பார்த்து
நாணலால் கூரை வேய்ந்து
புதுப்புதுத் தென்றல் வந்து
புகுந்திட வாசல் வைத்து
அதிசய வானத்தை நான்
அண்ணாந்து பார்த்துக் கொண்டே
ஒதுங்கவே பிரியம்; புல்லில்
உறங்கவே பிரியம் - உண்மை
-------
அன்பர்கள் வரலாம்; என்னை
அறிந்தவர் வரலாம்; சிந்தும்
கண்ணீரைப் பிளந்து பார்க்கும்
கவிஞர்கள் வரலாம்; வாழ்வை
மன்னிக்கத் தெரிந்து கொண்டு
மவுனத்தை பேசிக் கொண்டு
விண்மீனை எண்ணிக் கொண்டு
விடிகாலை வரை இருப்போம்.

-- வைரமுத்து.

SCBCD (EJB 3.0) The Exam!

2007-01-02T13:36:00.001+05:00

I was thinking of taking J2EE/EJB certifications. But, luckily, Sun offered latest EJB exam for free of cost, as it is Beta version. So, was glad, and registered for the Beta exam. But, I didn’t know that the exam was going to bring me ache.

Thousand or more times, I thought of dropping the exam plan later! Since, there are no books into market yet, there are no proper docs, there are no guides, there are many such ‘no’s…

At last (taking it as a big challenge!), today, I sat for the exam. The exam duration was about 5:15 Hrs. I’ve never taken such a long-lasting exam in my life before. I was eager in first hour… then, was boring… then, loosing focus… then…. seriously I vexed at the 5th Hour!

My eyes were paining like anything when I came out of the exam center. I felt dead-tired, and
wherever I looked around, it was ejb, ejb and ejb... nothing else.

The exam was not tough actually. It needs strong understanding of concepts, and a serious preparation. There were damn good questions at which I was stuck, and yanking. How come one can expect some one to study the programming stuffs on a new-year day? But, I studied until the last moment, (seriously.. I was two hours late to the exam hall! :-) )

Result? It will come after some 6 to 8 weeks!

So, I think I’ve done my side well. God, now it’s your turn! ;-)

Mission (seems!) Possible: 1

2006-12-28T15:56:00.000+05:00

After a hard try, I am atleast happy of my effort on preparation. One shouldn’t be asking how much have studied :-) (But, will surely come to know it, when I sit for the exam tomorrow )

So, today, I freeze up things… Probably, after this big bubble, I have no plans of opening any technical books/topic for the next 2 (or more) months,

Lets all have a exciting New year :-)

Red Alert!

2006-12-23T15:18:00.000+05:00

It’s how my exam preparation goes. Says, it’z going dangerous. All the mission plans failed. :-) Got only 5 days left… Don’t know what dare makes me to appear for the exam…

Let me give a final, hard try on preparation!

ஆசை இருக்கும் வரை.

2006-12-19T23:10:00.000+05:00

ரெண்டு, மூனு வருஷத்துக்கு முன்னாடி, என்னோட தேவைகள்(/ஆசைகள்) எல்லாமே இவ்வளவு தான்:

1. சொந்தமாக ஒரு computer, கொஞ்சம் internet bandwidth.
2. இரண்டு வேளை மட்டும் சாப்பாடு
3. நெனைக்கும் போதெல்லாம் Coffee.

அது எல்லாமே இப்போ நடந்திடுச்சு. நடந்து முடிஞ்சிடுச்சு. அதற்காக மட்டும் இல்லை. இத்தன நாள் இல்லாதா வாழ்க்கையா இந்த வாழ்க்கை தெரியுது.இப்போ, இந்த நிமிஷத்துல, மனசு ரொம்ப நிம்மதி ஆகிடுச்சு.

எத்தனை வருஷம்? எத்தனை பிரச்சனைகள்? முடியுமா? முடியாதா? என்றைக்காவது ஒரு நாள் இந்த மாதிரி நான் நினைத்துப் பார்ப்பேனா?

இதோ, இப்போ நினைத்துப் பார்க்கிறேன்.

எந்தப் பிரச்சனையும் ஒன்றும் செய்யலையே...... கடைசி வரை தீராததென்று எதுவும் இல்லையே..... முடியாமலே போனதேன்று ஒன்னுமே இல்லயே.....

இதனால், இனிமேல் வாழ்வில் பயம், வாழ்க்கையை பற்றிய பயம் எல்லாம் ரொம்ப கொறஞ்சிடுச்சு.

கடவுளுக்கு நன்றி சொல்வதை விட, இத்தனையையும் கற்றுக் கொடுத்த என் பாசத்திற்குறிய 'தவறுகளுக்கும்', முகம் பார்த்த/ பார்த்திடாத 'மனிதர்களுக்கும்' நன்றி சொல்ல வேண்டும்.

அய்யர்..

2006-12-13T00:20:00.000+05:00

(Ayyar: Otherwise, known us Jaisankar. We were classmates of our BE course. )

5 years back, it was my earlier days of college life. I was looking strange at every one. People dont get closer with surrounders easily for many reasons. They tend to have a limited mind-sets, untill they attain some ages.The worst thing is to find out companions, with same mind-sets, in a new environment.

Ayyar (a.k.a Jaisankar): He was looking well-docked, and was (trying to act) smart. But, it didnt match with his doings. It was easy for any one else to catch him. And so would I. :-)
(Photo1: Ayyar standing right side, shot at his office function -- ethnic day.)

I would say the first two years of the college life was absoultely horrible. Seriously. We had Hitlers and his Brothers to rule us. We wanted a relief. We made it ourselves.

Ayyar: He used to mimic and imitate every one lived around him. if you speak with him for ten mins, he will replay what you did. ;-) He used to mimic Warden, Staffs, HOD and etc.. you name it, he did it.

Ayyar is good hearted in nature. He donates blood and helps in all possible ways, that most of dont. He wont mind prestige for doing any work if required.

Exams were the 'Super Stars' of that age. Ayyar doesnt know the exam name untill some one tells him. He scored very less marks in his first year (No, he just thought in that way). So, he decided to quit hostel and take a room outside the college. He needed a companion with him.

One day, he called everyone to assemble in a room.. and his speech goes like this, "I planned to stay outside for many reasons...I have to concentrate more on (higher) studies, placement...etc .. so, I planned to stay outside.. who will come with me.. ". Needless to say, no one was ready to come with him, since they knew that his promises were valid only for night-times and they would expire next day.At last, Kishore was the victim, who supported him.

So, here after, his second-half starts. There after, Ayyar almost lost his life in planning.. planning.. and planning. Becasue, he didnt find time to execute any of his plans until he finished his BE. So, over a longrun, no body was ready to listen his future plans. At last it ended up people forming a new proverb "Like ayyar's promise..."

The third half starts when ayyar becomes a Software Engineer. He says that it has happened accidentally. But he deserves it. He works round the clock in office (dont know what!) and during week-ends also. But, some of us comment that he goes to office just to utilize the benefits like food and other amenities. It's he has to answer.

I know him for the last half-decade. The times, I laughed very much, were with him. He was the person I didnt mind talking for a long time on the phone.

Out of all my tensions, I remembered him. He still laughs in memory and makes me laugh.

Ayyar wont read this post unless I send him. Even He doesnt know that something exists like this here.

But, he wont be angry even if he happens to read this. Thats what something makes me to write about him!

(Photo 2: Ayyar, during his office day function.)

Mission Impossible :-)

2006-12-12T12:49:00.000+05:00

There are number of “Mission Impossible”s set in front of me. I meant to say, the targets are hard to touch.

The way of living has changed quite lot in these days. The way of thinking has been changed in an unprecedented manner. I just wonder that the life would have turned beautiful, if would have done few things earlier in my age. Let it be.

Needless to say, as I had done number of mistakes in past, I earned number of lessons.

I am not going to trail anything new, anymore. Will be practicing and habitualizing what been taught so far.

Working hard to turn the “Mission Possible”.

அத்தனைக்கும் ஆசைப்படு.... :-)

2006-12-01T13:46:00.000+05:00

Aim Big:

Long long ago, mobile phone was unnecessary for me. I decided to buy one because of some incidents. That was Noki 1100. Still I use it. I didn’t think of buying another one, since, it is very stable till date.

Till this moment, I didn’t have any idea of changing my mobile. Since, my usage on phone is comparetively less.

But, I wish to buy something else:

A camera, with the resolution of at least 5 to 6 mega pixel.
A music player, which can play cool, and help in bringing peace.

If I can find out all these in a mobile phone, sure, I will buy it.

While consulting all these, with Dr. Google, his recommendation was to go for ‘Nokia N95’. Which has what I wish and more than that. I dialled some local dealer and asked the details of ‘Nokia N95’. The reply was, “It is not yet into the market sir”. Oops, then, it might be .. ? … ? ..

Nokia N93 is itself comes around 320,00 Rs. (INR). Then, N95 will be . . ? :-) Let’s see.

(If any body knows any model with my requirements, please post in comments)

And, I am very much lured to buy Nokia N95, if God willing.

Here is Nokia N95 standing with Guts: http://www.nokia.com/nseries/index.html

Movie: We were Soldiers

2006-11-26T19:21:00.001+05:00

We were soldiers

Yesterday had a chance to watch the movie. Mel Gibson -- I think he would have had a dream of becoming an Army man, in his childhood ;-). Almost all his films are war based. This movie is yet another one.

The story centers on a battle between America and Vietnam. Gibson leads his soldiers form America towards Vietnam. In his films, I always find the dialogues are simply exciting. Before the battle is kicked off he gives a speech in front of his force, which goes like..,

“I am not sure I can bring you all alive to Home. But, I will be the first person to step in the battle field and the last person to step-off the field. And I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive. We will all come home.” -- Awesome.

Then, the film goes violently. You will see guns, firing sound, weeping of wounded soldiers everywhere in the frames!

At last, Gib son says his soldier what they had lost in the field to get this victory!

Gibson!—is always one my favorite directors and actors.

அடுத்த 20 நாட்கள்...

2006-11-25T15:44:00.000+05:00

Target: 20 days

I didn’t think that things will turn up this much urgent. I have hell a lot of work pending with me! :-(

Have to read bulk of books and workout a lot in forthcoming days. I’ve booked scbcd 5.0 exam on 16th Dec. I am little afraid whether I can prepare and make it up on the day!

I want to finish them off before Christmas/New Year, as I want to enjoy the holidays. Because, I started ‘Living my Life’! :-)

பெங்களூர், A/C

2006-11-25T15:35:00.000+05:00

Bangalore, A/C

Bangalore. The garden city. Landed here last Thursday. It was chill to look around every where. Even though, the sun is hot in these days, it doesn’t hurt us! (unlike chennai) :-)

Wherever you go, you see a ‘software park’. I like it. Whatever the time it is, still it remains chill. I like it very much! -;)

I enjoy spending my mornings in walking. I walk up to LalBaugh daily in the morning. It gives peace to be in the garden, where can see green everywhere.

Happy Bangaloring! :-)

இப்படி இல்லாமல் போயிருந்தால்..

2006-11-19T22:53:00.000+05:00

If it has not happened in the way it happened.. !

1. I walk for several kilometers in a day, in these days! :-)
2. I like tamil poems; sometimes I write few and trash!
3. I like to be alone; I like to walk alone.
4. I like to go to somewhere by walk, where I've never been to before.
5. I don’t get tensed much, it seems nothing matters big in life!
6. I just imagine how I would have grown and what I would be now, If I've not came across in the way I came :-)
7. I often want to meet my school mates, class mates, or anyone that I've not met in the recent days.

Let it be. Seems, some changes happening!

சொல்லுதல் யார்க்கும் எளிய அரியவாம்...

2006-11-15T23:00:00.001+05:00

Commitments for free of cost!

Yes, yes, it seems so. We make lots of promises and commitments in day to day life – ourselves and for others. But, the crazy thing is that, sometimes, we even don't mind them and try to convince ourselves to drop them into bin.

This is because, the strength of commitments degrade as time passes by. We don't feel the same fire in commitments over a period. It's cooled. It's moderated. And, gradually it is trashed. I am sure this should be the case of 99% of the people who make promises/ commitments/ goals.

The 1% remaining people are those who seem much aggressive in achieving what they said. (Ex: your boss!)

So, before making promises, we must thousand time promise to keep the promises!

தித்திப்பான பத்து விஷயங்கள்.

2006-11-15T11:14:00.000+05:00

10 Sweetest things.

This advertisement was very cool and so wanted to blog it!

தமிழும் கற்று மறவோம்..

2006-11-12T23:02:00.000+05:00

for my mother toungue...

I've changed some of my blog's 'headings' to be in Tamil. Let me try for the rest too. But, the english version of the same will also be present (colored in blue) prior to the body.

This immediate change is just to save myself from forgetting my mother tongue.

Disclaimer: This change was because of my wish, or my love towards my mother tongue. This change was not intended to get any get any aid/ tax reduction from TN Govt! :-)

வேட்டையாடு விளையாடு...

2006-11-10T13:34:00.000+05:00

Imp Note: I am thinking of changing some of my blog's 'headings' to be in Tamil. Let me try. But, the english version of the same will also be present (colored in blue).

Next Game:

Sun has planned a way to promote EJB 3.0. It’s releasing SCBCD 5.0-Beta-Exam for free of cost. (Registration starts on: 24th Nov).

I was thinking of taking up SCBCD1.3. But, 1.5 is itself coming for free, so I don’t want to waste the chance!

Ok. The following is the target.

Exam Name: SCBCD 5.0 Beta Test
Registration: 24th Nov (limited registration only available! So hurry up)
Exam, Available Dates: Dec 8 2006 to Jan 2 2007. Let’s fix it on 10th Dec 2006. (Sunday)
Mode of Preparation: Prepare for SCBCD 1.3. Then, SCBCD 1.5 + Mocks.
Materials/Books: HeadFirst for 1.3 + EJB spec for 3.0 + EJB3.0 concepts/ topic book + Hands on JBOSS
Target: Pass – at least! :-)

Lets have blasts!

69.5 முதல் 66.5 வரை..

2006-11-09T23:51:00.000+05:00

69.5 to 66.5..

Weeks High: 69.5
Weeks Low: 66.5
Days Close: 68.1
Previous close: 67.1

This is not a price listing of any shares. It’s my weight (in Kg), captured over a week (on a same weighing machine).

If I skip food for one time, it reflects in my weight. If I eat heavily, it also affects my weight immediately.

I don’t know whether this is healthy condition or not, but I feel healthy! :-)

எனது கண்டுபிடிப்புகள்... :-)

2006-11-09T15:43:00.000+05:00

My Discovery :-)

My house. After long search, I located my house in satellite picture:

http://wikimapia.org/#y=10000439&x=77614170&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2

எழுமின்! விழுமின்!

2006-11-03T14:36:00.000+05:00

Have blasts!

Yes, it’s looking like so. I am working out some blasting plans peacefully. My mind is constant, matured and has bean taught million things of what NOT TO DO than what TO DO.

I am just serious about following the learnings and lessons of past. I don’t want to repeat all such mistakes once again, which then may lead me to unrecoverable state!

This may be a 100th time to report such an 'Yet another mistake'. But, every time we realize our mistakes, we grow a bit! I believe in it.

Keeping all the learnings and cautions in mind, planned to step forward once again!

வைரமுத்து-1: காதலித்துப் பார்!

2006-11-01T23:59:00.000+05:00

I always wanted to collect the poems by Vairamuthu. I’m thinking of collecting/posting his ‘Best Lyrics’ here eventually. Here is his cool ‘kavithai’ on ‘Kathaliththupaar!’

Note: I just have an audio in which Vairamuthu dictates this ‘kavithai’ -- I’m just listening and typing it in tamil. It might have slight differences.

(feel free to post comments if you dont understand any part! :-) )
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காதலித்துப் பார்!

காதலித்துப் பார்!

உன்னைச் சுற்றி ஒளி வட்டம் தோன்றும்
உலகம் அர்த்தப்படும்
ராத்திரியின் நீளம் விளங்கும்
உனக்கும் கவிதை வரும்!
கையெழுத்து அழகாகும்
தபால்காரன் தெய்வமாவான்
உன் பிம்பம் விழுந்தே கண்ணாடி உடையும்
கண்ணிரண்டும் ஒளி கொள்ளும்

காதலித்துப் பார்!

தலையணையை நனைப்பாய்
மூன்று முறை பல் துலக்குவாய்
காத்திருந்தால், நிமிஷங்கள் வருஷமென்பாய்
வந்து விட்டால், வருஷங்கள் நிமிஷமென்பாய்
காக்கை கூட உன்னை கவனிக்காது - ஆனால்
இந்த உலகமே உன்னை கவனிப்பதாய் உண்ர்வாய்!
வயிற்றுக்கும் தொண்டைக்குமாய்
உருவமில்லா உருண்டை ஒன்று
உருளக் காண்பாய்!
இந்த வானம், இந்த அந்தி, இந்த பூமி, இந்த பூக்கள் - எல்லாம்
காதலை கவுரவிக்கும் ஏற்பாடுகள் என்பாய்

காதலித்துப் பார்!

இருதயம் அடிக்கடி இடம் மாறித் துடிக்கும்
நிசப்த அலைவரிசைகளில் உனது
குரல் மட்டும் ஒலி பரப்பாகும்
உன் நரம்பே நாணேற்றி
உனக்குள்ளே அம்பு விடும்
காதலின் திரைச்சீலையை
காமம் கிழிக்கும்
ஹார்மோன்கள் நைல் நதியாய் பெருக்கெடுக்கும்
உதடுகள் மட்டும் சஹாரா வாகும்!
தாகங்கள் சமுத்திரமாகும் - பிறகு
கண்ணீர் துளிக்குள் சமுத்திரம் அடங்கும்

காதலித்துப் பார்!

பூக்களிள் மோதி மோதியே
உடைந்து போக உண்ணால் முடியுமா?
அஹிம்சையின் இம்சையை அடைந்ததுண்டா?
அழுகின்ற சுகம் அறிந்ததுண்டா?
உன்னையே உனக்குள்ளே புதைக்கத்தெரியுமா?
சபையில் தனிமையாகவும்
தனிமையய் சபையாக்கவும்
உன்னால் வொன்னுமா?
அத்வைதம் அடையவேண்டுமா?
ஐந்தங்குல இடைவெளியில் அமிர்தமிருந்தும்
பட்டினி கிடந்து பழகியதுண்டா?

காதலித்துப் பார்!

சின்னச் சின்னப் பரிசுகளில்
சிலிர்க்க முடியுமே!
அதற்காக வேணும்..
புலன்களை வருத்திப் புதுப்பிக்க முடியுமே!
அதற்காக வேணும்..
ஆண் என்ற சொல்லுக்கும் பெண் என்ற சொல்லுக்கும்
அகராதியில் ஏறாத அர்த்தங்கள் விளங்குமே!
அதற்காக வேணும்..
வாழ்ந்து கொண்டே சாகவும் முடியுமே
செத்துக் கொண்டே வாழவும் முடியுமே
அதற்காக வேணும்..

காதலித்துப் பார்!

சம்பிரதாயம் சட்டை பிடித்தாலும்
உறவுகள் உயிர் பிழிந்தாலும்
விழித்துப் பார்க்கையில்
உன் தெருவுகள் களவு போயிருந்தாலும்
ஒரே ஆணியில் இருவரும்
சிக்கனச் சிலுவையில் அறையப்பட்டாலும்
நீ நேசிக்கும் அவனோ அவளோ
உன்னை நேசிக்க மறந்தாலும்

காதலித்துப் பார்!

சொர்க்கம், நரகம்
இரண்டில் ஒன்று
இங்கேயே நிச்சயம்

காதலித்துப் பார்!

- வைரமுத்து

ஒரு தூக்கம் கலைகிறது... :-)

2006-10-30T23:13:00.000+05:00

Time is up.

After a month break, I resume my works! :-) cheers.

My laptop has the two big-fat downloads sleeping for long time:

1. OC4J - (Oracle Container for J2EE)
2. JDeveloper -(IDE from Oracle)

Now, I am going to wake them up. Yes, we will talk about them a lot in forth coming days.

Kodaikanal: A meet, A trip.

2006-10-27T15:41:00.001+05:00

Kodaikanal

A meet

Yes, this hill resort is best viewable from my house’s terrace. But, I’ve never been to.
Btw, I got a chance to meet few of my schoolmates together at these holidays. We decided to plan a trip to somewhere – where we can sit comfortably and chat.

A trip

It was 22nd Oct 2006, Sun 06:00 AM. We hired a call taxi, and flagged off the trip. We were six in numbers. Usually, I do watch the routes while traveling to places. I was making thousands of routing calculations to reach the place. But, the driver was smart enough to break my mathematics and proved his experience! He showed me lots of short cuts which would help in reaching the place very faster.

Dum Dum Rock

His words were true. It was 06:35 AM while our car hit the foot hill. The first spot, we stopped at, is ‘Dum Dum rock’ – a view point. It was an exciting sight; there was a water-fall in distance, which should be more than 500 feet tall! It was like a white light in greenish Western Ghat Mountains – For me, telling someone how the sight excited me was like telling them how a song should make them feel! :-)

Silver Falls

The car sped off on the hill-way. Next stop point was ‘Silver falls’. The name matches with the place’s beauty! It was wonderful to see the waterfall in the bright morning. We took lots of snaps there and around.

The top

I couldn’t resist myself from controlling an unwanted fear while topping the hills J I wondered to realize that I was standing on 2000 feet! Chillness spread over me in and out.

The lake view

The lake view was not that much attractive. Usually, I don’t like greenish water, since it is impure! :)

Pillar Rock

Then, Pillar Rock. Again a falls. My friend told me to notice a ‘cross’ symbol/statute on the very top of the falls. I asked my friends and some of the tourists what was it and who placed it on the heights. But, I didn’t receive any reasonable answers from anyone. (Yes, I didn’t ask Mr. Google yet!)

Guna Cave

They had made a fence around the cave. I’ve heard lots of stories about it already. I just glanced the cave from distance, with a little fear. One tourist guide was explaining to his tourists, “This cave is formed as gap between mountains and it is a 900+ feet hole. If anybody falls into this, usually the rescuers take a day or two to locate the person!” Oops, let’s leave this place! J

Suicide Point

I’ve never seen such a hollow space in my life before. I saw some mountains and falls below my feet! One of the tourists threw a plastic plate, but it was pumped up to 1 mtr towards sky and then went down deep! :D

In few minutes, the clouds and white midst rouse up and hide the place form view. It was white to look at anywhere down.

Something stoke at mind and it was, “The Sky is falling” :)

Park

It was around 5:30 PM while we entered in. The places were completely arrested by light midst. My hands were so chill and my mouth was smoking without cigarettes! J We took lots of snaps to washout the battery charge. And it turned dark.

We came back to home and it was 7:50 PM. Still the chillness stays with me.

(I’ll post the snaps after sometimes)

After Diwali.

2006-10-26T14:45:00.000+05:00

I was on long leave for this Diwali holidays. I’ve bagged a 3.1 mp dig cam with me while going home. Have taken lots of photos. Have shot beautiful sceneries surrounded my houses which includes, Dams, rivers, small streams, mountains and of course my family!

I’ll take sometimes to upload the photos into www securely and post the URLs.

The single answer.

2006-10-17T12:52:00.000+05:00

After a very long period, I am in(te) rest(less). I’ve not touched any technical books since a month. I’m eagerly waiting for the change in day to day life, which is going to happen very sooner. So, I’m not interested in anything as of now.

I was not shaken by anything happened over the last month – despite so many things went on. I really wonder how I could stand stable without any fear/mental disorder unlike before. Then, I feel little happy about myself that I became pretty matured and confidence than ever before. This is the person, I often tried to be, but failed to be. It might be the single answer for lots of questions running in mind over long days. Now, I can clearly, frankly tell and distinguish my strength & weakness!

Going home on Diwali hols. Planning to stay for a long time there and around. This time, I might take some snaps, if possible.

Sooner, I will post the happy news! :-)

The lessons.

2006-10-09T11:12:00.000+05:00

These are some lessons I learnt (or)
something always think of (or)
something like I want to be (or)
something I already be.

(Disclaimer: All these sayings are my own! Not to hurt anybody else, or not because of anybody else!)

1. The finest moment in my life is when I was thinking of nothing.
2. The time I always be brave is when I am loyal to my conscience.
3. I always suspect silent people – their other side might be dangerous.
4. Do not act as some one whom you are not. People, are not lured by imitations.
5. I hate commanding people, and I never want to be anyone’s manager.
6. Everyone else in life needs to be respected. God has his own purpose to create every living.
7. I always ashamed of eating delicious, when a beggar in front of me is starving.

Web hosting basics (for novices)

2006-10-05T19:51:00.000+05:00

So, you have decided to publish your own web site. Now, how do you go about doing it? We’ll discuss hosting your own site step by step.

I. Define the scope of your hosting needs

First, you have to be very well aware of all the hosting functionalities that you might need. Sample cases:

Publishing some web pages or photos with descriptive content (Static Pages)
Reserving a domain name based on your name or family name (Personal websites) and running the site.
Interacting with your visitors (Guest Book, Online shopping Portal, Customer feedback and etc)
Running news sites that handle high user traffic (like cnbc.com, ibnlive.com and etc)

II. Choose the hosting provider

If your requirement is similar to case I.1, then you may choose free hosting services like geocities.com or pages.google.com. These sites provide static hosting services for free of cost. Yet, they provide tools to build, edit your web pages.
If your requirement is similar to case I.b, then you have to register a domain name first. Refer to the post (http://web-admins.blogspot.com/2008/08/domain-names-at-cheap-price-10.html), that lists a review of companies that provide domain name registration service for cheap price. Once, you have registered a domain name, you have to map it to a server (location of a directory where in your entire html files are stored). This space is called as web space or storage space. You may either buy the space from service providers or you may redirect all the requests to this registered domain to some other web sites.
If your requirement is similar to case 1.c, where in you need to interact with your web site visitors, then you have to buy a hosting service that offers server side scripting (Php, Perl, Jsp, Python and etc) facility. You have to check with the service providers for the quota limits like web space quota, database quota.
For case 1.d, you may have to go for dedicated servers that offer a hassle free service.

III. Building your web pages

Your web site content and appearance is what attracts your visitors. So, you need to pay more attention while designing your web pages and writing the web page contents. There are plenty of web designing tools available online. We’ll be discussing this section in detail.

நிம்மதி சுழ்க!

2006-09-30T23:16:00.000+05:00

This poem was written & read out by Vairamuthu, in front of public of Tiruppur (Tamil Nadu) at a opening ceremony of a cemetery! This poem was very much appreciated and consoled many hearts over the audience.

(Ananda Vigatan published the poem in last week issue).

நிம்மதி சுழ்க!

ஜென்மம் நிறைந்தது
சென்றவர் வாழ்க
சிந்தை கலங்கிட
வந்தவர் வாழ்க
நீரில் மிதந்திடும்
கண்களும் காய்க
நிம்மதி நிம்மதி
இவ்விடம் சூழ்க!
....

ஜனனமும் பூமியில்
புதியது இல்லை
மரணத்தைப் போல் ஒரு
பழையதும் இல்லை
இரண்டுமில்லாவிடில்
இயற்கையும் இல்லை
இயற்கையின் ஆணைதான்
ஞானத்தின் எல்லை
...

பாசம் உலாவிய
கண்களும் எங்கே?
பாய்ந்து துழாவிய
கைகளும் எங்கே?
தேசம் அளாவிய
கால்களும் எங்கே?
தீ உண்டதென்றது
சாம்பலும் இங்கே
கண்ணில் தெரிந்தது
காற்றுடன் போக
மண்ணில் பிறந்தது
மண்ணுடல் சேர்க
எலும்பு சதை
கொண்டஉருவங்கள் போக
எச்ச்ங்களால் அந்த
இன்னுயிர் வாழ்க
...

பிறப்பு இல்லாமலே
நாளொன்று இல்லை
இறப்பு இல்லாமலும்
நாளொன்று இல்லை
நேசத்தினால் வரும்
நினைவுகள் தொல்லை
மறதியையப்போல் ஒரு
மாமருந்தில்லை
...

கடல் தொடும் ஆறுகள்
கலங்குவதில்லை
தரைதொடும் தாரைகள்
அழுவதுமில்லை
நதி மழை போன்றதே
விதியென்று கண்டும்
மதிகொண்ட மானுடர்
மயங்குவதென்ன?

- வைரமுத்து.

Lyrics.

2006-09-28T21:26:00.000+05:00

The lyrics which I read recently. I wish to blog them, before they leave my memory. Cool lines!

1. இந்தியாவைச் சுற்றி மூன்று பக்கம் கடல்கள்,
நான்கு பக்கம் கடன்கள்.
- யாரோ.

2. கலீலியோவின் உலகை சதுரமாக்கியது
என் ஜன்னல் வழிப் பார்வை.
- கமல் ஹாசன்.

3. நெஞ்சு பொறுக்கு திலையே! - இந்த
நிலைகெட்ட மனிதரை நினைந்துவிட்டால்,
அஞ்சி யஞ்சிச் சாவார் - இவர்
அஞ்சாத பொருளில்லை அவனியிலே
வஞ்சனைப் பேய்கள் என்பார் - இந்த
மரத்தில் என்பார்; அந்தக் குளத்தில் என்பார்
துஞ்சுது முகட்டில் என்பார் - மிகத்
துயர்ப்படுவார் எண்ணிப் பயப்படுவார்.

- பாரதியார்

Tip #3: Difference: Jvm, JRE, JDK, J2SDK, HotSpot...

2006-09-28T20:56:00.001+05:00

JVM, JRE, JDK, J2SDK, HotSpot... : These terms are often parts of Java programmers communication. But, it seems.. all such terms sound to mean a same thing – no, they just seem, not really. Let’s discuss and distinguish the terms in detail.

JVM- Otherwise called as 'Java virtual machine' that actually takes the .class file as input, interprets it and executes it. JVM is platform dependent. The java.exe, found in your J2SDK/bin folder is called as JVM!

JRE - JRE includes a JVM and standard libraries (which are imported by default during execution). Note, JRE doesn't include other tools like jdb, javac, javap and etc. It includes only the jvm (java.exe) and default packages. JVM can be thought as a proper subset of JRE.

JDK - JDK is a box in which everything is put together. JDK includes JRE as well as other necessary tools and libraries. You have JRE, JVM and all the standard & extended libraries.

Important differences:

1. The important difference between JRE and JDK is that, Java License allows any one to re-distribute the JRE along with his product. But, it is illegal to re-distribute the JDK with your product!

2. JDK and J2SDK exactly refer to a same thing. But, what is difference? The term ‘JDK’ is just re-branded (re-named) to ‘J2SDK’ to bring a Standard (guts?) to Java. Seriously! :-)

The following simple formulas can help you to understand easily what were said above:

JVM = java.exe
JRE = JVM + Standard Libraries – Other java tools like jdb, javac.
JDK = JRE + Other java tools + all core libraries and packages.
J2SDK = rename (JDK)

Exercise:

The term ‘HotSpot’ is left unexplained. If you are curious to know, Pl, spare some minutes to find out yourself and post the answer as comment.
Or, let me post the answer in next tip.

Mr. Smart: Jackie Chan

2006-09-27T21:27:00.000+05:00

I haven’t ever seen any one being this much smart in his old age! Jackie Chan is an exception. He is a most famous martial artist, asia’s most paid, and the most brisk, never seen ever.

If you pay keen attention to his kicking and jumping, first time you would wonder how these things are possible to him. But, the risk and pain he takes behind the screen is horrible. The News is true that no one insurance company is ready to give Jackie, a insurance policy. They are afraid of his risk stunts.

I guess the first Jackie’s film I saw is ‘Police Story II ‘. He acted as a cop. He usually take the roll of a cop and chases smugglers. He never assists dupes. He himself acts in any challenging fight & chase scenes. He would have become world’s hero if he had been into Holly Wood. But, time didn’t make it happen. All his famous adventures are limited only within Asian countries. Only, very few of his films went to Holly Wood and they are block busters, of course. Rush Hour, Shangai Noon are some few to name.
I am, sort of his fan, and don’t miss his films!

And, yes, he has rewarded with numerous awards. He’s been the best actor in Hong kong over many years. His films were also big Box Office drawers in many Asian countries and American cities.

The wonder full films by Jackie, I have seen are: The Myth, New Police Story ,Around the World in 80 Days, The Medallion, Rush Hour I & II , Shanghai Noon , Who Am I?, Mr. Nice Guy , Miracles , Super cop , Project A II, Police Story, Drunken Master, The Young Master, Armour of God, Thunderbolt.

He is the Mr. Smart!

Tip #2: How to access the private variables outside the class in java?

2006-09-24T22:35:00.001+05:00

Is that possible?

Yes, it is. Have you ever heard of ‘Java Reflection API’?. If no, then this brief intro can help. Java Reflection API: has set of classes and methods to access the runtime behavior and memory foot print of classes and objects”

Using the reflection API, you can access (any) instance member variable of an object. Yet, you can do a lot more with that.

Don't you thing this is a loop hole in Java? Breaking the integrity of Oops?

Not in that way. This API actually meant for helping people tracing the memory foot print and for developing applications like ‘Java Debugger’, ‘Java Profiler’, ‘Java Application Monitor’ and the likes. Usually, other applications programmers are advised not to use this API unnecessarily.

The following simple example demonstrates how to access the private variable of an object outside the class (using Reflection API):

(This example is referred from javareference.com)

java.lang.reflect.*;

class Example {

private int x = 10; // means not available to outside the class
public int y = 10; // accessible from anywhere.

}

public class ReflectionDemo

{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

Example e = new Example();
Class ref = e.getClass(); //will return ‘Example’ – right?
Field f = ref.getDeclaredField("x"); // watch here! :)
f.setAccessible(true); // Now the ‘x’ is accessible!
Object obj = f.get(e);
int val=((Integer) obj).intValue();
System.out.println("Private var X is = " + val);

}
}

That’s it!

If you want to know more about Reflection API, spend some minutes at Sun sites/ Tutorial.

Answer for Tip #1

Here comes the answer for the question asked in last tip (Tip #1 Java Memory Issues) : To run the program successfully, you have to increase the memory by using JVM command line options –Xmx and –Xms, like

$java –Xms20m –Xmx120m Memory

The -Xms20m options instructs the JVM to set the initial heap size to be 20 MB and the –Xmx120m options instructs the JVM to set the Maximum heap size to be 120 MB. (If this doesn’t work for your machine, you can try changing the numbers).

After the rain..

2006-09-22T21:49:00.000+05:00

I can’t obviously tell the things went around after my last blog post. But, they went well as I expected. I am very much satisfied and happy at this moment.

I see things lying before me as how something would look like after it stopped raining!

Tip #1: Java Memory issues.

2006-09-10T00:03:00.001+05:00

Hmm. I am going to write some tech bits frequently, which might help others. So, let’s start the first one.

Memory issue:

The most critical problem, most of us might be experiencing is memory leak. Your JVM may brainlessly spit out “OutofMemoryException”, then say “bye” and exit. It’s because your heap memory ( heap -the memory used for storing objects used in the program) might have become full.

So, in order to fix this issue, you have to increase heap space size using the JVM command line arguments –Xms (Initial Heap size) and –Xmx (Maximum Heap size)

Exercise: (If you wish!)

1. Just compile and run the below code. Watch curiously what happens. Then, use the tip presented above and fix the issue.I may get a chocolate for you if you get it running :-)

class memory {

public static void main (String args [] ) throws Exception {

int[] a = new int[18000000] ; // Watch here! :-)
System.out.println("Code is running");
}

}

Note:I will post the ans when I post next Tip. :-)

Java/JDBC Questions

2006-09-09T23:54:00.001+05:00

I have prepared set of questions for Java/J2EE (may be helpful to test one's knowledge). Here, first comes the questions from JDBC.

I don't have time to type the answers here:-) Pl, find yourself by reading books or googling or by asking someone who had lost his life in java.

If unable to find answers anywhere, you can directly mail ( or scold) me via: manivannan.p (at) gmail.com

JDBC – Questions: Manivannan.P (at) gmail.com, 14th Aug, 2006.

[For Beginner/Advanced/A bit experts]

1. What are all the available types of JDBC drivers? Give example for each type.
2. Which one of the available drivers is better?
3. Give sample scenarios where you would choose each one.
4. Write a sample JDBC code to connect to any database.
5. What do you understand by Class.forName(“drivername”).newInstance() ? (give alternative syntax for this)
6. What is a Statement and a PreparedStatement?
7. What is the difference between Statement and PreparedStatement. Which one is advisable to use?
8. How will you execute a DML statement using JDBC?
9. How will you traverse the ResultSet?
10. What exception will you probably get when you have no data in Resultset?
11. How will you print Meta data of Resultset like column count, column names and etc.
12. How will you execute a stored procedure using JDBC?
13. How will you pass parameters to stored procedure using JDBC?
14. Can you give example code for using IN, OUT and INOUT parameters stored procedure using JDBC?
15. How will you capture the return value of a function using JDBC?
16. How will you print the warning message, error code, status generated by the database (while using JDBC)?
17. How will you catch/escalate the exception generated by the database?
18. How will you manage the concurrency while using JDBC? (Just write down a sample code)
19. Give example for managing transaction using JTA.
20. How will you make the Resultset become scrollable by back and forth?
20.a) Can you move the Resultset to a particular row absolutely or relatively?
21.b) Can you give an example for inserting/updating/deleting a specified row on ResultSet?
21. How will you apply concurrency for Resultset?
22. How will you refresh the Resultset, without repeating the code?
23. How will you send sql statements in bulk? [Batchupdates]
23.a) How will you capture & analyze the return value of BtachUpdate?
23.b) What is the limitation of BatchUpdate ?
23.c) What is the difference in using Stored procedure and BatchUpdate
24. Can you explain what is connection pooling & how it is implemented? [provide sample code for connection pooling and a client that uses it]
25. What are all the parameters you need to pass while configuring connection pooling?
26. Do you know about two-phase and three-phase commit, can you explain it?
27. How will you handle blob, clob fields using JDBC?
28. Can you write code for storing and retrieving an image file/ text file using JDBC? [hint: using blob and clob]
29. Can you tell any noticeable differences between JDBC1.0, JDBC2.0, JDBC3.0 APIs?

Disclaimer: The questions [or answers] presented here are purely based on my perspective alone. There may be number of alternative answers.

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