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Harddrive Bargains!!!

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17-Nov-06

Nathan, Thanks for pointing out. 10,000 dollars for 120 mb

What are airlines allowing nowadays

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11-Nov-06

Script to create liferay data models 1

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10-Nov-06

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Google Dinosaur

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10-Nov-06

I sit on a high perch. I assume and often believe I could teach my 4 year old what to think and inturn shape and mold. There is an assumption that I know more, not only in some, but all matters. I am only humbled by what a beehive of a Brain these youngsters are gifter with, something I neither possessed or lost some where on the way.

He asked me one day what a "singleton" was. For a programmer by profession this was a daunting challenge to answer correctly. Programmers have gained and lost large sums based on their answer to this interview question. Well I was quite sure a 3 year olds brain is not yet clouded by such concerns. So I have patiently, having some background where he was coming from, explained that when you stand alone, when you are not with your friends, when you are one that stands out, then you could be called a "singleton" as it happened in the movie "Sandlot". "Singleton" hasn't arrived into my vocabulary before mid 20s.

He patiently listened everyone telling him Red means stop and Green means Go. He patiently waited for the car to follow the mores. And lately he has been wondering lately whether he could wish "red" was "green" and "green" was "red". I asked him what he means. Well we could go when it is red and stop when it is green. That doesn't make him upside down kid I have reasoned.

He found a little toy learning computer that makes him identify alphabets, objects etc. He has been figuring this out on his own mostly. It would tell him what is the button he pressed. For a couple of days he had been wondering and actually "scheming" as to its reaction if he were to press two buttons one after the other and laughing out loud the ensuing cacophony. Even If I wanted I couldn't have been able to teach him that. I am humbled at these little brains.

He reluctantly and impatiently sits next to me on some evenings while I work on my laptop and while he was watching something on the TV. His one eye is on my laptop waiting for me to allow him to press the keys. He said last night "Dinosaur". There is no Dinosaur on my laptop. I have Google search screen. Well for him that is where he finds dinosaur images. The quickness of association is lightening fast.

That brain at that age is humming.

Understand liferay data models

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9-Nov-06

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A dusk of Rain

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8-Nov-06

Who will I tell
When weather extraordinary
wash over my way with gentle wind

Who will I tell
When ruffling leaves newly born
But yeager to break free
sway with abandon
in a transparent gail that sustains life if not bring forth

Who will I tell
when water bearing clouds roll over the skies

Who will I tell
When sheets of water rushes 
down to earth to seek life

Who will I tell
When white flowers
Open in the brightest of smiles
In numbers multitude

Who will I tell
when brilliant rainbows skirt
the Eastern skies
and the platinum clearings
in the western skies

Who will I tell
the dancing rituals of rain
Timeless and age old

An important note on HTTP authentication for IE

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7-Nov-06

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5Bln%5D;834489

This enables the ability to log into http authenticated sites with out explicitly typing in userid password dialog boxes

David Blaine

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6-Nov-06

David Blaine

Brett Leake

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6-Nov-06

Brett Leake Home Page

Comedian
Political Commentary

How to use AspirePortlet in Liferay

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28-Oct-06

How to use AspirePortlet in Liferay

Samplecode: IFramePortlet

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28-Oct-06

Samplecode: IFrame Portlet

Samplecode: JSPPortlet

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28-Oct-06

Samplecode: JSP Portlet

Samplecode: Some portlet definitions

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28-Oct-06

Samplecode: Some portlet definitions

Samplecode: Hello world portlet

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28-Oct-06

A simple Hello world portlet

sample: Getting user_info from portlet request

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22-Oct-06

Map userInfo = (Map) request.getAttribute(PortletRequest.USER_INFO);
String givenName = (userInfo!=null)
? (String) userInfo.get(?user.name.given?) : ??;
String lastName = (userInfo!=null)
? (String) userInfo.get(?user.name.family?) : ??;
...

sample: constructing a render url

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22-Oct-06

sample: constructing a render url

sample: processAction method

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14-Oct-06

The following topics are covered here

liferay
jsr 168 portlets
apis
oddities
writing portlets

JSF Notes

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6-Oct-06

Starting document for JSF. Contains

Cross references
Questions
Running journal
Things that work
Odd things
Notes in general

How do I know if a class inherits from another class?

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2-Oct-06

Class baseClass;
Class derivedClass;

if (baseClass.isAssignableFrom(derivedClass))
{
     System.out.println(
                 "derviedClass is derived from baseClass"
                 + "or assignable a bit more precisely");
}

In the book of wise ....

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16-Sep-06

"Why should I yield?"
An educated daughter asked her father
In Grade 3 this daughter has arrived
When in disapproval this question was raised

The father told her a story

To the best of schools she went
Intelligent, smart, and confidant she became
Matters abstruse, subjects difficult, back and forth she mastered
But yield, she did not

Swells of curly hair, with complexion much desirable,
she was deemed pretty.
An air of unquestioned sophistication she carried
But yield she did not

Any amount of education,
All the sophistication in the world
are of little worth 
when you know not how to yield

To yield despite your right
To be patient despite your turn
Each by itself is worth a phd
At least in my book
And for certain, I believe, in the book of wise

"Don't talk to me in words complicated"
The daughter pointed out to the error in argument

The father replied 

To yield is to give
Especially when you don't have to

To yield is to let go
And again when you don't have to

And when you are in 4th grade
You will also know
To yield is to concede
In order to Gain

"How should I yield"
She asked, sure to extend the argument
The father dug deep and said

Like a father to his daughter
And a mother to her son
As the ground to your feet
And as the sun to the clouds
And like a Red wood to the scurrying ant

With love
with good faith
Just like a big sister you are to your brother

Vaana

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8-Sep-06

Ralina Pulu
Thadisina Nayla
Kadalay Moyulu
Nilichina Musuru
MaLLi Jallu
Gadapana Pilichay Amma
Kalagalupula Pillala vaana 

book: Extinction by Douglas H. Erwin

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31-Aug-06

book: Extinction by Douglas H. Erwin

what is indesign?

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30-Aug-06

Following is a quote from Adobe

"Every day, more graphics professionals, publishers, and print service providers are discovering that Adobe� InDesign� is a leap forward in page layout software. Get more information on the benefits of switching from QuarkXPress� and Adobe PageMaker�, as well as resources to aid you in making a smooth transition to InDesign."

Children of the Alley: Egyptian Nobel Laureate

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30-Aug-06

Children of the Alley: Egyptian Nobel Laureate

Mark Hauser: Moral Minds

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30-Aug-06

Mark Hauser: Moral Minds

Speed Bumps...

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24-Aug-06

Before today I would have never imagined that Speed Bumps could be topics of conversation.

"Is there a problem" my 3 year old wanted to know

"What problem! Oh, are you talking about the thud?"

"Yes!"

"Oh, that's a bump on the road"

"Why is it on the road?"

"It is called a speed bump. It is there so that you can not go too fast"

"Can I see it?"

"Yes, see that thing with yellow stripes"

"Yes, I see. How come they are not every where?"

"Well they put them once in a while"

"How do they stay there?"

"Well they take some dirt and make a hill and then cover it up with cement (I was praying he won't ask me what cement was!!)"

By now we were heading out of the school zone.

"why is the policeman there?"

"He is there to direct the traffic. He will tell cars to stop and go"

"Why is he not directing us?"

"Narayan, one more question and my head will explode with making up answers to your questions"

"Dad, you are a meanie and poopi head!!!"

Night lamp...

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17-Aug-06

Nights, Terrible nights,
The realm of ghosts and ghouls
And of prowlers outcast
As many of the lores go

In a place no where, 
far from the lights,
On one such empty void night,
Me and a night lamp,
I recollect were sitting by a beam supporting the roof overhead
among a hamlet by the woods

No doubt the night was dark,
Yet the air, cool and refreshing
The security of the night was reassuring
The wisdom of silence was palpable

The world around seem to have fallen asleep
Sorrows around seem to have been paused for the night
Progress seem to have postponed for the morning

Book in hand I feel guilty
Amassing my riches while the world sleeps
Like that old man greedy

While the night lamp 
Burns its mid night oil
In the night serene
I seem to have found an unfair vantage

Journey..

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17-Aug-06

Unhappy, and unsettled, a bottle of ideas I shook,
From the land familiar, a journey of leisure I undertook

Lands far away I imagined
Lands dangerous
Lands law less
Lands with out rules
To a land separated I went

Many Months I have spent
Collecting documents
To Prove I am who I say I am

Flew on big birds
waited in lounges clean and dirty
but commonly indifferent to all things insignificant

Spent my time jolly
Slept late
Missed my plane
Hit with dementia
Forgot who I am
Lost my papers to a pick pocket  

Pontificating Men with goatees
Women with scowly faces
rejected my pleas
denied my identity
put me in prisons

To the land familiar I could not get back
In the land familar no one have heard of me or seen me again

Abstract thought...

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16-Aug-06

Waste not,
For I am in no mood to hear,
Your million words of generalities,
And speeches more

A proposition instead, I make,
should you lend me an ear..

Arms open,
I must anticipate,
Arms tight,
I will embrace
Should you offer a single word concrete.

Reflections on the importance of HTML prototyping for IT

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11-Aug-06

Wonder if you have come across these lines before:

"I fix myself an Omelete, sir,
Of fluffy clouds, and sky
...
I sew myself a warm cloak, sir,
of hope and daffodils."

Unlike this fanciful dilemma of "Poor Angus" of Shel Silverstein, in large IT corporations HTML prototypes can play a much more significant role. They can aid faster development times. They can secure budgets. They can encourage good architecture. They can directly lead to a number of development artifacts such as data models, and business services. I think prototypes offer another important aspect to the modern development process along with the Extreme Programming and RUP.