Programming and Animation

JSP Power Debugger

2008-07-19T00:53:00.005+05:30

JSP Power Debugger:

With Power Debugger, you can save hours of debugging in development and deployment.
Here are the some salient features:

Search items in Session, Request and Context.
toString() replacement – Using Java Reflection to dynamically display all the values in a VO.
Navigate through the items easily thro links.
Support for Collections, Dyna Action Forms and Arrays.
Support for EL like expressions. Seamlessly navigate the entire hierarchy of items.
Improved Usability and UI.

All you have to do is to put this Debug.jsp in the Web Content folder of your application and start using it.
The main use will be in QA environments, where we you can’t debug as like Eclipse.
Some Screenshots are attached. Have a look at it..

Feel free to contact me for feedback, improvements and bug fixes.

Guide:

To search for an item in the session or context, type in the Search bar, or click a value from the list displayed.
Click on the links displayed if you want to traverse the tree.
You can search from collections, Struts Action Form or a VO(value object) by using the "." operator.
For arrays and collections, you can use the array operator:"[]"

The code is licensed under GNU General Public License v3.

Download the File and rename it to jsp for usage. Put it inside the Web Content folder, and hit the URL of this JSP.
For example, if you are using Tomcat, you must hit the URL: http://localhost:8080/ApplicationName/Debug.jsp

Here is a Sample Screenshot:

Enjoy Coffee not the CUP

2005-12-11T23:26:00.000+05:30

Enjoy Coffee not the CUP

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking, some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups."

"Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

Think of Vadivelu and read like him - LOL

2005-12-11T23:22:00.000+05:30

Think of Vadivelu and read like
him...::Excellent
Nan sari oru round thane nu oru interview ku poneen
Anga 5 per ma,
Maathi Maathi question kettainga.
Ennala mudincha varaikkum answer sonneen. Apram 4th
floor ponga offer
vangikkunga nu sonnanuga
Sarinu nanum nambi 4th floor ku poneen.
Anga 8 per ma,
Avangalala evlo mudiyumo avlo question kettanga.
Dhidir nu oruthan HR ku phone a pottu...
machan.. free ya iruntha vada inga oruthan sikki
irukkanu sonnan.
Nanum evlo neram than answer therinja mathiriye
nadikkarathu.
Adula oruthan sonnan ,enna question kettalum
samalikiranda
Evan Romba Intelligentunu sollitan maaa...

Collection of Famous(Funny) cricketing quotes.

2005-11-25T09:04:00.000+05:30

Collection of famous quotes by Navjot Singh Sidhu:

1. That ball went so high it could have kissed an air hostess .

2. There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an
incoming train which will run them over.

3. Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

4. This quote was made after Ganguly called Dravid for a run and midway sent
him back and Dravid was run out in the third test against the **West Indies*
at **Barbados**."Ganguly has thrown a drowning man both ends of the rope."

5. Sri Lankan score is running like an Indian taximeter.

6. Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide.

7. Wickets are like wives - you never know which way they will turn!

8. He is like Indian three-wheeler, which will suck a lot of diesel but
cannot go beyond 30!

9. The Indians are going to beat the Kiwis! Let me tell you, my friend that
the Kiwi is the only bird in the whole world, which does not have wings!

10. As uncomfortable as a bum on a porcupine.

11. The ball whizzes past like a bumble -bee and the Indians are in the sea.

12. The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin a haystack.

13. The pitch is as dead as a dodo.

14. Deep Dasgupta is as confused as a child is in a topless bar!

15. The way Indian wickets are falling reminds of the cycle stand at
Rajendra Talkies in **Patiala** one falls and everything else falls!

16. Indian team without Sachin is like giving Kiss without a Squeeze.

17. You cannot make Omelets without breaking the eggs.

18. Deep Dasgupta is not a Wicket Keeper, he is a goalkeeper. He must be
given a free transfer to **Manchester** United.** *

19. He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.

20. One, who doesn't throw the dice, can never expect to score a six.

21. This quote was made after Eddie Nichols, the third umpire, ruled
Shivnarine Chanderpaul 'NOT OUT' in the second test at **Port of Spain** T&T
"Eddie Nichols is a man who cannot find his own buttocks with his two
hands."

22. Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

23. Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

24. You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.

25. The cat with gloves catches no mice.

26. Age has been perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

27. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.

28. He is like a one-legged man in a bum kicking competition.

29. The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same
reason.

30. Kumble's bowling at the moment is flat as a Dosa

Ha ha ha.
Hope you enjoyed this one.
:)
Paramesh.

Creating a Website - Part 3

2005-11-24T19:24:00.000+05:30

Hello friends,

Did you like my birds?
Never mind. Lets see what is Control Panel.

Mananging your webhost account online has never been easier. The control panel is click and point software which simplifies most tasks. The website control panel makes most website hosting management tasks very easy. It eliminates the need to read the detailed online manual.

Most of the control panel include features like:

File Manager
Browser based FTP client
HTML compressor
Install/Manage password protected directories
Manage email configuration
Manage autoresponders
Install/Disable daily stats
Customize Server Error Pages
Manage Counters
FormMail, Guestbook, WwwBoard and others
Control your site from your browser
Up

So, The first thing you have to do is to use the file manager to manage your files.
You can upload files from your computer, edit files in the server or delete files using the file manager.

After you create a hosting account, when you type your domain name in your browser, you'll see some files and not the html page or Welcome page.

The control panel location is normally a subdomain in your website, say "www.yourdomain.com/cpanel".

When you look at the file manager, some basic files will be:

public_html
public_ftp
www
tmp
....

You should never delete any of these files or folders.
They indicate the basic structure of your website.

So, the first thing you have to create is a index.html file and store it in the root folder of your website.
i.e public_html folder.

So, create a sample file with some text and save it as index.html
Upload the file in the public_html folder.

Once you upload, when you type "www.yourname.com", then the index.html file will be automatically loaded.
So, the index.html will be your startup page.

There are many control panels available, some are free and some are costly.
It depends on your hosting account.

My favourite control panel is CPanel, and most of the hosts provide you with CPanel.
CPanel has very rich features, and you can find them in this site:
http://www.cpanel.net/

In the next post, lets see about the various features of a control panel and creating a simple forum in our site.

Regards,
Paramesh.

2005-11-24T15:04:00.000+05:30

My Birds

Creating a Website - Part 2

2005-11-23T21:20:00.000+05:30

We now know how to create a domain from part 1.

Now, we'll move on to hosting a website.
Hosting definition:


	The World Wide Web is a massive collection of web sites, all hosted on computers (called web servers) all over the world. The web server (computer) where your web site's html files, graphics, etc. reside is known as the web host. Web hosting clients simply upload their web sites to a shared (or dedicated) webserver, which the ISP maintains to ensure a constant, fast connection to the Internet.

So, the web host is the place where you have all your files stored.

How to host our new website?
Consider that the domain name is "www.yourname.com".

We should first find a suitable hosting options for our website.
For example,
How many users will visit the site at a time?
How many files do i have to store in my website? etc..

If you want to have a lot of files and many users will visit the site at a time or daily, we have to select a hosting account that has a large storage space and transfer.

For example, a low priced plan may have a storage capacity of 100MB along with 10GB transfer per month.
It may also offer money back guarantee!

But if you want a forum to be created in your website, then you should look at other options also.
For example, many forums need PHP and MySQL.
So, you should check with your host whether they are available in the particular hosting plan.

There are 3 types of hosting: Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.
If your website code has ASP or ASP.net content choose windows hosting.
Generally windows hosting costs more because the licensing fee required is greater for windows.

But to the end user everything is same and dont be confused about it.

Many companies that you create a new domain offers a web hosting account also.

Once you have created a new hosting account, you are given a username and password.
When you go to your domain name for the first time say "www.yourname.com". It will ask you for the username and password.
Enter them and you'll be taken to a new place called: Control Panel.

That will be explained in part 3.
If you have any comments or questions, feel free to ask.

Regards,
Paramesh.

How to show the report card to Dad... Funny story.

2005-11-23T06:40:00.000+05:30

Letter to a DAD

A father passing by his son's bedroom was astonished to see the bed
was nicely made and everything was picked up.

then he saw an envelope propped up prominently on the center of the bed.

it was addressed, "dad".
with the worst premonition, he opened the envelope and read the letter
with trembling hands:

dear dad,
it is with great regret and sorrow that i'm writing this. I had to elope with my new girlfriend because i wanted to avoid a scene with mom and you.
i've been finding real passion with barbara and she is so nice even with all her piercing, tattoos, and her tight motorcycle clothes.

but it's not only the passion dad, she's pregnant and barbara said that we will be very happy.

even though you don't care for her as she is much older than i, she already owns a trailer in the woods and has a stack of firewood for
the whole winter.

she wants to have many more children with me and that's now one of
my dreams too.

barbara taught me that marijuana doesn't really hurt anyone and we'll be growing it for ourselves and trading it with her friends for all the cocaine and ecstasy we want.

in the meantime, we'll pray that science will find a cure for aids so barbara can get better; she sure deserves it!!

don't worry dad, i'm 15 years old now and i know how to take care of myself.

someday i'm sure we'll be back to visit so you can get to know your
grandchildren.

your son,
john

p.s. dad, none of this is true. I'm over at the neighbor's house. I just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life than my report card. That's in my desk center drawer. I love you!

call when it's safe for me to come home.
:)
---------------------------------------------------

Dont lie to ur mother

Mrs. Smith had always suspected her son, Mike, was having an intimate relationship with his roommate, Jennifer.
One night, Mike invites his mother over for dinner. All thru the night, Mrs. Smith watched Mike and Jennifer interact, and was pretty sure there was more than met the eye. Mike saw his mother watching them and assured her that they were just roommates.
A few nights later, Jennifer went to Mike with a problem.
"Ever since your mother was here for dinner, I have been unable to find the gravy ladle. Do you think she took it?"
Mike replied, "I doubt it, but I'll e-mail her and ask her anyway."
Mike sat down at the computer and composed the following e-mail:

Dearest Mother,
I'm not saying you did take the gravy ladle, and I'm not saying you did not take the gravy ladle. But the fact remains, since you were here for dinner, we have been unable to find the ladle.
Love always,
Mike

Two days later, Mike received the following reply from his mother:

Dearest Michael,
I'm not saying you do sleep with Jennifer, and I'm not saying you do not sleep with Jennifer. But the fact remains, had Jennifer been sleeping in her own bed, she would have found the ladle by now.
Love,
Mother

Moral of the story: Don't lie to your mother!

----------------------------------------------------------

:)
Ha Ha Ha. Hope you enjoyed this one...
Paramesh.

Creating a Website - Part 1

2005-11-22T18:31:00.000+05:30

Hello friends,

I just completed creating a website with a forum in this link: Anna University Forums
The site is still in construction, so dont feel bad.

Creating a website is a cumbersome process.
You should spend a little money for creating and maintaining a website.
Many companies will setup all the things you want when you pay them money.
Some may set up for free and some may ask money.

I wanted to learn how to create and maintain a website, so i thought i could tell others how to create one, so that it may help sometimes.

Here we start:
The first step you have to take while creating a website is to create a domain.
Oh. What is a domain first?
Domain is the name which you want to type in your browser.

For example, if you want to create a new website with "www.yourname.com", then the "www.yourname.com" is called the domain.

We have to create a domain before creating the content of the website.
But how to create a domain?
There are many sites offering to create a domain.
Here is a link where you can create a domain for $6.99
Domain Site

Your domain may cost more if you want different type of extensions.
For example, there are many extensions such as:
.com .net .org
.info .in .biz
.cn .us .ws
.bz .cc .tv

Most of them have similar costs, but info is lesser costly(not recommended).

.net or .com is the most recommended one.

Once you have decided your domain name, you have to check whether it is available or not.
For example, "www.yourname.com" may already be selected by any other person in the world.
So, type the name you want to create the website in the textbox and verify whether it is available.
If it is available, then go on to purchase the domain name.

The next step is to buy hosting to your domain, which will be explained in part 2.

Regards,
Paramesh.

How to get(or read) arrow key input in a C program?

2005-11-06T06:43:00.000+05:30

How to get(or read) arrow key input in a C program?
Hello friends,

This is the most important topic in C programming.

How to read the arrow keys in a C program?

This was an interesting discussion in many forums and still going on.
Here is some information that i extracted from them:

ISO C has no concept of 'arrow keys', or 'keys',
or 'keyboards'. All i/o is expressed with
'streams of characters'. How a keyboard or
other input device presents this stream to
a C program is platform-specific.
You could unbuffer your input stream so that you could read
one character at a time from the OS, but the OS or shell
might be buffering the characters until end of line (or end of file)
instead of delivering them upwards immediately. There is no
mechanism in the C standard to ask the OS to deliver the keypresses
individually.

The only way is to use nonstandard methods.

Each OS would do this a different way, for instance DOS might require a SIGINT or
something (I seem to recall handling the mouse used an int86() call),
whereas Windows would return an event to your program that you can
handle

If you are willing to weaken down to POSIX.1 instead of pure portable
C, then POSIX.1 has appropriate mechanisms.
POSIX is a ieee standard about OS interfaces.more information can be
found at ieee.org.

termcap or terminfo give you convenient ways of representing which
character sequence means which arrow key. If you have turned off echo
and all you need is to know which arrow key has been pressed, then
terminfo / termcap or any other such correspondance table would do just
as well.

Curses is a library built on top of termcap/terminfo.
termcap and terminfo are databases of terminal device capability
information. The original termcap was developed by Bill Joy to make
vi portable to terminals other than the ADM3a, sometime in the late
1970s or early 1980s, and predates the curses library considerably.
The original curses was written by Ken Arnold in 1986; his paper
"Screen Updating and Cursor Movement Optimization" notes right in the
front matter that "[t]hese routines all use the termcap(5) database",
and credits Bill Joy.

If you want to be able to position the cursor to a particular point
on the screen, -then- you bring in curses rather than reinventing the
wheel. Provided, that is, that you are working with a text-based
output rather than a graphical output.... but of course if you
are working with graphical output, you are rather distant from
the original goal of using pure C to deal with arrow keys.

Terminfo, some versions of termcap, and some versions of curses have support for these non-ASCII keys. Typically, a special key sends a multicharacter sequence (usually beginning with ESC, '\033'); parsing these can be tricky. (curses will do the parsing for you, if you call keypad first.)

Under MS-DOS, if you receive a character with value 0 (not '0'!) while reading the keyboard, it's a flag indicating that the next character read will be a code indicating a special key. See any DOS programming guide for lists of keyboard codes. (Very briefly: the up, left, right, and down arrow keys are 72, 75, 77, and 80, and the function keys are 59 through 68.)

Another method is using the ncurses.h header.
Here is a link for that:
Arrow key scanning.

Here is a link for the ncurses documentation:
ncurses.h

In DOS, there are many ways. One way is by using the conio.h header file.
By using getch() and getche() functions.
There is another way by using kbhit( ) function.

The arrow and the Esc keys and various other key inputs cannot be read by the scanf( ) function. These keys are special in the sense they are identified be their 'scan codes'.
In fact every key on the keyboard has a unique scan code which is passed to the computer everytime a key is pressed. The following function with the help of the
kbhit( ) function can scan the key that has been pressed:

CPP / C++ / C Code:

/* this routine returns the 'scan code' of the key that has been hit */

#include
int get_scancode( )
{
union REGS inregs, outregs ;

while( !kbhit( ) ) /* while the keyboard is inactive */
; /* do nothing */

inregs.h.ah = 0 ;
int86(22, &inregs, &outregs) ;
return ( outregs.h.ah ) ;
}

The function module above in C returns the scan code of the keys that are hit.
Following is a list of keys and their respective scan codes:

up arrowkey 72
downarrow key 80
leftarrow key 75
rightarrow key 77

Finally, here is the information given by GID Forums senior member Dave:

Compiler-specific functions such as getch() are traditional for Microsoft DOS and Windows compilers such as Borland (from the earliest TurboC up to the current versions). These are very useful, and, since there are no standard library functions that do the same thing, it's appropriate to use getch(), kbhit(), etc. if they are present with your compiler.

For Linux, the possibilities are numerous, using ioctl() calls to make the input stream "raw" (unbuffered and, therefore untranslated). has useful functions on my Linux systems.

Here is an example of something that I have used in Linux to take the place of getch() for inhibiting console output when the user enters a password:

How to hide characters as they are keyed on

You can play around with it in Linux if you want to see how the arrow and function keys work on your system.

This also works for me with gnu gcc on my Windows XP system.

Note that not all keyboards in all countries in the world actually have the same keycodes.

Regards,
Paramesh.

Morning Humor-part 1

2005-11-03T07:02:00.000+05:30

Hello friends,

This is text extracted from the Famous Sunday Morning Humour thread of GID Forums.

Here is the one that i liked the most:
A Programmer and an Engineer are sitting next to each other on a
long flight from LA to NY. The Programmer leans over to the
Engineer and asks if he would like to play a fun game. The
Engineer just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and
rolls over to the window to catch a few winks. The Programmer
persists and explains that the game is real easy and a lotta fun.
He explains "I ask you a question, and if you don't know the
answer, you pay me $5. Then you ask me a question, and if I don't
know the answer, I'll pay you $5." Again, the Engineer politely
declines and tries to get to sleep. The Programmer,
now somewhat agitated, says, "OK, if you don't know the
answer you pay me $5, and if I don't know the answer, I'll pay
you $50!" This catches the Engineer's attention, and he sees
no end to this torment unless he plays, so he agrees to the game.

The Programmer asks the first question. "What's the distance
from the earth to the moon?" The Engineer doesn't say a word, but
reaches into his wallet, pulls out a five dollar bill and hands it to the

Programmer. Now, it's the Engineer's turn. He asks the Programmer
"What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down on four?" The
Programmer looks up at him with a puzzled look. He takes out his
laptop computer and searches all of his references. He taps into
the Airphone with his modem and searches the net and the Library
of Congress. Frustrated, he sends e-mail to his co-workers -- all to
no avail.

After about an hour, he wakes the Engineer and hands him $50.
The Engineer politely takes the $50 and turns away to try to get back
to sleep. The Programmer, more than a little miffed, shakes the
Engineer and asks "Well, so what's the answer?" Without a word,
the Engineer reaches into his wallet, hands the Programmer $5,
and turns away to get back to sleep.

Best Regards,
Paramesh.

Missing or corrupt system32\drivers\ntfs.sys - Exclusive answers:

2005-11-02T22:03:00.000+05:30

Hello friends,

This is an exclusive extract from the GID Forums about the common problem Missing or corrupt system32\drivers\ntfs.sys

Visit this link for full fledged replies:
Missing or corrupt system32\drivers\ntfs.sys

Best Regards,
Paramesh.

My favorite Links:

2005-10-22T19:18:00.006+05:30

Hello friends,
Here are some of my favourite links.
From the Top:
1. GID Forums
Focusing on web design, C/C++, PHP and MySQL web programming, this discussion board is suitable for every webmaster, web developer and computer programmer, from the complete beginner to the advanced. Our message board also provides forums to discuss web hosting and web promotion subjects plus the opportunity to talk about computers, software and hardware related issues while you're here.

2. MSDN Online
MSDN Online is the one place where developers can access all the latest news and technical information. With improved navigation and search capabilities, you can quickly and easily find updates to the MSDN Library and Knowledge Base.

3. 3D Buzz
Best site for Animation tutorials and help. You can become special member and get DVDs and other maya tutorials.

4. Anna University
My University. Contains a lot of information but has to be searched.

5. Google
My favorite search engine.

6. How Stuff Works
Very useful information available in the website. You can find everything you want!!

7. Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia
My favorite online encyclopedia. You can even edit the contents there!!

8. Intel
My dream Job. Working hard to get into Intel.

9. Yahoo! Mail
My favourite Mail account. Also visit Yahoo! Messenger my favorite Online messenger.

10. My blogspot
This site Itself. This helps me to say my views. I use this as if my personal webpage.

Please do reply with your views.
Thank you.
Parameswaran.

Introduction to Programming

2005-10-05T21:53:00.000+05:30

Welcome to the World of programming.

Programming is an interesting field with a lot of job opportunities. You'll enjoy working with computers, especially when programming games. It encourages us to think.

What is a Programming language first?
A programming language is a vocabulary and set of grammatical rules for instructing a computer to perform specific tasks. Each language has a unique set of keywords(words that it understands)(?) and a special syntax for organizing program instructions.
There are three types of programming languages.
High level Programming languages
Assembly level programming languages
Machine languages.

High-level programming languages while simple compared to human languages, are more complex than machine languages, the languages the computer actually understands. Each different type of CPU has its own unique machine language. Lying between machine languages and high-level languages are languages called assembly languages. Assembly languages are similar to machine languages, but they are much easier to program in because they allow a programmer to substitute names for numbers. Machine languages consist of numbers only.

Syntax refers to the spelling and grammar of a programming language. Computers are inflexible machines that understand what you type only if you type it in the exact form that the computer expects. The expected form is called the syntax.

A program is a logical pattern of instructions to solve a problem.
The basic steps in creating a program are:
1. Define the problem
2. Define the problem solution by algorithms
3. Code the program using the programming language
4. Test the program for errors
5. Documentation
6. Implementation

The commonly used program design tools are Structured charts, Pseudo-code, Algorithms and Flowcharts.

The computer can only understand machine language. So whatever code we write in high level languages or assembly language should be converted in to machine language.
It is done by Compilers or Interpreters.

If you are new to Programming, You should start with the C programming language first because:

C is everywhere.
Programmers around the world embrace C because it gives maximum control and efficiency to the programmer.
You will be able to read and write code for a large number of platforms -- everything from microcontrollers to the most advanced scientific systems can be written in C, and many modern operating systems are written in C.

Please do reply with your views.
Thank you,
Parameswaran.