13 posts from July 2006

Today I have found a cool website www.art.com and found a cool online painting tool ArtPad. You can paint and this small tiny flassh application just record your mouse move. Its amazing

Art

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You can find my art at Vox Art

Play any instrument or speak any language, which do you choose?
Question submitted by cruftbox.vox.com.

Play an Instrument, specially Guiter.

The popular Linux magazine TUX became paid by an announcement yesterday. I was just wondering why it took so long to make the decisssion. Having other paid publishing in their cart like LinuxJournal TUX was offered for free for the last 15 month.

But I like what they did with their existing free subscribers. They make an announcement that they are going to be paid subscription, but they have something for their existing members who are old. Guess what? Most old members got a one year subscription for Free. Whoa!! And I was one luck chap among them

I am an extreme fan of TUX Magazine for the last 12 month and their content are really so good. I have been happy so that they went into paid subscriptiong program, because that will ensure their existence. At least for the next couple of years.

Long live TUX.

Last night I worked for 5 hours for basic RnD about my upcoming product, a unicode based phonetic parser for Bangla language. This parser will parse keystrokes phonetically (or you better say translitterally), for example when we will type "amar" you will see bangla "AMAR".

I was stuck with a strange problem. But I solved that. Now conjunctions, Vowels and Consonants, Preceding Kars and Following Kars are working pretty fine. Though I need to spend some time with "Khanda To", "Ref", "Hasanth" and "Jo Fola". Also "Oi kar","Ou kar" and "II Kar" needs to be processed with special care.

Thanks to Paul Nelson from Microsoft (Well, ya its Microsoft) and developers of Unicode Renderers for *nix distros for their unicode rendering engine.

I am releasing my script under CC/LGPL dual license from Ekushey.org, if everything goes fine.

Those who are working with Struts, it could be a great problem if you have dynamic form elements in your form and you need to manage them. As they are dynamic, you dont know what are their name and you ant actually map these properties into your ActionForm bean. So how to manage these dynamic form elements, any idea? Take a look at this solution below.

First, Lets make your ActionForm bean like this

public class TestBean extends ActionForm {

    public final Map values = new HashMap();

    public void setValue(String key, Object value)
    {
        values.put(key, value);
    }

    public Object getValue(String key)
    {
        return values.get(key);
    }
}

here comes the action in struts-config

Now we need to see how we can map dynamic properties in JSP pages.

    Submit This

Please note that we add "value()" - thus it will access the Setter method setValue() in our ActionForm bean.

Finally, lets capture the submitted dynamic values in our Struts Action

public class TestAction extends Action {
    public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping actionMapping, ActionForm actionForm, HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse httpServletResponse) throws Exception {

        TestBean tb = (TestBean) actionForm;
        httpServletRequest.setAttribute("dynamic", tb.getValue("dynamic")); //first dynamic
        httpServletRequest.setAttribute("dynamic2", tb.getValue("dynamic2")); //second dynamic
        return actionMapping.findForward("success");
    }
}

Well, you can just go thru the HashMap in TestBean for all the dynamic values.

Eh!! I watched Final Destination III last night and Just one thing I can say - "So boring". Its not a sequel at all but just a clone of FD1 with new plot and new people. I just dont understand why directors spend their money for so poor story.

One more thing which really embarrase me is the way they died. All the deaths were extremely horrible and I was very disappointed.

In FD3 there is also a part when a girl skipped her turn and death just attack teh next person in teh queue (??) - Same as FD1.

I would rather say that FD2 was different and much enjoyable than FD3. FD3 is totally waste of time.

What's one thing that you hope to do or accomplish before the end of this year?

Well, I need to complete my upcoming book on wordpress. Next I want to learn Ruby. And Finally, I want a cool vacation with My wife and my son, Afif.

I just found the link in new yahoo homepage where it is said that dell is giving away their inspiron at $699 where the regular price is $924. The offer will end today. I think it is a generous offer from dell. The inspiron features

- 1GB Memory

- 60 GB SATA HDD

- CDRW/DVD Combo

- Intel® Core™ processor Duo T2300E (2MB Cache/1.66GHz/667MHz FSB

Thats cool!! You can visit the link here

I had a dream of a complete bangla chatting portal for a long long time. I worked irregularly from time to time but those never see the light, sad. However I ambeing serious day by day and just after completion of my current book in august, I will start working for a bangla chat system. Lets have a look of what could be done and whats not.

I can develop a script which works as a IRC client and people can post in bangla. Both a desktop solution and web based solution is feasible, but I emphasize for the web based one.

A localized ymsg(yahoo), msn(MSN0 or jabber(gTalk) protocol based messengers would be a fantastic (Awesome) thing. I collected resources for working and probably these would be the things I planned for my life. For yahoo messenger jYMSG would be the best resource. Also PlanetaMessenger would add some value for developers. for MSN TjMSNLib is a great piece of library. And for Jabber protocol I need to study a bit. GTalk provides information for developers too.

Third choice, last but not the least, is a total web based chat interface where I have to manage all the transactions in a local database. This could extend the development time but can bring ultimate flexibility for developers.

So what makes me disappointed? From my recent experience I am very much concerned about licensing and copyright issues. Hasan, one of my colleague from somewherein... java desk recently developed a mobile based yahoo messenger client. Everything wen fine but it was very embarrassing when comes the licensing issues. If you use yahoo messenger protocol or msn protocol for commercial purpose, you may have to pay a huge amount of money for licensing, specially for mobile based solutions.

But I am going for Both a localized version of popular messenger protocols as well as a flexible web base chatting portal. Lets see!!