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Mattanu pulakaagra kanthatha vitaanamu thakina

More documents like this are at: Humanities 2007

19-Jun-06

Barely an instrument but only his raising and falling cadencic voice to lend here are just a few lines, ofcourse among his thousands, that he immortalized.

Nanu Bhavadeeya dasuni,
Manambuna Neeyapu Kintabuni Thaachina,
Adi Naaku Mannanaya.

Chelvagu Nee padapalvambu
Mattanu pulakaagra kanthatha vitaanamu thakina
Nochunanchu Nay naniyada.

Alka maanavu gada ikanaina
Araala Kuntala

An XSD primer and a few references

A dormant, but inspiring hope

More documents like this are at: Shells: My Writes

7-Jun-06

Certain observations are timeless. These observations tend to cut experience to its essence. The following lines by Longfellow is one such observation

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footsteps on the sands of time.

Footsteps, that, perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

In the phantom menace the following is said of Anakin Skywalker even as a boy

He gives without any thought of reward

For all of us there are individual things that make us get up every morning and make us strive and perhaps inspire us in their wake. And perhaps the sacrifices that went before us, of our parents, of those that loved us, are not invain and not only keep us on the path of humanity, but inspire in us the value of hardship, strife, and just being good and all this in an age that is ripe with frivolity and folly.

On friday I took my son for a medical check up that is due at the end of 3rd year. To see his cognitive functions etc. He did quite well..

Being a friday and a late appointment I was in a willing dispoistion to acceede to his usually uncharacteristic demands.

I took him to a Burger king on Philips, adjacent to the Avenues. Although almost 6 in the evening the place is sparse at best with customers.

I picked up his food and headed for the middle of the restaurant while most of the people sparsed around the windows and edges. Narayan wanted a table change to where other people are sitting.

With this new arrangement right behind me I hear two fairly advanced, both in age and perhaps in size as well, women and three children. Two girls, one about 9 and one about 15. The girls are bright and pretty. It was not a coincidence that Narayan picked this table, although he is only 3 and a few months.

Right across them sat a young man around 16 with a leg stretched into the aisle. He was small in stature and looked like any ungroomed 16 that is quite lost.

It didn't take long for Narayan to splatter the toy all over the floor. I was about to pick them up as I see a hand reaching Narayan with the pieces of the toy. It was a bit of a distance for a young man these days to unlazy himself and offer to help, and especially unsolicited and unexpected. Idleness, hanging pants, being cool and loose seem to be very much in praise. So this came as a surprise move.

I was fairly touched for a number of reasons. These days people fight so much for religion, race, and any difference in general. Surprising how this kid of 16 is able to put aside the obvious differences and instinctively help, these not only strangers, but unmistakenly foreigners.

I thanked him as much as I could. Later I took Narayan to the play area. Their 9 year old joined us. The slide is one of those 4 storied mazes. Although fascinated, Narayan was hesitant to go in there. I was a bit lazy and sat in the breeze leaving Narayan to figure out himself. Daniel, as I came to know his name later, came by and was telling his sister to help the my son and show him how to climb into the slide. Like any 9 year old she was shy and in no mood to cooperate.

I asked Daniel, what's wrong with his leg as I had noticed he was limping coming into the play area. He told me that in high school some kids roughed him up on the track and that tore his knee a little bit. And he told me his name is Daniel and he lives in St Augustine, and he is trying to get to a technical college to get a diploma in computer repair.

He then got up, with his unbendable leg, and took Narayan up the slide through that maze. They did that a few times.

Soon it was time for them to leave. I thanked him a lot and I saw them leave the restaurant. A few minutes past that I saw this old beat up chevy with 3 kids in the back and two oversized ladies in the front, and tires half sunk and windows down heading south on Philips highway.

I was thinking how did someone get to amass these virtues despite the difficult of circumstances. I see so many teenagers growing with no hope for themselves or for others.

Not victory, Not money, Not fortune, Not luck, but this act of humanity seem to have restored my spirit for the day.

Suddenlty Longfellow seemed to make sense.

What is the correct daily aspirin dosage?

os: How to redirect to a null device in windows

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4-Jun-06

copy a.txt b.txt > nul

Where nul is the device or filename. Notice the single

in nul

Florida prepaid website

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13-May-06

http://www.florida529plans.com/

Cool css utilities

Struts questions

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8-May-06

Description to be entered

A declarative approach to retrieving tree structures from databases: An example

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5-May-06

Like a picture, an example, is worth a thousand words. The following code retrieves all folders and files belonging to a user from a content management system.

Find a decent free synching software

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3-May-06

winmerge
windiff
synchit (maybe) not free

Search engines oai-pmh, google sitemap

More documents like this are at: 00.15-Research

29-Apr-06

How can one enable a website for better searching by search engines?

Keywords

oai-pmh
google sitemap
dublin core
eprints.org
oai registries
mod_oai
oai gateway service

References

Setting up a footer using CSS

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28-Apr-06


<style>
div.footerDiv1
{
text-align:right;
border-top:1px solid
}

div.footerDiv1 p
{
    margin:0 0 0 0;
}
</style>

<div class="footerDiv1">
<p>Test1
<p>Test1 kddkkkd ddd
<p>Test1 kddkkkd ddd
</div>

The Great Escape Character ..

More documents like this are at: 05.03-Meta Principles

24-Apr-06

An escape character is an awful lot of fun in programming. It seem to have the ability to allow multiple dimensions where only one dimension is allowed. A disguise, a ruse, a ploy, almost always clever getting out of tight squeezes.

An encode function

Here is a function that I am very fond of


escapedString = 
encode(oldString, 
   escapeChar, 
   oldCharacter, 
   newCharacter);

The function will replace every old character with the new character with a preceding escape character. The function will also escape the escape character itself.

How to do subselects in a where clause

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22-Apr-06

Search Google for this


select st.statement as masterPageTemplate \
from reports r, sql_statements st \
where 1=1 \
and r.report_content_id = st.statement_id \
and r.report_short_name = 'print_master_page' \
and r.owner_user_id = {ownerUserId.quote} \
and {ownerUserId.quote} in ( \
	select owner_user_id from reports r2 \
	where r2.report_id = {reportId} )

or better yet, the following


select st.statement as masterPageTemplate \
from reports r, sql_statements st \
where 1=1 \
and r.report_content_id = st.statement_id \
and r.report_short_name = 'print_master_page' \
and r.owner_user_id = (select owner_user_id from reports r2 \
	where r2.report_id = {reportId} )

Use Aspire and Tomcat to retrieve XML declaratively from any relational database

More documents like this are at: 00.05-Articles

19-Apr-06

Read the article as part of Aspire documentation

Aspire in combination with Tomcat presents a very viable and cost-effective option for generating XML directly and declaratively from relational databases. Developers will start by choosing a set of SQL statements or stored procedures. Developers will then arrange these assets into a calling hierarchy in a configuration file. Aspire will execute this hierarchical data definition and returns a java based hierarchical data set. Aspire has pre-defined transformations that can convert this hierarchical data set into varieties of XML formats. Aspire also allows you to transform the resulting XML using XSLT via JAXP. The final XML or HTML can then be sent to the browser or consumed programmatically.

In addition to SQL and Stored-Procedures, you can also use File readers, java classes, and potentially others in their place. These assets are called relational adapters producing relational data sets. New relational adapters can be written quite easily for other enterprise data sources when needed.

The main focus of this article to allow programmers to quickly download Aspire and start generating XML from data bases. This is a cook-book/tutorial like approach that tells you everything you need to get started and be on your way to generate XML with very little coding. This article also encourages see-before-you-paint approach to web page development, meaning you can see your data on the web page as XML or text first before actually writing code for that page. This is very useful for debugging and discovering available fields in the data.

Putt's first law and its corollary

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18-Apr-06

First Law

Technology is dominated by two types of people: 
those who understand what they do not manage, 
and those who manage what they do not understand.

Corollary

Every technical hierarchy, 
in time, 
developes a competence inversion

Borrowed from "Put's Law and the Successful Technocrat" and as quoted in April 2006 IEEE Spectrum

Ozymandias

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14-Apr-06

I met a traveller from an antique land   
Who said :-- Two vast and trunkless legs of stone   
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,   
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown   
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command          5 

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read   
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,   
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.   
And on the pedestal these words appear:   
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:              10 

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"   
Nothing beside remains: round the decay   
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,   
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

--- P. B. Shelley

Quotidian - An exotic word! (Or is it!!), atleast seem to have a long tail.

More documents like this are at: Shells: My Writes

14-Apr-06

When I have read "Big Fish", unlike many others, I wasn't entirely moved. But I did have to look this word up as it sounded familiar but I was not sure of its meaning any more.

The journey that followed isquite interesting. As it turned out the "exotic" word actually means something that is common enough and something that occurs every day.

A related word "quota" is not only often used in English but also quite common in Telugu representing a "an ongoing or frequent allocation". Most likely this association was borrowed from English to Telugu. Odd, a word I found so foreign, could easily have been deduced by my Grandfather that never spoke a word of English. Worlds apart yet connected.

The later part of "quotidian", namely "dian" or "dias", apparently comes from a Latin/Sanskrit root meaning "day".

To top it off the word "quo" or "kwo" or "ko" is a familiar word in Hindi indicating how. A similar word "quis" still exists in Hindi meaning "who".

So the first part of quotidian quot is related to "how many".

Even quote seem to have been derived from a "sequence of numbers".

I also wonder now what the origin of "Koti" (10 million in Telugu) is. It will be interesting to know if the origin of that word is Sanskrit.

I have just checked and apparently it is a sanskrit number representing those millions. Here is the link

SANSKRIT NUMBERS: Ordinals

Rewriting SendRedirect to deal with SSL (or https) offloading

More documents like this are at: 00.05-Articles

12-Apr-06

When "sendRedirect" is used, some times the relative url is being translated into an absolute url using wrong scheme (http vs https). This articles explores the problem and a possible solution using servlet filters.

00.05 Satya Komatineni (myself)

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7-Apr-06

Here are some relevent urls for myself.

weblogs on java.net

Weblogs on AKC (covers much broader spectrum)

Articles at O'Reilly's onjava.com

Write web logs for java.net

understanding http 302 errors

More documents like this are at: CS-JavaScript

4-Apr-06

http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E302.html

Will the java url libraries deal with this correctly?

>> Tuesday, April 04, 2006 6:44:53 PM - Comments by satya

Codes that need to be handled

Handling redirects manually through java api

301 Moved Permanently. HttpStatus.SC_MOVED_PERMANENTLY 
302 Moved Temporarily. HttpStatus.SC_MOVED_TEMPORARILY 
303 See Other. HttpStatus.SC_SEE_OTHER 
307 Temporary Redirect. HttpStatus.SC_TEMPORARY_REDIRECT

working with valid strings

More documents like this are at: CS-Java

4-Apr-06

Both of the following do the same

Option1

Given the following String somestring; void dosomething(){}

Consider the following code


if (somestring!=null&&!"".equals(somestring))
{
	//if the string is not empty
	dosomething();
}

Option 2

Create a function as follows


boolean isValid(String somestring)
{
	if (somestring == null) 
	{
		//the string is null. so it is not a valid string
		return false;
	}
	
	//the string is not null
	
	//eliminate empty characters at both ends
	String newstring = somestring.trim();
	if (newstring.equals(""))
	{
		//the string is an empty string
		//an empty string is (not) valid
		return false;
	}
	
	//it is a valid string because it is not null, it is not empty
	return true; 
}

Then you can do


if (isValid(somestring))
{
	//if the string is not empty
	dosomething();
}

To contrast


if (somestring!=null&&!"".equals(somestring))
{
	//if the string is not empty
	dosomething();
}

if (isValid(somestring))
{
	//if the string is not empty
	dosomething();
}

Looking up 'Indra Neelam'

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2-Apr-06

It is not uncommon in Telugu to come across the following or something suggestive of the same

Aaa kanulu Indra Neelala ganulu

That roughly translates to:

The adorning eyes, mine shafts of royal blue

Belaboring the translation

At least that was my thought, as "gani" translates to a "mine" while "ganulu" stands for plural.

I wasn't sure though what is the equivalent of "Indra Neelam". I wasn't even sure the meaning of it in Telugu. So I looked up a small telugu dictionary. It literally, albeit quite unambitiously, says a blue stone.

It would have been interesting if the shade of blue referred by "Indra Neelam" and "Royal blue" are the same. Probably not. But if they were, "Indra" is the King of the Gods, and "Royal Blue" would have been an apt translation, translating not only the meaning but the importance of the color.

Routed to sapphire

A blue stone reference brings up Sapphire in Websters, pointing to a bright blue, with the following synonyms

azure
cerulean
lazuline
sky-blue

On the "gani" part

Being a "mine" refers to the intractable depth, in this case being applied to the eyes.

Speaking of deep and of vastness, here is a rough translation from a folk song

I have travelled far to the shores of the Ocean, unlike what I was told it is clearly no match to the vastness of my Venki's heart

Ask the experts at scienttific american

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26-Mar-06

http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_directory.cfm

An interesting avenue for the curious and perhaps the annoying.

Phylum

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26-Mar-06

http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/phylum

In the context of classification a phylum is a major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes.

Now that an official words exists for such a concept, the word "package" in java or other computer languages seem so ordinary when compared to this "grand division"

Nematology

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26-Mar-06

http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/nematode

Apparently a study of unsegmented, silky bodied, upper crust, earthly worms.

The Reduced Shakespeare company

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26-Mar-06

http://www.reducedshakespeare.com/

"Irreverent yet informed, the three performers apply a steady stream of sight gags, sound gags, even smell gags to a broad canvas, turning sacred cows into laughing-stocks along the way. The deliberately loose edges of the show camouflage its careful structure, in the same way the trio's ease with improvisation hides years of rehearsal."

Jeanne Cooper - Boston Globe

Karen L. King

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26-Mar-06

http://www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty/king.html

These days it is becoming rarer and rarer to find reasonable thinkers irrespective of their chosen field of study, in this case being religion or perhaps "divinity".

I have heard her on NPR saying this morning that "to seek" is an important aspect, especially of truth. Got me interested in knowing more of her ideas.

Introduction to Karen King
Other teachers at the Divinity School

A surprising level of imagination

More documents like this are at: Shells: My Writes

21-Mar-06

Last night I was hoping I could work with Kavitha for an hour after the never-seem-to-end house chores of the eventing. I was too tired to plead, and cajole her into doing some of the workbooks she has. So I sat with her on her bed reading the hardships of 1930s in the Great American Dustbowl. The book was a fast read as I have always been interested in the larger factors in the environment that crafter much of the history and people with in it. Kavitha looked over a couple of times and duly noted what number I was at. Being on number 16 did not impress her too much. I subsequently ignored while she was trying a contraption by tearing apart the empty pages from a note book.

"I am making instructions to fold this map"

There went 1 page, 2, page and then 3 pages.

Around page 35, she interrupted.

"Dad, see if you can follow the directions and fold this paper as per the instructions".

I looked at the well creased a4 size paper. I took it in my hand and proceeded to fold it at the creases, while wondering why there was a large single headed arrow in the middle of the page running bottom to top.

"Dad, you cannot do that. You have to follow the arrow to fold!"

"Ok!" I said, and folded the paper up from top to bottom while bending the arrow right in the middle. She disagreed.

"No, you have to fold it from bottom to the top so that the tail of the arrow goes and meets the head and not the other way around."

So, I conceded. I folded the paper once.

I was surprised to see another arrow show up, now on the half folded paper. I folded it again. And another arrow. Finally the arrows led me to fold the paper to the size of a quarter, on which it was written.

"Good Job!"

humanities: Mick Moloney

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21-Mar-06

http://www.mickmoloney.com/

Mick Moloney combines the careers of folklorist, arts presenter and advocate, professional musician, and radio and television personality. In 1999 he was awarded the National Heritage Award from the National Endowment for the Arts ? the highest official honor a traditional artist can receive in the United States

New album called McNally's Row of Flats reviwed on NPR

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