My First Android: Hello World

I couldn’t wait to test drive Google’s Android. Today I did it finally with subbu , as always Google is simple and cool.

Android SDK is available, even an eclipse Plug-in is also available which makes our life much simpler. Just install the SDK + plugin and play around. The SDK comes with some samples, which will be a help a lot in kick starting.

Android API is packed with widgets, something similar to GWT, but a lot more(obviously).

There are four building blocks to an Android application:

• Activity
• Intent Receiver
• Service
• Content Provider

I went through Scobleizer,  he has posted a crappy post about Android, where he has listed out the certain short comings(which he thinks so), just for the sake. He couldn’t think beyond iphone, we cannot compare both. Open Source always has one advantage, it always grows.Still a lot to go, this time, I am not gona stop with my Hello World Application. Planing to Explor(d)e.  

Update: Scobleizer has repented for doing so after a good number of commenters
said that he was wrong.Its Good,that atleast he realized now

Front End Vs Middle Tier : Art Vs Skill

I have seen people who always comes to me and say, “I want to work in Middle Tier, I don’t want to be in Front end.”, they all live in one prejudice, that Only Middle Tier Developers are coll funda people and people who sit with Front end are not that talented. They see the front end developer as one cheap guy, I am involved in both front end and middle tier development, so dont think I am talking on behalf of Front End developers.

When I was out with my friend for a coffee, she was telling that she wants to code in middle tier and I asked what is the reason that she is so specific about Middle Tier, she told she has a passion towards Middle Tier – business Logic and other stuffs. She is like, how long can we sit with Front end, I really dont know why people think like this, i think this off-shoring culture has created a false notion about Front end development. To an extent, i think building a Business logic is easier than front end development.

Talking with respect to developers(Seniors/leads), I dont think there is any opportunity for them to prove their creativity, they are given the business design and they have to ride their horse inside that limit. The architecture is done by the architects, so this doesn’t need any special creativity(I am talking about creativity only, not intelligence or brilliance). They need to know the tool/language thats all, with some logical thinking, if this ingredient is present then they are done. But this is not the case with the Front end developer, he needs creativity, simple knowing the tool wont help him at any cost. And there is a lot of opportunity for him to exhibit his creativity. There is no scale for creativity, but there is a scale for SKILL. Say for example, two Java developers with same amount of exposure, expertise are EQUAL, what i mean is, given a task, a very high optimized solution from both of them will be almost same. But this is not the case with two front end development, given same skill sets,exposure and expertise, they are not the same. The factor which makes the distinction is their creativity.

“Front-end development is an Art, where as Business Development is a Skill”. Skill can be developed but Art cannot be.
Anyone can write a code for the given problem, if the right solution is provided, then no one cares. But this is not the case with Front end, you have to provide the solution and main thing in this is, everyone should like that solution. It is not easy, try and see.

I am not talking about the offshore culture in Front end development, where the FE developers are given jpegs and they are asked to design the HTML pages. I am talking about those who decide the jpegs, talking about the higher level. If it is gona be a public site, it is all the more difficult.

I am more concerned about Look & Feel, Easy accessibility, comfortableness in using Orkut than the “No dough nuts for you” error.

GMail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Rediffmail, all these have similar B2B stuff running behind, but what makes one better than the other is the User Interface(By User Interface, I am not talking about the Look and feel, it includes ease, comfort and everything, KISS-Keep It Short and Simple concept.) So here Business logic is not making any big difference, it is how the product interacts with the End User. Be creative, be recognized.

People think that Front end development is some sort of low profile job, but it is not so. It has equal importance in the business model. I am not saying that Front End developing is superior to Middle Tier, it is different. So guys, come out of the prejudice, Front end Development is not easy as you think.

Under Promise and Over Deliver

Recently I completed “Greatness Guide” by Robin Sharma. Unlike other motivational/self help books even by the same author, this book stands apart. I have read “Who will cry? when you die” by the same author, almost same theme, but Greatness Guide stands apart. I am not here to review the book, I just want to talk about one point, which I found very relevant to our IT industry. It is “Under Promise, Over deliver“

Here in IT, Quote, Bid, Estimate are three main things that kick starts the project. Usually what happens is, not only in IT , in any industry, companies see to that, they quote the minimum for the maximum deliverable. Quoting plays a vital role, one chance win or lose. So here people do all sorts of magic to win and once they do that, the whole enthu and vib is gone, when it comes to delivery, the promises are always not fulfilled. If we raise one question, which is, IS the Client 100% satisfied? I think mostly it would be a NO. What can we do about this, when i was thinking about this, this quote struck me. Implementing the concept of : Under Promising and Over Delivering.

Kick Starting Web 3.0

After all hypes and hoaxes about Web 2.0, its Web 3.0 now, actually speaking still most of the people are now aware of what Web 2.0 is? and some still have an opinion that Web 2.0 is a version of Web. This is not a forum to discuss or debate about what Web 2.0 is actually is, for those who accept, agree and understand Web 2.0, this is for you.

But before going to Web 3.0, If you are totally new to this, then it is highly recommended that you have a look at Web 2.0 here.

We all know how Web 2.0 stands ahead from classic, so called Web 1.0. It is all collective Intelligence and transforming Web from a Displaying platform to a Delivering Platform. To be straight and simple “Web 2.0 is Web by the users, to the users and for the users.” It seems saturated, what is next now? Web Users have tasted the actually Web 2.0 era and it always whats more in store. There comes the necessity of birth of another arena. Yep, it is Web 3.0.

WEB 3.0 :
Web 3.0 is decided on how far we have come and how better we can make. In previous era we molded web as a delivering platform, now its the time to organize, customize and improvise. Everything will evolve around these three things.

Google Local Search : ini namma Google

Google local search is really a kool tool from Google, unlike normal Google Search, this has two text boxes, one for type (What) and one for location(Where). Depending on your queries the results are generated.
For eg
What – Coffee ; Where – Chennai

The results are
Any Time (grt Grand)
120, Sri Thyagaraya Road, Inside G R T Grand, T Nagar, Chennai – 044 28150778
“Dont stay here…. Though the hotel was somewhat pleasing…the staff, the food, the service was substandard. …” 12 reviews
Website

Match Point (taj Coromandel)
37, M G Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai – 044 66002827

Devi Kala Cinema Hall
Anna Salai, Mount Road, Chennai – 044 28550066

The Right Place (the Residency)
49, Gn Chetty Road, T Nagar, Chennai – 044 28250085
Website

Cafe Expresso (hotel Shelter)
19, 20 & 21, Venkatesa Agraharam Street, Mylapore, Chennai – 044 24951919
“Great value for the money I booked this hotel through travelguru, as Shelter’s website doesn’t seem to work.
Website

This is pretty interesting right? It is always very difficult to remember local websites and sometimes when we google for the site for our local flower shop it wont be of much help. Now it will be very easy.

This happens to be my 400th Post

Folder Lock without any Software

Here is a easy way to lock the folder without any software just with some bit of coding.
 
Open Notepad and copy the below code and save as locker.bat.

 At first time start it will create folder with Locker automatically for u. don’t forget to change your password in the code its shown the place where to type your password.
After creation of Locker folder again click on the locker.bat.it will ask.press Y and enter key ,then Locker folder will be disappeared.

Again to get it click on locker.bat. Press Y and enter key.

Again click locker.bat and give your password, you will get your folder opened. J

 

  (NB:The folder Locker will be on the same on path of the batch file(*.bat))
**********************************************************
cls
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Locker
if EXIST “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)
set/p “cho=>”
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Locker “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
attrib +h +s “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to Unlock folder
set/p “pass=>”
if NOT %pass%==type your password here goto FAIL
attrib -h -s “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”
ren “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” Locker
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Locker
echo Locker created successfully
goto End
:End

 

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Facts about MainFrame

Recently I read some facts about MainFrame, I use to have a notion that MainFrame programming is something like typing code in assembly, i thought it to be montonous. But after reading this, I am bit titled towards MainFrame. For those who think that Mainframes is a field very few opportunities(including me once), Read on u will be surprised…

1. The mainframes hold approximately ” 70 % ” of the entire data stored in this planet

2. The latest ones can support over 25,000 users

3. They can support devices spread over 26 miles using fibre optics

4. The size of the “basic” OS is about 14 GB

5. This OS comes in about 57 magnetic tapes, But latest with 4 tapes