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Spotlight search in OSX

Jan 15, 2013 ~ Written by Sujan

Currently, there is no way to tell where the search results in spotlight search came from without opening the searched object. In the context where users already have the luxury of seeing the preview of the search results, it would be a great convenience if the user could tell the file location instantly. This comes even more handy when search result produces non-unique results. Wouldn’t that be a small enhancement for a great purpose?

I have submitted the feature request to Apple OSX team. Let’s see if they hear me.

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A turning point

Jan 06, 2013 ~ Written by Sujan

We all go through twists and turns in our time but we never bother to stay and look at the turnings that we have made. Many a times, we don’t know when life takes a turn. Many a times, we just take it for granted. And many a times, we just let it pass unnoticed. But think about it and ponder, there has to be a turning point that can’t be left unnoticed, that has some significance in your life and that has made you the way you are now or will make a difference in your time. Don’t just let it go. Stop, take a look and ponder about how beautiful it is.

 

Posted in Life, Thoughts, Views

A story of Kalpavriksha

Dec 09, 2012 ~ Written by Sujan

Once upon a time, there was a wonderer. He was wondering around places, everytime finding something new and exciting. Once, he happened to reach huge woods unexpectedly. Trying to find his way out of the forest, he was walking until his tired feet could carry him. Tired and exhausted, he decided to take rest under a huge tree.

It was getting dark and he was getting hungry. He so much missed his best food and wished it was there. To his surprise, the food appeared in front of him. Hesitantly, he ate the food. Well contempt with food, he started missing his cozy bed and so much wished it was there. All of a sudden, his bed arrived in front of him. Thinking some magic is going on, he slept happily. After having a good rest, he woke suddenly around midnight to realize that he was in the middle of the big jungle. Scared, he started thinking about the wild animals in the jungle. He was just wondering what would he do if a hungry tiger comes there, when a tiger appeared in front of him and looked hungry as well.

Scared from the bottom of his heart, he started thinking that might be the end of him and tiger might have him for dinner. And, that was exactly what happened.

Fact the wonderer didn’t know: He was sitting below a Kalpavrksha, a wish tree.

Moral: Never think evil, always think good. The good starts with your thinking and you are driven by your thinking.

Posted in Life, Thoughts, Views

Golden ratio and Google

Nov 29, 2012 ~ Written by Sujan

What happens when two best things meet together. See the result. I was caught by a surprise to see this in the result.

Golden ratio is the best ratio in the world and Google search, of course the best search.

 

 

Posted in Technology, Thoughts

iCloud – Find my iPhone

Nov 29, 2012 ~ Written by Sujan

Here is a screenshot of iCloud – Find my iPhone showing my iPad and iPhone. Alternately, I can also refer to as my home and work for this moment. It’s kind of cool to know where ur stuffs are.

But here is something interesting. With Apple Inc. dropping Google Maps and dumping their own crappy maps in the iOS 6, I was tempted to believe that the contract between Apple was Goolge was over. But then, iCloud still uses Google Maps, which means, Apple is still dealing with Google Maps. Does Apple not believe that the Apple Maps is not good enough to be introduced to the web?

Posted in Life, Technology, Thoughts, Views

Priorities of life

Nov 21, 2012 ~ Written by Sujan

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles roll

ed into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full.. The students responded with a unanimous ‘yes.’

The professor then produced two Beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand.The students laughed..

‘Now,’ said the professor as the laughter subsided, ‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things—your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions—and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.. The sand is everything else—the small stuff.

‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.

Spend time with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and mow the lawn.

Take care of the golf balls first—the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the Beer represented. The professor smiled and said, ‘I’m glad you asked.’ The Beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of Beers with a friend.

Disclaimer: Read it somewhere. They are not my thoughts.
Posted in Life, Thoughts, Views

A typical day in New York City

Sep 06, 2012 ~ Written by Sujan

All of a sudden, a musical ringtone started buzzing. Being irritated by the noise and still in that sleepy mode, I moved my hand here and there in the bed to find my mobile. Finally, I found it and quickly touched on the red snooze button. 9 minutes of peace sleep and it started again. I snoozed it again and got another nine minutes of tranquility again. Next time, I stopped it and saw that it is already 7:48. Unwillingly, I got up, grabbed my towel, underwear and headed towards bathroom. 20 minutes in bathroom and I came out fresh. It was only 8:10, good, I still got time for a nice cup I tea. Dressed casually, I got out o my room and it was already 8:35 by then. Walked in the fresh morning air, I reached the train station which is only few blocks away from my home. My day started. I started seeing those people who are always in a hurry. Calm and on my own pace, I got into the Manhattan bound train. 35 minutes with a transfer in between and I reached Penn Station and exited towards 33rd St and 4th Avenue. Coming out of the tunnel, I could suddenly see those skyscrapers, Empire State building and United World trade center made a right angle with me as vertex. I then entered the 5 Penn Plaza which was just across the street. Swiped in my building batch and got out of elevator at the 18th floor. Swiped in my office badge again and I enter the building.

Checked my email to find no emails and then headed towards kitchen. Prepared extra dark roasted  coffee mixed with whole milk and extra sugar. Looked through the window to see the Hudson river and New Jersey across which was lying silently just next to its busy sister New York.
3 hours with my computer and Alex comes, ready for lunch. Of course, I replied and we headed down to lunch. The road was busy with all sort of people: some rushing, some confused, some in the calls, some admiring the skyscrapers and some taking pictures. We entered into a fast food, grabbed food quickly and came back to the office’s kitchen again. Sitting beside the table and talking about all sort of things, we completed lunch. Back to our own desks, either busy or pretending to be busy. The work environment is kind of cool, everybody can see everybody, working, discussing, dozing or surfing. 4-5 more hours and it’s time for me to leave. Back again to the same street and to the Penn Station. This time, the train heading out of Manhattan, people in the train tired and exhausted. Everybody trying to keep cool either by reading novels, listening to songs from their mobile or playing games in their tablets but I could read clearly in their face the desire, the desire to reach home and lie flat in their couch or bed. I was not an exception.
I reached home, tired and contempt, wishing somebody to have already cooked food which may or may not be an everyday reality. I turned on the TV, opened Netflix and searched for Christopher Nolan movie(Yeah, we had talked about him during the lunch). Lying on bed, I opened Insomnia(Al Pachino, Whoa) and ……….. a long silence…..
The alarm rings again, a new morning has broken.
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Integrating Spring with Struts 2

Sep 04, 2012 ~ Written by Sujan

Integration of Spring with Struts is smooth and simple. Following these simple steps should make it work.

1. Configure web.xml

<!– Spring plugin Support –>

<listener>

<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>

</listener>

 

<!– The master configuration file for this Spring web application –>

<context-param>

<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>

<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring-config/applicationContext.xml</param-value>

</context-param>

 

<filter>

<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>

<filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher</filter-class>

</filter>

 

<filter-mapping>

<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>

<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>

</filter-mapping>

2. Define the bean in applicationContext.xml

 <bean id=”LoginService” class=”com.siriusxm.www.mavencore.service.LoginService” />

<bean id=”Login” scope=”prototype” class=”com.siriusxm.www.mavenweb.LoginAction”>
<property name=”loginService” ref=”LoginService”/>

</bean>

 

3. Define the action bean in struts.xml

<action name=”login” class=”Login”>
        <result name=”success”>/jsp/welcome.jsp</result>
        <result name=”error”>/jsp/login.jsp</result>
</action>

4. Add struts2-spring-plugin-X.X.X.jar in the library.

And that should work smooth. If interested in how it works, keep reading.

[The following paragraph is taken from http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/spring-plugin.html]
The Spring Plugin works by overriding the Struts ObjectFactory to enhance the creation of core framework objects. When an object is to be created, it uses the class attribute in the Struts configuration to correspond to the id attribute in the Spring configuration. If not found, the class will try to be created as usual, then be autowired by Spring.

Posted in Java, Spring, Struts2, Technology

Creating a maven web application in eclipse and running in tomcat

Aug 29, 2012 ~ Written by Sujan

If you ever have tried to integrate maven in any web projects and run it in tomcat(or any application servers) via eclipse, you know what I’m saying.

I had a lot of problem figuring myself this out. To make sure that I don’t forget everything again, I’m documenting it here.

I’ll assume that tomcat 7 is configured and m2eclipse plugin installed in the eclipse.

Here are the steps I followed to make it work:

1. Create a new maven project from eclipse.
2. The project structure should look like this at the end of the creation of project.
3. Add all your maven dependencies as per your project requires and do the maven install.
4. Go to the project properties and go to Project Facets. Check dynamic web module. This will ask you to give the location of the base folder that will contain your files. Specify that folder to me “src/main/webapp”. Under runtimes, add apache tomcat 7 and click on ok. This will create the following structure in your project.

5. Now go to the project properties again and click on the Deployment Assembly. There Add the Maven dependencies so that it looks something like this.

6. That’s it, just right click on the project and Run in Server and you should be happy.

Cheers!!!

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आज तिम्रो याद आयो

Aug 07, 2012 ~ Written by Sujan

खुसिको कुरा छ तिमीलाई भनौ भनौ लाग्छ
तर भन्नु मा कुनै अर्थ छैन भन्ने डर लाग्छ
मन को कुरा बुझ्ने तिमिनै हौ भन्ने सोचेथे
बुझी बुझी पनि मन दुखाउछौ कि भन्ने डर लाग्छ

किन किन आज तिम्रो याद आयो
तर यो याद मा केहि मिठास छैन भन्ने डर लाग्छ
सम्झनाको भुमरी मा किन किन
कुनै सत्येताको पहिचान छैन भन्ने डर लाग्छ

रहर गरेर के भो र
कल्पनाको सागरबाट निस्किदा बेदनाको दलदलमा फस्छु भन्ने डर लाग्छ
आज तिम्रो याद आयो
तर यो यादमा कुनै सार्थकता छैन भन्ने डर लाग्छ

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