Installing Spring Plugin for Eclipse Ganymede

1.Install Eclipse 3.4.1 JEE Ganymede SR1 from (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/ganymede/SR1/eclipse-jee-ganymede-SR1-win32.zip)
2. Load Eclipse and goto Help->Software Updates
3. Add New site and paste URL http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ajdt/33/update/ Select All click Install
4. Restart Eclipse
5. Load Eclipse and goto Help->Software Updates
6 Add New site and paste URL (http://dist.springframework.org/release/IDE) Select All click Install
7 Restart Eclipse you are all set

Http Post In android

HttpResponse response;

DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();

HttpPost httpost = new HttpPost("url");

httpost.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

//Input the user id and authentication key here

StringEntity message = new StringEntity("");

httpost.setEntity(message);

ResponseHandler responseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();

String responseBody = httpclient.execute(httpost, responseHandler);

responseBody = " Sent!";

return responseBody;

Concurrency In using AsyncTask class (Android1.5)

I found that two AsyncTasks do not work concurrently. I investigated a bit and found a workaround .AsyncTask allows the app to do a task on a thread other than the UI thread. But IIUC, it only provides a single thread on which a queue of tasks is performed. Therefore, if one of the task is to wait on some event (n/w or sleep) then all other tasks will wait for it to finish.

To elaborate with the coding example:




public class MyTask extends AsyncTask<...>
{ ... }


// On the UI thread execute two tasks
MyTask mt1 = new MyTask().execute(args);


MyTask mt2 = new MyTask().execute(args);


In the above code both the execute calls will return immediately and free up
the UI thread; however mt1 will be executed first and mt2 will have to wait
until mt1 finishes.

Thanks to the android's open source, we can see implementation of AsyncTask.
http://google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en&sa=N&cd=2&ct=rc#uX1GffpyOZk/core...

I copied AsyncTask.java as UserTask.java in my project and changed the value
of CORE_POOL_SIZE to 5. This makes the thread pool to use 5 threads to
multiplex the queued AsyncTasks. This indeed solved my problem. Now if mt1
blocks on a sleep; mt2 goes ahead and finishes its job.

Chicken Biryani ..Luch time:-)

Chicken biryani – Malabar ishtyle.

Finally i tried my hand in making Chicken Biryani Kerala Ishtyle ....:-)..It was an experiment but to tell you the truth i loved it . Even my mom and dad loved it..:-)

I would like to thank my Mom for helping me in making this experimental dish for my family

Once you have made biryani you will see that it is more of a method than exact measure ( except for cooking the rice).

Here are some pictures to get you inspired.

Cooking the rice:

Soak the rice in water for 30min or so prior to cooking. Drain off the water.

Add ghee( a must for authentic taste), cloves, cardamon and cinnamon. Add the rice. Stir well. Add water and salt. ( For 3 cups of rice, I used 5 3/4 water). Cook covered. When all water is evaporated, shut off the flame and keep covered for a few more minutes. In the meanwhile avoid stirring. You can fluff with a fork after it has finished cooking

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Cooking the chicken

Layering the rice and chicken

Also fry onions, raisins and cashews.

Bake for 15- 20 minutes.

Serve warm with raita ,curd , achar .

Inheritance Vs Composition in Java

One of the fundamental activities of any software system design is establishing relationships between classes. Two fundamental ways to relate classes are inheritance and composition. Although the compiler and Java virtual machine (JVM) will do a lot of work for you when you use inheritance, you can also get at the functionality of inheritance when you use composition. This article will compare these two approaches to relating classes and will provide guidelines on their use.

First, some background on the meaning of inheritance and composition.

About inheritance
In this article, I'll be talking about single inheritance through class extension, as in:

class Fruit {      //... }  class Apple extends Fruit {      //... } 

In this simple example, class Apple is related to class Fruit by inheritance, because Apple extends Fruit. In this example, Fruit is the superclass and Apple is thesubclass.

I won't be talking about multiple inheritance of interfaces through interface extension. That topic I'll save for next month's Design Techniques article, which will be focused on designing with interfaces.

Here's a UML diagram showing the inheritance relationship between Apple and Fruit:

Figure 1. The inheritance relationship

About composition
By composition, I simply mean using instance variables that are references to other objects. For example:

class Fruit {      //... }  class Apple {      private Fruit fruit = new Fruit();     //... } 

In the example above, class Apple is related to class Fruit by composition, because Apple has an instance variable that holds a reference to a Fruit object. In this example, Apple is what I will call the front-end class and Fruit is what I will call the back-end class. In a composition relationship, the front-end class holds a reference in one of its instance variables to a back-end class.

The UML diagram showing the composition relationship has a darkened diamond, as in:

Figure 2. The composition relationship

Using Threads In Android wihtout Async Task

This code is without using Async Task class (Android 1.5) For (Android 1.1 its User Task)

Its not a good way of implementing threads but works

....:-)

package com.arun;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.os.Handler;

public class thread extends Activity {

/** Called when the activity is first created. */

@Override

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.main);

final Handler threadCallback = new Handler();

final Runnable runInUIThread = new Runnable(){

@Override

public void run() {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

}

};

Thread t1= new Thread(){

public void run(){

sayHi();

threadCallback.post(runInUIThread);

}

};

t1.start();

System.out.println("Thread Id 1:::::"+t1.getPriority());

try {

t1.sleep(500);

} catch (InterruptedException e) {

// TODO Auto-generated catch block

e.printStackTrace();

}

Thread t2=new Thread(){

public void run(){

sayHello();

threadCallback.post(runInUIThread);

}

};

t2.start();

System.out.println("Thread Id 2:::::"+t2.getPriority());

try {

t2.sleep(10000);

} catch (InterruptedException e) {

// TODO Auto-generated catch block

e.printStackTrace();

}

}

public void sayHello(){

System.out.println("hello");

}

public void sayHi(){

System.out.println("hi");

}

}

Some Android Tips

There's a brand new update available for the Android OS, version 1.5 aka "Cupcake". My phone came with 1.1 and despite some prodding it wouldn't go ahead and upgrade itself. So I had to download the 1.5 updates and do it myself. That page is full of long and complicated explanations but basically you're just copying files, renaming them to update.zip and rebooting the phone, twice. (Mine got confused in the middle because it finally started to automatically update itself and I let it. If that happens just ignore it and continue with the manual process and everything should be fine.)

My main focus with tinkering with the phone has been to get the API demos running so I can get a sense for how easy it is to work with the Google MapView classes and also how much boilerplate code I need in order to load data over the network and draw pretty things with OpenGL. The Hello World tutorial worked straight away: if you have the phone plugged in it automatically installs your app and runs it on the device, if not then it fires up an emulator. Getting the API demos up and running was a little trickier because it involved importing the project fromandroid-sdk-mac_x86-1.5_r1/platforms/android-1.5/samples/ApiDemos first, but it did work after I upgraded to Cupcake.

For the MapView to work you need to jump through some app signing things before you can get a Google Maps API key that will allow the device to load map tiles. The documentation is quite dense but if you're just playing around in Eclipse you can sign things with your debug key; in this case the API key signup page tells you what to do. Just be sure to log in with the same Google account you'll be using in the Android Marketplace, if you get that far.

I decided to jump straight in and try my hand at an app that loads data from a web service and displays it on a map. The learning curve was OK, here's a list of things I wish I'd known about before I started:

• Like any good Swing programmer or web app developer, I have a head for asynchronous operations and I'm comfortable with callbacks and so on. Of course Java is a little more verbose with this, and the need to run UI code on the UI thread but have long running tasks in a separate thread can quickly lead to spaghetti code. Thankfully Android has anAsyncTask class which really elegantly wraps up the pattern of bouncing between two threads and tracking the progress of long tasks. Completely recommended over lots of new Thread(new Runnable()).start(), not least because it lets you cleanly cancel things in onDestroy, too.
• The Android libraries include the Apache HTTP library, which is quite good (if a little verbose). This HTTP & JSON example is great, and as I discovered if you reuse the HttpClient object your app will load lots of data happily and with good performance.
• The android.util.Xml class will make you a SAX parser for XML parsing. This tutorial otherwise covers what you need to know about SAX parsing and Java if you haven't done it before. The Xml class's convenience function cuts out the AbstractThingerFactory boiler-plate code that Java programmers are generally too tolerant of.
• In MapView, an ItemizedOverlay with no items still needs to call populate or your app will crash as soon as you interact with the map. This is a known issue, I'm not sure if it's a bug, I'm mainly noting it here for search engines.
• It turns out Activity.onCreate—the standard entry point for Android apps—gets called if the screen rotates, which happens if you open the keyboard on the dev phone/G1. If you used onCreate to fire off a bunch of threads and load data, you need to drop those threads in onDestroy, pass a copy of the data you want to keeponRetainNonConfigurationInstance, and get it back withgetLastNonConfigurationInstance. The Android Guys explain all this and more in a three part series, but the second part was most useful to me.
• Compilers and code generation and XML config files are all fine, but the Android manifest file is king. If you're using the Google MapView library you need to declare this in the manifest or your app will unceremoniously crash.
• Likewise if you're using the network or asking for location information, you'll need to add the relevant permissions to the manifest, or your app will fail (with no explanation). I'm not sure why this is the case, and why the SDK even lets you compile an app that requires internet access without prompting you to add the INTERNET privilege, but it does. As far as I can see these permissions aren't exposed to end users, but perhaps they'll help people navigate the Android Marketplace once there are devices out there with varying capabilities?

All in all it took me just over a day to get to the point where I felt confident that the phone was doing what I was telling it, and that there wasn't too much magic and surprise crashes were rare. The next thing I want to investigate is the OpenGL ES implementation

Enable Wifi In Ubuntu for HP DV series Laptops specifically

Step 1

Open the Terminal. Applications--> Accessories--> Terminal OR press ALT+F2 and type 'gnome-termianl' & enter then you have to check the WiFi adapter so type , lspci -v , in the terminal and check wether your adapter is Atheros and if not i'm afraid that this might not work, so after knowing that it's Atheros you can proceed further

Step 2

Go to

System-->Administration-->Hardware Drivers and Deactivate the driver Ubuntu has used for the adapter (in most scenarios Ubuntu assigns a avalible driver for the adapter but it's won't be competible )after that reboot .

The kernel headers and the compiler are needed to build this driver so you have to get started by installing build-essential. In a terminal window (Applications/Accessories/Terminal) enter:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

The driver code will be downloaded with the subversion source code manager so I installed subversion:

Code:

sudo apt-get install subversion 

You need a place to put the driver source without mixing it up with other stuff so changed directory to your home directory:

Code:

cd ~ 

Created a directory:

Code:

mkdir madwifi 

And changed to the new dirctory:

Code:

cd madwifi 

Use subversion to download (checkout) a copy of the code: If this site is not working mail me ..I have the tar file....

Code:

svn co https://217.24.1.142/madwifi/branches/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6 

After the driver code is downloaded by subversion, change to the directory, which should be madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6

Code:

cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6 

Run the make script to have the compiler build the driver:

Code:

make 

Install the driver

Code:

sudo make install 

You can also give above commands in one line:

sudo make && make install 

Add the Atheros kernel module to the list of modules to be automatically loaded at boot by adding "ath_pci" (without the quotes) to the end of the /etc/modules file. Gedit is probably easy to use so try:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/modules 

Now you can reboot and it should work.

Enjoy !!!!

Implementing the C printf() function???

Given this code, I was to finish it by creating the printint(), printstring(), and printhex() functions.

Before you start this please go thorough this function va_arg() to make the code undersatandable

http://www.elook.org/programming/c/va_arg.html

#include

extern int printchar(int);

void myprintf(const char *fmt, ...);
{
const char *p;
va_list argp;
int i;
char *s;
char fmtbuf[256];

va_start(argp, fmt);

for(p + fmt; *p != '\0'; p++)
{
if(*p != '%')
{
putchar(*p);
continue;
}

switch(*++p)
{
case 'c':
i = va_arg(argp, int);
putchar(i);
break;

case 'd':
i = va_arg(argp, int);
printint(i);
break;

case 's':
s = va_arg(argp, char *);
printstring(s);
break;

case 'x':
i = va_arg(argp, int);
printhex(i);
break;

case '%':
putchar('%');
break;
}
}

va_end(argp);
}

void printint(int i)
{
int digit;
digit = i % 10;
digit = digit + '0';
i = i / 10;
putchar(i);
}

void printstring(char s)
{
putchar(s);
}

void printhex(int i)
{

for (int a=2*sizeof(int) - 1; a>=0; a--) {
putchar("0123456789ABCDEF"[((i >> a*4) & 0xF)]);
}
}