29thJan'08

Today as there was power shutdown whole day it was very difficult in the whole. It came after 4.30pm only. So I read a novel called The Shattered Helmet by Franklin W.Dixon. It is one of the Hardy Boys novels. The two young detectives and their adventures were very interesting.Finding out the missed Helmet which was the king's possession is the story. Their courage was very great.And little time I solved some of the C Outputs.Since it was long gap I remembered or I can say recollected C.

Program2Read Excel File

Today I feel I did a great job. I have written two programs, one is to read an Excel file through a java program and the next is a java program to write an Excel file . While writting the XLReader program I got IOException and BiffException. Then I handled the exceptions and the program works fine. Similarly while writting the XLWriter program I encountered a WriteException then handled and solved it.After a long gap I have done a nice work.

JExcelAPI

With a interest to read an excel file from a java program I came to know about JExcelApi. So I downloaded JExcelApiV2_6_6.Actually its a tar file then I extracted it.It contains the tutorial, demo pros. Since I was new to this I just went through the tutorial and got knowledge about the JExcelApi. The first step to read a spread sheet is to create a workbook. Once created this workbook one can access the individual sheets through this workbook.These are zero indexed and the first sheet will be 0 and the second will be 1 and so on.then the spread sheet can be read and can also write. The formats in the Excel can be modified through the APIs available. Now I am dealing with the Demo programs. And will see some more details tomorrow.

Understanding

Today I am attracted by one quote and want to share here:
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
-Marie Curie
Then I read about a product of Sun, named as Sun xVM Ops center.It is a tool that reduces datacenter management complexity by combining a range of lifecycle management functionality into an all-in-one tool. Customers can use the unified Sun xVM Ops Center tool to manage multi-platform x64 and SPARC systems distributed throughout their global datacenter and integrate with other existing toolsets.So it allows enterprises to streamline their data center operations, helping to lower costs and more easily manage rapid growth, data center consolidation and compliance requirements.

27-11-07

I have joined in a driving school to get license for two wheeler and four wheeler.The first step is Learners License(LLR). Here I just share how to get LLR.This LLR is the permission given by the government to practise in the road with a license holder nearer.This is valid for 6 months. After a month one can get the license.The forms can be get from RTO office.For applying the LLR, with the filled form one has to submit a birthday proof and a address proof.While submitting this form, a class will be taken for half an hour. Then we can collect the LLR in the evening from the a same office.This is the procedure for getting LLR.

XML Parsing

When starting to learn about XML parsing I refered the following link http://java.sun.com/developer/Books/xmljava/ch03.pdf. There I came to know about Apache Xerces parser which is suitable for Java and C applications. The latest version of Apache Xerces is xerces-2_9_1. I have downloaded it from http://xml.apache.org. Simple API for XML(SAX) was also attached with this software. XML document is parsed with this. SAX has collection of classes and interfaces which is helpful in parsing with callbacks. So I tried a small sample program with this . Executed it successfully. I have to learn more in this. And now proceeding furhter examples in the above sun's link.

Android

Today I read about Android. Android is a Linux based cell phone platform.Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on his blog said he would 'like Sun to be the first platform software company to commit to a complete developer environment around the platform, as we throw Sun's NetBeans developer platform for mobile devices behind the effort.' So I get little interest and want to know about Android, since the name is new to me. Then I refered the following website http://code.google.com/android/documentation.html. The whole information one can get from here.I get some information from this and sharing here. Like Java this Android also has development kit( Android SDK) and APIs.Applications are written using the Java programming language and run on Dalvik, a custom virtual machine designed for embedded use which runs on top of a Linux kernel.