Voyage into the Void

noreply@blogger.com (samyem) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:08:00 +0000

GWT copycat from Microsoft:
http://labs.live.com/volta/

Interesting times for web RIA development!

noreply@blogger.com (samyem) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:12:00 +0000

Merry XMas Everyone!!!

noreply@blogger.com (samyem) — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:34:00 +0000

I had Windows XP in my laptop and i often use IM software to do text/video/audio chats with friends and family for years. Reading slashdot got me interested in linux so I replaced my windows with Ubuntu. The first thing I want to do is use my IM as that's the most frequently used software for me. Initially I thought it'll be a trivial thing to get the same functionality in linux as IMing is a very common task for many. My first step was with Pidgin. But to my disappointment, it only does text.. no video/audio. I discovered that there is gaim-vv, but then on its website, i see this message in its website:
"As of 2005-11-10 16:46, this project is no longer under active development."
What the heck. I didn't give up so easily. After a few rounds of googling, I realised that I can use AMSN to at least get the video to work. So I got video and text to work. Now I have no idea but AMSN didn't do audio for me. Okay another round in google. Try Kopete.. nops it only does video for 2 seconds and crashes for no reason. Finally I found Skype for linux. It did audio finally but the video part of skype is not implemented for linux. Oh why!

At least if I use AMSN with Skype, I can do text and video with AMSN and audio with skype. But my friends need to be logged in both and need to have accounts with both. No luck for friends who are only using Yahoo (yahoo's linux client sucks big time).

I had a brief misadventure trying to use windows skype with Wine. What a pain. The thing keep crashing randomly with all sorts of weird errors that is beyond me.

In the end, after a full day's round of mishaps and pain, I wondered why such a trivial thing in Windows got to be so difficult in linux? What did the end user did to deserve all this?

Day two, and I realised that my AMSN refuse to recognize my web camera for no apparent reason. Now it just does not work anymore.. no clue why. It is still plugged in, did a few restarts of the OS. No luck. I do not have the energy or time anymore to run after another solution. I just want it to work period. How I miss my windows!

noreply@blogger.com (samyem) — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:58:00 +0000

A good introduction for JBoss Seams: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-seam1/index.html

noreply@blogger.com (samyem) — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:17:00 +0000

Agent Smith: https://agentsmith.dev.java.net/
Interesting tool to avoid all the restart of your webapp.

noreply@blogger.com (samyem) — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:40:00 +0000

Just got this link through slashdot:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17879317/site/newsweek/

More than 91% of Americans believe in God and most of them believe Evolution is false. And we are still calling the country technologically one of the most advanced in the world!

noreply@blogger.com (samyem) — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:42:00 +0000

Here is a quick tip (that I learned the hard way around) if you are running Spring auto-wired Unit Tests with TestNG; on your base test class, add this to make it compatible with JUnit style tests:


public abstract class BaseTest extends
AbstractTransactionalDataSourceSpringContextTests {

 @BeforeTest(alwaysRun = true)
 public void testNGsetUp() throws Exception {
     super.setUp();
 }

 @AfterTest(alwaysRun = true)
 public void testNGtearDown() throws Exception {
     super.tearDown();
 }

 @Override
 protected String[] getConfigLocations() {
     setAutowireMode(AUTOWIRE_BY_NAME);
     setDependencyCheck(false);
  
     return new String[] { "appContext.xml" };
 }

}

noreply@blogger.com (samyem) — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:01:00 +0000

I am taking a quick look at JBoss Seams. The quote "Seam is the only web framework today that supports lazy loading correctly for web applications" from http://www.infoq.com/articles/jboss-seam seems rather provoking. Let's see if it is upto the real challenge.

noreply@blogger.com (samyem) — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:28:00 +0000

One of the funniest videos I've seen recently:
Bill gates + Napoleon Dynamite!

noreply@blogger.com (samyem) — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:20:00 +0000

I've been looking at a couple of Java UI frameworks: GWT, ZK, Echo2. All looks quite impressive on its own stand. I am very impressed and surprised with GWT. Applets reborn as JavaScript!

First Post

noreply@blogger.com (samyem) — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:39:00 +0000

Just testing with a first post:)