Online Generators, A BIG Relief? or another pain in …
There you go… now ppl don’t make anything. They just generate. Like poof and wallah you got your self a whatever you want. But why ppl still pay for making stuff when all the generators are available? Well My opinion, nothing comes out of the box. You are bound to make even a tiny change when you are building even a simplest project.
Thanks GOD that ppl of software consuming company in my country doesn’t have much idea about these yet. Or they might start to say, ‘Hey you have generators to make this. Why do you want the money you are asking?’. From One great software engineer’s view, ‘They are in bad habit of getting pirated software in cheap price.’
Yet another example, once i went to a company by a call for making their website. After i gave him the pricing i want to work by, they asked why are you asking so much and need this amount of time? He has another company’s quotation which is somewhat less then me and they will take small time, which was unbelievable. Well i have failed to make them understand the point of cross-browser compatibility and the time would need for requirement gathering. So how would you make them realize the amount of time and work needed behind it, if they have no idea of that they are asking.
Don’t runaway yet. I have another piece of story to share. Recently I am working with company for a renowned newspapers’ sister concern site. We got the chance of working with them because they do not want other big companies to interfere in the relation of client. They have the fear of takeover with this project. So we are developing the wap and sms system for this site. Now, the day this site’s information went to the public newspaper ad. Many ppl started querying about the wap. As this is a new thing for our country. Most funny among them was, a bunch of ppl came to that office. Most of them are above 30 or so. The first thing they asked was, ‘wap ta ki jinish vai? amar to office er site er jonno dorkar. ami jodi amar office er jonno korete chai ta hole ki lagbe?’. which comes to the point is, ‘what is wap? i want if for my office site. What do i need to have one?’
May be its not funny but it seems to me. Like the person doesn’t have idea what it is but wants it. Something like a baby wants a shiny object even without knowing what it might be.
But, after all these… here you go. You might want to make a question what this list is missing rather then what it contains. I like some one’s comment in that list, ‘We just need a coffee generator right now’.
Generator List
Enjoyyyyyyyyyyyy ppl.
Weird Solution… to a very known problem….
Once upon a time in database class, we all read that all the special characters should be handled by putting a single ‘\’ before that character. But I don’t know why msSQL ppl want to make the things hard for all of us. Whenever everyone goes to a straight way, they start with the other way 
. very wise decision to make ppl notice that they are different 
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So what is the reason behind this post?
I wanted to insert a single quote (‘) to my msSQL DB. after wasting many bits from google i got the solution, you have to pass double single quote to make it acceptable to dear DB.
may be i need to make that a bit more clear, you have to replace all (‘) with 2X like (”) it not one double quote but its 2 single quotes. Man its hard to make ppl understand a simple thing. Damn, the microsoft ppl are so intelligent that why understood as well as implemented it.
whatever….
Making Startup Process in FreeBSD
Well i guess you got the idea what i wanted to do. But i also made my life a bit miserable when i started. At last found out from these links Site 1 and Site 2.
What ever you want to make auto run during the bootup, just place it in this folder:
/usr/local/etc/rc.d
make sure its a shell script and its executable. Thats it… you got your self a autorun blah…
Checking…. tomcat alive and kicking…..
Few dayz ago for one of my work on the freeBSD server, i wanted to check if the tomcat server was running. As in a live server, if the server is not running, whats the point of keeping the server? So i wanted to make sure if the tomcat is running from command-line and run if it is dead. But figuring out the aliveness of the tomcat was the hard part, rest was the shell script. One of my friend said, it will be hard one cause tomcat runs on JVM. I thought there much be a way, so i kept searching. At last, i got a widget which works something like a remote controller for the tomcat server.
Which can be found with name: Tomcat Collar 1.1
But the magic line was this one:
ps -w -A -w |grep "org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start"
if this returns you something, that means tomcat is alive and …. 
i guess this might save someones wild searching time, like i did for several days.
Digital Library and Information Science
Today, i was searching for a cheap version of any bistable (e-ink) display based eBook device. Yes, i often get these kinda kera (some kinda thought which pops a light on your head, but not that important) to search and get an idea. I was checking if i can effort an eBook device so i can make use of some online ebooks in more flexible way. While i was searching the web, i came across a really cool site related to the title of this post (i bet till now you were scratching your head to get the idea what is the relation between my title and junkies i am posing). its Megan Fox’s site. Site contains a really cool presentation which is a bit off dated, but still holds good amount of info for anyone trying to get a idea over digital/non-digital Library and Information Science.
presentation can be found here.
New addition, same presentation with some extra info at the end of it in here.
The Original Hello World
Trust me, this is the real hello world post by me. The one you have seen before my post was posted by the wordpress.
Hello world!
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