Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Off to Wayanad

A long trip, which gave me a pleasent mind. 3 days off to Bangalore city, it was a real nice experience. Went for one of my nice friends marriage. We explored the real beauty of the God's own country. I heard from lot many people about the beauty of wayanad, and i realized the fact that what i heard is not a gimmy. I have never seen such a beautiful place before. The lush of green, the misty cloud, the skyscrapper rock!! all make wayanad the HQ of God's Own country Kerala. I felt disappointed couple of times during the trip. I was very afraid of climbing rocks and walking through slippery treacherous mountain paths. Those of love to take risk, edakkal caves and Meenmutti waterfalls are real pleasures. But i did not enjoyed both these places coz of my fear towards climbing height. I realized the fact that i'm a slight altophobic. Some of the cool snaps are uploaded. http://picasaweb.google.com/mailtoshinu/Wayanad

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Vnstat GUI in JavaFX

After long analysis and exploration about the technology to use in developing the new gui project, i decided i'll go with the lates JavaFX. Evaluated java-gnome also. But the lot goes to JavaFX. One of the main thing which strikes me with JavaFX is the richness in creating gui applications and the easiness in porting the this app to web with less effort. The prototype is on her way and is in the very basic stage. Once the prototype is done, my plan is to create the project in google code and invite opensource developers around the world to contribute. All folks who are interested in playing with JavaFX and Linux can join and contribute. The prototype which really influence me is the StockWatcher sample application. The vnstat gui will also look similar to this interface only. Keep watch this space for more updates.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

NetworkManager & network status

NetworkManager applet is one of the good network status tool i found with my Fedora box. One of the good thing with this tool is, its quiet easy to configure both wirless and wired network through this tool. I faced one slight problem today with my NetworkManager applet which prompted me to write up this blog post. I made some slight adjustments in my network configurations as i want to connect to my friends wireless network. After my job i turned back to my home and tried to connect to my wired network and see a problem with my NetworkManager applet, suddenly it shown me my network is not connected, After some debugging i came accross the nm-tool utility which showed me that my eth0 is disconnected. But the interesting thing is i'm able to browse and login to my chat servers. Whats going wrong with my NetworkManager applet? Hmmm yes i found some debugging commands of NetworkManager which is NetworkManager --no-deamon which throws some input about whats going wrong with the applet. After some googling and debugging i was able to fix the issue. The issue lies with my ifcfg-eth0 script. The NM-CONTROLLED flag is somehow got turned off. I simply changed the value to NM_CONTROLLED=yes Voila!! applet suddenly got the wake up and showed me, Yes I'm ready to serve you!!!

Monday, August 4, 2008

Off to Mysore

Extended weekend came to an end at last. Weekend was awesome coz my trip to Mysore, the historical town which is around 130 Km from Bangalore. A pleasent trip which freshed up my mind and my soul. I can go back to work with a calm and quiet mind. Th historical ruins of the city made my mind to think a lot. I see lot of palaces, lot many cultures. One place which striked me a lot is the place where Tipu's dead body found. Some of the cool snaps are uploaded in picasa. http://picasaweb.google.com/mailtoshinu/MysoreTrip

Friday, August 1, 2008

Swing application framework

Swing application framework - a framework which will really give swing application developers a second life. Over a period of time swing applications gain more maturity and stability, but lack a framework and I believe this is the one which fills the gap. Some of the very common problems faced by swing developers are well addressed in this framework and provided implementations for them. Some of the exciting features from my angle are 1. Application Life cycle managment 2. Action management 3. Task management 4. Saving session state of the application 5. Local storage 6. Resource management I'm planning to use the same framework for the creation of the swing based vnstat gui. I got some issues with my java install, my gui is not starting up properly. My AMD 64bit and java versions have slight hiccups with java gui's. google is telling me to upgrade my java to the latest one will fix the issue. I need to upgrade my java tomorrow and start working.