Stallman made me confused

October 11, 2010
I was on rush to complete a web application project which I completely messed up. Spring Framework 2.5 suck. It was already 5:30 and Stallman may arrive there every second. I had to make a choice either to run down to Clancy or stay at K17. Not my mind but my instinct took me to Clancy and I didn't even bother about losing 15 marks. I already have a RSVP so found my name, got the banner, fixed my camera and nervously stayed at the couch. Few friends came in, and went to this giant auditorium at Clancy.

Even if you know Stallman and read about him, seen his pictures or videos when he first appear in front of you. You will say "Oh Fuck!! He looks like the one in pashupati..", and same thing happened in that stage, nobody even realised him coming in and going to take the podium. Even the MC was amazed. And he started with a glass of water with his medicine and criticized the taxi driver for over charging him. And there he goes, "What is Free Software?" - And I was like "What the fuck? Are you going to spend my next 3 hours listening what I have learned for years and years..." He talked about all old stuffs that we practised everyday at FOSS Nepal Community. Sometimes I left we are way ahead. And one thing that made me proud was the level of understanding that we have of free software. But I kept myself awake, I don't know if it's playing with my camera, coke or Stallman's speech.

"Linus Torvalds is aganist free software, he says he want convenience."

"Throw VLC in your bin!!"

"Open Source is another way to promote, proprietary software."

"iBad on your cuffin"

"Slow poison got made, Windows"

"Go to GNU.org to find out more.."

Critics, critics, critics.... Stallman made me confused...

Hudson: such a cool build tool

Hudson is a build tool used to build Java project specially J2EE. It is quite a phenomenal tool which has great integration with maven, ant and many other handful tools. Furthermore, it is very easy to deployable and use. So if you want to learn more about hudson and use it. Please visit: Click here/

Life is so easy when you have hudson with you, because it does everything for you. If you are a java programmer and you love web application then hudson is just around the corner to save your time and mood, because it have a nice interface.

facebooking, tweeting, IM, Skype and work

I am just back from a meeting with a lady from german at Java, thamel here in kathmandu, and the first question she asked me was,"What do you do Akash?". I was not so sure about it, I told her I work. Then she was curious to know about my own but I was reluctant so I told her I use facebook and twitter a lot, and that's how I work. However, may be she was from 2000 generation so, she asked me if I use IM, I told her I did and also asked her if she have a skype account. She said she had it, and asked me what do I do on skype. I talked to my girl friend!!! :P that's what I told her, though.

Now I am back hom analysing my conversation with her.. and the truth is all I do these days is the things I mentioned. I work, I use fb, twitter, IM and I talk in Skype... every single day from moment I wake up till I sleep, my activities list is written above. Holy crap!! What a so called exciting life bounded by technology... So I am thinking of buying a smart-phone to encapsulated all these activities and personalize it... how does that sound??? And when I meet her again, I will say her.. I use

PiXar = Cool

When we were growing up every kid talked about Disney, but I was a different kid, because I never watched cartoon when I was a kid. So when I actually had interest on animation, Pixar was one name whose work I have always admired. So today I had about 3 hours of free time and all I did was check some of Pixar best work, specially in short films in youtube. You can click here if you are interested to enjoy yourself.

Pixar is such a cool work force, they produce things which have meaning and at the same time they provide you lot of entertainment. So kids better be watching some cars, incredibles, up rather than micky mouse stuff.. though you must not avoid watching tom and jerry :P

Convert XML file to XML String in java

I needed to convert XML file to XML String to pass it through to web service.

public String convertXMLFileToString(String fileName)
{
try{
DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(new File(fileName));
org.w3c.dom.Document doc = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(inputStream);
StringWriter stw = new StringWriter();
Transformer serializer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
serializer.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(stw));
return stw.toString();
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}

Somebody's gonna hurt real bad

I was trying to find a new life which would exciting, full of fun and most importantly "new". So one day, I saw with my old laptop, sitting in my old couch but with new thought to browse some of newest video in youtube, and all I found was same old video from russel peter. This guys is quite cool and jokes like he is a real punk.. but he is really effective to make people laugh. So then, I started looking for his video and believe me or not I wasted 4 hours watching and downloading each one of them.. if you know russel peter, you must have known his dad's dialogue"Somebody's gonna hurt real bad"

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