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"

Software Freedom Day 2009

Software Meet 2009

About 10 Engineering College from 4 different University, are participating in a much awaited each "Software Meet". This event is organized annually by the most reputed computer club in Nepal. The event is organized by Kathmandu University Computer Club(KUCC). The sponsors of this event are Javra Software, DASS Enterprises, NITC, ACEN, CCA and they are adding up with event approaching. With its overwhelming success in last years, the competition is even more competitive and exciting this april.

There are two programs in this event, as project competition and paper presentation. Project Competition is Scheduled to be organized on 10 April and Paper presentation on 12 April. Project Competition have a different way round where defending winner IOE have not participated due to internal college reasons, so colleges like KU, KEC, KCM will be fighting to make their way out as a winner. Whereas Paper presentation seems much more competitive with defending winner is coming up with much stronger paper on "Java API for Grid Computing" and second prize winner in Software Meet 2009 from NCIT, is trying to make this his event by his work on "Virtualization". But all eyes are also on Bishwas Bhatt from Kathmandu University with his promising ideas.

This is will be some kinda of event where colleges will battle for ultimate pride of their quality, software project management.