Solution to how to write/print String to file in Java

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread94567.html

### characters in a cell in Excel

I have been seeing the problem when ### characters are shown in a cell in Excel since a long time. I found a solution to this problem here:

http://blog.contextures.com/archives/2009/03/31/show-more-characters-in-an-excel-cell/

wikipedia

I donated to wikipedia foundation today. The message I put on their message board for the question: what does wikipedia means to you was the following:


Dear wikipedia (Jimmy Wales),

I have tremendous curiosity for things happening around the world. I know that I can get information about all these things on wikipedia for sure. Hence, I visit your site everyday without fail.

My father laid down the tradition of buying books that help build personality of children. He bought "World Book Encyclopedia" for me and my sister back in 1986 when we were 6 and 3 years respectively for about INR. 10,000 when we purchased our house costing about INR. 1,25,000 i.e. about 8% of cost of residence. This set an excellent example of importance of knowledge in human life.

I have a three year old son. I plan to expose him to wikipedia as soon as he learns to read. I am confident that he will be a learned and sophisticated person if he starts gaining knowledge available in wikipedia from his early childhood. wikipedia is far more than any printed encyclopedia available in market. The strength of wikipedia is its liveliness. It is just hours before information of any event is available. And the cream on the cake is that it is FREE! I had never imagined in my life that such a plethora of knowledge could be available for the whole mankind for free.

Jimmy, you have the blessings of the mankind. God bless you!

Thanks a ton.

Yours,
Shashibhushan Gokhale

PS: I request you to please forward this mail to Mr. Jimmy Wales. I very heartily want to convey my thanks to him.

I am posting their information below:

PMI - Project Management Professional (Pmp) Certification Study Guide

is available at: 

http://www.slideshare.net/robsonnasc/pmi-project-management-professional-pmp-certification-study-guide?from=email&type=suggest_download&subtype=1

SCDJWS 5 Study Notes by Ivan A. Krizsan

is available at: http://www.slideshare.net/krizsan/scdjws-5-study-notes-3085287?from=email&type=suggest_download&subtype=0

Debug Java applications remotely with Eclipse

A very good article about debugging Java applications remotely using Eclipse is available here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-javadebug/index.html

Using Rational Purify to memory profile Java code

Following environment variable must be set to use Rational Purify for memory profiling of Java code

set _JAVA_OPTIONS=-XrunPureJVMPI:Purify -Xbootclasspath/a:c:\PROGRA~1\rational\PURIFY~1\Rational.jar;D:\workspace\stdlib\activation.jar;D:\workspace\stdlib\axis-ant.jar;

The above command should contain all dependency jars for the Java code separated by semi colon.

A welcome customer friendly step by SEBI: SEBI bans ULIP

This is a very very positive step taken by SEBI with common investor's interest in mind. I would like to thank SEBI for the initiative.

I would also like to register my protest against IRDA for taking the side of insurance companies promoting ULIP which is completely against customer interest.

Very good articles have been posted on this on valueresearchonline.com. They are:

(Alert Investors Already Know the Truth About ULIPs) http://new.valueresearchonline.com/story/h2_storyview.asp?str=101348

I have posted comment on a one-sided article published by Sakal on the issue: http://www.esakal.com/eSakal/20100411/5641531933567981687.htm

I have also communicated by concerns to editor of Sakal since I could not post my message in "vachakancha patravyawhar" due to technical snag in website of Sakal.

How to configure Alias and Directory on Apache web server

Add Alias tag in conf/httpd.conf as given below:

    Alias /webpath /full/filesystem/path
    Alias /repo "Repository"

and then add directory tag for the above alias as given below:


    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all



    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
 

How To Configure Static IP Address On Linux

The link below gives very good information on this:

http://www.thewebmasterscafe.net/webhosting/how-to-configure-static-ip-address-on-centos-linux.html

Understanding the MF Hussain controversy : Explained by Sri Sri Ravishankar in 3 minutes

Understanding the MF Hussain controversy : Explained by Sri Sri Ravishankar in 3 minutes on youtube:

http://bit.ly/b8ea9C

How to disable startup of netmeeting at startup

The solution is:

Go to control panel --> Administrative tools> Services> scroll down to Netmeeting remote desktop sharing

Stop the service, go to properties for that service --> another window pops up, use the startup type pulldown window to change it from automatic to manual or disable. Ok, OK.

Might have to reboot.

Rentals in Mumbai

I was shocked to read about the rentals in Mumbai. I am simply numb!!!

The news is located at: http://www.99acres.com/do/Company/propertyheadline?lstAcn=&lstAcnId=&src=PROPRES#144412. Search for "Rentals In Mumbai Rise 30 Pc In A Year" on the webpage. I have quoted the paragraph below for reference:


"Rentals In Mumbai Rise 30 Pc In A Year
With real estate prices reaching the sky, even rentals across Mumbai have been looking skywards, causing heavy strain on those looking for homes. In the last one-year, rentals have increased in the range of 10-30 per cent in Mumbai, directly affecting almost one fourth of city's population that lives in rented houses, mostly in the suburbs. The reason for this hike is large-scale demand along with a huge shortage of rental homes. Presently, the rent of a one-bedroom hall (1BHK) flat measuring 550 square feet at Powai is being quoted in the range of Rs 20,000 and Rs 25,000 for a month. A year back, rent for the same apartment was Rs 16,000-20,000 a month. In the same way, monthly rent for a 1BHK flat at Malad is now Rs 18,000, while the same flat was being rented at Rs 15,000 last year. In the Bandra-Santacruz belt, rents being collected are in the range of Rs 30,000 and Rs 45,000 for a 1 BHK, which was previously between Rs 25,000 and Rs 35,000. Mr Ram Prasad Padhi, CEO, Mumbai Propertys, a leading real estate brokerage firm, said that rents correspond inversely to the limited supply. "Many buyers deferred their decision to buy due to the rising property prices. But their number is very large while the houses are limited which led to the hike," said Mr Padhi. 24 March 2010 Hindustan Times"

Marathi Abhiman Geet

Please find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PktyRvXlMs

Qualities of software architect

My search for qualities of software architect fetched me the following good results:

http://madgeek.com/Articles/Architect/EN/architect.htm
http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/01/Architect-Qualities
http://www.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf8-doc/arch/chap30.html

Can Promises of Highest NAV Guarantee Deliver?

Can Promises of Highest NAV Guarantee Deliver?

Insurance companies have launched a spate of funds promising investors a guarantee of the highest NAV achieved. Can these schemes deliver what they are promising?

Over the last few months, one after another, a number of insurance companies have launched ULIPs which promise to repay the investor on the basis of the highest NAV that the fund has achieved. The pitch is that these funds' NAV effectively does not drop. Once a level is achieved, then the investor is assured of getting at least as much, no matter what happens to the market. It's certainly a very attractive idea. From the way insurance companies are stampeding into launching such products, I'm sure investors must be putting down their money in good numbers-in just a couple of months, six insurance companies have launched such products. Any investor who is told of this concept will immediately start salivating at the thought. Imagine how rich you could have been had you been invested over the last ten years and had been able to lock your investments at the magical value that the markets achieved on the day when the Sensex touched 20,873! more...

Disclaimer: The above article has been referenced from website of www.valueresearchonline.com

Capital Protection (Guarantee) oriented funds - Maximum Gain with Minimum Risk

This article at link below discusses about this fund type, how do they ensure protection and how an individual investor could create their own equivalent of the about fund.

http://new.valueresearchonline.com/story/h2_storyView.asp?str=101298

Great tool for sending large attachments and also not blocked by many corporate firewalls

This is a great service for sending large attachments. Many file sharing sites like megaupload, rapidshare are blocked by corporate internet firewalls. This site allows you to upload files without any problem.

http://www.uploadmirrors.com

Simple timer class in C++

Copied from http://www.dreamincode.net/code/snippet344.htm

/*
  Simple timer class
  ==================
  History:

  Created - Sarah "Voodoo Doll" White (2006/01/26)
  ==================
  Description:

  A quick and easy timer class to save people
  from using ad hoc timers. The constructor
  begins the timer and the end() member function
  stops it, as well as returns the result.
  Before starting the timer again with begin(),
  users can see the last result with last()...

  So unintuitive. ;)
  ==================
  Bugs:

  The timing method used is neither strictly
  portable, though it only uses standard
  functions, nor is it guaranteed to support
  timing resolution less than a second.
*/
#include

class Timer {
public:
  typedef double diff_type;

  // Same as Timer t; t.begin();
  Timer(): start(std::clock()), elapsed(0) {}
  // Last result before a call to begin()
  diff_type last() const { return elapsed; }
  // Reset the timer
  void begin() { start = std::clock(); elapsed = 0; }
  // Save the result
  diff_type end();
private:
  std::clock_t start;
  diff_type    elapsed;
};

Timer::diff_type Timer::end()
{
  elapsed = (diff_type)std::clock() - start;
  elapsed /= CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
  return elapsed;
}

Piping Commands - Find, Grep, Sed

I wanted to perform sed on output of grep. Found that the webpage: http://www.liamdelahunty.com/tips/piping_commands_find_grep_sed.php matches my requirement.

The following command worked:
$ grep SHASHI rscd.log  | sed 's/.*SHASHI/SHASHI/g'

Time to invest in floating rate funds

Now that inflation has risen to record levels, RBI is sure to take measures to curb it by reducing availability of money in the market. That will be done by hiking various mandatory ratios. This leads to hike in interest rates (benchmark prime lending rates) of banks.

Floating rate debt funds are the funds to purchase in this rising interest rate regime to earn maximum returns. More about floating rate funds can be read at:

http://www.financialexpress.com/printer/news/113055/ 
http://www.fourstocks.com/blog/200912/analyzing_floating_rate_funds/426 
http://valueinvestorindia.blogspot.com/2009/12/analysing-floating-rate-funds.html

Higher returns can be expected from Long term floating rate funds over short term. A snapshot of list of long term floating rate funds is available at:
http://new.valueresearchonline.com/funds/h2_typecomp.asp?type=1&objective=34

An important point to keep in mind is that floating rate funds are good only when you are ready to invest for at least more than 1 year. Otherwise the exit loads on these funds are very big. Examples:


Fund                                                                               Exit load
====                                                                             =======
BSL Floating Rate LT Ret-G                           2% for redemption within 365 days
HDFC Floating Rate Income LT-G                  3% for redemption within 540 days
ICICI Pru LT Floating Rate A-G                      4% for redemption within 390 days



Information about all fund categories in debt is available at:
http://wealth.moneycontrol.com/printpage.php?id=13992

Update: Sunday 14th March 2010
========================
My thoughts proved to be correct as seen from the article at link below which discusses the returns of all debt fund categories in the month of February 2010. The essence is that floating rate long term funds was the best performing category of the month.

http://new.valueresearchonline.com/story/h2_storyView.asp?str=101297

Error in Visual Studio 2005 "The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document"

It turned out that I had set a breakpoint in code that was not being referred in the code flow.