Friday, August 14, 2009

Found the way to develop JSP and Servlets in Eclipse IDE

I was looking for a topic to describe how to create JSPs and Servlets in Eclipse IDE for a very long time. Finally i struck to a web site

http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipseWTP/article.html

and i relaxed after reading the detailed article. It helped me to find the way that we use to create JSPs (Java Server Pages) and Servlets in Eclipse IDE. Eclipse is a very useful IDE (Integrated Development Environment). But i have seen that people always prefer the Netbeans IDE. I thing Netbeans IDE is very easy to use and has a very easy to understand user interface, so every one can easily understand what to do and where to do in the Netbeans IDE. Whereas the Eclipse IDE has a very tough user interface that, i think, is the main reason that most people prefer to the Netbeans IDE. But the Eclipse IDE is very useful and has everything which a programmer is keen for.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Capture your desktop into a video free of cost.

Today there is a number of websites, like youture.com, which provide us a space to upload videos. Many of these websites offer "Earn By Uploading" functionality. Youtube.com has also started a partner program, in which you create an account with them and they would give you a webpage that would show your profile and the videos that you upload. When ever someone watches your video, some kind of google ads or banners are shown along with your video, you earn money. Even if you don't have a camera to capture videos, you can still create movie files. You can capture the activities of your desktop into a video file and then you can publish the video on Youtube.com. But be careful that your video must have such a content that teaches or entertains others. Because you have to create an account with Google Adsense program also to earn money from Youtube.com. Google would first check your videos quality and then google would approve you if your videos have a good quality, else your Google Adsense account will not be approved by google, and your videos must be captured by you.
        There are various softwares that capture the desktop activities into a video but those softwares have to be bought. Do not worry, there is an Open Source software that helps you create videos free of cost, which is CamStudio. You can download this software freely and you can use it anyway you want. This software is totally free.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

And then finally i joined an english speaking course.

I had been struggling to learn english for a very long time on my own, but two days ago i joined an english spoken course in Chandigarh. The fee amount is 1500 Rs per month. Today almost every field requires an employee to be perfect in english, whether it is oral, written or listening. I am pursuing GNIIT so i will be working in a software company in my future, so, it becomes very important for me to learn english properly so that i get a good job in this field.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

And then it becomes cool somehow

Here in Punjab, the atmosphere was so hot a day ago. All the people were suffering from this. I and two of my friends, Jaspreet and Randeep, go to Chandigarh for attending the GNIIT class. And we have to travel the 1 hour long way through bus. The buses here are extremely loaded with passengers. Yesterday i and Jaspreet had to stand on the last step of the door of the bus. And we have to walk almost 2 km to get to the NIIT Center from the bus stop. It was really so suffering in the high sun.
      But all those problems now has gone away becuase it rained today for a very long time. Now the atmosphere in Punjab has become much better.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

How to create an animated GIF image

Today when you go to any website you can see some animated pictures there. These pictures are extensioned as .gif. Actually a .gif picture is a collection of pictures and these pictures are repeated on a specific interval of time. It is not hard to create an animated .gif image. I will show you how you can create an animated .gif file easily and freely on your computer. To create professional looking image you will need two following softwares and these two softwares are totally free to download and use.

  • Inkscape.

  • Pencil or any other software that creates .gif files.

To create an animated .gif image you need a set of images and to create this set of images we use Inkscape. First of all download and install Inkscape and then start it. You will see something like this :


          And now make visible the grids by View -> Grid. Now zoom in the draw area by pressing the Ctrl key and rotating the mouse wheel or the same can be done using the + button on the NumberPad of the keyboard. Now it becomes like this :


          Now draw a rectangle by selecting the rectangle box in the toolbox on the left side and manager its colors and brightness by pressing Ctrl+Shift+F like this :


          Now draw texts on the rectangle and then save the image. You can convert your drawing into an image by going to File -> Export Bitmap. Now fade the color of texts and save the image using a different name and agian fade the color text and save the image. Do this until the color of text becomes the same as that of the background rectangle. Something like this :



          And the final image comes like this one. This is a .swf file. There are a number of softwares on the internet available to convert a set of images into an animated image file.