Sarath Chandra Pandurangi's Blog

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May this be the year of joy, success, prosperity, peace and harmony for all you. -Sarath Chandra and Family.

Dedicated to all the dc comic's fans..

బంధు మిత్రులకి, సమస్త లోక జనులందరికి  శ్రీ నందన నామ సంవత్సర  శుభాకాంక్షలు సర్వే జనా సుఖినోభవంతు   Wishing everyone in the family,  all our friends  and everyone everywhere.. Happy Ugadi photo credit: kalyan

We just came back from a beautiful vacation from India. Kerala, a state in India, is also dubbed "God's Own Country". It is rich in greenery, abundant in water bodies. Kerala should be on any tourist's list immediately after Tajmahal, Agra (although, be advised that Agra is North India and Kerala is on the extreme south). The weather was generally pleasant (Jan - Mar is considered the *season* for tourism here) We landed in Thiruvananthapuram , aka Trivandrum, Trichy. It's the capital city of Kerala. It is accessible by air, train (and also sea). It is said to have some really nice beaches – one is - Varkala Beach (we were unable to go for lack of time). Can also be used as a crashing pad. The crown jewel tourist spot near Trichy is a hill station called Ponmudi . The best experience would be to spend a night in the KTDC resort 2 KM from the summit. The sunrise and the sunset from the resort is awe inspiring. The summit is not open for either so, the resort i...

2010 is out the door. Personally, it was a year that ebbed out the worst period of my life. Dawning 2011, I hope things make a turn towards the good. To all the members of our extended family, friends, friends' friends, Jyothsna and I wish a very very very happy new year. It has been a fun New Years Eve, Thanks to a lot of friends. credit:btobetun Let there be Peace!

Apparently, the recent long firefox context menu bug posted a few days ago, is not a niche bug after all. This looks like a consistent bug that happens to me on Windows XP. The Context menu is supposed to change with *context* invoked on. Looks like the logic around making it intelligent, is kind of buggy. I was able to reproduce the long menu bug on other websites, at random. However, one thing I was able to consistently reporduce is the inablilty to get context menu for text selection. See the difference in the menu. Firefox 3.6 Firefox 4.0b6

May Lord Ganesha bestow peace, prosperity and happiness to you and your family.

Obviously, this is just a bug. It happened only once. Not reproducible. Running Firefox 4.05 beta. On Windows XP. With Firefox 4, Canvas, Video Audio etc are all baked in. The list looks like the menu options are the exaustive options of all features on.The page however, upon refresh, does not show the same context menu. Click the Image to enlarge.

  A picture is (also communication) worth a 1000 words.   credit: blogcmmi.com and makinggoodsoftware.com

Reliance is a big name in Indian Telecom sector. And they better hire some production support professionals, because I am looking at this for the past 25 mins. Still the same thing. This is just the kind of messages you don't want your production users to see. It exposes a lot of technical details.Something you, as a developer, don't want to expose to outside world.

I want to take this day as an opportunity to thank my boss, Stafford Martin , for everything he has done. My career has seen pretty challenging times in the past 9 months. And Stafford's total cooperation, in all that he could do, is simply worth a very good mention. Thank you Stafford. okay.. I am getting back to work now :) photo:www.altiusdirectory.com

Look What I found on my webware feed last night :D NullPointerException -Open Source!

-- Art by Baran

One of the witty forwards I recieved in the recent past :)

I am off until olympics, I will catch up later.. And I am blogging this Historical moment.. Thanks to Abhinav Bindra who did India proud

I have vpnaccess to my work. I have been on Ubuntu after my upgrade to Hardy. But I have to go back to vista only for vpn. If I am able to connect to vpn in Ubuntu, There is hardly any reason to switch to windoze. First of all, I was able to install AnyConnect client using the webinstaller the same way I would in vista. But only to find an error after I run the client. then when you click ok.. it would go to.. and quit on me. I realised the client needs a vpn agent deamon. I checked the folder where it installed and started it manually (I guess the install script failed to put in init.rd or something.) /opt/cisco/vpn/bin/vpnagentd But it doesnot solve the problem. I still get a certificate error. And no.. This is not related to the host, as I can very well connect to the same host in Vista. I am looking up to my IT guys. Lets see what they come up with.

Look ma.. New site.. My yesterday's post was only the beginning of my "chasing" the development of v3.sarathonline.com . Actually, by the time you see this post, it might very well be sarathonline.com . My Grand weekend plan, went very well. I was able to finally re-do my site 3.0 template for sarathonline.com. The new logo, The template design, even the FAVicon - all these happened in the last two days. What is more exciting is I have moved from my PHP host to Google App Engine. The plan to keep the 2.0 version till it expires this June, and then it is all FREE GAE hosting, Google Mail hosting (which I joyfully migrated to, 4 months back). Moving to 2.0 had a few considerations at that time Minimal Template (no images) Introduce DB features Introduce Ajax Hosted Gallery But that was in 2006.The newer release is a complete re-write GAE hosted, with Python and Rapid development CSS Template, web 2.0 Images Redisigned Blog, with its own sub domain more to come.. In this pr...

I hate Microsoft. You might have heard that a zillion times in the developer world, especially in the non-microsoft-technologies world. But yesterday, I felt like killing myself because of Microsoft's IE. Here is what is happened. I was writing an error page for handling a custom Exception in filter. <error-page> <exception-type>com.so.testapp.exception.CustomException</exception-type> <location>/error.jsp</location> </error-page> and the JSP has it simple too.. <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %> <c:set var="cException" value="${requestScope['javax.servlet.error.exception']}"/> Got Exception : <c:out value="${cException}" /> This must be pretty darn simple but IE comes with this *Friendly* error page. I have had a nightmare trying to figure out why I dont get my message, Only to realise that there is 512k size threshold before which IE hi...