Deeds, No Words

Communications in Software Houses

2010-06-22T06:35:00.000-07:00

Programmer to Team Leader:

"We can't do this proposed project. **CAN NOT**. It will involve a major
design change and no one in our team knows the design of this legacy system.
And above that, nobody in our company knows the language in which this
application has been written. So even if somebody wants to work on it, they
can't. If you ask my personal opinion, the company should never take these
type of projects."

Team Leader to Project Manager :

"This project will involve a design change. Currently, we don't have any
staff that has experience in this type of work. Also, the language is
unfamiliar to us, so we will have to arrange for some training if we take
this project. In my personal opinion, we are not ready to take on a project
of this nature."

Project Manager to 1st Level Manager :

"This project involves a design change in the system and we don't have much
experience in that area. Also, not many people in our company are
appropriately trained for it. In my personal opinion, we might be able to do
the project but we would need more time than usual to complete it."

1st Level Manager to Senior Level Manager :

"This project involves design re-engineering. We have some people who have
worked in this area and others who know the implementation language. So they
can train other people. In my personal opinion we should take this project,
but with caution."

Senior Level Manager to CEO :

"This project will demonstrate to the industry our capabilities in
remodeling the design of a complete legacy system. We have all the necessary
skills and people to execute this project successfully. Some people have
already given in house training in this area to other staff members. In my
personal opinion, we should not let this project slip by us under any
circumstances. "

CEO to Client :

"This is the type of project in which our company specializes. We have
executed many projects of the same nature for many large clients. Trust me
when I say that we are the most competent firm in the industry for doing
this kind of work. It is my personal opinion that we can execute this
project successfully and well within the given time frame.

Top ten footballers in Fifa Worldcup

2010-06-22T06:26:00.001-07:00

10 Best Footballers in the FIFA World Cup 2010

The biggest sporting event on this planet is about to start in a couple of days and all eyes are set on South Africa. Teams have started coming to host country and so does the spectators. Everyone is thriving to see there favorite players on the field fighting for FIFA world cup trophy. Some of the players of a certain sporting event are always highlighted as favorites. From the massive players who compete in a tournament, there are always best players who prevail. Let’s talk about the best players participating in the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. So here is a list of 10 best footballers to look forward in the FIFA World Cup 2010.

10 Lionel Messi

Lionel Messi, a 22 years old forward, from Argentina with a club team named Barcelona. He is the youngest among the top 10 and a left-footer who uses low center of gravity in striking the ball to goal. More about Footballers after the break...

09 Kaka

Kaka, a 27 years old midfielder, from Brazil with a club team named Real Madrid. Coming from the upper-middle-class clan, he has been one of the best players in the football world making the Brazil team one of the best.

08 Wayne Rooney

Wayne Rooney, a 24 years old forward, from England with a club team named Manchester United. He is known as the baby-face-assassin who can strike from anywhere which allows him to score any type of goal and been proving his finishing skills.

07 Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo, a 25 years old midfielder, from Portugal with a club named Real Madrid. He has a special skill in long-range free kicks which enables him to score from anywhere.

06 Didier Drogba

Didier Drogba, 31 years old, from Ivory Coast with a club team named Chelsea and holds the position of forward. This athletic player has become one of the world’s leading strikers. His participation in world cup is not shower right now due to his recent injury.

05 Steven Gerrard

Steven Gerrard, a 29 years old midfielder, from England with a club team named Liverpool. He has been an outstanding midfielder who also acts as a second striker or as a winger. Along with Frank Lampard, they formed the best duo attacking midfielders in the world. He is a nine-year veteran of the English team.

04 Fernando Torres

Fernando Torres, a 25 years old forward, from Spain with a club team named Liverpool. He has been playing in the football world since the age of 7 and never stops scoring goals which made him one of the best strikers in the world.

03 Xavi

Xavi, 30 years old, from Spain with the club team FC Barcelona and acts as a midfielder. He has his artistic ways of accurate passes and vision with a great ability of keeping the ball.

02 Frank Lampard

Frank Lampard is an English footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Chelsea and at international level for the England national team. He plays most often as a box-to-box midfielder and has also enjoyed spells in a more advanced attacking midfield. He is considered to be one of the best footballers in the world.

01 Robinho

Robinho is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a striker for Brazilian National team. Robinho was personally picked by Brazil legend Pele as his heir apparent at only 15 years of age.

Parsing Excel files in Java

2010-06-10T04:52:00.000-07:00

Hi Friends,

Recently i worked on parsing the Microsoft Excel Files in java and want to share some useful info with you.

I found two good API's for this purpose.

1. Apache POI(free)
2. Smart XLS(free for non commercial use)

Apache POI:
Its a free API made by apache. You can parse the following things
No of Physical rows, Sheets Count, Cell Values, Cell formula,Styles(not full colors),But No Chart Support. It can read both xls and xlsx formats.

Smart XLS:
It is a good API as compared to POI.It parses almost all the values and have additional chart support as well. We can get Chart basic attributes like Series Count, Series Formula, Series Names, Series Category Formula etc etc. It also support the styling of each cell.

Regards,
Vajahat Ali Niazi
Lahore, Pakistan

Match Differences Between Two Strings

2010-06-10T04:38:00.000-07:00

Hi friends,

Once i was asked to write an algorithm which matches the two strings and tell the difference between them.

In other words we have two sentences
1. Its raining cats and dogs since morning
2. Its raining monkey and dogs since morning.

than the algorithm should efficient enough to detect the difference between the two strings.
In the above example it should tell that there are two difference in the string.

i-e monkeys found at the place of cat.

In order to implement the algorithm i would recommend to use

Diff takes two texts and finds the differences. This implementation works on a character by character basis. The result of any diff may contain 'chaff', irrelevant small commonalities which complicate the output. A post-diff cleanup algorithm factors out these trivial commonalities.

Google Difference Match patch
It is an open source algorithm written in the Java, JavaScript, C++, C#, Lua and Python.
You can find it here
http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/

The Diff Match and Patch libraries offer robust algorithms to perform the operations required for synchronizing plain text.

Diff:

Compare two blocks of plain text and efficiently return a list of differences.
Diff Demo

Match:

Given a search string, find its best fuzzy match in a block of plain text. Weighted for both accuracy and location.
Match Demo

Patch:

Apply a list of patches onto plain text. Use best-effort to apply patch even when the underlying text doesn't match.
Patch Demo

Currently available in Java, JavaScript, C++, C#, Lua and Python. Regardless of language, each library features the same API and the same functionality. All versions also have comprehensive test harnesses.

Thanks
Vajahat Ali Niazi
Lahore Pakistan

The Garbage Truck Story

2010-06-08T02:06:00.000-07:00

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded and missed the other car by just inches!

The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean he was really friendly.

So I asked, "Why did you just do that? That guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!" That is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, "The Law of the Garbage Truck."

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets,

So... "Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't."

Life is ten percent of what you make it and ninety percent of how you take it!

Software Engineering Joke : Difference Between Defect and a Bug

2010-05-19T00:05:00.000-07:00

Once Asked in an Interview, What Is the Difference Between Defect and a Bug?

Candidate: Can I Explain this with an example.

Employer: Yes

Candidate: Once a guy went to a tea shop and ordered one cup of tea and when the tea came he saw a fly in his cup.
Now this is a BUG.

Employer: Laughed and said my dear now you tell me what is a defect?

Candidate: Once a Guy went to a tea shop and ordered a tea and when a tea came he tasted and said there is less sugar in the tea.
Now this is a defect!

Employer: Laughed Hahahaha Haaa and said Can You Elaborate what you want to say?

Candidate: Yes Sir!
You can manage to drink a cup of tea with less or more sugar but you can’t drink a cup of tea with a bug.

I.e.:

Product can’t be delivered with a Live Bug.
Quality of the Product can be compromised with a defect.

How to extract comments from pdf using Itext

2010-04-29T03:54:00.000-07:00

Hi Friends,

Here is the code of extracting comments from the PDF file using the itext.This extracts the comments of each page one by one and print them on the console.

/******************************************************************************/
package pdftest;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfArray;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfDictionary;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfName;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfObject;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfString;
import java.util.ListIterator;

public class CommentsTest {

public static void main(String args[]) {
try {
System.out.println("Hi in the Comments Test");
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("c:\\temp\\testattachments.pdf");

for (int i = 1; i <= reader.getNumberOfPages(); i++)
{

PdfDictionary page = reader.getPageN(i);
PdfArray annotsArray = null;

if(page.getAsArray(PdfName.ANNOTS)==null)
continue;

annotsArray = page.getAsArray(PdfName.ANNOTS);
for (ListIterator iter = annotsArray.listIterator(); iter.hasNext();)
{
PdfDictionary annot = (PdfDictionary) PdfReader.getPdfObject(iter.next());
PdfString content = (PdfString) PdfReader.getPdfObject(annot.get(PdfName.CONTENTS));
if (content != null) {
System.out.println(content);
}
}
}

} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

}
}

/******************************************************************************/

Regards,
Vajahat Ali

Remove Atatchments from PDF file using itext

2010-03-31T02:55:00.001-07:00

Hi Friends:
Here is the code that will be used to unpack(remove) the attachments from the PDF using itext.

PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(filename);
PdfDictionary root = reader.getCatalog();
PdfDictionary documentnames = root.getAsDict(PdfName.NAMES);
PdfDictionary embeddedfiles = documentnames.getAsDict(PdfName.EMBEDDEDFILES);
PdfArray filespecs = embeddedfiles.getAsArray(PdfName.NAMES);
PdfDictionary filespec;
PdfDictionary refs;
FileOutputStream fos;
PRStream stream;
for (int i = 0; i < filespecs.size(); ) {
filespecs.getAsName(i++);
filespec = filespecs.getAsDict(i++);
refs = filespec.getAsDict(PdfName.EF);
for (PdfName key : refs.getKeys()) {
fos = new FileOutputStream(filespec.getAsString(key).toString());
stream = (PRStream) PdfReader.getPdfObject(refs.getAsIndirectObject(key));
fos.write(PdfReader.getStreamBytes(stream));
fos.flush();
fos.close();
}
}

How to Convert PDF to HTML

2009-10-09T03:57:00.000-07:00

Hello Friends,
Today i will let you know that how can you convert the PDF files to HTML format.

Here are the following steps you should follow:

1. Download Open Source Utility Free from
http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/

2.Run this utility to convert the PDF files to the HTML by providing run time arguments

1.src file(pdf file)
2.outputfile(out put html file)

Feel free to ask questions:
vajahatalee@hotmail.com

Regards,
Ali Vajahat
Software Engineer
Software Innovations
Lahore,Pakistan

The Kerry-Lugar Bill: details and conditions(in Urdu)

2009-10-09T03:46:00.000-07:00

The Kerry-Lugar Bill: details and conditions

2009-10-09T03:42:00.000-07:00

WASHINGTON: The following is the text of the Kerry-Lugar Bill passed by the Senate on Thursday, Sept 24, 2009. It will now go to the House of Representatives and if passed without amendments, will be sent to President Barack Obama for signing into law:

S.1707

Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009 (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by Senate)

SEC. 203. LIMITATIONS ON CERTAIN ASSISTANCE.

(a) Limitation on Security-related Assistance: For fiscal years 2011 through 2014, no security-related assistance may be provided to Pakistan in a fiscal year until the Secretary of State, under the direction of the President, makes the certification required under subsection (c) for such fiscal year.

(b) Limitation on Arms Transfers: For fiscal years 2012 through 2014, no letter of offer to sell major defence equipment to Pakistan may be issued pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act (22 USC 2751 et seq.) and no license to export major defence equipment to Pakistan may be issued pursuant to such Act in a fiscal year until the Secretary of State, under the direction of the President, makes the certification required under subsection (c) for such fiscal year.

(c) Certification: The certification required by this subsection is a certification by the Secretary of State, under the direction of the President, to the appropriate congressional committees that: (1) the Government of Pakistan is continuing to cooperate with the United States in efforts to dismantle supplier networks relating to the acquisition of nuclear weapons-related materials, such as providing relevant information from or direct access to Pakistani nationals associated with such networks;

(2) the Government of Pakistan during the preceding fiscal year has demonstrated a sustained commitment to and is making significant efforts towards combating terrorist groups, consistent with the purposes of assistance described in section 201, including taking into account the extent to which the Government of Pakistan has made progress on matters such as (A) ceasing support, including by any elements within the Pakistan military or its intelligence agency, to extremist and terrorist groups, particularly to any group that has conducted attacks against the United States or coalition forces in Afghanistan, or against the territory or people of neighbouring countries; (B) preventing al-Qaeda, the Taliban and associated terrorist groups, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, from operating in the territory of Pakistan, including carrying out cross-border attacks into neighbouring countries, closing terrorist camps in the Fata, dismantling terrorist bases of operations in other parts of the country, including Quetta and Muridke, and taking action when provided with intelligence about high-level terrorist targets; and (C) strengthening counterterrorism and anti-money laundering laws; and (3) the security forces of Pakistan are not materially and substantially subverting the political or judicial processes of Pakistan.

(d) Certain Payments: (1) IN GENERAL- Subject to paragraph (2), none of the funds appropriated for security-related assistance for fiscal years 2010 through 2014, or any amounts appropriated to the Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund established under the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public Law 111-32), may be obligated or expended to make payments relating to (A) the Letter of Offer and Acceptance PK-D-YAD signed between the Governments of the United States of America and Pakistan on September 30, 2006; (B) the Letter of Offer and Acceptance PK-D-NAP signed between the Governments of the United States of America and Pakistan on September 30, 2006; and C) the Letter of Offer and Acceptance PK-D-SAF signed between the Governments of the United States of America and Pakistan on September 30, 2006.

(2) EXCEPTION: Funds appropriated for security-related assistance for fiscal years 2010 through 2014 may be used for construction and related activities carried out pursuant to the Letters of Offer and Acceptance described in paragraph (1).

(e) Waiver: (1) IN GENERAL - The Secretary of State, under the direction of the President, may waive the limitations contained in subsections (a), (b), and (d) for a fiscal year if the Secretary of State determines that is important to the national security interests of the United States to do so.

(2) PRIOR NOTICE OF WAIVER: The Secretary of State, under the direction of the President, may not exercise the authority of paragraph (1) until seven days after the Secretary of State provides to the appropriate congressional committees a written notice of the intent to issue to waiver and the reasons therefore. The notice may be submitted in classified or unclassified form, as necessary.

(f) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined: In this section, the term `appropriate congressional committees’ means (1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives; and (2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.

SEC. 204. PAKISTAN COUNTERINSURGENCY CAPABILITY FUND.

(a) For Fiscal Year 2010: (1) IN GENERAL - For fiscal year 2010, the Department of State’s Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund established under the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public Law 111-32), hereinafter in this section referred to as the `Fund’, shall consist of the following: (A) Amounts appropriated to carry out this subsection (which may not include any amounts appropriated to carry out title I of this Act).

(B) Amounts otherwise available to the Secretary of State to carry out this subsection.

(2) PURPOSES OF FUND: Amounts in the Fund made available to carry out this subsection for any fiscal year are authorised to be used by the Secretary of State, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Defence, to build and maintain the counterinsurgency capability of Pakistan under the same terms and conditions (except as otherwise provided in this subsection) that are applicable to amounts made available under the Fund for fiscal year 2009.

(3) TRANSFER AUTHORITY: (A) IN GENERAL - The Secretary of State is authorised to transfer amounts in the fund made available to carry out this subsection for any fiscal year to the Department of Defence’s Pakistan Counterinsurgency Fund established under the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public Law 111-32) and such amounts may be transferred back to the Fund if the Secretary of Defence, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, determines that such amounts are not needed for the purposes for which initially transferred.

(B) TREATMENT OF TRANSFERRED FUNDS: Subject to subsections (d) and (e) of section 203, transfers from the Fund under the authority of subparagraph (A) shall be merged with and be available for the same purposes and for the same time period as amounts in the Department of Defence’s Pakistan Counterinsurgency Fund.

(C) RELATION TO OTHER AUTHORITIES: The authority to provide assistance under this subsection is in addition to any other authority to provide assistance to foreign countries.

(D) NOTIFICATION: The Secretary of State shall, not less than 15 days prior to making transfers from the Fund under subparagraph (A), notify the appropriate congressional committees in writing of the details of any such transfer.

(b) Submission of Notifications: Any notification required by this section may be submitted in classified or unclassified form, as necessary.

(c) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined: In this section, the term `appropriate congressional committees’ means (1) the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and (2) the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.

SEC. 205. REQUIREMENTS FOR CIVILIAN CONTROL OF CERTAIN ASSISTANCE

(a) Requirements: (1) IN GENERAL - For fiscal years 2010 through 2014, any direct cash security-related assistance or non-assistance payments by the United States to the Government of Pakistan may only be provided or made to civilian authorities of a civilian government of Pakistan.

(2) DOCUMENTATION: For fiscal years 2010 through 2014, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Defence, shall ensure that civilian authorities of a civilian government of Pakistan have received a copy of final documentation provided to the United States related to non-assistance payments provided or made to the Government of Pakistan.

(b) Waiver: 1) SECURITY-RELATED ASSISTANCE: The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Defence, may waive the requirements of subsection (a) with respect to security-related assistance described in subsection (a) funded from accounts within budget function 150 (International Affairs) if the Secretary of State certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that the waiver is important to the national security interest of the United States.

(2) NON-ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS: The Secretary of Defence, in consultation with the Secretary of State, may waive the requirements of subsection (a) with respect to non-assistance payments described in subsection (a) funded from accounts within budget function 050 (National Defence) if the Secretary of Defense certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that the waiver is important to the national security interest of the United States.

(c) Application to Certain Activities- Nothing in this section shall apply with respect to (1) any activities subject to reporting requirements under title V of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 413 et seq.); (2) any assistance to promote democratic elections or public participation in democratic processes; (3) any assistance or payments if the Secretary of State determines and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that subsequent to the termination of assistance or payments a democratically elected government has taken office; (4) any assistance or payments made pursuant to section 1208 of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Public Law 108-375; 118 Stat. 2086), as amended; (5) any payments made pursuant to the Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement between the Department of Defense of the United States of America and the Ministry of Defense of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan; and (6) any assistance or payments made pursuant to section 943 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110-417; 122 Stat. 4578).

(d) Definitions- In this section (1) the term `appropriate congressional committees’ means the Committees on Appropriations, Armed Services, and Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Appropriations, Armed Services, and Foreign Relations of the Senate; and (2) the term ‘civilian government of Pakistan’ does not include any government of Pakistan whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup or decree.

TITLE III—STRATEGY, ACCOUNTABILITY, MONITORING, AND OTHER PROVISIONS SEC. 301. STRATEGY REPORTS.

(a) Pakistan Assistance Strategy Report- Not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report describing United States policy and strategy with respect to assistance to Pakistan under this Act. The report shall include the following: (1) A description of the principal objectives of United States assistance to Pakistan to be provided under title I of this Act.

(2) A general description of the specific programs, projects, and activities designed to achieve the purposes of section 101 and the respective funding levels for such programs, projects, and activities for fiscal years 2010 through 2014.

(3) A plan for program monitoring, operations research, and impact evaluation research for assistance authorized under title I of this Act.

(4) A description of the role to be played by Pakistani national, regional, and local officials and members of Pakistani civil society and local private sector, civic, religious, and tribal leaders in helping to identify and implement programs and projects for which assistance is to be provided under this Act, and of consultations with such representatives in developing the strategy.

(5) A description of the steps taken, or to be taken, to ensure assistance provided under this Act is not awarded to individuals or entities affiliated with terrorist organizations.

(6) A projection of the levels of assistance to be provided to Pakistan under this Act, broken down into the following categories as described in the annual `Report on the Criteria and Methodology for Determining the Eligibility of Candidate Countries for Millennium Challenge Account Assistance’: (A) Civil liberties. (B) Political rights. (C) Voice and accountability. (D) Government effectiveness. (E) Rule of law. (F) Control of corruption. (G) Immunization rates. (H) Public expenditure on health. (I) Girls’ primary education completion rate. (J) Public expenditure on primary education. (K) Natural resource management. (L) Business start-up. (M) Land rights and access. (N) Trade policy. (O) Regulatory quality. (P) Inflation control. (Q) Fiscal policy.

(7) An analysis for the suitable replacement for existing Pakistani helicopters, including recommendations for sustainment and training.

(b) Comprehensive Regional Strategy Report: (1) SENSE OF CONGRESS: It is the sense of Congress that the achievement of United States national security goals to eliminate terrorist threats and close safe havens in Pakistan requires the development of a comprehensive plan that utilizes all elements of national power, including in coordination and cooperation with other concerned governments, and that it is critical to Pakistan’s long-term prosperity and security to strengthen regional relationships among India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

(2) COMPREHENSIVE REGIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY: The President shall develop a comprehensive interagency regional security strategy to eliminate terrorist threats and close safe havens in Pakistan, including by working with the Government of Pakistan and other relevant governments and organizations in the region and elsewhere, as appropriate, to best implement effective counterinsurgency and counterterrorism efforts in and near the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, including the FATA, the NWFP, parts of Balochistan, and parts of Punjab.

(3) REPORT: (A) IN GENERAL- Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the comprehensive regional security strategy required under paragraph (2).

(B) CONTENTS- The report shall include a copy of the comprehensive regional security strategy, including specifications of goals, and proposed timelines and budgets for implementation of the strategy.

(C) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DEFINED: In this paragraph, the term `appropriate congressional committees’ means (i) the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives; and (ii) the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.

(c) Security-related Assistance Plan- Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a plan for the proposed use of amounts authorized for security-related assistance for each of the fiscal years 2010 through 2014. Such plan shall include an assessment of how the use of such amounts complements or otherwise is related to amounts described in section 204.

SEC. 302. MONITORING REPORTS.

(a) Semi-Annual Monitoring Report- Not later than 180 days after the submission of the Pakistan Assistance Strategy Report pursuant to section 301(a), and every 180 days thereafter through September 30, 2014, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that describes the assistance provided under this Act during the preceding 180-day period. The report shall include—

(1) a description of all assistance by program, project, and activity, as well as by geographic area, provided pursuant to title I of this Act during the period covered by the report, including the amount of assistance provided for each program or project, and with respect to the first report a description of all amounts made available for assistance to Pakistan during fiscal year 2009, including a description of each program, project, and activity for which funds were made available; (2) a list of persons or entities from the United States or other countries that have received funds in excess of $100,000 to conduct projects under title I of this Act during the period covered by the report, which may be included in a classified annex, if necessary to avoid a security risk, and a justification for the classification; (3) with respect to the plan described in section 301(a)(3), updates to such plan and a description of best practices to improve the impact of the assistance authorized under title I of this Act; (4) an assessment of the effectiveness of assistance provided under title I of this Act during the period covered by the report in achieving desired objectives and outcomes as guided by the plan described in section 301(a)(3), and as updated pursuant to paragraph (3) of this subsection, including a systematic, qualitative, and where possible, quantitative basis for assessing whether desired outcomes are achieved and a timeline for completion of each project and program; (5) a description of any shortfall in United States financial, physical, technical, or human resources that hinder the effective use and monitoring of such funds; (6) a description of any negative impact, including the absorptive capacity of the region for which the resources are intended, of United States bilateral or multilateral assistance and recommendations for modification of funding, if any; (7) any incidents or reports of waste, fraud, and abuse of expenditures under title I of this Act; (8) the amount of funds authorized to be appropriated pursuant to section 102 that were used during the reporting period for administrative expenses or for audits and program reviews pursuant to the authority under sections 101(c)(2) and 103; (9) a description of the expenditures made from any Chief of Mission Fund established pursuant to section 101(c)(5) during the period covered by the report, the purposes for which such expenditures were made, and a list of the recipients of any expenditures from the Chief of Mission Fund in excess of $100,000; (10) an accounting of assistance provided to Pakistan under title I of this Act, broken down into the categories set forth in section 301(a)(6); (11) an evaluation of efforts undertaken by the Government of Pakistan to (A) disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other extremist and terrorist groups in the FATA and settled areas; (B) eliminate the safe havens of such forces in Pakistan; (C) close terrorist camps, including those of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed; (D) cease all support for extremist and terrorist groups; (E) prevent attacks into neighbouring countries; (F) increase oversight over curriculum in Madrassas, including closing Madrassas with direct links to the Taliban or other extremist and terrorist groups; and (G) improve counterterrorism financing and anti-money laundering laws, apply for observer status for the Financial Action Task Force, and take steps to adhere to the United Nations International Convention for the Suppression of Financing of Terrorism; (12) a detailed description of Pakistan’s efforts to prevent proliferation of nuclear-related material and expertise; (13) an assessment of whether assistance provided to Pakistan has directly or indirectly aided the expansion of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, whether by the diversion of United States assistance or the reallocation of Pakistan’s financial resources that would otherwise be spent for programs and activities unrelated to its nuclear weapons program; (14) a detailed description of the extent to which funds obligated and expended pursuant to section 202(b) meet the requirements of such section; and (15) an assessment of the extent to which the Government of Pakistan exercises effective civilian control of the military, including a description of the extent to which civilian executive leaders and parliament exercise oversight and approval of military budgets, the chain of command, the process of promotion for senior military leaders, civilian involvement in strategic guidance and planning, and military involvement in civil administration.

(b) Government Accountability Office Reports:

(1) PAKISTAN ASSISTANCE STRATEGY REPORT: Not later than one year after the submission of the Pakistan Assistance Strategy Report pursuant to section 301(a), the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that contains (A) a review of, and comments addressing, the Pakistan Assistance Strategy Report; (B) recommendations relating to any additional actions the Comptroller General believes could help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of United States efforts to meet the objectives of this Act; (C) a detailed description of the expenditures made by Pakistan pursuant to grant assistance under section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 USC.

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Other day someone asked me how to use Urdu fonts in Java. So for a sample java program that uses urdu font, you need to do following:

1. Download Nafees Nastaleeq Urdu font from CRULP.

2. Copy the font in C:\WINDOWS\Fonts folder

3. Create following java program. It should display "Usman" in Urdu.

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class BasicDraw {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new BasicDraw();
}
BasicDraw() {
// Create a frame
JFrame frame = new JFrame();

// Add a component with a custom paint method
frame.getContentPane().add(new MyComponent());

// Display the frame
int frameWidth = 200;
int frameHeight = 200;
frame.setSize(frameWidth, frameHeight);
frame.setVisible(true);
}

class MyComponent extends JComponent {
// This method is called whenever the contents needs to be painted
public void paint(Graphics g) {
int style = Font.PLAIN;
int size = 24;
Font font = null;
font = new Font("Nafees Nastaleeq", style, size);
String text = "\u0639\u062b\u0645\u0627\u0646";
g.setFont(font);

// Draw a string such that its base line is at x, y
int x = 80;
int y = 40;
g.drawString(text, x, y);
}
}
}

4. The resulting image should look like:

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Today i will Let you guys now how to convert the word,powerpoint,excel formats to PDF.

Apache has a Java API, called POI, that allows you to access Microsoft formats from within Java. It looks handy, but I found some people complaining about the complexity of it. Some further searching turned up mention of something called JODConverter. This is a fantastic project.

JODConverter is essentially a Java library that utilizes OpenOffice’s conversion engine to convert to and from any format that OpenOffice supports. This includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF, Plain Text, etc.

I decided to see how easy it was going to be to use this library. Let’s face it, a lot of these open source projects claim to do all kinds of great things, but do not provide the greatest results. So, I created a small test project and wrote a simple class. Here’s what it looks like:

public class convertFile {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
     File inputFile = new File("resume-2.doc");

      File outputFile = new File("resume-2.pdf");

     OpenOfficeConnection connection = new SocketOpenOfficeConnection(8100);

     try {

        connection.connect();

     } catch(Exception e) {

     }

    DocumentConverter converter = new OpenOfficeDocumentConverter(connection);

     converter.convert(inputFile, outputFile);

    connection.disconnect();

  }

Obviously, there’s error-checking that is lacking. For example, the convert() method should be wrapped to ensure that a failed conversion doesn’t blow up your application, and something should be done if an exception is caught on the connection. However, this is the basic skeleton. Pretty cool.

Basically, all this does is open a connection to OpenOffice, create a converter, and pass in the files to convert. JODConverter and OpenOffice handle everything else.

The only caveat to this is that OpenOffice must be installed on the server and must be running as a headless app (the JODConverter README file explains how to do this). While that may not be ideal, it’s probably worth it for the amazing results this library provides.

Great tool, highly recommended.

Regards,
Ali Vajahat
Software Engineer
Software Innovations
Lahore Pakistan

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The video reveals the double crossing of Dr Shahid Masood
Some days back Dr. Shahid Masood has joined PTV as its Managing Director. However since then he did not give any statement and has kept quiet, which is meaningful… It’s quite unbelieving that he has done a deal with President Musharraf, who was strongly criticised by Dr. Shahid in his programme ‘Meray Mutabiq’. It shows that how strong money is. Dr. Shahid Masood lost his ego and reputation just for earning big money. He is indeed a traitor of this nation, who left them in the midway and joined hands with those who have put Pakistan in a very instable condition today.

Shahid Masood resigns as PTV MD, made PM’s special assistant

2008-11-04T06:35:00.000-08:00

ISLAMABAD: Dr Shahid Masood on Monday tendered his resignation as Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) chairman/managing director.

A statement from the Prime Minister’s House said Prime Minster Yousuf Raza Gilani accepted Masood’s resignation and appointed him as his special assistant with the status of a minister of state with immediate effect.

The Cabinet Division issued a notification in this regard.

Tensions between Masood and Information Minister Sherry Rehman were running high, with the minister repeatedly complaining about the former chairman’s defiance of official orders. Daily Times learnt that the Presidency had asked Masood to tender his resignation a couple of days back.

Official sources said Information Secretary Ashfaq Gondal would assume the charge as PTV chairman, in accordance with past practice.

Earlier, newspapers had reported that the Information Ministry was apprehensive of Masood’s decision to increase salaries and perks at a time of financial crunch, saying it had made the network dependent on borrowings and mortgages.

The ministry had also been dissatisfied by the corporation’s audit under the chairmanship of Masood, which differed sharply from a report by his predecessor, Yousuf Baig Mirza.

Masood’s report showed PTV in poor financial and operational situation and beset by massive irregularities.

But Mirza’s report had claimed a profit of Rs 240 million “after making all possible provisions for expenses”. The Finance Department had confirmed the figure.