Marriage!

Mr. Darcy has proposed marriage to me!

He is the last man on earth I would ever desire to marry.

Whatever shall I do?

Communications in Software Houses

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

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

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

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.

1. Diff:
• Compare two blocks of plain text and efficiently return a list of differences.
• Diff Demo
2. Match:
• Given a search string, find its best fuzzy match in a block of plain text. Weighted for both accuracy and location.
• Match Demo
3. 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

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

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.