PS3 unable to show recently added files to External Media Server?

Recently, I bought a PS3, and connected it to WD MyBookWorld. I was adding stuff to the external disk, and sometimes it did not show on PS3.
It was all down to the media server on WD MyBookWorld end.
Here are few things to check, if you are having similar issues:

1) Browse to the web interface of media server running on external nas drive (MyBookWorld in my case).
2) Make sure there are no 'foreign content' i.e. something other than Music, Videos, Pictures, etc. If you have a bit folder with loads of small files, it will make the process of indexing on NAS side very slow.
3) Normally, there is a way to tell the media server to index a specific folder for specific content. This should be quickest. i.e. make three folders - Music, Movies, Pictures, and index accordingly.
4) Make sure the indexing has happened. (from logs.)

IPL 2011 Auction Price of players.

Aaron Finch	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	300000
AB de Villiers	South Africa	Royal Challengers Bangalore	1100000
Abhimanyu Mithun	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	260000
Abhishek Nayar	India	Kings XI Punjab	800000
Adam Gilchrist	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	900000
Aiden Blizzard	Australia	Mumbai Indians	20000
Ajit Agarkar	India	Delhi Daredevils	210000
Albie Morkel (retained)	South Africa	Chennai Super Kings	500000
Alfonso Thomas	South Africa	Pune Warriors	100000
Amit Mishra	India	Deccan Chargers	300000
Andrew McDonald	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	80000
Andrew Symonds	Australia	Mumbai Indians	850000
Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka	Pune Warriors	950000
Ashish Nehra	India	Pune Warriors	850000
Ashok Dinda	India	Delhi Daredevils	375000
Ben Hilfenhaus	Australia	Chennai Super Kings	100000
Brad Haddin	Australia	Kolkata Knight Riders	325000
Brad Hodge	Australia	Kochi	425000
Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	Kochi	475000
Brett Lee	Australia	Kolkata Knight Riders	400000
Callum Ferguson	Australia	Pune Warriors	300000
Cameron White	Australia	Deccan Chargers	1100000
Charl Langeveldt	South Africa	Royal Challengers Bangalore	140000
Cheteshwar Pujara	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	700000
Chris Lynn	Australia	Deccan Chargers	20000
Clint McKay	Australia	Mumbai Indians	110000
Colin Ingram	South Africa	Delhi Daredevils	100000
Dale Steyn	South Africa	Deccan Chargers	1200000
Dan Christian	Australia	Deccan Chargers	900000
Daniel Vettori	New Zealand	Royal Challengers Bangalore	550000
David Hussey	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	1400000
David Warner	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	750000
Davy Jacobs	South Africa	Mumbai Indians	190000
Dinesh Karthik	India	Kings XI Punjab	900000
Dirk Nannes	Australia	Royal Challengers Bangalore	650000
Dmitri Mascarenhas	England	Kings XI Punjab	100000
Doug Bollinger	Australia	Chennai Super Kings	700000
Dwayne Bravo	West Indies	Chennai Super Kings	200000
Eoin Morgan	England	Kolkata Knight Riders	350000
Faf du Plessis	South Africa	Chennai Super Kings	120000
Gautam Gambhir	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	2400000
George Bailey	Australia	Chennai Super Kings	50000
Graeme Smith	South Africa	Pune Warriors	500000
Harbhajan Singh (retained)	India	Mumbai Indians	1300000
Irfan Pathan	India	Delhi Daredevils	1900000
Ishant Sharma	India	Deccan Chargers	450000
Jacques Kallis	South Africa	Kolkata Knight Riders	1100000
Jaidev Unadkat	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	250000
James Franklin	New Zealand	Mumbai Indians	100000
James Hopes	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	350000
James Pattinson	Australia	Kolkata Knight Riders	100000
Jerome Taylor	West Indies	Pune Warriors	100000
Jesse Ryder	New Zealand	Pune Warriors	150000
Joginder Sharma	India	Chennai Super Kings	150000
Johan Botha	South Africa	Rajasthan Royals	950000
Johan van der Wath	South Africa	Royal Challengers Bangalore	95000
John Hastings	Australia	Kochi	20000
Jonathan Vandiar	South Africa	Royal Challengers Bangalore	20000
JP Duminy	South Africa	Deccan Chargers	300000
Kevin Pietersen	England	Deccan Chargers	650000
Kieron Pollard (retained)	West Indies	Mumbai Indians	900000
Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	Deccan Chargers	700000
L Balaji	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	500000
Lasith Malinga (retained)	Sri Lanka	Mumbai Indians	500000
Luke Pomersbasch	Australia	Royal Challengers Bangalore	50000
M Vijay (retained)	India	Chennai Super Kings	900000
Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	Kochi	1500000
Manoj Tiwary	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	475000
Manpreet Gony	India	Deccan Chargers	290000
Matthew Wade	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	100000
Michael Hussey	Australia	Chennai Super Kings	425000
Michael Klinger	Australia	Kochi	75000
Michael Lumb	England	Deccan Chargers	80000
Mitchell Marsh	Australia	Pune Warriors	290000
Mohammad Kaif	India	Royal Challenges Bangalore	130000
Moises Henriques	Australia	Mumbai Indians	50000
Morne Morkel	South Africa	Delhi Daredevils	475000
MS Dhoni (retained)	India	Chennai Super Kings	1800000
Munaf Patel	India	Mumbai Indians	700000
Murali Kartik	India	Pune Warriors	400000
Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	Kochi	1100000
Naman Ojha	India	Delhi Daredevils	270000
Nathan McCullum	New Zealand	Pune Warriors	100000
Nathan Rimmington	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	20000
Nuwan Kulasekara	Sri Lanka	Chennai Super Kings	100000
Nuwan Pradeep	Sri Lanka	Royal Challengers Bangalore	20000
Owais Shah	England	Kochi	200000
Pankaj Singh	India	Rajasthan Royals	95000
Parthiv Patel	India	Kochi	290000
Paul Collingwood	England	Rajasthan Royals	250000
Piyush Chawla	India	Kings XI Punjab	900000
Pragyan Ojha	India	Deccan Chargers	500000
Praveen Kumar	India	Kings XI Punjab	800000
R Ashwin	India	Chennai Super Kings	850000
Rahul Dravid	India	Rajasthan Royals	500000
Ramesh Powar	India	Kochi	180000
Ravindra Jadeja	India	Kochi	950000
Rilee Rossouw	South Africa	Royal Challengers Bangalore	20000
Robert Frylinck	South Africa	Delhi Daredevils	20000
Robin Uthappa	India	Pune Warriors	2100000
Roelof van der Merwe	South Africa	Delhi Daredevils	50000
Rohit Sharma	India	Mumbai Indians	2000000
Ross Taylor	New Zealand	Rajasthan Royals	1000000
RP Singh	India	Kochi	500000
Rusty Theron	South Africa	Deccan Chargers	85000
Ryan Harris	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	325000
Ryan ten Doeschate	Netherlands	Kolkata Knight Riders	150000
S Badrinath	India	Chennai Super Kings	850000
Sachin Tendulkar (retained)	India	Mumbai Indians	1800000
Saurabh Tiwary	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	1600000
Scott Styris	New Zealand	Chennai Super Kings	200000
Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh	Kolkata Knight Riders	425000
Shane Warne (retained)	Australia	Rajasthan Royals	1800000
Shane Watson (retained)	Australia	Rajasthan Royals	1300000
Shaun Marsh	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	400000
Shaun Tait	Australia	Rajasthan Royals	300000
Shikhar Dhawan	India	Deccan Chargers	300000
Sreesanth	India	Kochi	900000
Steve O'Keefe	Australia	Kochi	20000
Steven Smith	Australia	Kochi	200000
Stuart Broad	England	Kings XI Punjab	400000
Sudeep Tyagi	India	Chennai Super Kings	240000
Suraj Randiv	Sri Lanka	Chennai Super Kings	80000
Suresh Raina (retained)	India	Chennai Super Kings	1300000
Thisara Perera	Sri Lanka	Kochi	80000
Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	Royal Challengers Bangalore	650000
Tim Paine	Australia	Pune Warriors	270000
Travis Birt	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	20000
Umesh Yadav	India	Delhi Daredevils	750000
Venugopal Rao	India	Delhi Daredevils	700000
Vinay Kumar	India	Kochi	475000
Virat Kohli (retained)	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	1800000
Virender Sehwag (retained)	India	Delhi Daredevils	1800000
VVS Laxman	India	Kochi	400000
Wayne Parnell	South Africa	Pune Warriors	160000
Wriddhiman Saha	India	Chennai Super Kings	100000
Yusuf Pathan	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	2100000
Yuvraj Singh	India	Pune Warriors	1800000
Zaheer Khan	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	900000

IPL 2011 Auction Price of players.

Aaron Finch	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	300000
AB de Villiers	South Africa	Royal Challengers Bangalore	1100000
Abhimanyu Mithun	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	260000
Abhishek Nayar	India	Kings XI Punjab	800000
Adam Gilchrist	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	900000
Aiden Blizzard	Australia	Mumbai Indians	20000
Ajit Agarkar	India	Delhi Daredevils	210000
Albie Morkel (retained)	South Africa	Chennai Super Kings	500000
Alfonso Thomas	South Africa	Pune Warriors	100000
Amit Mishra	India	Deccan Chargers	300000
Andrew McDonald	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	80000
Andrew Symonds	Australia	Mumbai Indians	850000
Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka	Pune Warriors	950000
Ashish Nehra	India	Pune Warriors	850000
Ashok Dinda	India	Delhi Daredevils	375000
Ben Hilfenhaus	Australia	Chennai Super Kings	100000
Brad Haddin	Australia	Kolkata Knight Riders	325000
Brad Hodge	Australia	Kochi	425000
Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	Kochi	475000
Brett Lee	Australia	Kolkata Knight Riders	400000
Callum Ferguson	Australia	Pune Warriors	300000
Cameron White	Australia	Deccan Chargers	1100000
Charl Langeveldt	South Africa	Royal Challengers Bangalore	140000
Cheteshwar Pujara	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	700000
Chris Lynn	Australia	Deccan Chargers	20000
Clint McKay	Australia	Mumbai Indians	110000
Colin Ingram	South Africa	Delhi Daredevils	100000
Dale Steyn	South Africa	Deccan Chargers	1200000
Dan Christian	Australia	Deccan Chargers	900000
Daniel Vettori	New Zealand	Royal Challengers Bangalore	550000
David Hussey	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	1400000
David Warner	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	750000
Davy Jacobs	South Africa	Mumbai Indians	190000
Dinesh Karthik	India	Kings XI Punjab	900000
Dirk Nannes	Australia	Royal Challengers Bangalore	650000
Dmitri Mascarenhas	England	Kings XI Punjab	100000
Doug Bollinger	Australia	Chennai Super Kings	700000
Dwayne Bravo	West Indies	Chennai Super Kings	200000
Eoin Morgan	England	Kolkata Knight Riders	350000
Faf du Plessis	South Africa	Chennai Super Kings	120000
Gautam Gambhir	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	2400000
George Bailey	Australia	Chennai Super Kings	50000
Graeme Smith	South Africa	Pune Warriors	500000
Harbhajan Singh (retained)	India	Mumbai Indians	1300000
Irfan Pathan	India	Delhi Daredevils	1900000
Ishant Sharma	India	Deccan Chargers	450000
Jacques Kallis	South Africa	Kolkata Knight Riders	1100000
Jaidev Unadkat	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	250000
James Franklin	New Zealand	Mumbai Indians	100000
James Hopes	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	350000
James Pattinson	Australia	Kolkata Knight Riders	100000
Jerome Taylor	West Indies	Pune Warriors	100000
Jesse Ryder	New Zealand	Pune Warriors	150000
Joginder Sharma	India	Chennai Super Kings	150000
Johan Botha	South Africa	Rajasthan Royals	950000
Johan van der Wath	South Africa	Royal Challengers Bangalore	95000
John Hastings	Australia	Kochi	20000
Jonathan Vandiar	South Africa	Royal Challengers Bangalore	20000
JP Duminy	South Africa	Deccan Chargers	300000
Kevin Pietersen	England	Deccan Chargers	650000
Kieron Pollard (retained)	West Indies	Mumbai Indians	900000
Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	Deccan Chargers	700000
L Balaji	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	500000
Lasith Malinga (retained)	Sri Lanka	Mumbai Indians	500000
Luke Pomersbasch	Australia	Royal Challengers Bangalore	50000
M Vijay (retained)	India	Chennai Super Kings	900000
Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	Kochi	1500000
Manoj Tiwary	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	475000
Manpreet Gony	India	Deccan Chargers	290000
Matthew Wade	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	100000
Michael Hussey	Australia	Chennai Super Kings	425000
Michael Klinger	Australia	Kochi	75000
Michael Lumb	England	Deccan Chargers	80000
Mitchell Marsh	Australia	Pune Warriors	290000
Mohammad Kaif	India	Royal Challenges Bangalore	130000
Moises Henriques	Australia	Mumbai Indians	50000
Morne Morkel	South Africa	Delhi Daredevils	475000
MS Dhoni (retained)	India	Chennai Super Kings	1800000
Munaf Patel	India	Mumbai Indians	700000
Murali Kartik	India	Pune Warriors	400000
Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	Kochi	1100000
Naman Ojha	India	Delhi Daredevils	270000
Nathan McCullum	New Zealand	Pune Warriors	100000
Nathan Rimmington	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	20000
Nuwan Kulasekara	Sri Lanka	Chennai Super Kings	100000
Nuwan Pradeep	Sri Lanka	Royal Challengers Bangalore	20000
Owais Shah	England	Kochi	200000
Pankaj Singh	India	Rajasthan Royals	95000
Parthiv Patel	India	Kochi	290000
Paul Collingwood	England	Rajasthan Royals	250000
Piyush Chawla	India	Kings XI Punjab	900000
Pragyan Ojha	India	Deccan Chargers	500000
Praveen Kumar	India	Kings XI Punjab	800000
R Ashwin	India	Chennai Super Kings	850000
Rahul Dravid	India	Rajasthan Royals	500000
Ramesh Powar	India	Kochi	180000
Ravindra Jadeja	India	Kochi	950000
Rilee Rossouw	South Africa	Royal Challengers Bangalore	20000
Robert Frylinck	South Africa	Delhi Daredevils	20000
Robin Uthappa	India	Pune Warriors	2100000
Roelof van der Merwe	South Africa	Delhi Daredevils	50000
Rohit Sharma	India	Mumbai Indians	2000000
Ross Taylor	New Zealand	Rajasthan Royals	1000000
RP Singh	India	Kochi	500000
Rusty Theron	South Africa	Deccan Chargers	85000
Ryan Harris	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	325000
Ryan ten Doeschate	Netherlands	Kolkata Knight Riders	150000
S Badrinath	India	Chennai Super Kings	850000
Sachin Tendulkar (retained)	India	Mumbai Indians	1800000
Saurabh Tiwary	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	1600000
Scott Styris	New Zealand	Chennai Super Kings	200000
Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh	Kolkata Knight Riders	425000
Shane Warne (retained)	Australia	Rajasthan Royals	1800000
Shane Watson (retained)	Australia	Rajasthan Royals	1300000
Shaun Marsh	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	400000
Shaun Tait	Australia	Rajasthan Royals	300000
Shikhar Dhawan	India	Deccan Chargers	300000
Sreesanth	India	Kochi	900000
Steve O'Keefe	Australia	Kochi	20000
Steven Smith	Australia	Kochi	200000
Stuart Broad	England	Kings XI Punjab	400000
Sudeep Tyagi	India	Chennai Super Kings	240000
Suraj Randiv	Sri Lanka	Chennai Super Kings	80000
Suresh Raina (retained)	India	Chennai Super Kings	1300000
Thisara Perera	Sri Lanka	Kochi	80000
Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	Royal Challengers Bangalore	650000
Tim Paine	Australia	Pune Warriors	270000
Travis Birt	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	20000
Umesh Yadav	India	Delhi Daredevils	750000
Venugopal Rao	India	Delhi Daredevils	700000
Vinay Kumar	India	Kochi	475000
Virat Kohli (retained)	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	1800000
Virender Sehwag (retained)	India	Delhi Daredevils	1800000
VVS Laxman	India	Kochi	400000
Wayne Parnell	South Africa	Pune Warriors	160000
Wriddhiman Saha	India	Chennai Super Kings	100000
Yusuf Pathan	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	2100000
Yuvraj Singh	India	Pune Warriors	1800000
Zaheer Khan	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	900000

French Burqa Ban

I am no fan of Burqa, however this ruling is bit vague and contradicts its own self. The idea is that women should not be told what to wear by men. i.e. there is a underlying assumption that all women who wear Burqa are forced to wear it. Going by that logic, isn’t state trying to do what it is trying to avoid i.e. telling women what to wear?

Lets take a look at another perspective. Let us for a moment compare Burqa with Guns i.e. think of it as a curse on society which does more harm than good. In this fictional account, the Burqa makers should have a similar ruling against them, just like  gun manufacturers would. However, I don’t see French authorities trying to stop Gucci & Prada trying to manufacture Burqas.

But then, modern societies have always been full of pretences and double standards. Is it capitalism ?

How to create a new Panel / PanelStack in ATG CSC

 

This is at a macro level without going into the details of each activity.

1. Create Panel stack definition in ServiceFrameWorkRepository_production repository.
   If you don’t know where to locate it, go to /atg/registry/ContentRepositories and it should be listed in there.
   
2. Create Panel Definition in ServiceFrameWorkRepository_production repository
   
3. Create access right in InternalProfileAdaptorRepository
   
4. Grant the access right for this panel to a role.
   
5. Add the Panel name to the list of panels in FrameworkComponents.properties
   
6. Connect the Panel stack to the Tab under which it should be appearing.
   
   That’s all there is to it.

Thanks

ATG Platform Fundamentals Developer Exam

This is an attempt to help ATG Certification takers to map the Test Objectives to ATG Manuals / Chapters. Please note that this is not a definitive list (tho I reckon its close), and you are advised to read the manuals cover-to-cover in order to familiarize yourself with all ATG concepts.

Objective I: ATG Programming Modules

Objective #	Manual	Chapter
1.1	ATG Programming Guide	4. Working with application modules
1.2	ATG Programming Guide ATG Installation & Config Guide	4. Working with application modules 3. Configuring Nucleus components
1.3	ATG Programming Guide	3. Developing and Assembling Nucleus-Based Applications
1.4	ATG Installation & Config Guide	3. Configuring Nucleus components

In a nutshell:
ATG Programming Guide: Chapter 3, 4
ATG Install & Config Guide: Chapter 3

Objective II: Nucleus Components

Objective #	Manual	Chapter
2.1	ATG Programming Guide	2. Nucleus: Organizing JavaBean Components
2.2	ATG Programming Guide	2. Nucleus: Organizing JavaBean Components
2.3	ATG Programming Guide	2. Nucleus: Organizing JavaBean Components
2.4	ATG Page Developer’s Guide ATG Programming Guide	3. Using ATG Servlet Beans 2. Nucleus: Organizing JavaBean Components
2.5	ATG Programming Guide	5. Creating and Using ATG Servlet Beans
2.6	ATG Programming Guide	5. Creating and Using ATG Servlet Beans
2.7	ATG Programming Guide	6. Working with Forms and Form Handlers

In a nutshell:
ATG Programming Guide: Chapter 2, 5, 6
ATG Page Developer’s Guide: Chapter 3

Objective III: Page Development

Objective #	Manual	Chapter
3.1	ATG Page Developer’s Guide	2. Creating Java Server Pages
3.2	ATG Page Developer’s Guide	Appendix A: DSP Tag Library
3.3	ATG Page Developer’s Guide	2. Creating Java Server Pages
3.4	ATG Page Developer’s Guide	3. Using ATG Servlet Beans
3.5	ATG Page Developer’s Guide	7. Form Handlers

In a nutshell:
ATG Page Developer’s Guide: Chapter 2, 3, 4, Appendix A

Objective IV: Repositories

Objective #	Manual	Chapter
4.1	ATG Repository Guide	4. SQL Repository Overview 5. SQL Repository Architecture 6. SQL Repository Data Models
4.2	ATG Repository Guide	7.  SQL Repository Item Properties
4.3	ATG Repository Guide	2. Repository API
4.4	ATG Repository Guide	3. Repository Queries
4.5	ATG Repository Guide	10. SQL Repository Caching
4.6	ATG Programming Guide	6. Working with Form and Form Handlers
4.7	ATG Page Developer’s Guide	8. Search Forms
4.8	ATG Repository Guide	17. Secured Repositories
4.9	ATG Repository Guide	6. SQL Repository Data Models (Item Descriptor Inheritance)
4.10	ATG Repository Guide	6. SQL Repository Data Models (Derived Properties)
4.11	ATG Repository Guide	7. SQL Repository Item Properties (User-defined Property Types)
4.12	ATG Repository Guide	13. SQL Content Repositories

In a nutshell:
ATG Repository Guide: Chapter 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 17
ATG Programming Guide: Chapter 6
ATG Page Developer’s Guide: Chapter 8

Objective V: Personalization

Objective #	Manual	Chapter
5.1	Personalization Programming Guide	1. Setting Up a Profile Repository
5.2	Personalization Programming Guide	1. Setting Up a Profile Repository
5.3	Personalization Programming Guide	4. Working with User Profiles
5.4	Personalization Programming Guide	5. Working with the Dynamo User Directory
5.5	Personalization Programming Guide	4. Working with User Profiles (Access Control)
5.6	Personalization Programming Guide	9. Setting Up Targeting Services (Profile Groups)
5.7	Personalization Programming Guide	9. Setting Up Targeting Services (Content Groups)
5.8	Personalization Programming Guide	7. Creating Rules for Targeting Content (?)
5.9	Personalization Programming Guide	13. Overview of the Scenarios Module 16. Designing Effective Scenarios 17. Using Scenario Events 18. Using Scenario Actions 19. Using Slots
5.10	Personalization Programming Guide	21. Adding Custom Events & Actions
5.11	Personalization Programming Guide	10. Using Targeted E-mail

In a nutshell:
Personalization Programming Guide: Chapter 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21

Objective VI: ATG Services

Objective #	Manual	Chapter
6.1	ATG Programming Guide	8. Request Handling With Servlet Pipelines
6.2	ATG Programming Guide	8. Request Handling With Servlet Pipelines (Customizing request-handling pipeline)
6.3	ATG Programming Guide	11. Dynamo Message System (JMS Providers – localJMS Vs sqlJMS)
6.4	ATG Programming Guide	11. Dynamo Message System (Patch Bay)
6.5	ATG Programming Guide	12. Transaction Management
6.6	ATG Programming Guide	9. Core Dynamo Services (Email Services)
6.7	ATG Repository Guide	10. SQL Repository Caching (Locked Caching – Server Lock Management)
6.8	Personalization Programming Guide	13. Overview of Scenarios Module 14. Configuring Scenarios (management of scenarios in cluster)

In a nutshell:
ATG Programming Guide: 8, 9, 11, 12
ATG Repository Guide: 10
ATG Personalization Programming Guide: 13, 14

Objective VII: Content Administration

Objective #	Manual	Chapter
7.1	CA Programming Guide	3. Understanding the CDE
7.2	CA Programming Guide	4. Setting up an ATG CA Server
7.3	CA Programming Guide	4. Setting up an ATG CA Server
7.4	CA Programming Guide	12. Setting Up Deployment (Deployment topology, Source & Dest Repositories)
7.5	CA Programming Guide	9. Adapting Workflows (Standard Workflows, Asset Life Cycle)
7.6	CA Programming Guide	9. Adapting Workflows (Custom Workflows)
7.7	CA Programming Guide ATG Repository Guide	8. Tools (Importing / Deploying Assets) 14. Repository Loader
7.8	CA Programming Guide	3. Understanding the CDE (FIle Asset storage / mgmt)
7.9	CA Programming Guide ATG Repository Guide	8. Tools (Repository Loader) 14. Repository Loader
7.10	CA Programming Guide	12. Setting up Deployment (Deploy to target with earlier product versions) ??
7.11	BCC Admin Guide	3. Setting up preview features? ++
7.12	CA Programming Guide	10. Customizing Asset Display (Custom item view mapping)

In a nutshell:
CA Programming Guide: Chapter 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12
ATG Repository Guide: Chapter 14
BCC Admin Guide: Chapter 3

IPL and Economics

When everyone is talking IPL as batsman's game, I think the classic principle of economics need not be overlooked. I am of course talking of demand-supply principle.
When an item is over supplied, it loses its sheen a bit. In terms of IPL, the batsmen have been having a good time, however the teams which have managed to have lowest bowling averages, in my opinion, are the strongest.
Even a run rate of 10 doesn’t look beyond reach, but if you have 2 bowlers who can give you 1n over each of 5 or so towards the fag end of the game, it changes the complexion of the game a LOT.
The recently concluded game been DC & DD is prime example. 2 decent overs by Symonds & Vaas took DC were enough to take DC to a comfortable win.

Wickets!

Who would have thought that the mere existence of ‘wickets’ at the end of innings would come into question ?

Well, believe it or not, it has ..

Wickets are worthless at the end of innings, and that is the point people have to take from this T20.

Dont overvalue you wickets, because 20 overs / 11 playes is about 10 balls each.

And, if YOU cant hit 20 runs off those 10 balls, get out of the way, because someone else will.

The Third Party!

What is it about this T20 world cup, that seems ‘strangely’ right. I say strangely because you have to give it a moment or two, before the reality dawns upon you – that the teams in the final are – Sri lanka and Pakistan, the two countries going through the most timultuous times, of all the participating nations.

Is it strange? maybe ?

But, being a man of reason, I always tend to think of it in logical terms. Why is it that its ‘these’ two teams and no others. is it coincidence, maybe ?

Having trust in ‘THE’, I always believe that the world (as we know) is balanced by ‘something’, and there is justice for all. All ‘YOU’ need to think about is working hard, and delivering when it counts, and leave the rest to the balancer.

 

Good night & Good luck!!

Approach!

No matter, how wrong you think you are at a specific point in time, but always stick to ‘your’ approach. This is one thing no one can take away from you.

And always believe that your approach is correct, no matter how incorrect it is in other people’s eyes.

Its better to have an incorrect approach than not have one at all.

And, remember, when you win with your approach – you win BIG.

Kiwi Seaming Conditions

After India lost the last one of the One dayer, the critics were quick to point out – Oh, here we go again, India is NO GOOd in seaming conditions.

 

I do not mean to be judgemental, and I am not saying that Indians are great in Seaming conditions. However, in this particular game, the reasons for India’s loss were very similar to the first T20 – overambition.

 

DOnt believe me – Go Watch the wickets again.

Two wickets were lost to Indians pulling a waist high ball.

Two wickets were lost to Inside edges dragged on the wickets.

And, these were 4 of the top 6 wickets, which had nothing whatsoever to do with the seaming conditions, but more to do with the overambitious nature of batting.

Out of all the wickets, probably Yuvraj was the sole person to fall to the seam.

But, its just too tempting to point out your age old weakness, even though you have there are improvements.

The best reason I have seen is – Indians won because BCCI is very powerful and forced the Kiwi board to make batsman friendly pitches. hmmm..

SOon, they will say – BCCI forces other boards to make batting friendly pitches – for Indian Innings *only*.

 

Great !!!

Discretionary Revenue

Discretionary - available for use as needed.
We are all about finding ways of raising discretionary revenue.
This is what ryanair chief had to say to the idea of charging for restrooms.
Now that he has started assuming which services people will need, I think there are several other options:
Seat - available on demand
Soon there will be standing only planes, a no loo plane etc.
Jokes apart, I think the time has come for the governments to step in and categorize free services I.e. Services for which airlines cannot charge and services subject to charge.
The banking industry has taught us enough lessons to see what happens in a capitalist world without regulation and Govt intervention.
Capitalism is a great thing but we have to be careful that it's biggest virtue of wealth creation does not become it's biggest bane.
Human beings are inherently greedy and self centered (in general) and rather than trying to change that behaviour we should accept it and focus on regulation and appropriate systemic checks.

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Pakistan's Cricket Team

Is Pakistan's cricket team a reflectionof its political scene, where individuals think that they are above the law. Where Army thinks that they control the country and have no regard for law.
If not, then why is pakistan as a cricketing nation suffering from its worst crisis. Who would have thought that the land of Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Mushtaq Ahmed, Saqlain Mushtaq and many others would go down to these levels.

It goes on to prove that individuals while being adept at their skill have one duty - to strenghen the establishment they represent and to abide by its laws. It is after all that establishment to which they owe their huge careers.

Skin

You are not a snake. Be comfortable in your skin.

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Test

Testing blog from my iPhone

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Flex UI Tip

While making complex Flex UI, it is very easy to get lost within the COmponent hierarchy, expecially when the hierarchu is very complex and design view is not practical to use.

In this case, here is something which I have found to be extremely helpful:

In your css file, ass borders for the generic components, like this:

Application { backgroundColor: #ffffff; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; } HBox { border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; } VBox { border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; } Panel { border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; }

This will add a black border to all components and help you demarcate the boundaries of all the components in use. When you are done, just take them off.

The Good House

My lord – this is a good house !!!

Those were the words of a person in UK House of Lords, when one person was caught on tape boasting over payments made to cause changes to legislation.

I try hard to look for a similar incident, and coincidentally – the notes waving scene in Indian Lok Sabha comes to mind.

Is it really any different ? I think not….

Regulation, regulation, regulation – but who will keep an eye on regulators ?

Is the Worldwide Morality Index sinking to a new low in the 21st century ?

I hope not.

[FLEX] Adobe AIR – Local SQL DB – Flex Certification Topics #4.2 & 4.3

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#4)  Interacting with data sources and servers:
                # 4.2: Create, connect to and define a local DB.
                # 4.3: Add, Update and Remove records from local database.

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Salient Features:

• Adobe AIR Local SQL DB is stored as a single file on user’s computer. Each DB is stored completely within a single file.
  
• AIR Local DB Engine does NOT support foreign key constraints.
  
• Classes used to work with Local SQL DB:
  • flash.data.SQLConnection – Corresponding to JDBC Connection
  • flash.data.SQLStatement – Corresponding to JDBC Statement
  • flash.data.SQLResult – Corresponding to JDBC ResultSet
    
• Classes related to schema information describing the structure of the database:
  • flash.data.SQLSchemaResult
  • flash.data.SQLTableSchema
  • flash.data.SQLViewSchema
  • flash.data.SQLIndexSchema
  • flash.data.SQLTriggerSchema
    
• Classes with constants
  • flash.data.SQLMode
  • flash.data.SQLColumnNameStyle
  • flash.data.SQLTransactionLockType
  • flash.data.SQLCollationType
    
• Classes related to events/errors
  • flash.events.SQLEvent
  • flash.events.SQLErrorEvent
  • flash.events.SQLUpdateEvent
  • flash.events.SQLErrorEvent
  • flash.errors.SQLError
    
• SQLConnection.open() – Connection is opened in synchronous mode.
• SQLConnection.openAsync() – Connection is opened in asynchronous mode.
• If open / openAsync method is called without a parameter, an in memory database is created rather than a file on disk.
• If open / openAsync method is called with a non-existent file name, that database file is created.
• Example:
  
  
  

  import flash.data.SQLConnection; import flash.events.SQLErrorEvent; import flash.events.SQLEvent; import flash.filesystem.File; var conn:SQLConnection = new SQLConnection(); conn.addEventListener(SQLEvent.OPEN, openHandler); conn.addEventListener(SQLErrorEvent.ERROR, errorHandler); var dbFile:File = File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath("DBSample.db"); conn.openAsync(dbFile); function openHandler(event:SQLEvent):void { trace("the database was created successfully"); } function errorHandler(event:SQLErrorEvent):void { trace("Error message:", event.error.message); trace("Details:", event.error.details); }

  
  



• SQLMode.UPDATE: Open the file for update purpose. Throws an error, if the file does not exist.



• SQLMode.CREATE: Default. Creates the file if it does not exist.



• SQLMode.READ: DB is opened for Read-Only operations. No Add, Update or Delete operations can be performed.



• SQLStatement and named parameters:
  
  The SQLStatement supports names parameters. The parameters can be used using : or @ syntax.



• SQLStatement and UNnamed parameters: In this case, the parameters are expressed using ? and assigned using position.



• SQLStatement:
  
  
  
  • .sqlConnection = conn;
  
  
  
  • .text = “SQL Statement”;
  
  
  
  • .parameters[] = ….
  
  
  
  • .addEventListener(.., ..);
  
  
  
  • .execute()';
  
  
  
  • .getResult()
  
  
  
  



• SQLResult
  
  
  
  • .data
  
  
  
  

FLEX 3 – Basics

 

• A flex application is delivered as a Flash .SWF file wrapped in html .
  

Text Controls:

Flex comes with 5 pre-built text controls:

• Label Control: Presents Single line of text. Used for displaying text. If the text is longer than the width of control, the text is truncated and three dots are added at the end. Change this behavior by adding truncateToFit=false, and the dots will no longer be there. It can display basic HTML tags.
  
• Text Control: The text control has word wrapping enabled. Text over multiple lines. It can display basic HTML tags.
  
• Text Input: Accepts single line of text.
  
• TextArea:  Accepts multiple lines of text.
• RichTextEdit:
  

Formatter Classes:

• CurrencyFormatter
• DateFormatter
• NumberFormatter
• PhoneFormatter
• ZipCodeFormatter
  

Image Control

<mx:Image source=”assets/bigben.jpg” />: This downloads the image at runtime. Image is not bundled with the application.

<mx:Image source=”@Embed(‘assets/bigben.jpg’)” />: This embeds the image at compile time. No secondary request to web server. Increases the size of application.

Four kinds of graphics can be loaded dynamically: JPEG,  GIF, PNG, SWF.

Use SWFLoader for showing multiple images.

A Mixed Day

An Indian gets a Golden Globe award for music.

And an Indian company gets banned by World bank.

A mixed day for India as a nation, I would say.

The Greatest Detective!!!

Hercule Poirot  - who else.

Having watched Agatha Christie’s hero endlessly, I sometimes think why I like him so much. The reasons I would say are – his greatness, his eccentric nature, his aloofness while being a part of it all, i would say appeals to the fish – the sign I belong to.

Its all in the detail – if you spend time with something, it pays off.

Good night & good luck.

Omar Abdullah

For those of you who don’t know, he is the latest chief Minister of the state of Jammu and kashmir in India.

Is he as secular as he pretends he is ?

hmm.. I don’t know. I would like to think that and sincerely hope that all he wants he is the well being of the ‘state’ – that means Jammu, Kashmir and Leh, while being a part of India.

Since winning election and getting to the CM position, he has made quite a few statements stressing upon the ‘separatist’ elements and finding a solution to the ‘Kashmir problem’. That to me seems a problem in itself.

Anyone who has followed that region in the recent past, will know that the solution to that problem lies south to that region, New Delhi to be precise. Whosoever mentions the ‘separatist’ forces, is giving them undue publicity, and I DO NOT believe that Omar is that foolish.

What is his agenda ? I don’t know, but I wish it is pro-India.

Musharraf & Attacks on India

Is it just a coincidence that , since the return of ‘democracy’ in Pakistan, attacks on India have increased exponentially.

In my opinion, it goes on to show that only a military dictator can truly control the Pakistan army / ISI. Under Musharraf, attacks from Pakistani elements (not the state per se) on India almost came to standstill. And since the return of so called ‘democracy’, the ‘elements’ seem to be back in business.

Can it be just coinidence ?

Mumbai Blasts and Moral High Ground

After the mumbai blasts, entire world is stressing upon the fact that it is too early to jump to any conclusions.

Of course, no one denies that.

But, when a country (Pakistan) allows an organization (Lashkar-e-toiba) to grow and develop for decades, what is the end result ?

It is easy to wash one’s hands off it so easily, and very difficult to assume responsibility for the same. I am not sure why the media is not focusing on this aspect. A person has to be made accountable for the mistakes, even if in the past, so as to make the future more secure.

Everyone knows where Dawood Ibrahim lives.. Can Pakistan hand him back to India …

Who's the culprit ?

In response to

Mahendra Singh Dhoni threatens to resign

First thing: There is nothing wrong in having difference of opinion. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and discussions are the best way to sort out any differences.

The first problem in this incident is the person who leaked this news. Obviously that person has acted against his employer's code of conduct and should be sacked.

Secondly, if this incident is indeed true, MS should act in a mature manner, and not threaten with this kind of childish behaviour.

He should keep in mind that he is one person in the whole structure (however important) and no one is above system.