Today i was going through an requirement on how to create components in runtime where we have parse an XML as input and then create components in the stage.

Code block

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
 creationComplete="creationCompleteHandler()">

 <mx:Script>
 <![CDATA[

 import flash.display.DisplayObject;
 import mx.core.UIComponent;
 import mx.controls.ComboBox; ComboBox;
 import mx.controls.RadioButton; RadioButton;
 import mx.controls.CheckBox; CheckBox;
 import mx.controls.TextArea; TextArea;

 protected function creationCompleteHandler():void
 {
 var components:Array = getComponentsFromXML(xml.component);
 var i:int = 0;
 var n:int = components.length;
 for (i; i < n; i++)
 {
 panel.addChild(components[i] as DisplayObject);
 }
 }

 /**
 *  Parses an XML string, returns array of new components.
 */
 public function getComponentsFromXML(components:XMLList):Array
 {
 var result:Array = [];
 var child:Object;
 var component:UIComponent;
 var type:String;
 var clazz:Class;
 var i:int = 0;
 var n:int = components.length();
 for (i; i < n; i++)
 {
 child = components[i];
 type = child.@type;
 try {
 clazz = flash.utils.getDefinitionByName(type) as Class;
 } catch (error:ReferenceError) {
 traceImportError(type);
 }

 component = new clazz(); // dynamic

 var properties:XMLList = child.elements();
 var property:XML;
 var name:String;
 var value:Object;

 // for each child node
 for each (property in properties)
 {
 name = property.localName();
 value = property.toString();
 // create a more generic method to convert
 // strings to numbers and whatnot
 // this is a regular expression matching any digit
 // check out rubular.com
 if (/\d+/.test(value.toString()))
 value = Number(value);

 if (property.attribute("isStyle") == "true")
 component.setStyle(name, value);
 else
 component[name] = value;
 }
 result.push(component);
 }
 return result;
 }

 protected function traceImportError(type:String):void
 {
 trace("Please include the class '" + type + "' in the swf.");
 var names:Array = type.split(".");
 var last:String = names[names.length - 1];
 trace("import " + type + "; " + last + ";");
 }

 ]]>
 </mx:Script>

 <!-- sample data -->
 <mx:XML id="xml" source="components.xml" />

 <!-- sample container -->
 <mx:Panel id="panel" width="100%" height="100%"/>

</mx:Application>

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This article is a piece of information that i have learnt so far in my life also tried to achive and practice this when i was lead too in some of my previous organisation. Thought sharing this written information can help many to get into this path in future or change to this if they wish to follow or gain knowledge which can make our IT industry majuscule and also my Abdul Kalam sir’s dream 2020. I failed to achive many things in my life in IT industries, then i decided to get into a soul called rebel to bring change. I just work these days only to bring change.

A Great leader

A great leader is one who is true to his heart than his mind, who can make things work through heart in all environments and angle.

A great leader can handle resource which are not capable of even coding a single line and who does not quit at any wee.

A great leader is a great physiologist, one who can turn into anything depending upon the situation. If he is interacting with a child, he will think and play the coins according to that child minds than his mind. The greatest challenge is changing a person to what we require, there might be some good , bad and attitude programmers, a great leader is one who brings all these to square one.

A great leader is one who does not show his attitude towards his team, instead he focus and makes other also to focus on the programming language and show their attitude in the programming language.

Ex: If the language like Java does not allow you to program as you like, a great leader always asks their programmer to show their attitude in it such that making java itself flexible. This requires genious level of thinking to overcome Java strubborn in their pattern itself.

1. How are you going to hanle a project when the resource allocation is limited or low?

Start the project like a tortise by giving training to all and make the project end up like a rabit. Its something like when the resources are low, you need to make or bring your team members mind into Agile.

2. How are you going to handle when your team lacks basic programming knowledge itself?

The situation is complex, and you need to give them the confidence, encouragement at every level at the same wee handle your elite programmers to completer their task. A example is to teach him programming and appreciate them even if they have achived nothing. This can quickly turn them into elite ones.

3. How to handle if both of the above at same instance?

Become a singleton class. That is you should able to take up the 60 percent of project on your head along with other tasks too, and let your team create instances of your knowledge and implement them at lowest level. You should never change at any point of wee. In more simpler words a great leader can only finish out the project into success in such situation

A great leader should have a vision of Bagat singh following the path of Mahatma Gandhi

A great leader is a great human being respected by all ends. Mahatama Gandhi, Abdul Kalam sir [My college day's professor] could suit my article though they were not from IT industry.

While coding here in office on sunday, i really felt bored with this power learn team working so hard for their stable release and i was sitting in my desk thinking on a pattern on how they are stating it as best. After all reading, i felt that its time for a break and the result is this collection of photos.

We welcome this way

Mate… ah recession

The Cute Girl

I am Tired.

Move Move…. Train is coming

The Real and tasty Indian food

I can still code

The TATA Truck which can hold more………….

The School boy

And last but not least………. the Hands.

Now the word might be very familiar tone for many as from the top level Obama to our local MNS leader Raj Tackery are shouting for change.  It does not die there itself, every common man in this society also expects change. Here my words are which i can say is also a spark.

Yesterday when i and Gaurav Peters were having some drinks, we had some arguments as well as good debates on various things. A result of that is a article in my blog.

Today my article will jowl on Software Industry change as most of readers belong to this.

After being in the industry for some years, i have faced dead challenges with no scope of coming out of it but yet being successful.  I always wanted to work as i feel, but always bend like Obama who did to Japan Prime minister.

Change is not possible in a day or two, it needs a lot of sacrifice like self respect, hiding your identity, pay, work load everything and come up successful. This para above might confuse many, at the bottom line its simple success at your end of work and changing something which you felt it should be.

Its always impossible to change the government or management as the voices of many are always deaf. Instead of shouting, why don’t you change. Every person if changes in a company will make the whole company itself change. Hmmm… visually seeing its impossible, but practically nothing is impossible. Again this sentence might confuse many, but again it speaks.

Before anybody criticize, ask yourself this question, was there a better alternative? No plan is perfect, it’s easy to pick out faults, but harder to bring to table a better alternative. The stimulus may not work, but the alternative, i.e. not doing anything, will be disastrous. We are already seeing green shoots in the IT Industry and I ain’t too happy for personal reasons.

Yep, when the chess pieces change, the game changes. You can’t expect the game not to change, and keep referring back to when the pieces interacted differently with eachother, dragging that into today’s geopolitical landscape. It’s a fast paced geopolitical landscape out there, and noone is looking back

Sometimes back one of my amigo “Guarav Peters”  described my blog as a fire over various message and themes, and my other amigo called me “Rebel”. To contradict this statement, i would say that ” Most of the “Real” and “True” Programmers schmooze from heart than their Mind.

Today as usual sitting at my desk, i was wondering why do many programmers get less respect and sometimes pretty harsh and foolish comments like ” Do you know programming?” All blah blah…

Apparently if you can read some sloppy, malformed pseudo-code thrown together by an idiot marketroid with no knowledge of programming you must be a total loser.

Apparently all programmers have no lives, look like characters from Revenge of the Nerds and can barely function in the society without help of their cooler friends or co-workers.

We have real college degrees (BS, MS often a PHD) rather than the fake diplomas given out by business schools. Not only that, but we create and control the technology they depend on. We maintain their machines, and facilitate their communication. Without us, they would have no Facebook, no iPhone and no Youtube. And yet, somehow we are considered inferior and undesirable.

Seriously, who is more of a valuable member of society? Someone who develops innovative free software on their free time? Or someone who spends all their free time watching reality TV, can’t figure out how to set time on their VCR, owns a computer which is part of at least 3 different botnets? Apparently the former is a freak that needs to be shunned, while the later is an upstanding pillar of society.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Google said Tuesday the company and at least 20 others were victims of a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack” originating in China in mid-December, evidently to gain access to the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Google isn’t all that big internationally but this is still a big move against the chinese government if it happens. Don’t use google

• Lets suppose you have something which you don’t want anyone to know and may be you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place though. if you really need such kind of privacy then stop using Google. The reason is google does retain information for some time for their crap advertising programs and luring investors in it. We all are subject to our constitution and its law and may be its possible your information could be made available to the authorities.
• Google has opened up its own, free, public DNS server. The sales pitch is that their DNS server is faster than your ISP’s, and therefore, you will save a ton of speed browsing the Web using their DNS server. Fair enough. But something occurred to me, just as I was about to change my DNS setup here to use it… do I trust Google to have a history of every DNS lookup I make? Umm… not really. I note that the service’s privacy policy says that my IP address will only be logged for 24 hours (makes sense, given the prevalence of dynamic IPs anyways). But it also says that the service is compliant with Google’s primary privacy policy. And we all know what that entails… “anything and everything”. And of course, Google is always free to change the policy without notice or warning.
• Google has been trying to launch more and more “Free” services. These are targeted directly at collecting, tracking, and analyzing people online. Why? So they can sell

• a) More ads or
• b) Have the largest marketing database known to man which they can
• c) Create more false free products and further collect data or
• d) Sell that information to third party companies

Maybe they are leaving China because the government there decided to replace Google Ads with China government ads. Hey, why not. China controls the internet in their country (although I don’t agree) but if Google can replace someone elses ads in Street View – China can do it with Google.

Use Bing as your search engine provider.

Today when i was sitting my desk, i roolled back my career on how it was and the result is the output printed here. The IT industry in india seems to be a broken hazard trying to fix up the ends which has no points.

• I don’t like to sleep, oh shit… was i allowed ever.
• I had enjoyed my life enough, i decided to give IT a chance.
• I couldn’t live without tension, where can you find a best place in earth with illogical deadlines and mental stress.
• I wanted to pay for my sins, what you sow, sow you reap. i know god gave me punishment.
• I believed in the Bhagwat Geeta principle : Do work,Don’t care about results. Lord Krishna had a great vision on IT industry.
• Everything in life has a reason; I wanted to prove it wrong.
• I wanted to take revenge on myself.
• You may never understand the business decisions made by those who ultimately create your projects. You may question whether they know how to scorecard, perform cost-benefit analysis, or whether they even know their business. But in the end, you will have no choice but to work on their projects.

To the IT people across the world, your main job is to sharpen your skills — probably on your own time. Your challenge is to plot an exit strategy and execute on it methodically, but without losing your spirit. If you are successful, maybe one day we’ll be co-workers. If you get there first, keep a chair warm and I’ll see you soon!

1. Star in a reality show to keep the moolah coming
2. Write his autobiography and let the book hit the stands within the next two weeks, before the world forgets him
3. Tie up with Shiny Ahuja for a book on straying from marriage
4. Change his name to more a numerologically acceptable “Tiger in the woods”
5. Start a PGA (Professional Goons Association) for hubbies who have strayed and have fallen from the high pedestal of public admiration
6. Check if there are ladies out there who still want to date him – the current figure of his flings stands at 11 (according to US Fed reserve); he should try and round it off to a more memorable 20
7. Check with Pranoy Roy and see if he can appear on that rebirth serial that is playing on NDTV Imagine…Tiger can simply blame his previous life for his current woes
8. Or he can invent a new medical syndrome to explain his adventures
9. Blame recession for his predicament
10. Stay in touch with Mahesh Bhatt to check if the latter can do a sequel to Aarth called Anarth staring the world famous golfer who can swing on and off field

Its easy to find fault in a design pattern or in any programming language but learning to work within the language is the mark of a programmer… programmers are ultimate as they design applications…. the rest just hang the curtains…

Programming is the work of many voices. Programmers transcribe natural language and other means of communication to a digital medium. This is complex evolutionary work. We do not choose the spatial elements we choose the tools that make the spatial elements of the data work based on cultural need (informatics).

Those who possess the knowledge to create software and databases with scripting languages have a certain power. Those who support the entire infrastructure of an economy, by setting up hardware and software platforms with passwords and 128 bit encryption, which hold all our data, have all the power.

Have you ever stopped to think of what would happen if all developers, of every computer language, suddenly refused to do the bidding of their uninformed supervisors? The modern world as we know it would grind to a sudden, catastrophic halt.

I would suggest from now to all to speak only in our language… that is programming language.