Reflections of a scattered Mind !!
"Not all scattered pieces are of broken glass"
New Domain
Jul 14th
Hi!!
A post from me after a long time, and this time I’ve news to share. I bought a domain name for myself [not a great domain name, though 
]. I found a place to host my site temporarily for a few months.. 
As can obviously be seen, this is powered by wordpress. I’ve taken a bit time to import all my previous entries into this blog [from Blogger, Y! Blog]. In case, u need any help regarding the first step to migrate from blogger to wordpress, I’m happy to help you…
The main purpose to get a domain is: I do not want to lose touch with web development & i wouldn’t be laxy if its my OWN domain / site. Now that I’ve got a domain for myself, I’m planning to host a few small services on my site. Keep looking this blog once in a while. [I suggest to go for the RSS feed].
Looking forward to develop for my site..
Is Mozilla Firefox more secure than Internet Explorer?
May 31st
Have you ever asked someone why does he/she prefer Mozilla Firefox over Microsoft Internet Explorer? If not, you ask yourself that question. And as I guess (or atleast the surveys say) that the most common answer is:
“Mozilla Firefox is secure, while Internet Explorer is not”
Even that was my opinion also. But well, things aren’t the same as thought about. I was just going through some vulnerability statistics in these browsers and the results laughed at me saying – “Welcome to the real world of security dude!!”
Let me give you some overall statistics on vulnerabilities in these applications.
Secunia Vulnerabilities:
Mozilla Firefox 3.x : 68 (11 highly, 1 less, 2 not critical, others unknown) – 0 unpatched
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.x : 1 (1 less critical) – 1 unpatched
(Secunia is a leading Security Analyzing organization)
Even though the turnaround time for patches is comparatively much better in case of Firefox, the Internet Explorer has very few bugs (which are even not very critical).
Being a fan of Firefox myself, it was hard to believe the statistics. So I also checked the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) identifiers registered for both Firefox & IE. But even those showed me that Internet Explorer is safe, even safer than Firefox…
Well folks, the next time you ask someone to use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer, please find some other reason (instead of telling it is secure).
Things to remember for Android !!!
May 3rd
- android:layout_width and android:layout_height are compulsory for all nodes.
- The outermost container should contain the attribute: xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android”
Installing Android !!!
Apr 30th
Few steps for setting up things before developing applications for Android….
- Download & Install JRE from http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
- Download & Extract Eclipse IDE for Java Developers from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
- Download the latest version of Android SDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/
- Download ADT (Android Development Tools) from http://developer.android.com/sdk/adt_download.html
- Start Eclipse, then select Help > Software Updates > Find and Install….
- Select Archive and then browse to the downloaded ADT Zip file.
- You should see the plugin listed by the URL, with “Developer Tools” nested within it. Select the checkbox next to Developer Tools and click Install…
- On the subsequent Install window, “Android DDMS” and “Android Developer Tools” should both be checked. Click Next, then Finish. Restart Eclipse.
- Select Window > Preferences… to open the Preferences panel (Mac: Eclipse > Preferences).
- Select Android from the left panel.
- For the SDK Location in the main panel, click Browse… and locate your downloaded SDK directory. Click Apply, then OK.
- Now, lets install an AVD (Android Virtual Device). Navigate to /tools in a command line and execute:
android create avd --name #your_avd_name# --target #targetid#
- Just press Enter when asked to create an hardware profile.
Now you are done with setup……. Happy developing with Android !!!
Start with Hello, World program in the documentation.
–
Sai Prasad
Quotes I like :: Vol. II
Sep 20th
- Footprints on the sands of time aren’t made by sitting down. – Proverb
- Know how to listen & you’ll profit even from those who talk badly. – Plutarch
- Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory. – GS Patton
- If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go. – John B. Gough
- If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up! – Anonymous
- Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves; don’t accuse the sun for partiality – Chinese proverb
- They conquer who believe they can. – John Dryden
