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Client Side RSS Feed Reader tools using JavaScript

Client Side RSS Feed Reader tools using JavaScript

JQUERY Plugin for feed
http://www.malsup.com/jquery/gfeed/

JFeed
http://www.hovinne.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/15/132-jfeed-jquery-rss-atom-feed-parser-plugin

Google AjaxFeed API
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/

Lost Opportunities Haunt Final Days of Bear Stearns

Twelve hours after agreeing to sell Bear Stearns Cos. for $2 a share, Alan Schwartz wearily made his way to the company gym for a much-needed workout.

It was 6:45 a.m., March 17, and Bear Stearns's chief executive had slept little since hammering out the ugly details of his fire-sale deal with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

When Mr. Schwartz, already dressed in his business suit, trudged into the locker room, Alan Mintz, still in his sweaty gym clothes, made a beeline for the boss.

"How could this happen to 14,000 employees?" demanded the 46-year-old senior trader, thrusting his face uncomfortably close to Mr. Schwartz's. "Look in my eyes, and tell me how this happened!"

Two and a half months later, Mr. Schwartz still isn't quite sure. To Mr. Mintz and others, he has blamed a market tsunami he didn't see coming. He told a Senate committee last month: "I just simply have not been able to come up with anything, even with the benefit of hindsight, that would have made a difference."

But many who lived through the seven tense months before the deal say Bear Stearns imploded because it was at war with itself. Buffeted by the most treacherous market forces in a generation and hobbled by indecision, the firm's leaders missed opportunities that might have been able to save the 85-year-old brokerage.

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The Wisdom of the Ages, for Now Anyway

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EARLIER this month, Oprah Winfrey looked into a camera and announced to the world that she was about to do the “most exciting thing I’ve ever done.”

Addressing an Internet audience, Ms. Winfrey said: “I am most proud of the fact that all of you have joined us in this global community to talk about what I believe is one of the most important subjects. And presented by one of the most important books of our times.”

Sitting across from her was the book’s author, a peaceful, goateed, somewhat mysterious man in a beige sweater named Eckhart Tolle. And if you haven’t heard of him, you haven’t spent much time in the self-help section of a bookstore in the last decade or so.

Mr. Tolle, 60, is the German-born spiritual speaker and author of “The Power of Now.” With a seemingly limitless pool of middle-class discontent to tap into — and a major push from Ms. Winfrey — he has become the most popular spiritual author in the nation. His books hold the top two spots on the New York Times best-seller list for paperback advice books. Since March 3, he has been host to a weekly online seminar series alongside Ms. Winfrey in support of his 2005 book, “A New Earth,” which is her latest book club selection and No. 1 on the list.

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Mr. Tolle is hardly the first writer to tap into the American longing for meaning and success.

Dale Carnegie made a bundle on “How to Win Friends and Influence People” during the Depression, and in the 1950s came Norman Vincent Peale’s best-selling “Power of Positive Thinking,” which shared Mr. Tolle’s aversion to negativity in life. A generation later, Ram Dass brought Buddhism to the masses, while recent self-help stars like Deepak Chopra have taught very Tollean messages — like embracing silence and living in the moment — on television and on tour.

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Sara Nelson, the editor-in-chief of Publishers Weekly, said that Mr. Tolle was just part of a surging market which includes “The Secret,” by Rhonda Byrne and “Eat, Pray, Love,” by Elizabeth Gilbert, two other spiritually minded, mass-appeal best sellers backed by Ms. Winfrey.

“There’s always sort of an evolution of styles, but the books are really all the same,” Ms. Nelson said. “The message is how to be happier, how to live the life you want, how to be at peace, how to be a more successful human. The genre never goes away, it just slightly changes its form. But it’s doing amazingly well right now.”

Debra Matsumoto, the marketing manager for 10 Speed Press, the publisher in Berkeley, Calif., that prints New Age books under the Celestial Arts imprint, was even more blunt. “We have already published books with very similar messages, to be honest, and we will continue to do so,” she said “We might already have it. We just need to slap a cover on it and get it into Oprah’s hands.”

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A Superhighway to Bliss

JILL BOLTE TAYLOR was a neuroscientist working at Harvard’s brain research center when she experienced nirvana.
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Dr. Taylor says the right, creative lobe can be used to foster contentment.

But she did it by having a stroke.

On Dec. 10, 1996, Dr. Taylor, then 37, woke up in her apartment near Boston with a piercing pain behind her eye. A blood vessel in her brain had popped. Within minutes, her left lobe the source of ego, analysis, judgment and context began to fail her. Oddly, it felt great.

The incessant chatter that normally filled her mind disappeared. Her everyday worries about a brother with schizophrenia and her high-powered job untethered themselves from her and slid away.
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Log Analyzer

AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers.
Take a look at this comparison table for an idea on features and differences between most famous statistics tools (AWStats, Analog, Webalizer,...).
AWStats is a free software distributed under the GNU General Public License. You can have a look at this license chart to know what you can/can't do.
As AWStats works from the command line but also as a CGI, it can work with major web hosting provider which allow Perl, CGI and log access.
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Kaizen

Kaizen (改善) is Japanese for improvement. It is a Japanese philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement throughout all aspects of life. When applied to the workplace, Kaizen activities continually improve all functions of a business from manufacturing to management and from the CEO to the assembly line workers.[1] By improving the standardized activities and processes, Kaizen aims to eliminate waste (see Lean manufacturing). Kaizen was first implemented in several Japanese businesses during the country's recovery after World War II, including Toyota, and has since spread to businesses throughout the world.

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The Next American Frontier

The entire world seems to be heading toward points of inflection. The developing world is embarking on the digital age. The developed world is entering the Internet era. And the United States, once again at the vanguard, is on the verge of becoming the world's first Entrepreneurial Nation.

At the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner delivered a paper to the American Historical Association – the most famous ever by an American historian. In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," he noted that, according to the most recent U.S. census, so much of the nation had been settled that there was no longer an identifiable western migration. The very notion of a "frontier" was obsolete.

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What's OptCircle?

• OptCircle is the marketplace that brings OPT,CPT candidates to the potential employers who are looking for fresh talent.

Why OptCircle?

• An unique place primarily meant to address the needs of OPT,CPT candidates in their quest for job.
• Bridges the gap between OPT,CPT candidates and employers interested in fresh talent
• Provides an effective and efficient platform for OPT,CPT candidates to reach out to a larger audience
• Provides potential employers to find fresh talent and a unique opportunity to attract the right talent

UID in Java

Custom 128 BIT UID Generation

Sample Code
http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=1030397

Other Option - GUID
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Java SE Management And Monitoring Guide

Using JConsole

Quick Notes

To see the java process id in windows

1. Go to task manager, View -> Select Columns -> selet PID
2. or use jps -l to list all process

On the other hand start jconsole and it lists all java process that are running locally.

The JConsole graphical user interface is a monitoring tool that complies to the Java Management Extensions (JMX) specification. JConsole uses the extensive instrumentation of the Java Virtual Machine (Java VM) to provide information about the performance and resource consumption of applications running on the Java platform.

In the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE platform) 6, JConsole has been updated to present the look and feel of the Windows and GNOME desktops (other platforms will present the standard Java graphical look and feel). The screen captures presented in this document were taken from an instance of the interface running on Windows XP.

Link to the complete Guide

Also Monitoring and managing Java SE 6 Applications

Remove Annoying system beep

Link to the original..

1. Right-click on My Computer
2. On the Hardware tab, click on [Device Manager]
3. On the “View” menu, select “Show hidden devices”
4. Under “Non-Plug and Play Drivers”, right-click “Beep”
5. Click “Disable”
6. Answer [Yes] when asked if you really want to disable it
7. Answer [No] when asked if you want to reboot
8. Right-click “Beep” again.
9. Click “Properties”
10. On the “Driver” tab, set the Startup type to Disabled
11. Click [Stop]
12. Click [OK]
13. Answer [No] when asked if you want to reboot

Can You Become a Creature of New Habits?

NY Times Article

HABITS are a funny thing. We reach for them mindlessly, setting our brains on auto-pilot and relaxing into the unconscious comfort of familiar routine. “Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd,” William Wordsworth said in the 19th century. In the ever-changing 21st century, even the word “habit” carries a negative connotation.

So it seems antithetical to talk about habits in the same context as creativity and innovation. But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.

Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits. In fact, the more new things we try — the more we step outside our comfort zone — the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives.

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Tomcat - Eclipse debugging

Debugging tomcat webapp with eclipse

The short answer is to add the following options when the JVM is started: -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n There are a number of ways you can do this depending on how you normally start Tomcat: * Set environment variables JPDA_ADDRESS=8000 and JPDA_TRANSPORT=dt_socket and then start tomcat using catalina jpda start. * If you run Tomcat using service wrapper, check the documentation for the service to determine how to set the required JVM options. * If you start Tomcat from within an IDE, check the documentation for the IDE to determine how to set the required JVM options.

The port does not need to be set to 8000, it may be any value appropriate for your system.

Whilst this is very useful in development it should not be used in production because of both security and performance implications.

Mem Cache

Mem Cache is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

Starting Up
First, you start up the memcached daemon on as many spare machines as you have. The daemon has no configuration file, just a few command line options, only 3 or 4 of which you'll likely use:

# ./memcached -d -m 2048 -l 10.0.0.40 -p 11211

This starts memcached up as a daemon, using 2GB of memory, and listening on IP 10.0.0.40, port 11211. Because a 32-bit process can only address 4GB of virtual memory (usually significantly less, depending on your operating system), if you have a 32-bit server with 4-64GB of memory using PAE you can just run multiple processes on the machine, each using 2 or 3GB of memory.