SrinathBugz

Remove Blank Lines in Java Code with NetBeans (regex)

2012-01-16T04:00:00.000-08:00

Open the 'Find and Replace' window. Type \n\s*(\n) in the Find What field and $1 in the Replace With field. Check the Regular Expressions box and click Replace All.
Boom! All blank lines are removed now.

VB.net direct http

2011-07-17T07:28:00.000-07:00

' EasyHttp.vb class filePublic Class EasyHttp Public Enum HTTPMethod As Short HTTP_GET = 0 HTTP_POST = 1 End Enum Public Shared Function Send(ByVal URL As String, _ Optional ByVal PostData As String = "", _ Optional ByVal Method As HTTPMethod = HTTPMethod.HTTP_GET, _ Optional ByVal ContentType As String = "") Dim Request As HttpWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(URL) Dim Response As HttpWebResponse Dim SW As StreamWriter Dim SR As StreamReader Dim ResponseData As String ' Prepare Request Object Request.Method = Method.ToString().Substring(5) ' Set form/post content-type if necessary If (Method = HTTPMethod.HTTP_POST AndAlso PostData >< "" AndAlso ContentType = "") Then ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" End If ' Set Content-Type If (ContentType >< "") Then Request.ContentType = ContentType Request.ContentLength = PostData.Length End If ' Send Request, If Request If (Method = HTTPMethod.HTTP_POST) Then Try SW = New StreamWriter(Request.GetRequestStream()) SW.Write(PostData) Catch Ex As Exception Throw Ex Finally SW.Close() End Try End If ' Receive Response Try Response = Request.GetResponse() SR = New StreamReader(Response.GetResponseStream()) ResponseData = SR.ReadToEnd() Catch Wex As System.Net.WebException SR = New StreamReader(Wex.Response.GetResponseStream()) ResponseData = SR.ReadToEnd() Throw New Exception(ResponseData) Finally SR.Close() End Try Return ResponseData End FunctionEnd Class

testttt

2011-07-16T10:31:00.001-07:00

yyyyyyyyyyyyyy

testtt

2011-07-16T10:05:00.001-07:00

ttttttttttttt

test

2011-07-16T10:03:00.001-07:00

setsetest

test

2011-07-16T09:25:00.001-07:00

tttt

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2011-07-16T09:04:00.001-07:00

post client test

TEST TITLE

2011-07-16T08:45:00.001-07:00

testing

Getting missing dates in Oracle

2011-06-10T03:55:00.000-07:00

WITH DATA AS (
select to_date(to_char(unit_date,'yyyy/mm/dd')) dat from hr_attendance where empid = 'EMP0001'
)
SELECT mi+LEVEL missing FROM(
SELECT MIN(dat) mi,MAX(dat)ma FROM DATA)
CONNECT BY LEVEL <= ma-mi
MINUS
SELECT dat FROM DATA;

Update Version of Derby

2011-04-12T21:52:00.000-07:00

shutdown the app replace derby.jar with newer version
append following to connection string

upgrade=true

Start the app and that's all
check it with following in sql

values syscs_util.syscs_get_database_property( 'DataDictionaryVersion' );

Derby sequence with Hibernate

2011-04-11T21:03:00.000-07:00

Derby sequence

CREATE SEQUENCE MD_USER_SEQ
AS INT
START WITH 1;

Hibernate mapping to get User_id from sequence

<id name="userId" type="integer" column="USER_ID" >
<generator class="sequence">
<param name="sequence">MD_USER_SEQ</param>
</generator>
</id>

[update:]
after all there is an issue with DerbyDialect of hibernate.
So need the following fix.

package entity;

import org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect;

/**
*
* @author Srinath
*/
public class MyDerbyDialect extends DerbyDialect{

   @Override
public String getSequenceNextValString(String sequenceName) {
   return "values next value for " + sequenceName;
}
}

Then in hibernate config

  <property name="hibernate.dialect">entity.MyDerbyDialect</property>

Google Voice Recognition/TTS

2011-03-20T17:28:00.000-07:00

TTS: http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=I%20love%20techcrunch

Voice Recognition : http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/VoiceRecognition.html

Firefox print hack

2011-03-14T01:30:00.001-07:00

about:config

print.show_print_progress;false
print.always_print_silent;true

Derby sqldump

2010-12-25T21:37:00.000-08:00

if username : srinath password:srinath schema:srinathand server not running

dblook -d "jdbc:derby:D:\Documents and Settings\Srinath.DIGIFIRE1\.netbeans-derby\btapp;user=srinath;password=srinath" -z srinath -o mydump.sql

Generated dump

-- ============================

-- This file was created using Derby's dblook utility.
-- Timestamp: 2010-12-26 10:50:18.906
-- Source database is: D:\Documents and Settings\Srinath.DIGIFIRE1\.netbeans-derby\btapp
-- Connection URL is: jdbc:derby:D:\Documents and Settings\Srinath.DIGIFIRE1\.netbeans-derby\btapp;user=srinath;password=srinath
-- Specified schema is: srinath
-- appendLogs: false

-- ----------------------------------------------
-- DDL Statements for schemas
-- ----------------------------------------------

-- ----------------------------------------------
-- DDL Statements for tables
-- ----------------------------------------------

CREATE TABLE "SRINATH"."ITEM" ("ID" INTEGER NOT NULL GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY (START WITH 1, INCREMENT BY 1), "TITLE" VARCHAR(100) DEFAULT NULL, "ICON" BLOB(2147483647), "ICONBASE64" VARCHAR(2000) DEFAULT NULL, "DESCRIPTION" VARCHAR(1000) DEFAULT NULL, "CATEGORY_ID" INTEGER, "LOCATION_ID" INTEGER);

CREATE TABLE "SRINATH"."LOCATION" ("ID" INTEGER NOT NULL GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY (START WITH 1, INCREMENT BY 1), "TITLE" VARCHAR(100) DEFAULT NULL, "ICON" BLOB(2147483647), "ICONBASE64" VARCHAR(2000) DEFAULT NULL, "DESCRIPTION" VARCHAR(1000) DEFAULT NULL);

CREATE TABLE "SRINATH"."CATEGORY" ("ID" INTEGER NOT NULL GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY (START WITH 1, INCREMENT BY 1), "TITLE" VARCHAR(100) DEFAULT NULL, "ICON" BLOB(2147483647), "ICONBASE64" VARCHAR(2000) DEFAULT NULL, "DESCRIPTION" VARCHAR(1000) DEFAULT NULL);

CREATE TABLE "SRINATH"."SYSTEM_USERS" ("USERNAME" VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL, "PASSWORD" VARCHAR(100) DEFAULT NULL);

-- ----------------------------------------------
-- DDL Statements for keys
-- ----------------------------------------------

-- primary/unique
ALTER TABLE "SRINATH"."LOCATION" ADD CONSTRAINT "SQL101225075907980" PRIMARY KEY ("ID");

ALTER TABLE "SRINATH"."SYSTEM_USERS" ADD CONSTRAINT "SQL101225075656450" PRIMARY KEY ("USERNAME");

ALTER TABLE "SRINATH"."ITEM" ADD CONSTRAINT "SQL101225083438700" PRIMARY KEY ("ID");

ALTER TABLE "SRINATH"."CATEGORY" ADD CONSTRAINT "SQL101225075421390" PRIMARY KEY ("ID");

-- foreign
ALTER TABLE "SRINATH"."ITEM" ADD CONSTRAINT "LOCATIONID_FK" FOREIGN KEY ("LOCATION_ID") REFERENCES "SRINATH"."LOCATION" ("ID") ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE RESTRICT;

ALTER TABLE "SRINATH"."ITEM" ADD CONSTRAINT "CATEGORYID_FK" FOREIGN KEY ("CATEGORY_ID") REFERENCES "SRINATH"."CATEGORY" ("ID") ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE RESTRICT;

Configuring NetBeans for BlackBerry development

2010-10-29T20:40:00.000-07:00

Install BB JDK.

Copy following to a file and make necessary changes.

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE platform PUBLIC '-//NetBeans//DTD J2ME PlatformDefinition 1.0//EN' 
          'http://www.netbeans.org/dtds/j2me-platformdefinition-1_0.dtd'>
<platform name="BlackBerry_JDE_421" 
          home="C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.2.1" 
          type="CUSTOM" 
          displayname="BlackBerry JDE 421" 
          srcpath="" 
          docpath="${platform.home}/docs/api," 
          preverifycmd="&quot;{platformhome}{/}bin{/}preverify&quot; 
                        {classpath|-classpath &quot;{classpath}&quot;} 
                        -d &quot;{destdir}&quot; &quot;{srcdir}&quot;" 
          runcmd="cmd /C &quot;cd /D {platformhome}{/}simulator&amp;{device}&quot;" 
          debugcmd="cmd /C &quot;cd /D {platformhome}{/}bin&amp;jdwp&quot;">
    <device name="8800" description="8800">
        <optional name="JSR75" version="1.0" 
                  displayname="File Connection and PIM Optional Packages" 
                  classpath="${platform.home}/lib/net_rim_api.jar" 
                  dependencies="" default="true"/>
        <optional name="MMAPI" version="1.0" 
                  displayname="Mobile Media API" 
                  classpath="${platform.home}/lib/net_rim_api.jar" 
                  dependencies="" default="true"/>
        <configuration name="CLDC" version="1.1" 
                       displayname="Connected Limited Device Configuration" 
                       classpath="${platform.home}/lib/net_rim_api.jar" 
                       dependencies="" default="true"/>
        <optional name="OBEX" version="1.0" 
                  displayname="Object Exchange APIs" 
                  classpath="${platform.home}/lib/net_rim_api.jar" 
                  dependencies="" default="true"/>
        <optional name="JSR82" version="1.0" 
                  displayname="Java APIs for Bluetooth Wireless Technology" 
                  classpath="${platform.home}/lib/net_rim_api.jar" 
                  dependencies="" default="true"/>
        <optional name="WMA" version="1.1" 
                  displayname="Wireless Messaging API" 
                  classpath="${platform.home}/lib/net_rim_api.jar" 
                  dependencies="" default="true"/>
        <optional name="JSR179" version="1.0" 
                  displayname="Location Based APIs" 
                  classpath="${platform.home}/lib/net_rim_api.jar" 
                  dependencies="" default="true"/>
        <optional name="JSR177" version="1.0" 
                  displayname="Security and Trust Services APIs" 
                  classpath="${platform.home}/lib/net_rim_api.jar" 
                  dependencies="" default="true"/>
        <profile name="MIDP" version="2.0" 
                 displayname="Mobile Information Device Profile" 
                 classpath="${platform.home}/lib/net_rim_api.jar" 
                 dependencies="" default="true"/>
    </device>
</platform>

Save it under - C:\Documents and Settings:

.netbeans\6.x\config\Services\Platforms\org-netbeans-api-java-Platform

as  BlackBerry_JDE_421.xml.

Restart NetBeans.

Open a Mobile project and add following to build.xml (just above </project> tag)

<target name="do-preprocess">
   <fail unless="libs.ant-contrib.classpath">
   Classpath to Ant Contrib library (libs.ant-contrib.classpath property) is not set.
   </fail>
   <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml">
   <classpath>
   <pathelement path="${libs.ant-contrib.classpath}">
   </pathelement></classpath>
   </taskdef>
   <available file="${platform.home}/bin/rapc.exe" property="do.rapc">
   <if>
   <isset property="do.rapc">
   <then>
   <property name="jpda.port" value="8000">
   <path id="antlib.classpath">
   <fileset dir="${user.dir}/mobility8/modules/ext/" includes="ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar">
   </fileset></path>
   <mkdir dir="${dist.dir}">
   <path id="src-files">
   <fileset dir="${src.dir}" includes="**/*.*">
   </fileset></path>
   <property name="srcs" value="${toString:src-files}">
   <for delimiter=";" list="${srcs}" param="file" trim="true">
   <sequential>
   <echo append="true" file="${src.dir}/${name}_build.files" message="@{file}${line.separator}">
   </echo></sequential>
   </for>
   <touch file="${dist.dir}/${dist.jar}">
   <nb-overrideproperty name="buildsystem.baton" value="${preprocessed.dir}">
   </nb-overrideproperty></touch></property></mkdir></property></then>
   <else>
   <nb-overrideproperty name="buildsystem.baton" value="${src.dir}">
   <antcall target="${name}-impl.do-preprocess">
   </antcall></nb-overrideproperty></else>
   </isset></if>
   </available></target>
   <target name="do-compile">
   <if>
   <isset property="do.rapc">
   <then>
   <antcall target="create-jad">
   <antcall target="update-jad">
   <copy file="${dist.dir}/${dist.jad}" todir="${src.dir}">
   <exec dir="${src.dir}" executable="${platform.home}/bin/rapc.exe" failonerror="true">
   <arg value="-quiet">
   <arg value="import=${platform.bootclasspath};${libs.classpath}">
   <arg value="codename=${name}">
   <arg value="-midlet">
   <arg value="jad=${dist.jad}">
   <arg value="@${name}_build.files">
   </arg></arg></arg></arg></arg></arg></exec>
   <delete file="${basedir}/${src.dir}/${name}_build.files">
   <copy file="${name}.alx" todir="${dist.dir}">
   <nb-overrideproperty name="buildsystem.baton" value="${build.classes.dir}">
   </nb-overrideproperty></copy></delete></copy></antcall></antcall></then>
   <else>
   <nb-overrideproperty name="buildsystem.baton" value="${preprocessed.dir}">
   <antcall target="${name}-impl.do-compile">
   </antcall></nb-overrideproperty></else>
   </isset></if>
   </target>
   <target name="pre-obfuscate">
   <nb-overrideproperty name="buildsystem.baton" value="${build.classes.dir}">
   </nb-overrideproperty></target>
   <target if="do.rapc" name="post-jar">
   <move todir="${dist.dir}">
   <fileset dir="${src.dir}">
   <include name="**/${name}*.*">
   </include></fileset>
   </move>
   <copy todir="${platform.home}/simulator" verbose="true">
   <fileset dir="${dist.dir}">
   <include name="**/${name}*.*">
   </include></fileset>
   </copy>
   </target>
   <target name="post-clean">
   <delete failonerror="false" includeemptydirs="true">
   <fileset dir="${platform.home}/simulator">
   <include name="**/${name}*.*">
   </include></fileset>
   <fileset dir="${dist.dir}">
   <include name="**/*.*">
   </include></fileset>
   <fileset dir="${src.dir}">
   <include name="**/${name}*.*">
   </include></fileset>
   </delete>
   </target>

Create a file called [appname].alx in the project level and copy following to it.

<loader version="1.0">
   <application id="MobileApplication1">
   <name>
   MobileApplication1
   </name>
   <description/>
   <version>
   1.0
   </version>
   <vendor>
   </vendor>
   <copyright>
   </copyright>
   <fileset Java="1.3">
   <directory/>
   <files>
   MobileApplication1.cod
   </files>
   </fileset>
   <application id="MobileApplication1">
   <name/>
   <description/>
   <version>
   1.0
   </version>
   <vendor>
   Sun Microsystems Inc.
   </vendor>
   <copyright>
   Copyright (c) 2008 Sun Microsystems Inc.
   </copyright>

   </application>
   </application>
</loader>

That's it

Android with NetBeans

2010-10-17T03:19:00.000-07:00

1.Installing Plugin for NetBeans
- Go to Plugins and add following update center
http://kenai.com/downloads/nbandroid/updates.xml.
Then Select and install Android plugin.

2.Unzip android SDK and add it as a Java Platform for NetBeans.

3.Then you must create an Android Virtual Device (AVD).
An AVD defines the system image and device settings used by the emulator.
To create an AVD, use the "android" tool provided in the Android SDK.
Open a command prompt or terminal, navigate to the tools/ directory in the
SDK package and execute:

android create avd --target 2 --name my_avd

Now it's all up to NetBeans

[If RAM is full it will say "Device’s package manager not ready to install new packages" at

the deployment time, close some app of PC and give some RAM]

Oracle Jobs, user and privileges

2010-10-13T20:44:00.000-07:00

How Jobs Execute

Jnnn processes execute jobs. To execute a job, the process creates a session to run the job. When a Jnnn process runs a job, the job is run in the same environment in which it was submitted and with the owner's default privileges. The owner must be explicitly granted the necessary object privileges for all objects referenced within the job definition.

When you force a job to run using the procedure DBMS_JOB.RUN, the job is run by your user process and with your default privileges only. Privileges granted to you through roles are unavailable. You must be explicitly granted the necessary object privileges for all objects referenced within the job definition.

String Concat function-Oracle ( similar usage to SUM)

2010-09-28T02:39:00.000-07:00

SELECT deptno, wm_concat(ename) AS employees

FROM   emp
GROUP BY deptno;

Result ----->

    DEPTNO EMPLOYEES
---------- --------------------------------------------------
        10 CLARK,KING,MILLER
        20 SMITH,FORD,ADAMS,SCOTT,JONES
        30 ALLEN,BLAKE,MARTIN,TURNER,JAMES,WARD





Base Data:

    DEPTNO ENAME
---------- ----------
        20 SMITH
        30 ALLEN
        30 WARD
        20 JONES
        30 MARTIN
        30 BLAKE
        10 CLARK
        20 SCOTT
        10 KING
        30 TURNER
        20 ADAMS
        30 JAMES
        20 FORD
        10 MILLER
For Oracle 9 --> as wm_concat() function is not available use following custom function. 
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_it (invoice in VARCHAR2)
  RETURN VARCHAR2
IS
  l_text  VARCHAR2(32767) := NULL;
BEGIN
  FOR cur_rec IN (SELECT x AS itemName FROM invoice_breakdown where invoice_no = invoice /*query returning multiple rows*/) LOOP
    l_text := l_text || ',' || cur_rec.itemName;
  END LOOP;
  RETURN LTRIM(l_text, ',');
END;
/
SHOW ERRORS

Check if String Contains a certain Substring

2010-08-03T04:45:00.000-07:00

String string = "Madam, I am Adam";

// Starts with
boolean b = string.startsWith("Mad");
// true

// Ends with
b = string.endsWith("dam");
// true

// Anywhere
b = string.indexOf("I am") > 0;
// true

// To ignore case, regular expressions must be used
// Starts with
b = string.matches("(?i)mad.*");

// Ends with
b = string.matches("(?i).*adam");

// Anywhere
b = string.matches("(?i).*i am.*");

//
.replaceAll("\\W", ""); replace all non-alphanumerics

Auto Incrementing primary key with Oracle

2010-07-26T05:33:00.000-07:00

SQL> CREATE TABLE test
(id NUMBER PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR2(30));

Table created.

SQL> CREATE SEQUENCE test_sequence
START WITH 1
INCREMENT BY 1;

Sequence created.

Now we can use that sequence in an BEFORE INSERT trigger on the table.

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER test_trigger
BEFORE INSERT
ON test
REFERENCING NEW AS NEW
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
SELECT test_sequence.nextval INTO :NEW.ID FROM dual;
END;

Trigger created.

JSTL [S]crap

2010-07-21T05:20:00.000-07:00

Iterating ArrayList of Arrays

<c:foreach items="${list}" var="innerList">
<c:foreach items="${innerList}" var="item">
<c:out value="${item}"></c:out>|

</c:foreach> <br>

</c:foreach>

TAX DATA

2010-06-02T23:24:00.000-07:00

MySql Tips

2010-02-10T19:35:00.000-08:00

Loading data from a text file :

LOAD DATA INFILE 'aino.txt' INTO TABLE products_options_values (products_options_values_name);

(Text file is read from the database directory of the default database)

Removing spaces :

update products_options_values set products_options_values_name = REPLACE(products_options_values_name,' ' ,'');

Solar Eclipse

2010-01-15T00:14:00.001-08:00

Motorola System Properties

2009-12-24T05:04:00.000-08:00

Important

Some of these system properties may return null as they may not be supported on early devices.
Some system properties require the MIDlet to be signed otherwise return null.

"default.timezone",
"microedition.timezone",
"midp_selector_exit",
"midp_alert_done",
"midp_command_menu",
"midp_selector_launch_failed",
"midp_vertical_scroll",
"midp_scrollbar_width",
"midp_screen_background",
"midp_screen_foreground",
"midp_screen_linked_color",
"midp_enhance_create_cropped_image",
"midp_enhance_flush_game_graphics",
"midp_game_flush_compatible_wt_wtk",
"microedition.configuration",
"microedition.platform",
"microedition.locale",
"microedition.encoding",
"microedition.profiles",
"microedition.hostname",
"microedition.jtwi.version",
"microedition.commports",
"commports.maxbaudrate",
"CellID",
"LocAreaCode",
"IMSI",
"IMEI",
"MSISDN",
"batterylevel",
"funlight.product",
"supports.mixing",
"supports.audio.capture",
"supports.video.capture",
"supports.recording",
"microedition.media.version",
"audio.encodings",
"video.encodings",
"video.snapshot.encodings",
"wireless.messaging.sms.smsc",
"wireless.messaging.mms.mmsc",
"com.mot.carrier.URL",
"microedition.io.file.FileConnection.version",
"file.separator",
"com.mot.carrier.URL",
"microedition.m3g.version",
"com.mot.carrier.URL",
"device.software.version",
"device.model",
"microedition.pim.version",
"language.direction",
"location_category_max_length",
"location_landmark_max_length",
"MAType",
"GPRSState",
"microedition.smartcardslots"

Following are applicable only latest Mobile Linux platform devices
(except the MOTORAZR2 V8 and MOTOROKR Z6)

"fileconn.dir.photos"
"fileconn.dir.videos"
"fileconn.dir.graphics"
"fileconn.dir.tones"
"fileconn.dir.music"
"fileconn.dir.recordings"
"fileconn.dir.photos.name"
"fileconn.dir.videos.name"
"fileconn.dir.graphics.name"
"fileconn.dir.tones.name"
"fileconn.dir.music.name"
"fileconn.dir.recordings.name"

007 Style Clock

2009-12-21T19:18:00.000-08:00

Ok Guys, here is my second gadget. Hope you have already used my "Online PDF maker" .
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Ubuntu-Setting the PATH variable for Java

2009-09-06T06:44:00.000-07:00


:~$ sudo gedit /etc/profile
[sudo] password for Admin:   // enter admin password

Then Gedit will open with something like


# /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1))
# and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...).

if [ -d /etc/profile.d ]; then
 for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
   if [ -r $i ]; then
     . $i
   fi
 done
 unset i
fi
# $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ copy to here $$$$$$$$$$$$$

Append this to end of the file



PATH=/*$$$$full path to bin here (eg:/home/srinath/myJava/jdk1.6.0_03/bin)$$$$$*/ :${PATH}
export PATH
JAVA_HOME=/*$$$$full path to bin here (eg:/home/srinath/myJava/jdk1.6.0_03/bin)$$$$$*/
export JAVA_HOME

Finally it will look like this.


# /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1))
# and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...).

if [ -d /etc/profile.d ]; then
 for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
   if [ -r $i ]; then
     . $i
   fi
 done
 unset i
fi

if [ "$PS1" ]; then
 if [ "$BASH" ]; then
   PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
   if [ -f /etc/bash.bashrc ]; then
 . /etc/bash.bashrc
   fi
 else
   if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
     PS1='# '
   else
     PS1='$ '
   fi
 fi
fi


PATH=/home/srinath/myJava/jdk1.6.0_03/bin:${PATH}
export PATH
JAVA_HOME=/home/srinath/myJava/jdk1.6.0_03/bin
export JAVA_HOME


umask 022

Now save.This is global, and affect all users.
Logout & Login, then try java -version

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2009-08-30T08:32:00.000-07:00

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2009-08-24T04:17:00.000-07:00

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which includes:

• GlassFish Application Server: Introduction
• Designing Java Web Services
• Adding Quality of Service and .NET Interoperability to Web Services
• Creating Reliable and Secure Interoperable Web Services
• Creating Transactional Web Services
• Working With the Web Services Policy

Get it nowwwwwww

Step 1: Register -- Create a new one-time use account that will be valid for 90 days.

Step 2: Enter the following for Company Name: Glassfish4Free and for Company ID: Glassfish4Free

Add Online PDF Maker to your blog -only 3 clicks

2009-07-31T00:15:00.001-07:00

Follow the steps

Then Search for "Online PDF Maker" ,

add it, yahhhh

Convert PDF to SWF, online + free

2009-07-28T21:13:00.000-07:00

PdfMeNot is a very helpful service to view PDF documents online using Adobe Flash Player. In other words, PdfMeNot converts PDF into SWF file (online and free!) and you can save this SWF for further use (Go to Tools > Page Info > Media > select and save .swf file).

PdfMeNot also offers:

1. Easy linking to existing PDF files. Simply add http://pdfmenot.com/view/
before the URL of PDF file (e.g. http://pdfmenot.com/view/http://example.com/example.pdf) to view .pdf as SWF movie and save it if needed.

2. Bookmarklet and Firefox add-on: they do the same - convert pdf links on a web page so that they can be viewed with PdfMeNot (i.e. automatically adds the link I mentioned above to all pdf links on the page). The difference is that installed Firefox addon do that automatically for every page you visit, while bookmarklet lets to convert links only when you need it. The converted links will be marked with a small icon.

3. Javascript for bloggers and webmasters for converting PDFs they link to.

eg :

Loading(9 Pages)...

4. PDF viewer which can be inserted into a webpage.

Go to pdfmenot.com for more details.

PdfMeNot is a great tool for viewing PDF files everywhere even without Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader. Nevertheless, take note that it's PDF Viewer only, result SWF files don't have Print or Search options.

J2ME Bluetooth connection steps

2009-07-13T05:41:00.000-07:00

Following are the connection setup steps for J2ME Bluetooth.
(example shows Connecting to Server mode connection already
created with btspp)

Inititate Search for devices.
Method "deviceDiscovered" called by flatform for each device.
Method "inquiryCompleted" called by flatform when device search completes.
Then do a service search for selected device.
Method "servicesDiscovered" called by flatform for each service.
Method "serviceSearchCompleted" called by platform when service search completes.
(there open a StreamConnection to chosen service URL)



        //step 1
      public void SearchAvailDevices() {
         try {
       //First get the local device and obtain the discovery agent.
       m_LclDevice = LocalDevice.getLocalDevice();

       m_DscrAgent = m_LclDevice.getDiscoveryAgent();

       m_DscrAgent.startInquiry(DiscoveryAgent.GIAC, this);
} catch (BluetoothStateException ex) {
  vobt.addLog("Problem in searching the blue tooth devices : " + ex.getMessage());
  System.out.println("Problem in searching the blue tooth devices");
  ex.printStackTrace();
}

}
//step 2 -- PLATFORM CALL
//Called when device is found during inquiry
public void deviceDiscovered(RemoteDevice btDevice, DeviceClass cod) {

try {
  // Get Device Info
  System.out.println("Device Discovered");
  System.out.println("Major Device Class: " + cod.getMajorDeviceClass() + " Minor Device Class: " + cod.getMinorDeviceClass());
  System.out.println("Bluetooth Address: " + btDevice.getBluetoothAddress());
  System.out.println("Bluetooth Friendly Name: " + btDevice.getFriendlyName(true));
  vobt.addLog("**Device Discovered**");
  vobt.addLog("#Major Device Class: " + cod.getMajorDeviceClass() + " Minor Device Class: " + cod.getMinorDeviceClass());
  vobt.addLog("#Bluetooth Address: " + btDevice.getBluetoothAddress());

 //put remote devices in Array
  remoteDevicesArray[deviceCount] = btDevice;
  deviceClassesArray [deviceCount] = cod;
  deviceCount++;
} catch (Exception e) {
  System.out.println("Device Discovered Error: " + e);
  vobt.addLog("deviceDiscovered : " + e);
}
//step 3--PLATFORM CALL
//when device search completes
public void inquiryCompleted(int discType) { }
//step 4
//Search for srvices in Given device as following
public void serviceSearch(int selectedIndex)
{
try {
  UUID[] uuidSet = new UUID[1];
  uuidSet[0] = RFCOMM_UUID; // UUID USED TO INITIATE SERVER
  int searchID = m_DscrAgent.searchServices(null, uuidSet, remoteDevicesArray[selectedIndex], this);
} catch (BluetoothStateException ex) {
  ex.printStackTrace();
     vobt.addLog("deviceDiscovered : " + ex);
}
}
 // step 5 -- PLATFORM CALL 
    //when service found during service search (for each time new service found)
    public void servicesDiscovered(int transID, ServiceRecord[] records) {

        for (int i = 0; i < records.length; i++) {
            m_strUrl = records[i].getConnectionURL(ServiceRecord.AUTHENTICATE_ENCRYPT, false);
          
            System.out.println(m_strUrl);
            if (m_strUrl.startsWith("btspp")) //search for URLS with btspp 
            {
                m_bServerFound = true;
                m_bInitClient = true;
                break;
            }

        }
        }


// step6 -- PLATFORM CALL 
// when service search complete for given device
 public void serviceSearchCompleted(int transID, int respCode) {
       try {  // open stream connection with needed URL 
            StrmConn = (StreamConnection) Connector.open(m_strUrl);
                }
          catch()
                {}
          }

Hibernate querying and iteration using JSTL

2009-07-12T21:18:00.001-07:00

1.If a query return a single raw with data from mulitple tables
(unique result with mulitple objects in-hibernate),
it returns array of Entity Objects.
A[0]
A[n]
....

2.If a query return multiple raws with data from mulitple tabels
it return List of Array objects.
L[0] ---
|+--- A[0]...A[m]
L[n] ---
|+--- A[0]...A[m]
.....

Code for situation 1


   SQLQuery query = session.createSQLQuery(sql);
   query.addEntity("person", Person.class);
   query.addEntity("specializations", Entity.Specializations.class);
       
    Object obj =  query.uniqueResult();
  // obj is an array
  //A[0] will be a "person" and A[1] will be a "specializations" Object

View using JSTL


${objectArray[0].salutationText}. ${objectArray[0].nameWithInitials}
${objectArray[1].specializationText}

Code for situation 2


SQLQuery query = session.createSQLQuery(sql);
query.addEntity("session", Entity.Session.class);
query.addEntity("person", Person.class);

     list = query.list();
    // this return List of Arrays 
    // where L[n]  A[0] -- "session" , A[1] -- "person"

Iterate using JSTL



      ${p[0].sessionId}
      ${p[0].sessionDate}
      ${p[1].name}
      ${p[1].address}

SMS-Gmail Password Recovery over SMS

2009-07-10T21:47:00.000-07:00

We forget our passwords from time to time. Then what a hassel, forms forms, security questions and login to secondary email address. But now with Gmail, we just have to enter Username here(Password Assisatance Page), they sms a Recovery Code to phone, Simple.Befor that you have to set up under account settings. I tried and it works :) give it a try

Important-Supported Carries (for Sri Lanka)

Dialog Telekom Ltd
Mobitel Sri Lanka
Tigo (Private) Limited

United Air Break Guitars- leeds to YouTube Hit Song

2009-07-09T23:48:00.000-07:00

Canadian musician Dave Carroll's guitar had beeing smashed by United Airlines

workers and the airline had refused to pay $US1200 cost to repair it. Everything for good,

at last he did a song with anger and now it's a youtube hit 900 000+ views :) have a look.

Google Chrome OS

2009-07-08T01:49:00.000-07:00

Google has announce that it is developing an operating system for personal computers based on its Chrome browser and it will be

available in the second half of next year, Lolz++ it is open source and lightweight

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

Spring-MVC-step-by-step-SIMPLE

2009-07-06T04:36:00.000-07:00

spring-mvc-step-by...

Steve Jobs(Apple)@STANFORD

2009-07-05T08:41:00.000-07:00

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Michael Jackson - Oxford Speech(Full text with Audio)

2009-07-02T05:50:00.000-07:00

Heal The Kids - Oxford Speech

Oxford University, March 2001 by Michael Jackson

Thank you, thank you dear friends, from the bottom of my heart, for such a loving and spirited welcome, and thank you, Mr President, for your kind invitation to me which I am so honoured to accept. I also want to express a special thanks to you Shmuley, who for 11 years served as Rabbi here at Oxford. You and I have been working so hard to form Heal the Kids, as well as writing our book about childlike qualities, and in all of our efforts you have been such a supportive and loving friend. And I would also like to thank Toba Friedman, our director of operations at Heal the Kids, who is returning tonight to the alma mater where she served as a Marshall scholar, as well as Marilyn Piels, another central member of our Heal the Kids team.

I am humbled to be lecturing in a place that has previously been filled by such notable figures as Mother Theresa, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Robert Kennedy and Malcolm X. I've even heard that Kermit the Frog has made an appearance here, and I've always felt a kinship with Kermit's message that it's not easy being green. I'm sure he didn't find it any easier being up here than I do!

As I looked around Oxford today, I couldn't help but be aware of the majesty and grandeur of this great institution, not to mention the brilliance of the great and gifted minds that have roamed these streets for centuries. The walls of Oxford have not only housed the greatest philosophical and scientific geniuses - they have also ushered forth some of the most cherished creators of children's literature, from J.R.R. Tolkien to CS Lewis. Today I was allowed to hobble into the dining hall in Christ Church to see Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland immortalised in the stained glass windows. And even one of my own fellow Americans, the beloved Dr Seuss graced these halls and then went on to leave his mark on the imaginations of millions of children throughout the world.

I suppose I should start by listing my qualifications to speak before you this evening. Friends, I do not claim to have the academic expertise of other speakers who have addressed this hall, just as they could lay little claim at being adept at the moonwalk - and you know, Einstein in particular was really TERRIBLE at that.

But I do have a claim to having experienced more places and cultures than most people will ever see. Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche. And friends, I have encountered so much in this relatively short life of mine that I still cannot believe I am only 42. I often tell Shmuley that in soul years I'm sure that I'm at least 80 - and tonight I even walk like I'm 80! So please harken to my message, because what I have to tell you tonight can bring healing to humanity and healing to our planet.

Through the grace of God, I have been fortunate to have achieved many of my artistic and professional aspirations realised early in my lifetime. But these, friends are accomplishments, and accomplishments alone are not synonymous with who I am. Indeed, the cheery five-year-old who belted out Rockin' Robin and Ben to adoring crowds was not indicative of the boy behind the smile.

Tonight, I come before you less as an icon of pop (whatever that means anyway), and more as an icon of a generation, a generation that no longer knows what it means to be children.

All of us are products of our childhood. But I am the product of a lack of a childhood, an absence of that precious and wondrous age when we frolic playfully without a care in the world, basking in the adoration of parents and relatives, where our biggest concern is studying for that big spelling test come Monday morning.

Those of you who are familiar with the Jackson Five know that I began performing at the tender age of five and that ever since then, I haven't stopped dancing or singing. But while performing and making music undoubtedly remain as some of my greatest joys, when I was young I wanted more than anything else to be a typical little boy. I wanted to build tree houses, have water balloon fights, and play hide and seek with my friends. But fate had it otherwise and all I could do was envy the laughter and playtime that seemed to be going on all around me.

There was no respite from my professional life. But on Sundays I would go Pioneering, the term used for the missionary work that Jehovah's Witnesses do. And it was then that I was able to see the magic of other people's childhood.

Since I was already a celebrity, I would have to don a disguise of fat suit, wig, beard and glasses and we would spend the day in the suburbs of Southern California, going door-to-door or making the rounds of shopping malls, distributing our Watchtower magazine. I loved to set foot in all those regular suburban houses and catch sight of the shag rugs and La-Z-Boy armchairs with kids playing Monopoly and grandmas baby-sitting and all those wonderful, ordinary and starry scenes of everyday life. Many, I know, would argue that these things seem like no big deal. But to me they were mesmerising.

I used to think that I was unique in feeling that I was without a childhood. I believed that indeed there were only a handful with whom I could share those feelings. When I recently met with Shirley Temple Black, the great child star of the 1930s and 40s, we said nothing to each other at first, we simply cried together, for she could share a pain with me that only others like my close friends Elizabeth Taylor and McCauley Culkin know.

I do not tell you this to gain your sympathy but to impress upon you my first important point : It is not just Hollywood child stars that have suffered from a non-existent childhood. Today, it's a universal calamity, a global catastrophe. Childhood has become the great casualty of modern-day living. All around us we are producing scores of kids who have not had the joy, who have not been accorded the right, who have not been allowed the freedom, or knowing what it's like to be a kid.

Today children are constantly encouraged to grow up faster, as if this period known as childhood is a burdensome stage, to be endured and ushered through, as swiftly as possible. And on that subject, I am certainly one of the world's greatest experts.

Ours is a generation that has witnessed the abrogation of the parent-child covenant. Psychologists are publishing libraries of books detailing the destructive effects of denying one's children the unconditional love that is so necessary to the healthy development of their minds and character. And because of all the neglect, too many of our kids have, essentially, to raise themselves. They are growing more distant from their parents, grandparents and other family members, as all around us the indestructible bond that once glued together the generations, unravels.

This violation has bred a new generation, Generation O let us call it, that has now picked up the torch from Generation X. The O stands for a generation that has everything on the outside - wealth, success, fancy clothing and fancy cars, but an aching emptiness on the inside. That cavity in our chests, that barrenness at our core, that void in our centre is the place where the heart once beat and which love once occupied.

And it's not just the kids who are suffering. It's the parents as well. For the more we cultivate little-adults in kids'-bodies, the more removed we ourselves become from our own child-like qualities, and there is so much about being a child that is worth retaining in adult life.

Love, ladies and gentlemen, is the human family's most precious legacy, its richest bequest, its golden inheritance. And it is a treasure that is handed down from one generation to another. Previous ages may not have had the wealth we enjoy. Their houses may have lacked electricity, and they squeezed their many kids into small homes without central heating. But those homes had no darkness, nor were they cold. They were lit bright with the glow of love and they were warmed snugly by the very heat of the human heart. Parents, undistracted by the lust for luxury and status, accorded their children primacy in their lives.

As you all know, our two countries broke from each other over what Thomas Jefferson referred to as "certain inalienable rights". And while we Americans and British might dispute the justice of his claims, what has never been in dispute is that children have certain inalienable rights, and the gradual erosion of those rights has led to scores of children worldwide being denied the joys and security of childhood.

I would therefore like to propose tonight that we install in every home a Children's Universal Bill of Rights, the tenets of which are:

1. The right to be loved without having to earn it

2. The right to be protected, without having to deserve it

3. The right to feel valuable, even if you came into the world with nothing

4. The right to be listened to without having to be interesting

5. The right to be read a bedtime story, without having to compete with the evening news

6. The right to an education without having to dodge bullets at schools

7. The right to be thought of as adorable - (even if you have a face that only a mother could love).

Friends, the foundation of all human knowledge, the beginning of human consciousness, must be that each and every one of us is an object of love. Before you know if you have red hair or brown, before you know if you are black or white, before you know of what religion you are a part, you have to know that you are loved.

About twelve years ago, when I was just about to start my Bad tour, a little boy came with his parents to visit me at home in California. He was dying of cancer and he told me how much he loved my music and me. His parents told me that he wasn't going to live, that any day he could just go, and I said to him: "Look, I am going to be coming to your town in Kansas to open my tour in three months. I want you to come to the show. I am going to give you this jacket that I wore in one of my videos." His eyes lit up and he said: "You are gonna GIVE it to me?" I said "Yeah, but you have to promise that you will wear it to the show." I was trying to make him hold on. I said: "When you come to the show I want to see you in this jacket and in this glove" and I gave him one of my rhinestone gloves - and I never usually give the rhinestone gloves away. And he was just in heaven.

But maybe he was too close to heaven, because when I came to his town, he had already died, and they had buried him in the glove and jacket. He was just 10 years old. God knows, I know, that he tried his best to hold on. But at least when he died, he knew that he was loved, not only by his parents, but even by me, a near stranger, I also loved him. And with all of that love he knew that he didn't come into this world alone, and he certainly didn't leave it alone.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can he dealt with. A professor may degrade you, but you will not feel degraded, a boss may crush you, but you will not be crushed, a corporate gladiator might vanquish you, but you will still triumph. How could any of them truly prevail in pulling you down? For you know that you are an object worthy of love. The rest is just packaging.

But if you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still fell empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth.

Friends, let me paint a picture for you. Here is a typical day in America - six youths under the age of 20 will commit suicide, 12 children under the age of 20 will die from firearms - remember this is a DAY, not a year - 399 kids will be arrested for drug abuse, 1,352 babies will be born to teen mothers. This is happening in one of the richest, most developed countries in the history of the world.

Yes, in my country there is an epidemic of violence that parallels no other industrialised nation. These are the ways young people in America express their hurt and their anger. But don't think that there is not the same pain and anguish among their counterparts in the United Kingdom. Studies in this country show that every single hour, three teenagers in the UK inflict harm upon themselves, often by cutting or burning their bodies or taking an overdose. This is how they have chosen to cope with the pain of neglect and emotional agony.

In Britain, as many as 20% of families will only sit down and have dinner together once a year. Once a year! And what about the time-honoured tradition of reading your kid a bedtime story? Research from the 1980s showed that children who are read to, had far greater literacy and significantly outperformed their peers at school. And yet, less than 33% of British children ages two to eight have a regular bedtime story read to them. You may not think much of that until you take into account that 75% of their parents DID have that bedtime story when they were that age.

Clearly, we do not have to ask ourselves where all of this pain, anger and violent behaviour comes from. It is self-evident that children are thundering against the neglect, quaking against the indifference and crying out just to be noticed. The various child protection agencies in the US say that millions of children are victims of maltreatment in the form of neglect, in the average year. Yes, neglect. In rich homes, privileged homes, wired to the hilt with every electronic gadget. Homes where parents come home, but they're not really home, because their heads are still at the office. And their kids? Well, their kids just make do with whatever emotional crumbs they get. And you don't get much from endless TV, computer games and videos.

These hard, cold numbers which for me, wrench the soul and shake the spirit, should indicate to you why I have devoted so much of my time and resources into making our new Heal the Kids initiative a colossal success.

Our goal is simple - to recreate the parent/child bond, renew its promise and light the way forward for all the beautiful children who are destined one day to walk this earth.

But since this is my first public lecture, and you have so warmly welcomed me into your hearts, I feel that I want to tell you more. We each have our own story, and in that sense statistics can become personal.

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another. I have discovered that getting parents to re-dedicate themselves to their children is only half the story. The other half is preparing the children to re-accept their parents.

When I was very young I remember that we had this crazy mutt of a dog named "Black Girl," a mix of wolf and retriever. Not only wasn't she much of a guard dog, she was such a scared and nervous thing that it is a wonder she did not pass out every time a truck rumbled by, or a thunderstorm swept through Indiana. My sister Janet and I gave that dog so much love, but we never really won back the sense of trust that had been stolen from her by her previous owner. We knew he used to beat her. We didn't know with what. But whatever it was, it was enough to suck the spirit right out of that dog.

A lot of kids today are hurt puppies who have weaned themselves off the need for love. They couldn't care less about their parents. Left to their own devices, they cherish their independence. They have moved on and have left their parents behind.

Then there are the far worse cases of children who harbour animosity and resentment toward their parents, so that any overture that their parents might undertake would be thrown forcefully back in their face.

Tonight, I don't want any of us to make this mistake. That's why I'm calling upon all the world's children - beginning with all of us here tonight - to forgive our parents, if we felt neglected. Forgive them and teach them how to love again.

You probably weren't surprised to hear that I did not have an idyllic childhood. The strain and tension that exists in my relationship with my own father is well documented. My father is a tough man and he pushed my brothers and me hard, from the earliest age, to be the best performers we could be.

He had great difficulty showing affection. He never really told me he loved me. And he never really complimented me either. If I did a great show, he would tell me it was a good show. And if I did an OK show, he told me it was a lousy show.

He seemed intent, above all else, on making us a commercial success. And at that he was more than adept. My father was a managerial genius and my brothers and I owe our professional success, in no small measure, to the forceful way that he pushed us. He trained me as a showman and under his guidance I couldn't miss a step.

But what I really wanted was a Dad. I wanted a father who showed me love. And my father never did that. He never said I love you while looking me straight in the eye, he never played a game with me. He never gave me a piggyback ride, he never threw a pillow at me, or a water balloon.

But I remember once when I was about four years old, there was a little carnival and he picked me up and put me on a pony. It was a tiny gesture, probably something he forgot five minutes later. But because of that moment I have this special place in my heart for him. Because that's how kids are, the little things mean so much to them and for me, that one moment meant everything. I only experienced it that one time, but it made me feel really good, about him and the world.

But now I am a father myself, and one day I was thinking about my own children, Prince and Paris and how I wanted them to think of me when they grow up. To be sure, I would like them to remember how I always wanted them with me wherever I went, how I always tried to put them before everything else. But there are also challenges in their lives. Because my kids are stalked by paparazzi, they can't always go to a park or a movie with me.

So what if they grow older and resent me, and how my choices impacted their youth? Why weren't we given an average childhood like all the other kids, they might ask? And at that moment I pray that my children will give me the benefit of the doubt. That they will say to themselves: "Our daddy did the best he could, given the unique circumstances that he faced. He may not have been perfect, but he was a warm and decent man, who tried to give us all the love in the world."

I hope that they will always focus on the positive things, on the sacrifices I willingly made for them, and not criticise the things they had to give up, or the errors I've made, and will certainly continue to make, in raising them. For we have all been someone's child, and we know that despite the very best of plans and efforts, mistakes will always occur. That's just being human.

And when I think about this, of how I hope that my children will not judge me unkindly, and will forgive my shortcomings, I am forced to think of my own father and despite my earlier denials, I am forced to admit that me must have loved me. He did love me, and I know that.

There were little things that showed it. When I was a kid I had a real sweet tooth - we all did. My favourite food was glazed doughnuts and my father knew that. So every few weeks I would come downstairs in the morning and there on the kitchen counter was a bag of glazed doughnuts - no note, no explanation - just the doughnuts. It was like Santa Claus.

Sometimes I would think about staying up late at night, so I could see him leave them there, but just like with Santa Claus, I didn't want to ruin the magic for fear that he would never do it again. My father had to leave them secretly at night, so as no one might catch him with his guard down. He was scared of human emotion, he didn't understand it or know how to deal with it. But he did know doughnuts.

And when I allow the floodgates to open up, there are other memories that come rushing back, memories of other tiny gestures, however imperfect, that showed that he did what he could. So tonight, rather than focusing on what my father didn't do, I want to focus on all the things he did do and on his own personal challenges. I want to stop judging him.

I have started reflecting on the fact that my father grew up in the South, in a very poor family. He came of age during the Depression and his own father, who struggled to feed his children, showed little affection towards his family and raised my father and his siblings with an iron fist. Who could have imagined what it was like to grow up a poor black man in the South, robbed of dignity, bereft of hope, struggling to become a man in a world that saw my father as subordinate. I was the first black artist to be played on MTV and I remember how big a deal it was even then. And that was in the 80s!

My father moved to Indiana and had a large family of his own, working long hours in the steel mills, work that kills the lungs and humbles the spirit, all to support his family. Is it any wonder that he found it difficult to expose his feelings? Is it any mystery that he hardened his heart, that he raised the emotional ramparts? And most of all, is it any wonder why he pushed his sons so hard to succeed as performers, so that they could be saved from what he knew to be a life of indignity and poverty?

I have begun to see that even my father's harshness was a kind of love, an imperfect love, to be sure, but love nonetheless. He pushed me because he loved me. Because he wanted no man ever to look down at his offspring.

And now with time, rather than bitterness, I feel blessing. In the place of anger, I have found absolution. And in the place of revenge I have found reconciliation. And my initial fury has slowly given way to forgiveness.

Almost a decade ago, I founded a charity called Heal the World. The title was something I felt inside me. Little did I know, as Shmuley later pointed out, that those two words form the cornerstone of Old Testament prophecy. Do I really believe that we can heal this world, that is riddled with war and genocide, even today? And do I really think that we can heal our children, the same children who can enter their schools with guns and hatred and shoot down their classmates, like they did at Columbine? Or children who can beat a defenceless toddler to death, like the tragic story of Jamie Bulger? Of course I do, or I wouldn't be here tonight.

But it all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us. As an adult, and as a parent, I realise that I cannot be a whole human being, nor a parent capable of unconditional love, until I put to rest the ghosts of my own childhood.

And that's what I'm asking all of us to do tonight. Live up to the fifth of the Ten Commandments. Honour your parents by not judging them. Give them the benefit of the doubt.

That is why I want to forgive my father and to stop judging him. I want to forgive my father, because I want a father, and this is the only one that I've got. I want the weight of my past lifted from my shoulders and I want to be free to step into a new relationship with my father, for the rest of my life, unhindered by the goblins of the past.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

To all of you tonight who feel let down by your parents, I ask you to let down your disappointment. To all of you tonight who feel cheated by your fathers or mothers, I ask you not to cheat yourself further. And to all of you who wish to push your parents away, I ask you to extend you hand to them instead. I am asking you, I am asking myself, to give our parents the gift of unconditional love, so that they too may learn how to love from us, their children. So that love will finally be restored to a desolate and lonely world.

Shmuley once mentioned to me an ancient Biblical prophecy which says that a new world and a new time would come, when "the hearts of the parents would be restored through the hearts of their children". My friends, we are that world, we are those children.

Mahatma Gandhi said: "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." Tonight, be strong. Beyond being strong, rise to the greatest challenge of all - to restore that broken covenant. We must all overcome whatever crippling effects our childhoods may have had on our lives and in the words of Jesse Jackson, forgive each other, redeem each other and move on.

This call for forgiveness may not result in Oprah moments the world over, with thousands of children making up with their parents, but it will at least be a start, and we'll all be so much happier as a result.

And so ladies and gentlemen, I conclude my remarks tonight with faith, joy and excitement.

From this day forward, may a new song be heard.

Let that new song be the sound of children laughing.

Let that new song be the sound of children playing.

2009-06-30T22:44:00.000-07:00

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2009-06-30T21:58:00.000-07:00

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2009-06-30T08:14:00.001-07:00

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