The whole new world...

Yippie ..finaly back to the pavilion .. !!
It's been dreadful long days since last I've written a post..in the last two months almost everything had changed and no matter for much time i keep on writing I'd never be able to compensate ..
Lemme start with the events (I'd be writing in the points to keep a note that I atleast don't miss out anything apart from the intricate details)
1) I went to allahabad from my Home sweet home owing to the project presentation of the end semester... completed no dues form (which was truly troublesome) ..
2) Had a trip to Sangam with two of my junis...had loaaaaads of fun
3) At the cliche of time where i was about to return for my home ..with my mind filled with the issue of how to engage myself untill I get the joining...I was given the date of 27th july as the joining date ... (Yippie)
4) Bought few new clothes and other accessories (I obviously can't go for joining without buying something new :P)
5) Amidst all the chaos n confusion ... I boarded the flight ... heading to pune (which my goodness was hell of a experience...- was boarding the flight for the first time)
6) Had to find a new home for myself ... Which i successfully completed..
7) Awful training of the same repetitive things- Java core C C++ etc ....
8) The most exciting part ... my convocation was held on 19th of August ... had great fun with mah friends ....

Now I am back to pune ..... Although I have completed my training yet my actual work hasn't started yet ... All i have to do is to sit in front of this system( which is being shared .....one good thing as I've an excuse for not being on my system everytime :D )

Would be updating soon enough ..

My surroundings have changed .. so are my feelings.. I've met my friends family members..I'm a bit relieved yet many a times i'm being tormented by the thoughts where I've nothing to do all these months .. I do have few options but no ideas as to how good they'll prove out to be .I'm missing my friends and their absence is being prominent every where and what ever I do these days..it's been only two days now and i already have two movies already added into my list ..i've seen TERMINATOR-THE SALVATION DAY and the ICE AGE 3-RETURN OF DINOSAURS...both were a must to be watched movies .. Now it's raining heavily here and i'd some plans to go outside which are ruined :(
my account has been debited by 8K rupees which is accounted for making my lap top an actual laptop( as before it used to be akin to a desktop )..Seriously I need to keep a check over how i spend my money or soon I'll be left with no money.. Which would allow many unwanted situations to creep up :((

Had a monsterous last week.. I was tormented with clouds of sorrow :( The company by which i was hired has decided to defer my joining any since then I 'm spinning around in a vicious circle..All this time I was happy for my internship is coming to an end but now that I've heard this news..I'm in no more position to feel happy for anything..
I've requested my manager to try for extending my internship (piffany...i do understand)..Although he did appear a bit serious but there's a glitch to it If my results are out soon i can't have my intern extended [:(] Let's see what more life had kept in it's surprise box for me..I've completed all the formalities,few of which still require changes..
I'm inflicted :(

My days to be spent in Delhi (of course as an intern) have started to be restrictive..With in a week from now I'll be no more going to my office every morning complaining about why can't I continue to sleep late in the morning and other daily routines of my college..My mentor had asked me to put a stop to all the new work I was into and document the progress as of now.. Now that effectively only a week is to be spent here..I decided to have some happy moments with my friends, who were all I had in these six months ( virtually I did had many people available 24*7 yet these were the only ones which were a part of my living here)..We turned out to be going for X-Men Origins..i'm an ardent fan of Hugh Jackman ..Amidst all the confusion aroused over the issue of which theater we're meant to go to..we finally made up till the theater..I loved that part where Hugh is kissed by his girl friend in front of all his colleagues and he has a amazing smile worn while his peers start to wooing..(my my he looks awesome)..We had a great time ( What else anyone can wish for ..I had by wonderful company of the friends and Hugh's movie rolling on the screen..)
A great souvenir (accredited to me who took the initiative and also my friends who paid up the bills) ..
Now the whole week ahead I'd all my formalities to be attended..Lemme make a checklist so that at the crisis time I don't curse myself for forgetting anything..
1) complete my project report- to be submitted in the college
2) writing up a short document to be submitted @ office which has no bluffs and only the work we did
3) having a good backup of every detail so that i don't fall short of information @ needy hour
4) making a video for submitting in the project
4) last but the not the least.. having loads a fun :D
DAYS LEFT FOR INTERN TO COMPLETE:9

After a extensive day's search with me trying to modify the keywords to be specified as the search query..I successfully was able to come up with a very apt blog written by Ragesh Krishna ..Apparently even he had the same task to be performed and also the spring board (XMLHTTPREQUEST's onreadstatechange handler) probing our mind..But to the great agony since he had the command over COM programming he came up with an idea unlike me (Well that's the reason for me to have mixed feelings..I should be happy for I was able to get relavant answer or to filled with dismay since I wasn't able to come up..) Now that I do have the answer .. I'm failing to understand the flow of program and even I'm unable to integrate it with my already existing code.. The only enjoyable moment I'd yesterday was when few of my friends and I went out and grabbed something to stuff ourself with..and also a couple of icecreams ( believe me that was the best part )..Now I'm again going to get myself submerged in ATL and getting the program into my brain.. hopefully i'd be able to come up with something worth to be called as accomplishment...(Amen!!) (by the way there is very less probability accredited to the lack of sleep)
DAY LEFT FOR INTERN TO COMPLETE : 13

I'm running out of time allotted to me for completing the task given .. It isn't the fact that i ain't able to come with the solutions.. I certainly am having various ideas to solve the issue yet due to fact that i'm unfamiliar with the coding environment I ain't able to create anything of my own :(( the whole thing has just reduced to the efficiency of googling and any sort of help available on net(where people tend to forget that the person reading their suggestions may be naive to the technology and may be incapable of understanding anything they're penning down)..
I failed to do my homework for this week yet fortunately enough i was able to discover a way to do..I'm planning thy :
After creation of the client object and the server and instantiating them in HTML documents. .. to replicate dojo.subscribe and dojo.publish I'd have to create a callback similar to onReadyStateChange available for XMLHTTPREQUEST...This would be certainly a solution but how am i gonna code it ??? It's a million dollar question right now (although I've tried to post my queries in the blogs I see very few chances of people replying to it )
Day Left For Intern To Complete:15

I'm into a deep pit again .. After working tirelessly for two weeks using the internet connection providing to it's maximum content, getting grossly confused over every damn li'l details I'm again stuck up...
As I've already mentioned I'm creating a brand new object that can be accessed through ActiveXObject in HTML pages. Microsoft (apart from being always cursed by open source lovers..) has certainly extended the user's capability of control over the operating system by introducing the ActiveXObjects..Astonishingly (only for those who're naive ) these objects can also create instances of the DLLs registered onto the system.
Lemme summarize my two weeks achievements in a nutshell starting from a scratch :
1) Create a new ATL ( Active Template Library ) project. You can also opt for creating a new MFC activexobject project but it turns out that ATL has almost the same capabilities yet it is light weighted and more user friendly (and hence, less of mind boggling function names and awefull horrifying parameters management)
2) See for the sample projects available in the HELP provided by the Microsoft Visual Studio and opt for the one which approximates your needs.(I've used something similar to this )
3) Create your project (don't go for blindly copying n pasting the code available..understand every suttle details and the necessity for you doing it)
4) Build the project
5) The moment you go for building the project the dll of your corresponding project would automatically be registered (very obviously until n unless you've run into some error which would be shown up in the o/p window).
Eureka !! Once you're done all these you can create a new object by calling it through ActiveXObject
For instantiating an object of this dll you need the following syntax ( this itself took a day for me to find out~ Finally no help was available on net and I came up with this of my own)
var active_x_object=new ActiveXObject("progid");
The PROGID variable is the name which appears in the header file of the project you're creating.

Now that I'm over this problem I'm stuck it yet another one...I've to imitate the functionality provided by dojo.publish & dojo.subscribe..(for which only the All Mighty Above can show me the path)
One of the drawback is that I'm falling acutely short of time..(which is a gross loss to my mentor but on the other hand I'd back to my home yippie )
Hence...the homework for me for this weekend would be to come up with a miraculous solution.....:)
By the way from now on the countdown for my internship to complete begins..

DAY LEFT FOR INTERNSHIP TO END : 18

My work had got stagnated and I'm merely pondering over the ways to make it get going..All these days was terribly confused over the approach I'd be following for completing it .. The last week (well can almost say since the beginning of this month..)I ain't able to proceed at all..And today I found the solution .. The solution which was so damn basic . .all i had to go is to seek the help available in the visual studio help :).. I'm right now trying to build up a project using ATL and making a client-server scenario where the client would b responding to a triggered event from the server.. There are several codes available on the net but I wasn't able to get any of them working on my system because the difference in the versions between the IDE used...Now that I'm done with half of my work I'm contented :) and I'm looking for a way to change it.. so that I'll be able to get the whole of my work done Yippie.. and cheers for me

Hello..
For all those who're still messed up in creating dll through C# and accessing it from activexobject embedded in js/Jscript/ECMA script.. you could look
here It provides a very good exposure to all the naive apprentices ( akin to me )..But the shortcoming of this approach is the fact that once the dll is created ( which gets automatically done provided we have .NET framework installed) for letting this dll being registered to the OS we again require a .NET framework (proves out that not everyone is contented with this condition being imposed in specific my mentor :P)
Now i chose an alternative over allowing the gadgets communicating via dll and acitvexobject..Socket programming appeared a good alternative till now . .again since my platform is restricted to windows vista either I've to go for programming is c++ ( which is easily accessible from gadget API but alas ... i ain't able to create given loads of available samples avaiable easily on net) or java ( this would again add a constraint on the client machine to have an apt version of JRE-the interpreter of bytecodes developed during compilation of any Java programs) I'm still not sure of which one to use .. (certainly the deciding factor here is my mentor's approval of allowing the constraints)

I had altogether a very exciting day today ... Although for most of the day I'd been cursing my mentor for having such a freaky kinda idea yet at the end of day with me calling it off a day it had been quite an eventful day .. one of my classmates had completed his intern and all set to go to his home on monday... Nevertheless .. one of my peers didn't had any worthy work which could set him engaged for the day and hence we were having very frequent breaks.. About my progress @ the work .. today turned out to be a good day too .. the task I'm set off at present is to create a dll file which will allow me to instantiate it from the ActiveXObject.. This is nothing but wrapping any object by an ActiveXObject ..
So i started with the first step.. queried for creating a "dll" file....When I googled for this keyword.. I was presented many relavant searches (which ofcourse didn't had any weightage in my case).They all suggested me to create a dll file through VB/VC++ but neither of them had explained me whether I could create objects using ActiveX or not. At the end of the day I had come out with a solution using c# and ActiveXoBject... But I wonder whther usage of C# would constraint the user to have MS VS framework to be installed .. anyways that's a question left for tomorrow's assignment ...Yippie I was happy that I was pass on the first hurdle..Now remains the task of creating a relavant class to my objective and testing it for my application (which very obviously is the major deal) ...This additional feature would certainly add a feather to the cap ..

For this whole coming month I've been given a work which reduces to allowing a pair of gadgets hosted on sidebar to communicate with each other.. After a lot of brain probing the only solution I could come up with yesterday was to use file I/O streams.. I was under a impression than that's a brilliant idea and no one could come with .. But the instance I was conveying this to my mentor.. I realized that it was a blunder.. cause it would again device a famous operating system producer-consumer problem.. In addition it would also bring down the efficiency of my work (file I/O tend to make things move up to a very low pace)..
But today it turned out that I certainly have few more options .. The yet another solution that could have worked was to modify the registry values .. The gadget which had to trigger the event would write into the registry the arguments to be passed to the receiver(which could be easily accomplished owing the accessibility of Gadget API to registry ..) Additionally since registry was being involved it would take next to no time for execution..The only setback was that there would be no mechanism for the receiver to be informed about this writing being completed.(yet another cropped down instance of producer-consumer prob).
ActiveXobject proved out to be ray of hope for my task right now .. Asap i've to bring my theory to practice and formulate a quick and dirty method to test this guess (although my mentor had signalled a green flag to it ) ..Let's see how this gets routed up

Before speaking of today's ongoing events .. I'd like to add up how my yesterday was.. My dad and me have made a habit of going to our mall every Sunday's evening..This time when we're deciding ..our plan was derouted from the usual ones. Although my father had been staying in Delhi since last 5 years (if I ain't suffering from short term memory loss) he never had an opportunity (rather i should say grabbed an opportunity) to travel in Metro trains here.In merely seven years of functioning it had become the most accessible mode of transport..(Not to be astonished as it's the only mode that can meet the fast life of people here).. We took a pleasure ride in it by boarding it @ Dilshad Garden to Kashmiri Gate and returned to our destination,stopping at a Nirula fastfood center in midst.We proceeded next to our mall and consequently the day ended.
Today was yet another monday.. i had to wake up early..carry out my daily routines and then reached my office on time (this time isn't rigid :D so it's my call to term it as "ON TIME" or not).
With the great impetus given by my father these two days (I did say that I'm losing the zeal to work to him) ..I started out with the hunch I had from the last two working days (Thursday & Friday)..
Right now I'm again pondering over the issue of persisting an object created in a JS when two HTML files are directly calling it..I certainly have methods to overcome the issue when dealing with two HTMLs and a single JS but don't even have a feeble idea as to how this would be again extended to sidebar gadgets ( Who said communication always solves the issues... I have to make two gadgets communicate with each other now and it's appearing humongous task right now) So please cross your fingers for me hoping that I'd complete it :)

Ohk .. today apparently I'm out of work (although i can find tiny miny ones if i feel like) but wasn't in a mood to do them either.. and hence till now was having kinda fun .. was helping my batch mates in debugging their respective codes.. and adding my vocabulary by playing scrabble and now that I'm running out alternatives to pass my time I'm thinking of approaching my mentor for work. Let's see how does the day defolds and what surprises does it have for me as the time wraps up ..

These two days i was awefully stuck up at a point which appears completely flawless when you're penning it down but had a catastrophic effects on the execution of the program.
While creating a new script tag in DHTML and assigning the src attribute to any URL of a javascript, the script does get includes instantaneously but one can't be assured 100% about it's execution.
To indentify the source of the problem I've wasted my one and half day (never knew this could be the bugging me all the time) and the other half using the functions aptly to ensure that the execution is getting haulted till the javascript is getting included.. At the end of the day..by the grace of the Almighty God i was able to get to the solution (Yippie) Now it's time for me to go .. tata

I apologize for i wasn't able to write up yesterday ..The is no valid reason I could come up ..why can't the thoughts (rather i should be using several adjectives for it) prevailing in anyone's mind can settle just the way everything gets after it had rained. Was feeling terribly home sick yesterday and to worsen the current situation all my friends are already @ their home..getting busy with their own stuffs.
The morning started a bit early than it usually does (owing to the sunlight directly falling on me) ..and after the routine daily chores I decided to burry myself into the newspaper(which is very unlike of me these days)..Well I'm a bit frustated with the never ending intern ( appearantly I've only a month left). There are tiny suttle things which aren't working and I ain't able to find any lead to proceed.
IE 7 in my laptop required an updation to 8, which funnily had caused some bugs to creep into it. When ever it goes for downloading the content from the server in URL it always ends up in an dialog box showing that an errror occured in the dialog box itself ( Ironicaly it's similar to killing task manager process within the task manager )

Well complying to company's policy I'm working for. . I can't reveal my project yet I certainly can discuss the issues cropping up on the way.
For all those who are naive to DHTML (which i was few months prior to now) .. it's a web based technology that adds the capability for a programmer to create HTML DOM elements on the fly.. Since very obviously these HTML pages are to rendered by the varied kind of browsers..While programming we need to be well aware of how this is interpreted and handled by all kind of varieties.
Since I've got to work on Sidebar (which resembles IE 8 for many rendering behaviors) I've to majorly deal with internet explorer(I never complained of using microsoft services prior to this). Appearantly..adding events to DOM elements in IE is done a bit differently(which is termed as LAZY eventing) For example:
" html_dom_element.onclick=function_name;" would work perfectly when viewed in FireFox and Opera ..But it won't on IE.
To get it done in IE.. the mere change to be brought is to calling function_name indirectly.
" html_dom_element.onclick=handle_function_name;" and it turns out that handle_function_name calls function_name.In case,you need to pass the same DOM element you're referring to while this function was called .. you need to add this parameter.

" html_dom_element.onclick=handle_function_name;
\\--rest of your code--
function handle_function_name(){
function_name(this);

}"

(Gosh !! So damn easy and minute detail yet believe me it took almost half a day to discover it)
Further..few details about SIDEBAR.. Sidebar serves as a engine to host "gadgets" ( as called in Vista) When ever the user prefers for running the sidebar..when viewed in the task manager there are two processes running with the same name. One of them serves as the engine for those gadgets provided by default and the later one for those which the user creates(typically by downloaded or through his own intelligence). Sidebar can be related to IE 8 in many respects..The baseline is that when any request(AJAXor any window.open) goes from sidebar to any of the server..the server recongnizes the source application as IE8..Inspite of this to distinguish IE8 from sidebar ...one the HTTP request headers (REFERER) is modified to "x-gadget". The XMLHTTPRequest which is apt for IE8 environment for AJAX requests doesn't stands valid for sidebar..you need to opt for ActiveXObject instead...(phew!! these are the facts which took several days for me to know)....Now that I'm through learning all these.. I've a brand new prob cropped up..
When I dynamically issue a script tag for HTML to be included..does the js mentioned in src of the tag gets stored in the cache ?? And if for sure it does gets..why isn't sidebar having the same resemblence ???
Well...Feeling hungry so gotcha go ...need to assure that I certainly am reaching to the solution otherwise which my project is nothing but a fallacy...:(
Anyways ...alohaa

At the end of the this day,I have many things to regret upon. Due to the fading zeal (the reason of which I ain't able to sort out ) within me..I was a bit reluctant to come to the office. But once I did I remained focussed the whole day . By noon, everything that was in my mind for doing today, was completed . I thought of allowing my mentor to know, but my intution suggested to withhold myself from conveying it..And just as according to my senses.. what ever i claimed was working..fell into a special case and alas, i was wholly disappointed.To adden up, my other team fellow, had to seek for other alternatives for passing in time. I had to clear off all the shortcuts I've taken,but it turned out that for this to happen..I had to create yet another one :( .There are several issues cropping up as of now the causes of which are known, yet I can't control them to make them happen ideally. hmmm and about yesterday's ruroni kenshin .. couldn't draw them.I do sketch well(believe me i ain't boasting myself) but nevertheless I can't compel my heart to do it(in short this is where the difference between me and an artist lies). Also we were invited to attend a party by one of our mentors..Was feeling awkward to go into someone's party who is much older to me (agewise and position wise as well ) Luckily,had some friends to accompany me ..so the awkwardness was reduced to certian extent..I've yet another feeling which tells me that my mentor is losing interest on our project :(( I just pray that I stand corrected once my internship is through. In and all ..I can say there's nothing productive came out of today :((

Today .. it turned out to be lucky day ..well frankly it can't be termed as lucky although yet my work in which i was stuck for almost 3-4 days was completed. I'm awfully bored up right since the noon ..even though my eldest sister was attempting to add up to my low zeal (she actually had a new mobile to be bought..toh was constantly seeking my views). I've decided that once I'm reaching my home today I'd be drawing a fabulous posture of ruroni kenshin (an anime which I'm reading ). I'm toooooooo bored to even write up this !! I'm trying to leave asap ..Can't wait to sketch ruroni ..:)

Seldomly, at times circumstances may arise,where we tend to overlook very obvious facts which pertain to anything and everything around you. I had quite a number of instances explaining this fact in a single day. I'd start my day with a hunch I assumed struck me yesterday. After quite a little probing my brain,I've realized that the baseline itself wouldn't allow such a thing to happen. Hence I'd to seek for an alternative allowing me to bring the same desired output. As it could be guessed.. the solution turned out to be the one which was very damn obvious. It was lying just in front me and I didn't bother to even consider as one of my alternatives. Although, I'm again seeking the way to proceed further (this further is a bit farther from the yesterday's further),yet I'm satisfied for the mere reason that I'm moving ahead with the solution. Nevertheless, my intelligence could be questioned for neglecting the so very obvious facts... After rejoicing over the success of overcoming yesterday's challenge I had to prepare myself for the next ones... The weather since yesterday has turned out very unpredicatable. The sun is at it's full power at times..but there were also few hours where it appeared that the dusk is already on its way. The whole environment turned out dusty tooo (I was a bit bothered about my clothes which I've put on the line for getting up dried while coming here). I take the benefit of me being the youngest amongst all of my peers at the office by talking to (almost) everyone with what ever I've in my mind.
After a tiny miny dispute with one of my friends over the difference in approaches..I felt like discussing the correctness of my belief with yet another guy from my college(certainly,he's much more mature than I'm). In a very easy brief talk he said me few things which we tend to overlook many a times (alteast I did for sure!!). He made me realize that moaning over the issues which aren't in our control or for which worrying won't bring any difference is worthless.. This may appear very simple fact yet I do have many folks around me who don't appear to realize it.
Ignorance may be considered as a bliss..and half knowledge may even be dangerous but I believe there are many facts..news which aren't meant for you..and if any case we acquire them..we lose our peace !(Guess that's why its called Curiosity killed my crow).I may appear disinterested to many over few issues to many around me..but believe me.. I'm better off without knowing them..
Hmmmm..anyways it's the time for me to call it off a day (Damn..now I really am worried about my clothes hanging up there :( ) See ya tomorrow and hope it does really rain today [:D] (unlike yesterday's power cut longing for hours)..

If legendary,brilliant William Shakespeare had even a scratch of idea that software engineering would emerge as this humongous profession he perhaps would never be inspired to pen down the quote "What's in a name". With day starting up with me sleeping for nearly half a day, I was grossly unmotivated to attend to the office, was forced to come anyways due to the absence of any alternatives. I'd to commence actual noteworthy work today, which i did after a hour or so. The entire day was swirled around "functions" and finding their call stack. Was so damn confused with look a like functions that I'd to jot them down on a piece of a paper to avoid any further slow downs. The mind set was further deteoriated with my mind wandering to the new comics I'd started yesterday.
The ability to analyze and the debug your own code for application carries a huge importance while you're coding for any application. Since, you're the originator of the code, many a times , many sequences could appear very obvious.The good debugger would know when to put down the cap explicitly meant for developers and to begin analyze the given situation as a freshman. I'd had a hunch in the morning which i believed would enable me chasing wild thoughts of mentor. But to my dismay,as the hands of the clock were moving apart and getting closer,I was finding my situation to be worsening.With each attempt being revealed as nothing but vain ,my obstination of getting the result was increasing exponentially. Every attempt made me a bit closer to the ideal one..At last..I made to get the solution ( although it still isn't a generic one).Yet,now i see the path getting really stiffened, and difficult (I've crossed my hands hoping that i'm exaggerating the complexity of the question).
I'm conflicted over the thoughts of starting anew tomorrow and moving ahead right way(which i think is more apt as there still is lot amount of time for my return). The decision is all very prejudiced. Got to move ahead bcoz i desire to acheive this functionality asap :) Alohaaaaaaa

With all my friends leaving for their home I'm left alone in this bizarre city which may entice any newbie with its blinding superfoulus lights. My day was a yet another "Monday" ,with me waking up early,trying to enable myself for the reason that I'd be reaching my office on time. Although the time was running by fast enough, I didn't wanted to hasten up, as that'd leave me an effect lasting for the whole day. Nevertheless I wanted to be on time for no great reason. I couldn't have my breakfast as the maggie which i bought yesterday turned out to be a chicken one[:(] ..left my home empty stomach. Fortunately, I was allowed to get into one of my father's institute's buses and was through half the way in merely half an hour (which generally takes me an hour or so in private buses..thanks to the all new methodolgy private buses in delhi follow).Once i got down the bus, refreshed myself by drinking tons of water (otherwise which I'd become a dry kabab owing to the extreme temperature here..) I boarded the bus which this time will take me to my final destination. The bus was filled with numerous people-men,ladies,children having their loads of luggage (which if allowed can replace all the living creatures inside) and ofcourse me. With a huge shriek cry of some infant, the domino effect of every single infant crying in the bus started, my brain was getting heated up cause of all the surroundings and obviously the heat as well. Miraculously, amidst all the hustle bustle I fell into sleep for more than half an hour and the next thing i found when i woke up was that my destination was only 5 mintues far. Stepped into my office 10 minutes earlier i usually do. I started up my work after my daily chores ( filling up my bottle, checking out all my mails ). The increasing share market (the unexplained unexpected 20% hike) added up the today's spice. Was completely clouded up by news of share market and it's countereffect on IT industry for almost a hour or two . Now I've lost my interest to get back to the work . But Alas.. neither I nor anyone can help me over this fact.. I've to return to the server environment trying to mimic one of it's functionality which I assume can't be acheived .. Need to bring out a solid good reason which would make my mentor abandon the whole idea :D .. Chao

Ahoy everyone out there ..
I'm all naive to the concept of making myself accessible via blogs .. I believe this will certainly enrich my rendezvous with life ..