More Updates

okay, today finally am competing HTML/xHTML test and posting it on the blog.. test results..

Charger thingy is still on hold.. someone please please find my multi meter :p

3-4 activities wait :p till I am done with it :)

tonight I will post results.

Updates Updates

got a lot busy with work, got a delivery very soon to client.. anyways.. posting this entry to give updates on my activities.

Book - I am dont with making its Index page, and also I am done with Introduction part of the book.. I will be posting whole index soon, and also Introduction snap shot or lets see might post whole Introduction in this.

XML/HTML/XSLT/CSS Tests - This is going to take a little few more days before I start doing it, I have yet not worked on it at all, but will be soon looking into it an come up with results very soon.. say by end of next week.

USB Charger - hmph.. its on halt right now.. I DONT HAVE MULTIMETER :(((((( anyways, will get it very soon as soon as I find sometime on my hand :)

Robotics - ..... expensive :( hehehe.. but well, I got some other ideas as well :p gona implement them soon.

and ya 3-4 more activities I been doing in hidden since a long time.. you all gona see that as well very soon.

I know I know its all pending nothing is coming up.. but wait wait.. soon u will see things getting bloated up on my blog :p

Update on USB Charger

remember in my previous post I talked about something that I am working on?

well, its based on hand cranking principle.. .I just push the trigger it charges coil of copper and gives power to my cell.. simple and sweet.

I am very much close to complete it, but right now am facing some good problem with it.. and problem is I dont have multimeter :(, I had but not able to find out where it is, so facing problem with it, and without multimeter I dont wanna go ahead.. hehehe I dont wanna damage my cell :p

So, I gotta wait till I get my hands on Multimeter, thats for sure by Sunday I will get my hands on Multimeter. Once I am pretty much done with it, I will be writing a DIY (Do It Yourself) document and post it on my blog, so you all you readers of my blog can try hands on it and create your own charger as well.

More about Robotics

Remember I was talking about Robotics in my very earlier post? Finally robot is available to buy.... but its very expensive around 5000USD :o :o :o.. I gotta wait for some more time before I buy and try my hands on it.. developer version of the robot costs 4000USD but still very expensive :(, no worries will buy for sure. :)

I am working on one hardware project, which I really need to make it work, if that works then I will be really happy.. what I am trying to do is, trying to make a usb charger for my cell.. umm whats big deal right? well, that charger doesnt need any electricity :D so hang on.. :p I will keep you all posted about this.

Race against Time

like in my previous post I said that I love race...

right now am facing race against time :p


Its something that I love to do, but its very tiring so I try to avoid as much as possible :p

Right now.. I have to complete 2 work as soon as possible, and check up with 1 work. So total 3 work that I got to complete... 1 work is due tomorrow, clients coming to see.. 2nd work is due on Monday or Tuesday.. but for that have to goto Gujarat so travelling starts tomorrow (Saturday), and 3rd work is about checking out bug, patch it and notify the client as soon as possible.

hmm, now whats the catch u might ask... ok.. the thing which we need to show to client tomorrow is almost at the end.. will revisit this thing again.

2nd work needs to be complete by today as no time tomorrow and on Sunday :( and Monday or Tuesday we got to show to client.

3rd work bug fixing is something that needs to be done as soon as possible, its like if can be done now in 5mins then now.

ok so thats work.. now more to it.. I got to book tickets for the Gujarat.. hopefully will book today evening, now tomorrow I dont know if I will be able to catch the bus on time or not :p coz I am packed with other busy impotant work :(

No one is at home.. Mom and Dad left yesterday for village, will return back on Tuesday.. so I got ta do packing and all myself.. now thats again a time consuming :(..

lot of things... I shouldnt be writing this post.

Race to Win

finally found sometime to blog :)... got stuck with work a lot.

well, this is just a quick post to let ppl know that am still active and will be posting more and more again.. no break like a week break.. :)

btw, I just found that I love driving.. hehehe :p all the time now a days I am finding reason enough to go out and drive.. :p and specially racing :D.. hehe yeah I race with other vehicles.. shhh but safe driving.. and follow all traffic rules.

thats it for now.. for more will update very soon.

HTML CSS xHTML DHTML XML XSLT

I am conducting test for HTML, CSS, xHTML, DHTML, XML and XSLT. Testing includes static page testing, and dynamic page testing. Based on my experience and what I think, XML XSLT will win the race when you have lots of data or enough data to kill HTML :p

but before that I am going to test HTML Table test and CSS without table test and will see who performs better.. and then will combine it with my original test :)

So, stay tuned for the test and results.

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin killed

Very sad news, all those who watches Discovery Channel or Animal Planet channel knows him. You have seen him playing with crocodiles most of the time.

May his soul Rest In Peace...

Source: Yahoo! News

More Source: Yahoo! News Reuters

More Source: CNN

Microsoft MechCommander 2 Shared Source Release

Download Microsoft MechCommander 2 Shared Source

Microsoft has released a source code for the game Microsoft MechCommander 2, check out the above link and download the source code.. its really big 700MB download and when u extract it it will be 4.5GB+

More info on the link.

Miss u Pluto

I am sure you all must have heard about Pluto no more is considered as a planet, it still exist but its no more considered as a planet.

Pluto was the 9th planet of our solar system (still exist in space.. yup need to repeat coz many thinks it has gone.), I always had feeling about Pluto that its not a planet its not a planet.. but still had to go with scientists.. hehehe :p ok am just kidding.. but I had feelings no any reason.. but just I felt.

International Astronomical Union (IAU), on 24th August, 2006 redefined definition of Planet, which makes Pluto no more Planet.. but now Pluto is considered as Dwarf Planet.

Planet - is in orbit around a star or stellar remnants, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (in proper words - nearly round) shape, is not massive enough to initiate themonuclear fusion of deuterium in its core (unlike Sun), and has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

Dward Planet - Is in orbit around the Sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hyrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, Is not a satellite of a planet, or other nonstellar body.

whew, above definitions taken from Wiki Pedia, so please dont think that am smart.. hehehe...

now let me explain in a very simple words.... Pluto is not revolving around Sun as its supposed to be.. it comes between the way of Neptune planet, so Neptune planet complaint about Pluto to authorities on Earth thats IAU, IAU thought over it and gave punishment to Pluto. To get more idea.. check out the pic I have posted below.

Change in Progress

This is good news for all my well wishers, those who loves me, those who takes care abt me, and those who worries abt me.. :p ok ok its all about weight :p

I am joining a gym :D finally.. gona gain a weight.. goin to change my hair style, change my cloth style, etc.... the time frame starts from September mid by the end of this year. :D

Serious Steps into Robotics

I am trying to be more active with blog.. anyways..

got a new cell imate jasjar, am loving it will post abt it very soon more..

I have been considering robotics since a long time, and have done lot of things in it as well, like created my small robo a long back which could follow a white line, then I written a lot of small AI engines in .NET and in C/C++ to make it recognize face, + lot of things, also self developing robot, etc... now I am looking at it more seriously and have sent an email to White Box Robotics company to send me quotation for 914 PC Bot, I am planning very much to buy it but its going to be around 50,000.00/- to 80,000/- INR = approx 1000 to 1700 USD (as of 24th August, 2006). The good thing about this is that I can use Robotics Studio - software from Microsoft for robotics, and it seems to me a generic robot, so am seriously looking towards it.

Stay tuned.. more very soon.. trying to be with blog very frequent now.. more organized.. will be spending atleast 15minutes for blog in day :).

Popular Search

okay, a quick post... Popular Search on Yahoo! Search - top Aishwarya Rai - http://www.yahoo.com/

Terraserver - Keyhole – WorldWind - Google Earth - Virtual Earth

CAUTION: This post is going to change reader's experience from personal to developer.

Terraserver – I remember using this service a long time back in 1999. This is probably the first web site to give earth view from satellites on internet, but sadly it could only show some parts of US and Canada and not all, particularly famous places. Service provided by Microsoft, yes Virtual Earth is not something which Microsoft did for first time, they did Terraserver a long back. Know some really interesting facts about Terraserver here, and yes developer friendly.

Keyhole – I remember using product from this company couple of years back, I liked it a lot, but again only US. I really liked software from this company, because they had support for developers as well. For example it allows me to develop application which can take data from the Keyhole calculate distance from one place to the other and can do lot of things.

WorldWind – This is one really cool application from NASA, which does same thing as what other applications do, application is developed using .NET and Managed DirectX and best part is its source code is available to download, so you can go to its web site and download its source code and play around with it, add more features of your own do whatever you want, but you can’t sell it. Interesting thing about WorldWind is that it’s from NASA, it has lots of things based on SPACE view, etc… really interesting to try at least once.

Google Earth – some of you might not have heard about the above applications or products or services, but am pretty sure, everyone have heard about Google Earth and have used it. Google actually bought Keyhole company and added a little features here and there in the product and called it Google Earth, interface remains the same, and almost everything is same, only few features here and there. Bad thing about Google Earth is it’s does not have any support for developers, good thing about it is that its fast. I just wonder why they removed developer support what keyhole used to give.

Virtual Earth – this is from Microsoft, after success of Google Earth, Microsoft decided to come in market with their own software to compete Google. And they named it Virtual Earth, it has more features than that of Terraserver + lots of things. Good thing about this product is that, it has lots of developer support, and bad thing its slow.

Now, you must be wondering why suddenly am writing about it. Well it appears to be my friend at Delhi wants to take admission in Mumbai college, and I am helping her with that, she asked for St. Xavier’s college stuff, etc… and as I was going to Churchgate I said I will get form for her, I knew that College is at Churchgate but not sure where exactly in Churchgate, so I opened up Google Earth and located the college, and yeah it’s great product, so I thought to write about it with all history stuffs.

Writing a Book

I am a book worm, I do read lot of books and I got bunch of books at home and you will find at least one book in my bag along with my Laptop, Pad, Pens, Badge, CDs, and lot of other things.

I generally read almost all types of books, but my most favorite. books are those which deals with philosophy, history, autobiography, stories, novels, and knowledge related books. Yeah you got it right, computer books are not my favorite to read.

Being a book worm I always want to write my own book, many times I thought of writing book on different topics, but one topic in which I can write book easily and can write well will be on computer stuff rather than writing book on history or something else.

So, finally I have decided to touch very interesting topic but very less books you will find on this topic. So while I was thinking of writing book on a topic, other idea stroked in my mind, and which is surely going to make it worth reading book and trying it out.

I got book on 3D Studio Max - named Foundations of 3DS Max 6, software is most used 3D Animation Software in media industry, for creating game animations, models, also animation and special effects in movies. The book is not at all related to general programming or game programming but it deals with the 3D Modeling and Animation.

Then I have got book on DirectX - named Managed DirectX 9 Kick Start : Graphics and Game Programming, DirectX is used to develop games on Windows Platform, I will write more about DirectX sometime later, like why DirectX is required and why we cant really just write games directly without using DirectX, in fact really nice question, but will explain it a bit later on.

And lastly got one book on Game Programming - named Beginning .NET Game Programming in VB.NET, book deals with not just .NET Game Programming but also talk a lot about fundamentals of developing game, etc...

Okay, so while I was reading all three books and going through them, I decided to develop one fanatic game. But used to face lots of difficulties as Game development needs nice 3D Graphics, book helped me in creating them, but fails to create models which I can use for game development and had figure out things by myself and similar problems with the game programming, game programming talks about using model but model was simple 3d model and not flexible for to be use in game programming so again failed and faced a lot of problem with that, but after a lot of struggle able to do it :D.

Now, the coolest idea which I mentioned earlier is that, now that I am expert in 3D Max, already expert in Programming and also Game Development I have decided to write a single book which coveres all topics of Game Programming, which includes 3D Animation and Modeling + Game Fundamentals + Game Programming + DirectX Programming and I might include something on Music ??? yeah Music, I can play music very well (4years of training :D), but don't have good electronic keyboard with me, but I am going to buy one soon, but let's see might include in book, not sure about Music, but special effect sounds for sure are going to there and how to use them.

So did you like my idea? you heard about One Stop Shop, now its One Book Develop Full Game. I am not going to completely devote my time in writing this book. Will be also posting other things on blog, but will also show progress of my book writing.

Ransomware

New worm hits the machines named "Ransomware", which encrypts everything in My Documents folder, so if you try to open it up it asks for some 30 characters password, now I have got that password, now I have not cracked the password just got it from the news web site, here is the password to decrypt it:

mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw.

Please inform your friends about the same, post on your blog as well.

News Link - http://timesonline.typepad.com/technology/2006/06/the_archiveus_t.html

Dhaval Faria's Blog

Hey Everyone,

Changing my blog from http://www.dhavalfaria.com to http://dhavalfaria.blogspot.com for a time being.

Reason: Not able to maintain server properly right now, but once I have enough time and enough resource I will again move to http://www.dhavalfaria.com.

Now about Blog - I will be posting same things that I used to post earlier but this time will make it make more sense and will be giving more information.

Color BLACK: why I choose, is because the images that I will be posting on blog, and things which I will write on blog should come out clearly and should create the environment such, so thats why black color template :).

So keep visiting my blog :)

Dhaval Faria.