Eclipse - Adding your existing files as a project

Its been a while since I blogged ... and here it goes ...

In Eclipse, a direct drag and drop wont import all your files of an existing project. But you still want to use them to develop or just to examine the contents of the files. To do that .....

Step 1 : Choose your workspace as something which is the parent of the existing folder. For ex :

There is a folder A which has B and the B folder has C in it. cd A -> cd B -> cd C
If you want to import B, choose A as your workspace.

Step 2 : File -> New Project -> PHP Project ( in my case ) and then Name the project as B. Now, choose "Create a project at existing location".

Step 3 : Then add the required folders and you're done.

I currently am working on learning CodeIgniter - an Open Source PHP Framework and will post my learning experience here.

I believe ... in ME

There has to be a cause for whatever you do .. there has to be a reason for whatever you do .. and finally you need to know why you're doing what you actually are doing. Don't think I am out of my mind to post non sense on my blog :D. Just read on ...

People think different and the moment the phrase Think Different comes, it is Apple and Steve that I am reminded of. There are many ways to live in this world and there is always a way to earn money. A person, given enough freedom, backup and enough resources never does something that interests someone. He always does whatever he believes in. He does something that gives him the ultimate satisfaction. There are always people who never actually think and easily get influenced by others. People who are like that are bound to get affected someday because of all the advices that they get. A person who first bought the iPod was not a fool to spend so much on a gadget. Instead he was brave hearted and was ready to spend on something that he believed in would be the course of the world at a later point of time.

There are many cases where people just care for the money that they get and forget the satisfaction in doing something that they like. When you say "I want this .... " There is always someone who will ask "Why?" The answer for the Why should always be ready to get whatever you want. Similarly, while doing something, just ask yourself " Why am I doing this ?? " This simple question starting with Why can forever change the way you live.

Mass Market : The mass market needs a push from someone. That someone is the early adopter. This adopter is someone who is ready to take the risk of doing something at his own failure .. or SUCCESS. This adopter never thinks about some mediocre who is always there. He just thinks about himself and the world around him. There are not many people in the mass market who think and feel the same way. Then there is a majority market. This majority market has people who are always ready to do something cool.

For Example : When the the first Apple Computer (Apple I) released, geeks and hobbyists were the ones who bought it. They were cool enough in their own way. But then when someone from the majority market found out that these things were cool and also useful in some or the other way, he started to purchase them and the same spread around the majority market.

Then there are the lame people. These people actually dont want to change but will have to as they can no longer work well with the things / gadgets / devices that they already have. For Example : An electronic typewriter v/s a Desktop.

So, what I believe is .. One has to believe in the following to actually achieve success.

1. Never expect the result of something. Give in your best and expect the worst to happen, only then the fruit of success will be sweeter than ever.
For Example : If DOS was never a success, then learning to work with DOS would be a waste of time and IBM could never have come back. The investments in terms of time and resources that IBM put towards MS DOS was very huge in the 80s but that was a risk and IBM gave their best to automate their processes and they succeeded in that effort and that is the main reason why they are still in Business.

2. Success is something that comes to you. There is no path to success and there is no tips on achieving success. All the efforts that you put in ultimately end up giving you a success whether you want it or not. For Example : Reading this blogpost might not give you success, but if you put in your effort and implement what you actually read and understood, then that might give you success.

3. Talk to a variety of people. You might never actually know who can come in handy at any point of time.

4. Never actually think and then do something. Analyze and do something. That'll give you greater satisfaction .Frankly speaking, analysis of something will never take more than a few minutes. ( Provided you have enough knowledge ) Hence, when you get a gut feeling that this will happen when I do this ... Then, depending on the situation, go for whatever you think is right for you and others too. ( Think about others too, I am telling this because, someone who is not doing well in your group might affect the performance of someone who is doing well and is with you. This indirectly will affect your performance if you are not stable enough to handle things. )

5. Think different is what I believe in and encourage you to think over it.

6. Finally, do something because you believe in it ... because you want to ... and not because someone told you to.

And ....

Learn for yourself ... coz, Knowledge is the ultimate Power you can ever have.

Stop Autorun applications in Ubuntu 11.10

Guys ... a quick Ubuntu post ( also for my reference :D ) ...

There was this bluetooth which always started up whenever I logged into Ubuntu ( Unity or GNOME ) .. and thus consuming my battery if I forgot to switch it off. Ultimately .. I wanted to turn it off and here it is.

Open the terminal and then

cd /etc/xdg/autorun/

Then ...

ls 

NOTE : Backup before you delete !!!

You will find all the applications that run on start up.
To stop the bluetooth from running .. just delete the bluetooth file.

sudo rm bluetooth-applet.desktop bluetooth-applet-unity.desktop  

And thats it !!! :) Peace !!!

Share !!!! on and from Google Docs :)

Guys, this is not a tech article or something but this is FYI ( For your information ) and the content you are about to read is so damn basic .. dont feel bad that I wasted your time in making you do something so stupid.

So, here it is .. How to use GDocs and sharing directly from Google Docs to a particular group on Facebook.

Step 1 : Open http://docs.google.com and login ( If you dont have a google id ... hmm ... idiot, go get one :P )

Step 2 : After logging in, you will have an " upload " symbol or the upload button beside the Create button to the left side of the page.  Click that !!

Step 3 : Click the upload button and choose " Files ". Then choose the file that you want to upload from your Hard drive. (  Dont forget to click on " Start Upload " )

Step 4 : You now will come across a window where the upload has finished and there is an option for you to share. Click on " Share ".

OR

If you dont see that, no issues, click on the title of the document that you just uploaded and the document will be opened in a New Tab. To the right hand corner you will find the share button. Click on that.

Step 5 : The default status of every document is " Private - Only the people listed below can access ". To the right hand side of that there is a " Change " option. Clicking on that will result in a pop up where the option can be changed to, " Anyone with the link ". Select that and save the document.


NOTE : Check the Allow Anyone to Edit option if required.


Step 6 : Then you will be given a link and below that you have options, of which one has a link to Facebook. Click on that and share the document with your friends on your wall or choose from the options to share the document in a specific group :) :) 


Hope you like this post :D :P ... I really dont care even if you dont like .. you can always refer to the Google Docs FAQ ~!~

Blog ?? Do you really need it ?

A blog ... Most of my friends ( leaving the geekish guys ) read blogs and hear a lot about them, but do you actually know what it is ?? According to Wikipedia, a Blog is a Web log where entries are written in chronological order and are displayed in the reverse chronological order.

Terminology

Here, there are a few terms used which should be taken as they are intended to.

1. to blog : means to post an article on a blog. The term blog, here is being referred to as a verb

2. blogger : A person who writes articles on a blog.

3. blog post : An article in a blog. This should have been the first term that should have been mentioned in this list.

Past and the Present

Blogging first started out geekishly like email, IRC and like any other service that used the Internet. It was not until 05/06 that companies started to make announcements on blogs which was done at a press meet or a newsletter to a mail list, until then.

Soon blogs meant serious business and as the bigshots started using them for a reason , the common man learnt more about blogs and related issues so that he could stay connected to the world than to wait for some newsletter in his inbox.

Due to this, the over all bloggers, blog services and people who just read blogs increased and Blogs became a source of mass communication in a very economic way where one wouldn't need to spend money or resources but just needed the time to put things out in an effective way.

As an inside story, the people who just read blogs might not know how the information comes from, but as someone who is following blogs since about 4 years, and acquainted with the web since a few more years, I can just tell that this information ‎comes from one person who blogs it in his personal blog, which is followed by many. They in turn blog it on their personal blogs and the information, which started out from a single source moved on to the whole world and within a few hours also makes news on the local news channels.

Companies, CEOs, Tech Developers and a host of other people saw what could be achieved out of blogs and now, what happens is, most of the news are first blogged in abstract and later on the suspense is revealed by making good use of the press.

The companies also make sure that the blog post is written so well that once a user reads it, he should understand something about the product, the company and its plans for the future. People are being hired to write about launch parties, product releases so that the blog attracts readers and attention from all over the world.

Why do you need to Blog ?

This is a question which almost everyone can answer but differently and the surprising part is that, everyone can be right. What am saying is different people have different perspectives on " Why to blog " but what I feel is that, a blog is a way to put down your personal feelings and let everyone know about them.

Now,You can also ask me " why do I need to blog when there is Facebook or Twitter ? ". Indeed that is a right question when you and your friends only can know about what you are thinking. Through facebook or twitter the whole world won't be knowing your views on an issue and definitely friends who dont login into facebook for about 6 hours wont be noticing your status messages. If you have a blog and you start posting regularly, people will start to follow your blog through Google Reader or any other feed and then will start on to know your views and comment on them.

Posting regularly also helps you keep a track of your mind set and when you read the previous posts, you will get to know what you were like then and what are you now. The posts not only help others to get influenced or inspired by from your thoughts, but they also at times help you get inspired by them in case you forgot what you were thinking a long time ago.

Writing posts on a blog help me in the following ways:

1. Got to keep a track of my thought process

2. Also got to know that memories make you smile.

3. Most importantly made me comfortable to in "Writing English"

4. In the process read other blogs, which helped me in knowing little bits and pieces of the Internet which I definitely would have missed.

5. Got to know that you can create sites / blogs but you've got to maintain them once they go online.

Friends, hope you all got to know why to blog and hope you'll soon start off with your own blog. Do let me know then. Always happy to help you guys out.

Will be waiting for your views and comments. Until then Happy Ugadi and Happy Blogging :) :)

Komodo Editor 6.1.1

Hello friends,

As I put up on my facebook status, from now on I would be dedicating time to update my blog and share the information that I get while browsing the web or hacking on some php code.

Until now, I've used Geany, which was really an excellent editor for php. But now, I recently came across Komodo which has become my favourite Editor with the first edit of php code.

I liked the features and the way it really works while editing code especially. The way it handles blocks of code is truly worth appreciating. Here is a small how-to on installing Komodo IDE 6.1.1 on Ubuntu/Debian.

Step 1: At the time of writing this post, on 4/4/11, Komodo Editor is in the 6th Version. You can get it by clicking here.

Step 2: After downloading the tarball, you can extract it using the following command ( Ctrl + Shift + T for terminal ).

tar xzvf Komodo-Edit-6.1.1-7295-linux-libcpp6-x86_64.tar.gz

Step 3: Using the cd command you can just browse into the extracted directory and then run the install.sh file using the command :

./install.sh

NOTE : There shouldn't be any permission related issues, but if there are any, please do run the below command and then go for the install.sh file.

sudo chmod 755 install.sh

Step 4: In the middle of the installation ( which won't take much time ) you will be prompted for which directory the installation should proceed in. There you can give the path / address of the folder of your choice or, you can just give it as,

/home/(user_name)/Komodo-Edit-6/ and then move on.

Step 5: Now is the time to create a Desktop Shortcut, which probably will be a favourite among the migrants from Windows to GNU. So, you can do that by running the following command in the terminal.

sudo ln -s "/home/(user_name)/Komodo-Edit-6/bin/komodo" /usr/local/bin/komodo

That will create a symbolic link of the original executable file onto the Desktop.

PS : I am working with Komodo-Edit-6 on the 64Bit version on Ubuntu 10.10 and its working perfectly fine.

More about php and my projects and related work, later. :)