ABr’s Blog

It has been long time since I have posted a blog article in my blog, a lot of things happened, things which could have been kept under control, things which could have been avoided, it was not too late and I took a firm decision, stood by it.

Disclaimer: “Things mentioned below are my personal views and I believe this is neither going to be inflammatory against any individual nor it will be holding prejudices.”

To start of as the saying goes ‘Nothing sells like controversies‘, in my earlier article I have written the following but it needs bit of tweaking:

‘..to me they (Australians specially the Australian cricketers) are the most aggressive sportsmen on earth, they play on your weakness, they are mentally tough and can even sledge any player on the field it is not that they want to show off but they just prove their mettle and above all it is the sense of pride, self-esteem that creeps in any player who performs remarkably well that’s why you call them as the invincible. Let me confirm I’m not a die hard Australian Supporter but just an admirer. I love the way they play the game of Cricket, anyone can say that Cricket is a Gentleman’s game and Australians are not trying to be fair on the field since you see a lot of sledging or scathing remarks being made on the opponents or on any of the high profile players but at the end of the day they will be sharing the lighter moments, I have to appreciate the way they greet or congratulate the opponents when the opponent player scores a century because they play it on the true spirits. So cricket is just a mind game like chess where strategy is of great significance, a lot of psychological thing is attached to it.’

Hope the tweaking is fine if not perfect, yes it was ridiculous, something absurd, something which a normal human being can not comprehend, the things which unfolded during the final days play or should I say right at the outset (from day one).

[+] Sweet 16……… Mr. Ricky Pointing’s side had only, one thing in their mind that they should at any cost win the match, come what if it requires foul play yes that is what the Australians exhibited on the field no doubts about it. Any sane human being can understand how downright cheap they were on the field and of the field. Mr. Ricky Pointing who didn’t have much to do with the bat decided that he can take up an umpire’s job. I have just one question Who The F*** is Mr. Ricky Pointing to confirm that the catch was taken cleanly , is he part of the ICC panel of elite umpires, if at all there was any MOU that was decided by the captains at the start of the series, was it given in black and white (Please do not call me a ‘Racist’ for using black and white, I just meant, was something given in written). How could one can question his (Mr. Ricky Pointing’s) integrity when he doesn’t have the grit and determination to accept that he dragged the cricket ball on to the ground in a much animated appeal for a catch or was it for the Leg Before Call. I can very well remember Mr. Murali Karthik was honest when he accepted in front of the big crowd in Mumbai that he edged the cricket ball to Mr. Adam Ghilchrist, India won the match and Mr. Murali Karthik survived a close call (final ODI at Mumbai - Future Cup 2007). What Mr. Ricky Pointing had to say about this, “it would have been great and fair on Mr. Murali Karthik if he would have walked back to the pavilion without waiting for the umpire’s decision”. Atleast Mr. Murali Karthik had the guts in him to accept that he edged one but Mr. Ricky Pointing need not speak about integrity when the whole world can see that he dragged the ball on to the turf, started appealing furiously as if nothing had worked the Australians way even the rub of the green didn’t favor the Australians. Well I have got one thing to say Mr. Ricky Pointing, you can Just Shut The F*** Up.

 To be continued…

I  have not seen any individual in the game of cricket to let his mouth as well as his  profession do the talking.  The He that I’m referring to is none other than the Great Mr.Glenn McGrath.

He is an amazing bowler who bowled with a lot of discipline, here is a quote -

“McGrath bowled an unremitting off-stump line and an immaculate length, gained off-cut and bounce, specialised in the opposition’s biggest wickets“

I have rarely seen him straying on the leg stump, the channel that he used to bowl was something special, Just outside the off stump always luring the batsmen to edge to the slips or to the keeper, every single delivery that he bowled was virtually unplayable ones, he made it a point that the batsmen should invest a lot of effort to earn a single run, there are many batsmen who have scripted success stories against Mr. McGrath but I still feel that it was Mr. VVS Laxman, a very very special player indeed. Here is a quote by the invincible Australian Team -

“The Australians, who have suffered more than most, paid the highest compliment after India’s 2003-04 tour Down Under by admitting they did not know where to bowl to him.”

But I will always enjoy the contest when it comes to Mr. Lara Vs.  Mr. McGrath. No one can forget a sequence of 213, 8, 153 not out and 100 made by Mr. Lara, against the Mighty Australians during 1998-99 season.

As the adage goes there is always an end to a beginning. To me the World Cup 2007  left a lot of unsavory memories

[+]  Sad demise of the Great Cricketing Mind Mr. Bob Woolmer.

[+]  Infamous but the Inevitable exits of the Giants - Indian Team & Pakistan Team

[+] Retirments of the Great Players Mr. Anil Kumble, Mr. Inzamam Ul Haq, the enigmatic genius Mr. Brain Charles Lara, finally the Gaint amongst the Men Mr. Glenn McGrath.

Myself and My Colleague were doing some bug fix, simultaneously we were writing a simple JDBC code, at that time my colleague caught up something interesting.

Yes if you ever wanted to print out or take out the diagonal elements from the Square Matrix, bear it in mind the code given below is applicable only  for the Square Matrix (To Know More about Square Matrix) .

For running the below code I used MySQL - Version 5.0.16 as the Database and Eclipse SDK - Version: 3.2.2.

Also do replace the following: DB_USER_NAME, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME, DB_TABLE_NAME.

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Finally after a big battle I shouldn’t say it as a Battle got to say it was a War. I was able to run a web application done in struts framework, and based on my success story I’m just putting forth my views as to how to run the struts based web application.

(1) Nothing can teach as a documentation which is bundled along with the product, so what I did was I went through the docs provided by the Apache Tomcat and figured out as to how to configure / write context.xml files, first comes first.

You need to allow your web application to connect to your Database (MySQl / MS SQL / HSQL / DB2 / Oracle or x..y..z..) by means of DataSource interface of the JNDI which can be achieved by DBCP (DataBase Connection Pooling).

Download the Read Me File  for configuring / writing the Context.xml file.

(2) Struts Libraries, mostly to avoid the incompatibility always go for a stable version I prefer 1.1 or 1.2.9 do not go for any other versions, always remember that your Web Application should be a plugin pattern, so create a folder ‘ lib‘ inside your web application and put all the dependent libraries for the web application in that folder also put your entire ‘lib ‘ of struts distribution inside that framework this solves most of the problems.

(3) Always write Ant Scripts for your web application which will make life simple for compiling java files of your web application.

In my earlier article I tested the JDBC using the DataSource Interface but in this article I’m going to test it using DataSource Interface with MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource.

A small requirement urged me to write the below code, I got to thank the requester.

For running the below code I used MySQL - Version 5.0.16 as the Database and Eclipse SDK - Version: 3.2.2.

Also do replace the following: DB_USER_NAME, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME, DB_TABLE_NAME, DB_TABLE_COLUMN_NAME

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