Me, myself and my thoughts....

Normally this is the phrase we say for things we had lost and we find it again. It’s a usual thing we feel, we don’t know the worth of the things we possess unless we lose them or if there's a situation such that we miss them. And incase we find them again, we would be cherishing them till the life ends.

Also, Theres a popular inference that when you love something, nothing can prevent you from reaching it and the vice versa. Even this suits of living things and non living things too (which we love).

Likewise, I too had(have) a friendship which I liked and cherished, It started unexpectedly as much things in life happen, But continued steadily for almost about two years with a very good understanding. Things changed as the time passed, I don't know whether it was us or it was life which made me feel moving away from her.

But as life teaches most things in hard way, I learnt to accept it as it comes, I felt bad for some time but later on it was okay for me.

On the day of my convocation recently something unexpected happened, we went to college at 2:00 pm after usual roam around, and the convocation went on well. We were to leave around 8:30pm,We came to know that college buses are arranged to drop us, I dropped my bag in the bus which goes to K.K.Nagar, There were hardly 6 people in the bus so I thought I can meet some of my friends and talk sometime since it was long time since we met.

While I was standing outside the bus, I saw some body coming towards me, It was my friend, The friend whom I thought I had lost, She was having the usual smile in her face, We started on with usual "Hi",But her speech sounded matured, I don’t know it might be because we talked after long time I felt so, It was though I didn’t talk to her for a long time I come to know about her through friends circle, Now she was working for well known MNC in Chennai, She told me she was put in main frames, We exchanged some thoughts and talks :-),At last when we were about to leave I got her official mail ID,This is was the thing that lead me know that I found my lost friend again.

I mailed her the next morning, Yes I wasn’t expecting a reply…But wow! a lightening reply, I was amazed at the same time happy that she has replied me, We started sending emails to each other, At this moment I realized that she was my old friend, She hasn’t changed, I had a doubt might be it was me who had mistaken her......I soon sent her my blog URL, She was busy the first day I sent it...Later, after a day I reminded her again, In spite of her busy schedule she read it and sent me the feedback, Yes…She hasn’t changed, She was my same old friend, This mail confirmed me that :-),I was contented and happy....I’m happy that I found what I had thought I lost.

I lost it, it was a pain, I found it, it was a pleasure....Something’s seems to be lost in life. But they are actually not, we might know it once we find it again...But after finding it we will never lose it again at any cost.

Posted by Gokul Kannan Jeyapaul at 8:34 AM | Permalink | Comments

We managed some how to learn the First Emulator one of the Service providers. Well it was an easy task coz the documentation of that particular emulator was in English...

The next week also was lil not tat tough..We managed to study about the second emulator also...Well I was happy that I found and taught other two in my team how to build and run a project in the emulator using the ant builds :-).I was also satisfied that I was able to explore most of the unknown parts of this emulator.

We had the next week ahead, we were to study about the third one, As usual our system admin helped me install the tool kit. I was happy that I was able to start the tool kit without any errors and exceptions.Well, this emulator was little different from the other two we had two kind of tools inside it. One was to build the codes and other to run the code in the simulated environment.

It took us almost one day to bring up the Build tool, We were not even aware that there was a build tool..Later some one accidentally we invoked a .jar file (A collection of class files similar to .exe file),usssh! it opened up the builder tool like Aladdin's magic lamp.

Next came the difficult part, we were not able to build a single template java file..Not even the example codes which the emulator has in its installation itself, I managed to find out that the JDK's and J2ME's paths was all hard coded in the build tools JAR files, I found out an interface to change the hard coded values and changed it, but still it gave me build time errors, Like the builder was not able to identify even the basic java packages and the methods in side them which were already included in the class path. I was looking about clearing these errors for about a day.

Finally I planned to extract the jar file of the build tool, change the class file through a decompiler and repack it in the jar. So I started my work the next day I unpacked the jar I some how managed to find out the class file in which the environment variables were hard coded and I changed it compiled it, Repackaged the jar file. I thought I did something the best.

With my own pride I started the build tool, loaded the java files and started the build...to my surprise same errors again, I was scratching my head. Wondering how come things can't turn up even after doing such a thing...

I was trying to do all things to solve the issue for about two days, Finally I had no other go other than to go and ask my PL for help coz all the three of us were facing the problem.

The next day morning I went to and told the issue, He asked wat are the solutions I tried I told him all that I did, He was chuckling and said "I think u are doing too much of R&D, basically there must b some simple way to this”, I laughed in myself and thought after even changing the class files it didn’t work, How come there can be a simple way???

After half an hour he called me to help him installation of the tool kit in which I had the problem, I was proud that I installed it for him, I also taught him how to build and run, He created a new project copied the sample code in it and build it...Hurray to my happiness even he got the same errors..

He thought for two mins, Googled to find out about the errors, Google didn’t help much.

Later he unzipped the entire JAR file in J2sdk, jre and found out in which package the method comes and added in the class path. I was wondering, I was very sure it wont work..Finally he was ready for the next build...I was in my own world thinking about class files, jar files etc...

He clicked on the "build" button...

It took about 80 seconds finally we saw the words "Build Successful...."

I was in full surprise...raising my eyebrows...He chuckled at me and said the magic words of advice..."Just try to understand one thing, Even in life and in software field, Most of the complex problems have simple solutions" saying this he chuckled at me.

I gave him a blank smile and returned to my room. I was wondering whether it was his experience or his way of problem solving, I consoled my self saying that it would have been coz of his experience...But wat he said was the truth...Often there would be simpler solutions for complex problems...

The thing we get excited too much about the problem which makes us think too much, if for a second or a two we remain calm n focused sure we would be able to find the solution, if not the solution at least the path that leads to the solution...

Posted by Gokul Kannan Jeyapaul at 9:48 AM | Permalink | Comments