Using JSF Standard Built-in Validations
JSF provides built-in support for validations of input component tags. You can supply it a attribute required=”true” which will check if a value is supplied or not. There are built-in validators which you can nest in all JSF input tags.

The news RSS Feeds by Economic Times are very concise and one has to visit the news article to read it entirely.

The same is true for number of other Indian News sites.

I always wanted to try out Yahoo! Pipes.

Below are the steps that I did -

Ant input task does not has a feature which will allow not to echo what user inputs, a necessity in case you are prompting for a password. As per the ant input task documentation –

A regular complaint about this task is that it echoes characters to the console, this is a critical security defect, we must fix it immediately, etc, etc. We know it leaves something to be desired, but the problem is Java, not Ant. There is nothing we can do to stop the console echoing.

I wanted to write a ant script for one of the environment, which would perform following tasks in order which will be repeated
1. Take Latest Code
2. Compile
3. Create WAR
4. Undeploy currently installed WAR from tomcat
5. Stop the tomcat
6. Copy the WAR to tomcat webapps folder
7. Start the tomcat

This is cool.

Via

As Lok Sabha Election 2009 are around the corner, Google has made available its own portal.

As Pune is listed in the “Search Voter Rolls”, you can check if your name is part of Voters List. You can even get the polling booth details.

This is super cool.

I found this quite hilarious.

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Today while watching NDTV Profit’s Buy or Sell at around 12:15 PM IST, I notices that the commercial break was around six minutes long while the content was around three minutes and another commercial break followed after that.

This is overall experience on other indian television channels as well. For non real time entertainment, one can still get commercial free entertainment of favorite TV shows (Roadies ) via YouTube or P2P, but for Live cricket etc there is no option but to watch those Ads.

Another pain regarding these sports channels is, one has to pay extra to the cable/dish operator to be able to see them.

I feel that if I am paying extra for sport channels then they should be commercial free.

I always wanted to own a Bose system, but they costs too much. But once listening to A R Rahman‘s Delhi 6 song Masakali on SoundDock® digital music system, I couldn’t resist myself from having a instant gratification.

The plus of this system is that it has a Aux-in so I can use it with my laptop or TV… perfect.