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More documents like this are at: 05.10-Letters To My Daughter
13-Feb-04
However you slice it life in these times is a rush. Along with it goes the stress. This quotient is at its peak around 8AM in our house as I start gathering my work bag and Kavitha's school bag on our way to the 100,000 mile Camry in the driveway while trying to wave the customary bye to her Mom and Narayan who happens to eye us everyday as to where on earth we disappear into.
I check my seat belts and back up while Kavitha settles in with her school bag while ferociously thinking how to annoy her Dad. This annonyance may vary from playing a game to pretending to be a creature with matching vocal chords. On this rainy, wintry day she must have decided to take it easy on me and announced that she would like to play the "My letter is letter.." game. The drive usually takes about 10 minutes covering the 2 mile distance as we pass the traffic lights and an ever present ominous looking Jacksonville Police Officer that directs the traffic into the school from the main road.
The game goes like this. I will start by choosing a letter. Let me say the letter is "t". So I will have to promptly announce to the other player as "My letter is letter T", followed by a clue. As I pass through the tall growth on the side of the road I prepare my clue: "It is tall and green". Kavitha would normally guess this with an answer of "tree". Today she chose to play first and chose "T". Subsequently she declares the clue:
It lives in nature It is the home of the squirrels
In my mind I start reflecting "My tree is tall and green" while her tree is a thing of life and a part of Nature. So I take in stride the humble, and she moves on to her second letter which she chooses to be "R". And her clue arrives with the same precission:
Soon I will be 7 And I will be taking care of it
With consternation and gloom I pull into the parking lot of the school thinking of ruses to avoid getting a "Rabbit" for her 7th birthday. It used to be her 6th birthday. But recently she weighed the predicament of taking care of a Rabit and decided that the Rabit will be more manageable when she is 7. I am still hoping it will be 8 next year.
I dropped her off with her basket of Valentine gifts to her teacher and co-students and headed back to work. A friend of mine comments in this wake:
"She has more personality in her pinky than most people have in all their bodies."
More documents like this are at: 00.15-Research
http://www.javadesktop.org/tsc/sightings/S20.html
Following is a quote from the above url
"One of the most exciting kinds of e-mail that the Swing/JFC team receive is a product announcement for a new JavaTM application that features a Swing GUI. A close runner-up is the URL for a new game or a compelling never-before-seen applet.
Over the years we've collected many links to this information. In fact, if you walked down the hallways here you would see the walls plastered with hundreds of screenshots from applications developed outside of Sun. Therefore, we have decided to launch a Swing Connection feature to share this bounty. Don't expect a comprehensive survey; these are applications that we bumped into or that found us."
http://community.java.net/javadesktop/
How to apply java over the web
More documents like this are at: CSS
12-Feb-04
http://www.metzener.com/srv/
http://www.orkut.com
1. A good example of asp.net 2. Look into the concept/idea
More documents like this are at: Health
11-Feb-04
The ability to forecast trends in medical technology. Are they medical rates going up or down. Are the hospitals costing more or less.
This information is used in quoting new rates and also calculating renewal rates.
The forecasted trends may be weighed against actual claims to narrow the miscalculation of trends over time.
http://www.insweb.com/learningcenter/glossary/health-t.htm
9-Feb-04
Typically people are covered for insurance for a year at a time. This period of coverage can be said to be the coverage window. Expenses or claims incurred during this period are payable even outside of the coverage window. Such a situation where the payments are made outside of the coverage window is called "run out".
This idea of "runout" has implications. The leading implication is that even though the coverage of certain individuals has terminated, the insurance company (sometimes called the "carrier") needs to plan for the amounts that needs to be set aside for the claims during the runout period.
As I said "runout" and "runout period" are concepts. Whether as specific well defined period is defined or not, I am not sure. For example if I say that the "runout' is 3 months, does the Insurance Company not obligated for any claims outside of this window? I don't believe so. But the 3 month window might be useful estimation purposes. If at all there is such an absolute time window after which no claims will be paid needs to be investigated.
The second implication is, as I have brought up, during the estimation phase for calculating renewal amounts for the insureds. In this case to evaluate how much a member had spent, typically a 1 year worth of claims are taken into account. In addition a 3 months are used to take into account any fulfilled obligations but not paid in the 12 month period.
6-Feb-04
http://www.ehealthcoach.com/Glossary_healthcare.asp
http://www.pohly.com/terms_c.html
23-Jan-04
Recently I wanted to create a block menu in my html pages. I want this block menu to have a header indicating the category of the menu and a set of menu items. There may be more than one way of doing this exercise. There may also be a better way of doing the same. But here is how I have done it and it seem to work well for now.
21-Jan-04
12-Jan-04
Style sheet
This page is the source code of that page
http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/selectors/index.html
This is an example page for analyzing and understanding style sheets. Following this entry you will see the entries for
10-Jan-04
http://www.kernelthread.com/about/
This page is included here to show you how the above quoted css files are included in the html page. As you have noticed I have replaced all less than signs with two (( and all the greated than signs with two )). This is lot more easier than managing html inside html.
old.css
As I analyze this page. I will write more
basic.css
http://www.kernelthread.com/miscellaneous/devnagri.html
This is a sample URL that you can click on to see how the end of result of his styling is. This is by no means the best of his pages. Perhaps one of his simplest.
My goal for this page is to emulate the bottom part and the nice purplish color
In the process, I will post here below copies of his style sheets from his web site verbatim. This should work as example style sheets.
I think it is best to learn style sheets by looking at working examples. This usually true in any language be it Java, or c++ or CSS once you have a basic understanding of the concepts. It might be a stretch to take it to the natural languages perhaps.
8-Jan-04
http://www.kernelthread.com/
Very interesting in terms of CSS and content management.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/12/30/2003-yearender.html
A great idea.
7-Jan-04
Jedit, wordml, xaml, jxpath, InfoPath, XForms are some of the names that I have jotted down in 2003 to take a look at in the future. Hopefully I will get to some of these in 2004. The following knowledge folder named "Research" explores these ideas a bit further and provide additional references.
Research Knowledge Folder
On a personal front I want to consider the following:
More documents like this are at: Humanities 2007
5-Jan-04
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/8186685596/qid=1073329423/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-6817402-0090357?v=glance&s=books
Come recommended by Jayaram
3-Jan-04
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/11/XMLFiles/default.aspx
A possible solution to documentation quandry. Word is extreemly good as an outline editor. But has been very bad at spitting out the content as XML. Hopefully this will solve the problem.
http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/lhsdk/core/overviews/about%20xaml.aspx
Aspire is optimized for developing 3 tier GUIs that include the current web paradigm. The declarative GUI elements of XAML should allow me to extend Aspire to the .net world quite effectively.
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jxpath/
Goes to show that XML and Java are just two representations of hierarchical data structures of which XPAth is the query language. Hoping to integrate into Aspire at some point.
More documents like this are at: CS-Java
2-Jan-04
Exceptions is one area where opinions differ considerably. Not only about the usage of exceptions but also about the need and utility of checked exceptions. I hear arguments from various sides. They all seem valid in their own right. I use interfaces heavily in my coding practice. Particularly in my J2EE tool Aspire. Over time I paid dearly for not declaring exceptions on these interfaces. Primarily because I would start out thinking that this interface is too simple and not declare an exception. Subsequent implementation of these interfaces will necessitate apis calls that throw checked exceptions. With out changing the interface either I need to throw a converted chained runtime exception or change the interface to include a politically correct middle of the road exceptions suitable for that interface
More documents like this are at: Just-Blogs
1-Jan-04
Like many other I-will-do-it-myself programmers I have ended up with my own blogging software at about the same time as the OSCON 2003. I had been planning on adding seemingly simple enhancements since then. While I have rejected (temporarily) the "feedback" and "shortcuts", I did implement the "masterpages" during these holidays. The result can be seen at the following URL
Knowledge Folders of Satya Komatineni
If you are curious about the story click on the weblog to read in full
http://www.bcbsfl.com/ocyh_group/group_life.cfm
Describes various group life plans at BCBSFL.
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