LIFE..........its just about having FUN..

I just StumbledUpon this thing in morning while surfing @ HOME.
It really shook me.
It showed simple 8 reasons of having fun in life which all of us unKnowingly (sometimes even Knowingly)just ignore or forget.
Just spend some minutes through this simple but really interesting flash movie.
Really it will make you lot more comfortable and make you know what are you really missing in life.
http://www.eightprinciples.com/^*

Enjoy

^*If you have sound, you can also hear the soothing music :).

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WAI Tools I Used

Finally, i compeleted my WAI related things and here to share my experiences.
The tools that really helped me are again W3C validator(BTW W3C itself rollsout the spec) and ATRC Accessibility Checker which is developed by Adaptive Technology Resource Centre based upon the proposed Open Accessibility Checks (OAC).

I used W3CValidator to check WAI and XHTML markup validation.It is a great tool and you can provide either the url to validate or directly upload the content through file or inpput textarea.The result of validation shows level of violation(Error,warning,etc) with the line number of the content provided.

Here's an example,

Accessibility Checker tool was setup on a machine ,it gave results in a browsable manner dividing pages int ot tables,frames,images,etc.It also shows the part with violation in results.The installation is trivial.It requires JAVA and Apache Tomcat for working.

Bobby(from WatchFire) is a windows desktop tool which spiders the particular web application and runs checks on all html pages.But as we were not working on pure HTML it was not useful for us.Reports are again browsable with abilty to make projects ,have scheduled checks, nad many more features.

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ANTic Problem

Last week working on a continuous buils setup for a project, i stumbled upon a issue with ANT(Another Neat Tool), Java build tool.
The buildfile was working from the current directory where the file was , but was failing if ant was invoked from outside the directory.
So when i said
ant
in the current folder the build would happen successfully, but if i triggered the build from any other location using
ant -f some_dir/build.xml
it would fail.


I digged into the build file and found that all the property declarations were using value attribute to refer relative paths.Here the problem lied.
I changed the value attribute to location and Voila....... it started working.So it seems that sometimes minor mishaps can cause a blunder(and posssible time waste) while automating any actvity.

Just to summarize,

Always use location attributes for properties , if you are refereing to paths in your buildfile

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Looking for WAI Tools

For past couple of weeks i am working on WAI-fying web applications. i have come across couple of good online tools the W3C validator and ATRC Accessibility Checker Java based Server Side tool.

Have any body used other Open Source WAI Tools?
Can u share those with me?
What are your experiences?

I'll be putting my experience here....so stay tuned for more WAI.

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Here i go...........

Atlast a blog, me and my thoughts which doesn't always makes it where its intended.
So Let me start.
Here, i'll be blogging about Java,Programming,hobbies,etc.
Seems like everyday things.
So till next time.....
Keep Sipping..Keep Coding :-)

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