AirDroid - Android device on your computer

In many occasions I felt that Android Mobile keyboard is not preferred to type such a lengthy SMS/Whatsapp message. I found myself more comfortable in typing using my Lenovo Thinkpad Laptop. I thought of using Laptop Keyboard to type my mobile SMS and Whatsapp to type the message rapidly.

I had an interesting read this morning about the AirDroid(Software which runs on any OS where you can see your Android phone on your computer without any cable/connection. If you are not interested in installing the tool, you can see your Android device via Online too). I thought of sharing the same with you all.

I heard about BlueStack technology earlier, it is to access android apps in your desktop. I personally feel AirDroid is much better than other tools in the similar stack. Hope you can find this interesting too. Web link: https://www.airdroid.com/

I recommend you to explore this tool and share your experience.


Thanks,
Nanjundan Chinnasamay

Soft skills training - BodyLanguage

In my soft skills mentoring blog series, today I am about to write essential part of soft skill called “Body Language”. 

You may come across many presentations related to this area. I will try to add this article presentation as interesting as possible. In my presentation, I am about to write the power of Non-verbal communication and the kind of influence it will make.

In my presentation, I have documented where the attention required in body language during the conversation to make it more effective. Hope you will find it more interesting too.

Presentation Link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/229239956/teamwork-presentation-pptx

Thanks,

Nanjundan Chinnasamy

Soft skills training - Working Together

In my soft skills mentoring session, this time I am going with “Working Together”. It is very difficult for me to differentiate the concepts “Team Work” and “Working Together”.  Hope you would have gone through my previous presentation related to “Team work”. 

Now, you can understand the power of Working together by end of this slide and the benefits of doing same. This slide will applicable all the scenarios irrespective of the job what you are doing like working in IT, Sales etc. 

I request you share your “Working together” experience and their results in comments section. So that my readers will also benefit from it. 

Presentation link: http://www.ncr.mae.ufl.edu/funstuff/Teamwork.ppt

Thanks,

Nanjundan Chinnasamy

Learn iText with examples - Excellent link!

http://itextpdf.com/examples/

-NJN

Soft skills training - Teamwork

Hello Friends,

I am recently mentoring my team into Soft skills area where I really feel little action is required to grow in their carrier. I am sharing the presentation to all. Kindly have a look.

This time I am adding the blog which covers the great part called “Team Work”. Why Team work is really important, result of teamwork and the result of not doing the same.

teamwork presentation.pptx

Feel free to post your comments/queries. I am happy to answer your queries.

Ragards,

Nanjundan Chinnasamy

Working with apache commons configuration

This week, i have explored the apache commons-configuration third part jar. It sounds more interesting to read the configuration details from multiple properties files in our project at once.

Sample Configuration file:

configuration.xml – File to configure the list of properties file to be loaded from your application.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<configuration>

  <system />

  <properties fileName="logging.properties" />

  <properties fileName="appConfig.properties" />

  <properties fileName="webserviceEndPoints.properties" />

  <properties fileName="message.properties" />

  <properties fileName="com/x/y/z/a.properties"/>

  <properties fileName="com/x/y/z/b.properties"/>

</configuration>

/**

* This class is to read values from the properties files listed in central configuration file. Need to define the *all configuration/properties file in the configuation.xml

*/

public final class ConfigurationManager {

    private static final String CONFIG_FILE = "configuration.xml";

    private static Configuration configuration;

    private ConfigurationManager() {

     final URL configFileURL = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource(CONFIG_FILE);

     final DefaultConfigurationBuilder builder = new DefaultConfigurationBuilder(configFileURL);

     configuration = builder.getConfiguration(true);

    }

Now, how do we get the value from property file using key?

Each method returns an object by looking up in the property file associated with the key if the corresponding key is missing it will return defaultValue which is the argument.

    configuration.getInteger(Key)

    configuration.getInteger(Key, defaultValue) - If not present in prop file

                        .getString

                        .getBoolean

                        .getDouble

                        .getStringArray

                        .getList etc.

   You can have to explore for additional methods.

Reference:

commons-configuration-1.5.jar. Please refer the features here for configuration (http://commons.apache.org/configuration)

online image editor

I have come across a new new online tool this week. Thought, it is worth to share this tool with my readers and followers.

To create/edit graphic images we may need licensed software like photoshop etc. Do you think, is it really worth to spend much cost to create/edit  simple images to the designers like me? Definitely, me answer is NO.

How about create/edit an image through online without installing any specialized software(s)? Sounds interesting? Have a look at the website http://pixlr.com/editor

Rgds

_NjN