Shopan's blog

Reducing GWT application compile time

2011-08-18T17:45:00.008-04:00

After setting up gwt in eclipse and creating my first gwt project, I saw the compiler output console shows : Compiling 1 permutation Compiling permutation 0... Compile of permutations succeeded I was wondering what are these permutations ! Then I found out that gwt generates different versions of the application for different browsers and locales, as unfortunately browsers can

Analyze Democrat vs Republic speeches: trying out NLTK

2011-02-09T04:14:00.014-05:00

Task: to identify interesting collocations from text Corpus: speeches made by politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives during debates over legislation Data: downloaded from http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/data/convote.html Analysis: using google's nltk package, collocations module. Association measures:chi square mutual information log likelihood raw frequency Green: appear in

MC 3 : Presentation

2010-11-17T09:42:00.003-05:00

MINI CHALLENGE 3: Genetic Sequences – Tracing the Mutations of a DiseaseThe VAST 2010 Challenge sitePresentation LinkHappy me :)

VisWeek 2010, Salt lake city, Utah

2010-11-05T14:02:00.004-04:00

Now attending conferences like Visweek is more fun with twitter ! yeahh.. I could see who is twitting about which session, and the use of hashtag has made it way easier to search ( and find people of similar interest) , and this year the VisualBackChannel was another cool webapp (?) that made the experience more interesting. And during the VAST Closing panel speech on Tuesday, Ben S. showed the

Back from GHC10@tlanta, now time to retrospect

2010-10-03T02:07:00.006-04:00

IMG_8248 Originally uploaded by geeklindaFour awesome days at Atlanta for the Grace Hopper Celebration of women in computing. Had a great time, now buried with home works and projects and undone laundries. No need to mention how I enjoyed with my friends, but I also enjoyed my Hopper assignments and blogging and tweeting about the selected sessions as a community blogger . Thanks to GATech for

GHC 10: HCI Field trip to GVU: blog in pictures

2010-10-02T03:45:00.003-04:00

Oct 1, 2010, Friday, Atlanta, GVU lab reception watching tv with user specific interface trying to feed robot dyno. Augmented reality lab

Bangladeshi Girl Squad at GHC10

2010-10-01T16:42:00.002-04:00

We left our country and came here for higher education, to receive our Masters or PhD and spread all over USA , and then, aha, here we met , in GHC conference at Atlanta. I see the faces I had known and loved and got inspired . When we talk about scientific research and modern cutting edge technology, Bangladesh may not be among the topmost countries, but it is a great moment for me to

HCI Track at GHC 10: FERNANDA B. VIEGAS presenting about visulization

2010-10-01T15:42:00.006-04:00

presentation: 3-4 pm, Friday, Sep 30, 2010 Visualization of Bible text ? Or a classic like Pride and Prejudice ? why and how? Fernanda Viegas from google is explaining all these in a fun and engaging way. She demonstrated google's visualization and then ManyEyes . She also showed TreeMap visualization of microarray data visualization on ManyEyes. What part of the body people think about the

Student poster presentation evening, award ceremony, DJ night at GHC10

2010-10-01T11:49:00.006-04:00

Usually conferences are held on the basis of research fields, so we get to meet people who are interested in similar area; unlike that a unique aspect of Grace Hopper conference is that here we can meet people coming from different areas in computer science and engineering and presenting their ideas. It's been long since I heard about system research or wireless technologies, but the poster

Keynote speech of Barbara Liskov at Grace Hopper Conference 2010 Atlanta

2010-10-01T09:04:00.006-04:00

From Math Major to Language Translation to Stanford to Turing award: After getting Turing award, someone called her home and said "Why did she got this award for ? all people already know these stuffs" . Yes, now all people know this 'Stuffs' , when we write a piece of java code , it comes so easy and familiar, it's hard to imagine once upon a time, there was no such thing as OO programming and

Poken in Grace Hopper 2010

2010-09-29T15:27:00.003-04:00

I hope this idea of using poekn will grow and people will start using it actively w

GraceHopper Conference 2010

2010-09-21T19:32:00.002-04:00

I am planning to attend the Grace Hopper Conference as a student volunteer and blogger this month ; though I could not avail myself of any scholarship, thankfully my professor is sponsoring my travel :) I hope to meet the HCI community and learn about what other researchers are thinking in this direction. I have no scientific data but in my experience I saw the participation of women

Pragmatic ambiguity

2010-09-01T15:07:00.002-04:00

I enrolled myself into the Computational Linguistics course this semester, so far we had one lecture and I am supposed to submit the homework tomorrow, though I do not have the text book yet. Our professor discussed about structural ambiguity and I was thinking of possible example in Bengali, and still thinking. In English, if we say The girl hit the boy with a book, it can be parsed two ways:

Linear Equation: Great Explanation

2010-08-25T22:37:00.004-04:00

3-variable linear equations (part 1) After reading this article about Bill Gates' appreciation for Khan's work, I visited his youtube channel . I wish my teachers in school had explained it this way !

Getting Past the Pie Chart § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

2010-07-08T18:01:00.001-04:00

Getting Past the Pie Chart § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Visualizing Word Etymology

2010-03-14T22:05:00.011-04:00

It may sound like walking backwards, human being learned to write way after they drew all the nice images on the cave walls, and now that we can store information in binary sequence ( and also some of us can even easily decode them just by looking at those ) I am talking about word visualization ( no, not about hieroglyphics ) . The idea comes from the acquisition of second or third or any

Works of Rabindranath online

2010-02-05T12:01:00.002-05:00

was looking for something like this for a long time, especially after coming to USA, I could not bring the Geetobitan, or Golpoguchchha , not even a single book of Rabindranath . The work that is being done by the West Bengal Language Academy is really praise worthy, I hope the Bangla Academy of Bangladesh will take similar actions to preserve the great works of our greatest intellectuals in the

Squirrel emergency solved

2009-11-25T10:25:00.000-05:00

It was scary...I was hearing sounds, felt like someone was sneaking around, but every time I went downstairs I could not find anyone or anything and guessed that may be my roommate's cats were playing around. But this morning I found the cats were also getting crazy and they were scratching the fireplace window, crying for help. At first I thought some birds or rat got stuck into our fireplace ,

my Twitter network

2009-10-22T23:47:00.001-04:00

It seems that among all the people I follow on Twitter, Shafi( rajputro) spends most time on twitter and Ragib vai has the most followers.The bigger the circle is, the more is the number of tweets of that person, and deeper shade of color indicates they have more followers. In both cases, Rajputro seems a winner with the largest circle with moderate blue color :) I created this visualization

Git Tutorials for Begginers

2009-09-17T14:32:00.003-04:00

http://hoth.entp.com/output/git_for_designers.htmlhttp://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/

Obama speaks at College Park, about the health care reform plan

2009-09-17T13:32:00.000-04:00

Barack Obama just finished his speech 30 minutes ago, his words were vigorous as always , and though I am not an American citizen, it was inspiring for me too, it is always great to see a nation walking forward for change ! I went to the University of Maryland Comcast center at 10:30 am, September 17th,2009 and it is so huge that even I reached late there were plenty of available seats. People

Microsoft Research's MySong: play your songs with MySong

2009-09-07T17:38:00.006-04:00

you sing your song, software plays the instruments for you :)MySong is a system that automatically chooses chords to accompany a vocal melody. A user with no musical experience can create a song with instrumental accompaniment just by singing into a microphone, and can experiment with different styles and chord patterns using interactions designed to be intuitive to non-musicians *.*MySongCHI2008

Floating point processors to simulate artificial neural activity

2009-09-07T17:02:00.004-04:00

"We want to create an artificial brain that can communicate with a real brain,” says José Nuñez-Yañez, from Bristol’s Centre for Communications Research, as they’ve come up with a method to model neural activity with enough detail and speed for living cells to talk to synthetic neurons. Previous efforts to model neural activity have relied on supercomputers and generalized processors that are

visit ot Luray Caverns, Virginia

2009-09-07T04:18:00.000-04:00

after arriving at the USA my first few days were really exhausting, and I was tensed as I could not find any suitable place to live yet, at that time I was not that excited about visiting any place, but still made the trip to visit the legendary caverns in Virginia.We started from Washington, DC and the journey took at least two hours. As we went closer to the caverns, the nature around us

Preparation - 1

2009-07-22T01:36:00.000-04:00

now I have got my visa and bought the ticket, so starts the final preparation; My friends know how clumsy I am , and thanks to all of them, they remind me the 'todo's time to time, the list of works I should finish before leaving home. the most important thing in my todo list is to sleep and I am happy that after a long time I am enjoying my time lying in bed all day long :)We also prepared a

F-1 Visa Process

2009-07-02T23:41:00.000-04:00

thanks to http://www.phdcomics.com

Novels by Ernest Hemingway: ebook,pdf

2009-06-29T23:00:00.000-04:00

Across the River and into the Trees : ebookFor Whom the Bell Tolls : ebook A Farewell to Arms: ebook

The Twilight Saga-Stephenie Meyer- download pdf and read

2009-06-08T22:20:00.000-04:00

All the 4 'Twilight' novels of the series by Stephenie Meyer are here :The books in the series in chronological order:TwilightNew MoonEclipseThe Breaking DawnFinish reading before you see the movies :)The download link is this.

Bangladesh Liberation War : A History in Short

2009-05-15T09:03:00.000-04:00

We have read books about the Liberation war of Bangladesh, we watched films that depicted the sacrifices of our freedom fighters, yet politicians have tried to use this glorious history for their own interest. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, a renowned and popular author of modern Bangla literature has tried to give a short narrative of this history from a neutral point of view on his book "Muktijuddher

All Quiet in the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

2009-05-15T08:59:00.000-04:00

It's one of my most favorite books [pdf] .I have shared a copy so that anyone can download this classic .

Mount using NFS in Ubuntu

2009-04-16T02:06:00.005-04:00

We can use NETWORK FILE SYSTEM protocol , NFS , to share file in linux distributions.we just have to follow some easy steps and then we are done, the nfs client machine is the one that can use a shared mount point of another machine. The machine that shares or exports its one or more directory to the client machine is called the nfs server. So if directory 'shared' is in the nfs server and some

Higher Studies-1

2009-03-15T00:05:00.000-04:00

yes, the breathtaking, suffocating wait is over now, I have at last got my admission offer.. and not from only one university, what a relief.. after all the sleepless nights, efforts and praying, Allah bestowed His blessings upon me, and it was more than I deserved !It was hard to make the decision, which university should I select to apply to, and what was my chances ? Am I really capable of ?

some poems by Jibonanada Das

2009-02-14T14:11:00.000-05:00

Bonolota SenFor thousands of years I roamed the paths of this earth,From waters round Ceylon in dead of nightto Malayan seas.Much have I wandered. I was therein the gray world of AsokaAnd Bimbisara, pressed on through darknessto the city of Vidarbha.I am a weary heart surrounded by life's frothy ocean.To me she gave a moment's peace -Banalata Sen from Natore. Aabar Bochhor kuri poreAmidst a vast

Reverse Proxy and Forward Proxy Server

2009-01-26T05:07:00.029-05:00

When I was in high school it was very common to bunk the class and request one of my classmates to give proxy for me when the teacher makes the roll-call. In the university this proxy thing was more popular, so when it came to learn about proxy server, it was not much hard to understand that one server( the proxy one) is doing some stuffs on behalf of another and the world does not know that it

trying to incorpoate my scattered fragments of thoughts..

2008-12-15T13:49:00.000-05:00

The sun of the first dayPut the questionTo the new manifestation of life-Who are you?There was no answer.Years passed by.The last sun of the last dayUttered the questionon the shore of the western seaIn the hush of evening-Who are you?No answer came again."--Rabindranath Tagore

Pizzas

2008-12-15T09:47:00.000-05:00

The Italians have made thier way into people's heart by this very food ! ya, I am talking about PIZZA. People from all over the world, Asian or European, American or Africa, just love it.Now we have several ernouned pizza corners in Bangladesh too. Pizza hut, Domino's , Shwarma house serve world class pizzas at world class rates ! So, if the price does not seem resonable, you can make your own

Download ebooks of Wilbur Smith: Cry Wolf , Seventh Scroll

2008-12-10T12:58:00.000-05:00

Cry Wolf : "The three of them, Jake, Gareth and Vicky, find themselves swept irresistibly from a daring adventure Into a violent confrontation with death among the high mountains of Ethiopia."The Seventh ScrollOne novel from Smith's Egyptian series. "Duraid Al Simmu and his beautiful half-English, half-Egyptian wife, Royan, were the first to discover the tomb of Queen Lostris. And with it the

Guns n' Roses: new album Chinese Democracy , download songs

2008-12-08T18:29:00.000-05:00

Download and enjoy !After 15 years Axl Rose comes up with his new gang and the new album Chinese Democracy ! certainly a great news for Guns N' Roses fans , specially after so long a wait and so huge expectation! They started to record this album on 1994 and and at last it has seen the daylight.The 14 tracks of this albums are: ( click the song title to download ..)1) Madagascar (live)

Eid-ul-azha: kurbaani eid

2008-12-08T17:34:00.000-05:00

Another Eid day has come, it's Kurbani eid tomorrow. My mom is going to prepare all the nice meals: kabab, firni, polaw, meat-balls and other usual items for Eid. So far I don't have any task for Eid day, so I am going to decorate my hands with henna and if possible, will try to help mom( though most of the times, all my attempts to help her turns out as a mess and creates further problem ! )We

terrorist attack in Mumbai

2008-11-28T05:19:00.000-05:00

After the violent terrorist attack on Mumbai people from all over the world have cast their eyes on India. Live telecast on news channels are broadcast. Frightening faces of horror are published in newspapers and websites .. people have been killed mercilessly.. but would the situation be same if the attack had been on distressed poor people ? instead of the luxurious hotel Taj the attacks

tea, coffee, coke !!!

2008-11-20T00:00:00.001-05:00

I read this post and those who visit my blog may find it interesting, so I am quoting some of the interesting parts.. http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_07_30_a_java.htm The original Coca-Cola was a late-nineteenth-century concoction known as Pemberton's French Wine Coca, a mixture of alcohol, the caffeine-richkola nut, and coca, the raw ingred ient of cocaine. In the face of social pressure,

Security Holes in Wireless Sensor Network

2008-11-01T14:43:00.002-04:00

It's now a major challenge in the development of wireless network ans yes, I am talking about security. May be the industry is not paying much attention as they are paying for cost effectiveness and energy efficiency, but we cannot deny its affect.I found a good explanatory article about it on IEEE computer society magazine:Denial-of-Service in Wireless Sensor Networks: Attacks and DefensesIf the

Euclid's Elements

2008-10-27T01:23:00.005-04:00

Today I found a very nice link on Euclid's elements.http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html

Computational Geometry: Software Implementation

2008-10-27T00:38:00.006-04:00

Computational geometry investigates algorithms for geometric problems. Motivated by the need for geometric computing in science and engineering applications that deal with the physicalworld, about twenty years ago a community of researchers started forming around the study of algorithms for geometric problems. A new discipline, ‘computational geometry’, was soonchartered with the dual mission

Voronoi Diagram

2008-10-23T03:37:00.030-04:00

Voronoi diagrams are wonderful geometric shapes , the more I learn about them, the more fascinated I become. These shapes are inherent in nature, we can see examples of Voronoi regions around us. But first let me explain in my own words about Voronoi diagrams.Let us take some point sites in a plane. Now our task is to divide the total space into convex polygons or regions surrounding the sites in

Differentiated Surveillance with Wireless Sensor Network

2008-10-23T01:25:00.007-04:00

In computer science and telecommunications, wireless sensor networks are an active research area with numerous workshops and conferences arranged each year. And a bigger part of thisresearch is focused on how the energy consumption can be reduced further. Networks where nodes are heterogeneous and the coverage requirements are also different for nodes, we can exploit this feature to obtain a

Download Books by Isaac Asimov: Foundation and Robot Series

2008-10-19T11:18:00.000-04:00

The Robot series:The complete robotThe Caves of SteelThe Robots of DawnRobots and EmpireThe Foundation series:Prelude to FoundationForward the FoundationThe Foundation Trilogy [Foundation - Foundation and Empire - Second Foundation]Foundation's EdgeFoundation and Earth

Eid 2008

2008-10-19T11:07:00.000-04:00

The Eid day was boring as usual , but the get together party after a day after Eid was awesome..a wonderful reunion of old friends. After reaching Shefali's home i took the place from where i van see the door well ..so whenever a person came I declared her presence...'now comes Shumi...!!!'...and another splash of laughter , sometimes fake and sometimes real...at least we could laugh loud.

flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System

2008-10-06T06:00:00.008-04:00

How a recently discovered flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System makes it easy for scammers to lure you to fake Web sites.The Domain Name System is essentially the Internet's phone book. It's a huge database containing the 32‑bit numeric codes that identify every single site on the Internet. These are known as Internet Protocol

Install Oracle Application Server with Portal Container

2008-09-22T02:11:00.011-04:00

Install Infrastructure: The infrastructure includes Oracle Internet Directory (LDAP for Oracle) and Metadata Repository. This should be installed prior to the installation of the Oracle Application Server.1) Run CD one.2) Choose Infrastructure and metadata repository as installation type.3) Give administrator privilege.4) Provide a username , for example , dc=mycompany, dc=com.5) Provide password

kate nash - the nicest thing

2008-08-31T15:52:00.000-04:00

After a long time i got to hear such a true song with wonderful lyrics. Feels like Kate has just started the song and anyone who is listening to it will feel that she also has something more to add.All I know is that, you’re so nice, you’re the nicest thing I’ve seen I wish that we could give it a go ,See if we could be something I wish I was your favourite girl I wish you thought I was the

Friends, my favourite series ever

2008-08-30T16:19:00.000-04:00

it's the hilarious show ever, and not only on TV. actually the first time I watches it on tv, I was not that amazed, but when I got the DVDs I just became a fan at once.may be the timing acted as a catalyst, as my final exam was going on and everything except study seems the most precious at that moment- after finishing every episode I told myself, okey, this is the last one, I will start

Mayan history and architecture on natgeo

2008-08-29T02:31:00.000-04:00

On August , 2007 an special issue of National geographic magazine got published with marvelous description and snapshots of the Mayan ruins.We can have an idea about how advanced they were ... "Though they used neither the wheel nor metal tools, they developed a complete hieroglyphic writing system and grasped the concept of zero, adopting it for everyday calculations. They also had a 365-

Download Books by Isaac Asimov: Foundation and Robot Series

2008-08-28T06:12:00.000-04:00

Tutorials on java servlets and jsp

2008-08-15T02:55:00.002-04:00

http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Servlet-Tutorial/http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/1_3-fcs/doc/JSPIntro4.html

A Natural Log: Our Innate Sense of Numbers is Logarithmic, Not linear

2008-08-05T23:10:00.002-04:00

To investigate which number-line concept is innate, neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene of the College of France in Paris worked with the Mundurukú, an Amazonian culture with little exposure to modern math or measuring devices. The Mundurukú were immediately able to place numbers on a line when asked, but they grouped them logarithmically.read more

Too poor, sick for pilgrimage? Email a prayer ...

2008-07-23T06:34:00.001-04:00

Now you can pray via email...Greece's holiest pilgrimage site on the Aegean island of Tinos has launched an email service allowing those too poor or sick to visit in person to have their prayers read to its icon of the Virgin Mary."Those of you who are not in a position to visit the holy island of Tinos and pray to the icon, can write to us via email and we are happy to send you (free of charge)

Display RSS with CSS styling and XSL transformation

2008-07-17T01:27:00.002-04:00

Modern browsers display RSS feed with their own styling and so far it is not possible to override the display format they use , but yet some browsers like internet explorer 6, does not use any custom style for displaying RSS feed, rather you will see the bunch of raw xml data on your page which is not at the least reader friendly.So , to show feeds from our websites in a nice way with a better

Never give all the heart, for love will hardly seem worth thinking of...

2008-07-11T15:39:00.000-04:00

For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind of delight. O never give the heart outright, For they, for all the smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost For he gave all his heart and lost. -- W. B. Yeats

Firefox 3 about:robots

2008-07-08T05:54:00.001-04:00

Downloaded the new Firefox 3, type "about:robots" into the address bar and press Enter.SURPRISE !!!!!!! :)

Does Time Run Backward in Other Universes ?

2008-06-23T01:45:00.001-04:00

One of the most basic facts of life is that the future looks different from the past. But on a grand cosmological scale, they may look the same ! read more | digg story

Tutorial for Java3D

2008-06-20T00:44:00.001-04:00

The Java 3D API enables the creation of three-dimensional graphics applications very easily. It also provides methods for manipulating 3D geometry and building the structures used in rendering that geometry. I found this tutorial(http://www.java3d.org/tutorial.htm) very helpful as I had previous experience with OpenGL , but I also think this can be a nice beginners' guide.

Nothing New About Singularity Fantasies

2008-06-04T04:24:00.000-04:00

"In The Future of Man, a collection of essays published posthumously in 1959, the Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin speculates that our minds are becoming increasingly interconnected and will eventually fuse into a collective consciousness

What "consciousness" actually is !

2008-06-04T03:34:00.008-04:00

In spite of all advances, neuroscientists still do not understand at all how a brain (the squishy agglomeration of tissue and neurons) makes a conscious mind (the intangible entity that enables you to fall in love, find irony in a novel, and appreciate the elegance of a circuit design).Even when we dream, we are virtually

How we always see the past ...

2008-05-04T00:50:00.000-04:00

This very idea freaked me out when I realized for the first time that we always see the past !Like when I am looking at a star in the sky, it is totally possible that this star no longer exists.. the sky is displaying a snapshot taken in th past. If it's a star five lightyears away from earth, then I certainly am looking at a picture taken five years ago. Light travels at the rate of 30 million

Death of Digital Media

2008-04-22T15:22:00.000-04:00

A storage device can become obsolete in less than two yearsThe media may survive, but will anyone be able to read them?read more

Standardizing the Brain-Machine Interface

2008-04-22T15:16:00.006-04:00

Earlier this year in a lab at Duke University, in Durham, N.C., a clever, raisin-gobbling monkey named Idoya made a robot move in Japan—just by thinking. And she wasn’t alone. She joined ranks with, among others, a paraplegic man who recently used his brain to move a cursor around a computer screen. 1. Clarke was the first to suggest that satellites which remain at a fixed point

Bird Flu in Bangladesh

2008-03-23T11:01:00.000-04:00

The avian influenza is generally known as bird flu and now this is a very familiar term in Bangladesh.Bangladesh has about 220 million chickens and 37 million ducks. Five million people are directly employed by the poultry industry, millions of households rely on poultry production for income generation and nutrition.After bird flu broke out in several farms in Bangladesh thousands of birds were

Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90

2008-03-23T10:57:00.001-04:00

Legendary British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.'British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in his adopted home of Sri Lanka at the age of 90.The Somerset-born author achieved his greatest fame in 1968 when his short story The Sentinel was turned into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.His visions of space travel and computing

Diseases spreading on season change

2008-03-23T10:41:00.000-04:00

It's glorious spring, but it's also a transition of climate. Winter is passing by and summer is creeping in. This time of year is more vulnerable to diseases like jaundice and chicken pox. And students who are preparing for their SSC examination should be vary careful in this time.

my first Jamdani Sharee !!

2008-03-13T10:14:00.000-04:00

This Friday I went to a river cruise on Sheetalakhya river with my colleagues to celebrate the successful completion of project "Template-kit" and "Simple publishing". We started from Demra ghat and after one hour we landed at Murapara where we got to visit a jamidar bari which is now converted to a college. It was the "palace" of jamidar ( lord ) Jogodish Banarjee and now called Rupgonj college

The first three minutes:A modern view of the origin of the universe

2008-03-06T02:52:00.000-05:00

When I read the review I got interested to read this book of Steven Weinberg as soon as possible..and soon I got a copy, but it was a translation and one of the worst translation I have ever read. May be the Bangla tern for the astronomical objects are not standerdized yet or the translator was not efficient enough..I do not remember now ! However, I sopped reading it and decided to find the

Russian novel

2008-02-21T13:54:00.000-05:00

As a book-freak I always admire Russian literature, specially novel. One of my all time favorites is "How the steel was tempered", I can't pronounce its original Russian name though. I first read the Bangla translation which is titled as "Eeshpaat" that means 'steel ' in Bangla, published from Raduga publishers . I was searching for the english translation for long and at last I found it on

Escenic sponsors WALCOM 2008

2008-02-18T05:38:00.000-05:00

Workshop on Algorithms and Computation - 2008.. held in BUET on February 7-8 was sponsored by three major software companies of Bangladesh and Escenic is one of them. We feel proud to be a part of the workshop and serve the professors from home and abroad.The closing ceremony was held on Efes restaurant,Gulshan. Masud Hassan sir anchored the whole program . We got the opportunity to meet with his

IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine

2008-02-18T05:26:00.004-05:00

the first issue of ieee women in engineering magazine has been launched. though we cannot read it online yet, but we can download the pdf version free of cost through this link WIE.as it says on its home page "The new WIE Magazine will disseminate information to help recruit, retain and foster the growth of women in engineering at all stages of their careers. We are seeking to profile exciting

Math on Display

2008-02-18T05:18:00.003-05:00

Visualizations of mathematics create remarkable artwork Julie J. Rehmeyer"The Science News article covers selections from a recent exhibit, where over 40 artists gathered to show their work and the math behind it...."

Visualizing Electronic Health Records With Google-Earth for Body

2008-02-18T05:02:00.003-05:00

IBM researchers develop 3-D visualization tool for electronic health records read more | digg story

Fly like a Fly

2008-02-18T04:55:00.003-05:00

The common housefly executes exquisitely precise and complex aerobatics with less computational might than an electric toasterread more | digg story

Grand Challenges for Engineering

2008-02-18T04:55:00.001-05:00

do you think these are the only challenges ? or the challenges could be prioritized better ? or there can be other challenging issues which are more critical then listed ones ?read more | digg story

Cox's Bazar: Natural wonder of Bangladesh

2008-01-28T02:41:00.000-05:00

I was brought up in Chittagong, so I was lucky to visit the Cox's Bazar beach several times in my childhood...with my parents and grand parents. It was so regular for me that I never realized how wonderful it is to walk beside the sea and watch the sun slowly drowning into it. I had no idea that the waves touching my feet are actually part of the Bay of Bengal which falls in the Indian ocean.The

after Alchemist comes Zahir

2007-12-26T15:36:00.000-05:00

The zahir is said the Novel of Obsession...like The Alchemist was a Fable About Following Dream. Another best seller from Paolo Choelho. The Alchemist was mesmerizing ... I've just started to read the other one, hope it will not disappoint me.I wish I could understand Portuguese to read the novel in its original form, because at times I felt the translation too simplistic. But at least you

Download SCJP Test Killer :refference book for scjp exam

2007-12-05T09:43:00.004-05:00

I think this book is very useful for SCJP test takers. It contains sample questions that can give a good idea about the exam question set. So while preparing for the exam, it would be very helpful to go through this book, read and understand the questions and their answers, the logic behind the answers. Some given answers may be incorrect. But still it is highly recommended to go through all the

our Sundarban, my Sundarban ...

2007-12-02T12:37:00.000-05:00

It was the best of our time- when life seemed so wonderful that we each could declare ourselves a king, as if we don't know the definition of sadness and worry doesn't recognize us ! And what can be the best place for a monarch to build up his dream castle rather than in midst of mother could declare ourselvesnature !so did we..and who needs to look farther when we have our SUNDARBAN ?We

when you have regained a long-lost treasure !!

2007-11-12T12:03:00.000-05:00

That was the moment, a truly unbelievable moment...and I thought it would never come ! and I still can't believe..is it real ! I lost it, I yearned for it..so many times, so long a time...I hoped that a day will come when I would find it again...It happened quite a several times , I woke up in the morning and the first thing came to my thought--this can be the day !", and it wasn't, for sure.

Eid Mubarak...

2007-10-13T16:30:00.000-04:00

And again another Eid has come today !! It's the first Eid after I have started my carrer, so it's very special for me. It's again the same old routine for Eid day....get ready with new dress & ornaments, visit all relatives , and after a whole day of gossiping and eating, seat before the TV , try to watch "SPECIAL" rubbish programmes ! In every other country, people get discount on purchase

struts ,jsp,mysql with unicode support

2007-10-12T01:10:00.011-04:00

jsp, mysql, struts with unicode character set support should have been an easy task, I found ample reference in web, still I had to face a lot of complications while setting up a website ( jsp based )which can take Bangla ( a unicode character set ) input from users, process the input via struts framework, store it in MySQL database and again display them in the same website. For Bangla text,

naming history of TOMCAT and ANT

2007-09-29T15:34:00.002-04:00

this time i got curious myself... why a technical product is named after a cartoon character? who does not know about Tom and Jerry ! even the "nerdest" person of the world who never watches TV is familiar with these two name. but why apache calls its web container /application server TOMCAT ?The creator of Tomcat ,James D Davidson , had initially hoped that the project would become open

Ramadan and Loadshedding..

2007-09-29T14:48:00.000-04:00

it's mid Ramadan..the most important month for the muslims, we are observing fast , expressing our devotion to Allah by not taking any food and drink from dawn to dusk, and still.....we are facing load shedding, unbearable temperature and most painful->scarcity of water ! today i started to write something on my blog and out of nothing i heard my ups making that annoying sound of sound notifying

why JAVA is named "JAVA" ...

2007-09-29T02:12:00.000-04:00

yapp, one of my friend got stuck by this question on her job interview..and then i also got blank when she told me about it. i searched the web at once for the significance of this nomenclature...and this is what i got...James Gosling, who joined Sun in 1984, recalls the moment ,"It's surprisingly difficult to find a good name for a programming language, as the team discovered after many hours

Isaac Asimov ...the master of science fiction ..

2007-09-29T02:02:00.000-04:00

At last i have finished reading all seven novels of the legendary FOUNDATION series by Isaac Asimov. i came by the first book Foundation(the first episode) when i just passed higher secondary in 2001 and was totally spell bound by the writing style and the power of the story. I just had to have the other ones..but the books were very expensive and i dared not to spend that lot of money that time.

our lunatic squad ...

2007-08-14T14:53:00.000-04:00

tanvir irfan sir is one of the nicest and finest teachers i ever got in life. we had a great time with tanvir sir and i will never forget what he said in the last class we have with him . he insisted that we should not only do great work, also express those with strength , because the world is not an easy place,you have to establish your way or fall behind . sir wrote about our batch on his

where have all the flowers gone...

2007-08-13T14:42:00.000-04:00

water, water everywhere , not a drop to drink !! yes, this is really the situation now in Bangladesh. the flood might have over, but not the sufferings gone. people are still in misery; the relief work is not sufficient this year, actually they are never sufficient..how can you fill the lap of a mother who have lost her child ! no food, no shelter can repay this ! we can just have mere hope ...

and they follow you even in your dreams...

2007-08-07T14:52:00.000-04:00

i needed to escape,to hide...but i could go nowhere, so invited those who were always lost into some other world and shared my moments with them! they just say your own feelings with their words...and you wonder how could they creep into your mind and sketch everything with those small verses !!O DO NOT LOVE TOO LONG SWEETHEART, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of

you can leave poetry, but poetry never leaves you...

2007-08-07T14:36:00.000-04:00

Let Nature be your teacher: Sweet is the lore which Nature brings. Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things. We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art: Close up those barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives."— WORDSWORTH.

new seven wonders !!!!

2007-07-29T10:06:00.000-04:00

I was utterly shocked on the announcement of the new seven wonders of the world ! how come the pyramid of Giza has been left out ! if pyramid can't make us woder, then we must have lost our sence of woderment...yes, peoples' choices vary indeed,but Egypt always have had some spell over me. i've never been there but i've promised myself ..i must stand before thise tombs and feel the pride of being