Best Pickup Line

An Amazing way to impress a girl

Me and Sheldon Cooper

Sheldon Cooper... For those of you who don't know who this is .. he is one of the main characters in the Sitcom The Big Bang Theory

He is a socially awkward genius (whose IQ is 187 or something). Well i am not that intelligent, but other than intelligence part, i see a lot of similarity between me and him. The things that I most resemble Sheldon was his compulsive need to organise things, inability to understand others emotions.

One incident that i really loved was the interaction between Sheldon and Penny. It goes like this:


Sheldon: He asks something to Penny about a situation hes stuck in..and asks her help to solve it

Penny:Honey, I know you are thinking you are explaining yourself, but you are not


Well the above sentences is exactly how most of my conversations go with my friends. I keep telling them blah blah blah and finally after i have finished they just ask... "WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?". Well there are a couple who really understand my blabbering, other than them everyone else either just ignore me or just nod their head to shut me up.

Well thats enough. If I write more then again it will be same story :)

Evolution of Windows OS

A mail forwarded by my friend. Shows the evolution of UI from Windows 1.0 to Windows 7


Windows 1.0



Windows 2.0



Windows 3.0



Windows 3.11



Windows 3.11NT




Windows 95



Windows 98



Windows 2000



Windows Millennium Edition



Windows XP



Windows Vista



Windows 7

A Notification Window in Java

Tray Icon is a nice feature in Java 1.6. Very easy to write an application that sits in the tray and works. The thing that I really needed and didn't find was to show a message from the tray icon in a custom window. Now everywhere I searched I just came across the displayMessage(...) api of the tray icon. This is really useful if you are showing a message like a windows bubble message. Instead if you want to show some custom formatted message in your own window, you are lost, no solution in Tray Icon.

What do we do? Simple write a simple Window in Java Swing that scrolls up from the bottom right corner.

Presented below is a sample program, that shows a scrolling up window. The code is pretty much self explanatory. So without blabbering, here's the code:


public class PopupWindowTest {

private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private static final Integer STARTING_POS_X = 300;
private static final Integer STARTING_POS_Y = 300;

public void showMessage(String text) throws Exception {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
Toolkit t = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
JTextArea area = new JTextArea(7, 30);
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
final JWindow window = new JWindow();

final JButton ok = new JButton("Click Me");
ok.setSize(40, 20);

final JButton close = new JButton("Close");
ok.setSize(20, 20);

ActionListener listener = new ActionListener(){
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if(e.getSource() == ok){
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Just a sample message.");
} else if (e.getSource() == close){
window.dispose();
}
}};

ok.addActionListener(listener);
close.addActionListener(listener);

area.setEditable(false);
area.setOpaque(true);
area.setAutoscrolls(true);
area.setText(text);
area.setBackground(new Color(202,219,243));

JScrollPane spane = new JScrollPane(area,
JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED,
JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED);
spane.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder());

panel.setBackground(new Color(203,222,148));
panel.add(spane);
panel.add(ok);
panel.add(close);

frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
frame.pack();

window.setLocation((int) (t.getScreenSize().getWidth() - STARTING_POS_X),
(int) (t.getScreenSize().getWidth() - STARTING_POS_Y));
window.setContentPane(frame.getContentPane());
window.setBounds(0, 0, 265, 168);
window.setAlwaysOnTop(true);

for (int i = 300; i < 450; i = i + 1) {
window.setLocation(
(int) (t.getScreenSize().getWidth() - STARTING_POS_X),
(int) (t.getScreenSize().getWidth() - i));
window.setVisible(true);
}
}


public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
new PopupWindowTest().showMessage("The message goes here");
}
}