Story of Centipede

The centipede was very good at walking with its hundred legs. It never spent a thought on just how it could walk. Until one day, when a big black bug asked the centipede “How can you manage to walk with all those feet? Don’t you find it hard to coordinate their rhythm?” The black bug already left, when the centipede was still sitting down, pondering how it could walk, wondering, and (for the first time in his life) even worrying a little bit. From that day on, the centipede couldn’t walk anymore.

So you better not think too much if you want to achieve something.

About recent design changes

Hello friends, as I have noticed, adding loads of external widgets make blogger very slow, so I have decided to remove all of it, even, including the SyntaxHighlighter 3.0, which have had some other problems as well. I switched back to SyntaxHighlighter 2.1 which are hosted on my free server. Now the blog is significantly fast looks prettier than it was before.

The blog stat widget I have added is now from originally google's blogger, and it is more accurate than any other third-party free hit counters or so.

However, I was eager to know is it possible to add some right panel items as different pages, not sure if it is possible or not. A few more design changes are also about to come, as I am adding some more css to the template. I will be glad to get any feedback on that.

Thanks for understanding.

FIFA World Cup 2010

FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 Official Theme Song

Lyrics

ooooooh wooooooh

give me freedom, give me fire,
give me reason, take me higher
see the champions, take the field now,
you define us, make us feel proud...
in the streets are, exaliftin',
as we lose our inhabition,
celebration its around us,
every nation, all around us

singin' forever young,
singin' songs underneath that sun
lets rejoice in the beautiful game
and together at the end of the day.

[chorus]:
we all say...

when I get older I will be stronger
they'll call me freedom
just like a wavin' flag
and then it goes back |||

when I get older I will be stronger
they'll call me freedom
just like a wavin' flag
and then it goes back |||

Oooooooooooooh woooooooooohh hohoho

give you freedom, give you fire,
give you reason, take you higher
see the champions, take the field now,
you define us, make us feel proud
in the streets are, exaliftin,
every loser in ambition,
celebration, its around us,
every nations, all around us

singin' forever young,
singin' songs underneath that sun
lets rejoice in the beautiful game.
and together at the end of the day.

[chorus]

Oooooooooooooh woooooooooohh hohoho

[chorus]
___________________________________

Song: Wavin' Flag
Artist: K'naan

Blogger Code Formatter

Blogger is a wonderful place to write blogs and there are many code bloggers out there, who want to share their coding skills with the world! But, certainly there are some problems with blogger posting methods, for example, in a <pre> tag, it will ignore tabs, and it causes great problems with some operators like '<', '>' etcetera... So, we can easily write a simple program and use it easily as a code formatter for blogger. Here's an example:

#include <cstdio>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    FILE *in = fopen(argv[1], "r");
    FILE *out = fopen(argv[2], "w");
    char ch;
    if(argc < 3) {
        printf("Usage: $ %s <infile> <outfile>\n", argv[0]);
        return 1;
    }
    if(in==NULL) {
        printf("file %s can't be opened.\n", argv[1]);
        return 2;
    }
    if(out==NULL) {
        printf("file %s can't be opened.\n", argv[2]);
        return 3;
    }
    while(fscanf(in, "%c", &ch)==1) {
        if(ch=='>') fprintf(out, "&gt;");
        else if(ch=='<') fprintf(out, "&lt;");
        else if(ch=='&') fprintf(out, "&amp;");
        else if(ch=='\t') fprintf(out, "    ");
        else fprintf(out, "%c", ch);
    }
    fclose(in);
    fclose(out);
    printf("file %s was written succesfully.\n", argv[2]);
    return 0;
}

Windows:

In windows, execute this with any compiler and grab the .exe file, paste it in your C:\WINDOWS\system32 folder. So, for example, if the file name is "blog.cpp", you will get "blog.exe", just paste it to your system32 folder. So now you can use it as a command in command prompt. If you like to format a file, say, "test.cpp", cd to the directory where "test.cpp" is, and to transform, the command is "blog test.cpp blog_test.cpp". Now just open the "blog_test.cpp" file and paste it in the <pre> tags.

Linux

Run it with g++, command: "g++ -o blog blog.cpp", and give enough permissions to the executable "blog", command: "chmod 777 blog". Now, we need to paste it in the "/bin" directory, but as it is write protected, we'll need to log in as root. To do this, write on prompt: "sudo nautilus", it will ask your password, and then an explorer will be opened, and now, just go to the "/bin" directory using it and paste the file. The usage is similar as stated in the Windows part.

Makes life a bit easier...

Confidence, Trust and Hope

A bit unusual words...

Confidence:

Once all the villagers decided to pray for the rain. On the day of prayer all the people gathered around and only one boy came with an umbrella. That's confidence.

Trust:

Trust should be like the feeling of a one year old baby. When you throw him in the air, he laughs because he knows you will never let him fall.

Hope:

Every night you go to bed with no assurance to wake up alive in the next morning. But still you make plans for the next day. How could you live if you did not have hope for tomorrow?

So be confident, trust in your abilities, never loose hope and do your best whatever you do to make the world more colorful...

SyntaxHighlighter for Blogger

Installing SyntaxHighlighter in Blogspot blogs

Hello code bloggers, here is a short description and quick guide on how to install SyntaxHighlighter in your blogs and sites as well to beautify your codes. Actually nothing is more painful than reading out rusty codes no matter how cool they really are, so presentation does matter.

To go straight forward, go to Dashboard &rArr Layout &rArr Edit Html. Here you will see your current template. First save the current code to your hard drive before changing anything, so in-case you destroy the whole thing mistakenly, you have nothing to worry, just paste that again here, and every change is reverted. Actually it is good to store every working version of the template in your hard drive.

Now find the part in the html code:

</body>

</html>

First, we need to add some javascript links here, i.e. between these two tags. The files are located on the author's own host, http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/. The version I used for this blog is also uploaded here.We'll use it from there. But if you have your own host, you can download the files and make changes (as this project is open source) and upload it there, then use your links.

First add (I mean copy and paste) SyntaxHighlighter Core scripts:

<!-- SyntaxHighlighter core js files -->
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shCore.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shLegacy.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<!-- -->

Now add highlighting brushes for your favorite languages:

<!-- SyntaxHighlighter brushes -->
<!-- some are added here, explore the hosted files for more language supports -->
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushCpp.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushBash.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushJava.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushPython.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushPlain.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushVb.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script src='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/shBrushXml.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<!-- -->

When you paste the above lines, it will include highlighting functionality for C++, Bash, Java, Python, Plain Text, Visual Basic, XML. To add more, you can add more links to the files in this directory http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/. You should only add the files which has a name in the following format: "shBrush<language_name>.js". Clearly, it will add the functionality for "language_name" language.

Now the core style and theme:

<!-- SyntaxHighlighter core style -->
<link href='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/styles/shCore.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
<!-- -->

<!-- SyntaxHighlighter theme -->
<link href='http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/styles/shThemeDefault.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
<!-- -->

You can only use one theme at a time, Default theme is added here, its best in my opinion. However, you can check other themes from this directory: http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/styles/. You can change the link of SyntaxHighlighter theme to any of the files having name pattern "shTheme<theme_name>.js" from this directory.

Now add the main script that will invoke SyntaxHighlighter, also, here you can put some initial parameters (see below) as well:

<!-- SyntaxHighlighter main js -->
<script type='text/javascript'>
SyntaxHighlighter.config.bloggerMode = true;
SyntaxHighlighter.config.clipboardSwf = 'http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/scripts/clipboard.swf';
SyntaxHighlighter.config.tagName = 'pre';
SyntaxHighlighter.defaults['wrap-lines'] = false;
SyntaxHighlighter.defaults['ruler'] = true;
SyntaxHighlighter.all()
</script>
<!-- -->

Here you see, some defaults like line wrapping disabled, ruler visible, and also, SyntaxHighlighter is associated with the <pre>...</pre> tag. The clipboardSwf is the background style. And one special parameter for blogger blogs: bloggerMode = true. For the complete configuration list, visit http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter:Configuration.
All done, just save it...

How to write codes in pre-tag? Well, all you need to do is just invoke the classes in pre tag... for example, you might want to add a c++ code, you should do this:

<pre class="brush: cpp">
/*
** write your codes here.
** make sure you convert all < to &lt; and > to &gt;, important!
** do not use tabs, use 4/8 spaces instead, no break tags needed.
*/
</pre>

Clearly, the brush names are those "language_names" that you included above, for example, "shBrushCpp.js" will be invoked with "cpp", "shBrushXml.js" will be invoked with "xml", etc etc... Actually, in general, the class inclusion might look like class="param_list"
For complete usage, demonstration, and information, visit: http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter in the For Users section.

Hope this helps... not a big deal. Happy blogging.

Online Compiler / Interpreter

Visit http://www.ideone.com/
This is a free online compiler introduced and being developed by SPOJ team, a lots of thanks goes to them! and supports almost all available languages on SPOJ system.

So, if you are a C++ programmer, or like to learn some new esoteric or functional programming, or want to use gcc/g++ but don't have linux, or server side programming languages but don't want to setup a new IDE or virtual server, you can use this site... free for all!!!

Have fun...

Happy New Year....

Happy new year, wishing you all a very very happy 2010...

Let 2009 go away with all your sorrows and mistakes...