Web based Flash like animation

Today i have found flash like animation creator tool , that too web based.

This reminded me of my days at college where i used to work on shock wave tools to create simple animations.

This tool is available at

http://antimatter15.com/ajaxanimator/wave/

Give it a try.
If you know how to create flash animation, it would be very easy, else try ur hands ...

Good Luck

Sarath.B

Yahoo! Pipes

I have been using pipes for past 2 years or so .. and have created some useful pipes for myself.

Yahoo Pipes[http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/] allows you to create mash ups from sites providing RSS[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS] feeds.

My latest pipe http://pipes.yahoo.com/bssarath/news displays the news feeds obtained from various news sites and plots them on a Map.

This i feel is a new way of looking at the news based on location.

Each news is indicated by a baloon and clicking on it will take you to the actual source.

I am reading my news from here instead of any one site.

Thanks Yahoo... for providing this functionality.

I am planning to take this up to next level and launch it as a site.

Lets see, if i succeed in this ... or this add to the TODO DREAMS list of mine.

My Pipes:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/bssarath/indianews

http://pipes.yahoo.com/bssarath/techup

http://pipes.yahoo.com/bssarath/javaupdates

How to use, Apache commons collections from jython.

How to use, Apache commons collections from jython.

Apache commons collections is an extension of java.util.Collections and has the following benefits over the default Collections from Java.

Apache collections package contains

1]Bags
2]Maps
   Ordered Maps
   Bidirectional Maps [BidiMaps]
   MapIterators
3]Buffers and Queues

An usage example of MapIterator and BidiMaps is given below.

CODE:
from org.apache.commons.collections.bidimap  import DualHashBidiMap

map = DualHashBidiMap()

map.put("A", "1")
map.put("B", "2")
map.put("C", "3")

print "### Accessing Map using values"
# Access the same map using keys.
print "Key for value 2 :", map.getKey("2")
print "Key for value 3 :", map.getKey("3")
print "Key for value 3 :", map.getKey("1")

print "\n\n### Accessing Map using keys"
# Access the same map using values.
print "Value for key B :", map.get("B")
print "Value for Key C :", map.getKey("C")
print "Value for Key A :", map.getKey("A")

OUTPUT:

### Accessing Map using values
Key for value 2 : B
Key for value 3 : C
Key for value 3 : A


### Accessing Map using keys
Value for key B : 2
Value for Key C : None
Value for Key A : None


### Iterator Usage :
A 1
C 3
B 2

Java Object serialization

Here i have used Java's object serialization to serialize a map into memory and create that map back from memory. This is helpful if your are trying to dump objects into databases [into blob cloumns] instead of Files.

Normal googling gives serialization of objects into Files.

from java.io import ObjectOutputStream, ObjectInputStream, ByteArrayOutputStream, ByteArrayInputStream


//JYTHON CODE USING JAVA OBJECT SERIALIZATION


from java.util import HashMap


m = HashMap()
m.put("Name", "Sarath")
m.put("Company", "Strand")
print m

bout = ByteArrayOutputStream()
oout = ObjectOutputStream(bout)

oout.writeObject(m)

bytes = bout.toByteArray()

bin = ByteArrayInputStream(bytes)
#bin.write(bytes, 0, bytes.length)
oin = ObjectInputStream(bin)

print "### output"
m2 = oin.readObject()

print m2

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