1) Read that the open source movement got a big spur during the 2000 slow down and researchers estimate another spur now. Very evident by the increase in the number of participants and projects. Blessing in disguise but lets keep the laid off in our prayers.
2) Planning for integrating IzPack into Snapman over the weekend. Successfully implemented the InfixToPostFix conversion and evaluation algorithm. Need to have more tricks in my bag (Man !! i really wish i got good comp science education)
3) Had trouble running azureus on Jaunty Jantelope (Ubuntu 9.04). Executing from terminal showed that it is looking for open jdk 6. So, just installed Open JDK after uninstalling the gcj. Noob fix but still it solves my problem.
4) Bug # 1 in Ubuntu bugs.. hahhaha https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 Yup. Thats the real bug.
I think i seriously need to develop some expertise to write something daily for my blog.
I was looking for something like JScreenSpy for monitoring my laptop’s usage. Unfortunately, there isnt something around except JScreenSpy and a portion of JScreenSpy rewritten in Python (pyScreenSpy). More to my disappointment, I found no source code for the project.
So, I thought I could write something myself and released “SnapMan” yesterday.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/snapman/
Here goes the description of the project
SnapMan is a tiny java program with an integrated timer (opensymphony quartz). It takes snapshots of your desktop in regular intervals and saves it into a specified folder. Intervals and target folder is made configurable. Intervales are all Cron/At compatible.
The code is released under GPL. This is my first “public” code. So, please let me know if i need to improve (or tell me i am nowhere). All constructive and destructive comments are welcome.
I will probably be writing a Cron expression generator this weekend because i find it very difficult to pick up. I specially like the Gnome Scheduler interface (Python) with immediate translations to plain english.
I am also planning to make the target folder of the pictures encrypted (any pointers will be highly appreciated)
I was reading this article on slashdot and found this response particularly interesting. 
What the fuck is “netbeans”?
They are the seeds of the internet. You plant some and sprinkle them with bits. Eventually they grow into a huge series of tubes. How do you think the internet was created? With lots and lots of netbeans.
RedHat Linux and Solaris, MySQL and Oracle, Bea backed Eclipse and NetBeans, Peoplesoft, Siebel … good for Oracle but doesnt it sound more “Microsofty?”
