Grey Matter

I have decided to write atleast a post everyweek(until i go back to my lack of interest mode ).This is the post for the week.

VLC the wonderkid of Media players has been a superb opensource product.Every one knows that it almost plays every damn file format except for the .flv and .rm files.But did you know that it can even rip dvds for you.I didn’t know it. For the How-to on ripping DVD using vlc look at Real Caffeine’s Site.

Yesterday I tried out Ajax ASP.net along with Bala.Its amazingly cool.Makes the job easier for the programmer.And makes him lazier too.For the first time we didnt try it out with a hello world program .Wrote or rather Dragged and droped to create a calendar app.Just two drag and drop is need to do this.

Thats it for the weekly post.

Was reading through the proposal for java 7 which would be released in 2008.The first thing that was pleasing to see is that a new feature called ‘property‘ is being introduced.Which is intended to remove the getters and setters for java beans.The compiler will auto generate the getters and setters.

The declaration will be like

instead of:

private String foo;

public String getFoo() {..}
public void setFoo(String foo){..}

it will be:

public property String foo;

the usage will be like:

instead of:

a.setFoo(“something”);

String foo2=a.getFoo();

it will be

a->foo=”something”

String foo2=a->foo;

even though the -> operator looks very much unJava its cool.