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Restless moments of creativity & impressions of feelings, colors and light

I remember the days when I started to say verses, and since I was not a writer, but a keen reader, I never wrote a verse down until I arrange it completely in my mind. It takes time — hours — and some time — days. And as Jameel Jalib confesses that these moments are the most painful moments for a poet (or creater) when he is passing through this time of creativity, I have experienced this restlessness many times when I have ever engaged myself into writing something — and the following gazal is one of my first — when it took me whole night to transfer some impressions of feelings, colors and light from my mind onto paper. All what I got in the end — were these five verses:

وقتِ سحر جو دِن کی طرح نِکلا تھا
شام ہوتے ہی ڈھل گیا کوئی

جب ستاروں نے آئینہ دیکھا
اپنی کرنوں سے جل گیا کوئی

تجھ کو معلوم نظر ڈالنے والے
موم سا دل پگھل گیا کوئی

میں تھا، تم تھے یا راستہ ایسا
چلتے چلتے بدل گیا کوئی

وہاں پھولوں میں رہ کے جی نہ لگا
یاں، کہ کانٹوں میں پل گیا کوئی

I write by the name of Sohail (سہيل), and I don’t write much often — in fact, I just don’t write down any thing that comes into my mind, just like many regular poets do. But I make myself write something which can really keep tickling with my heartbeat for days. So I also have lost a treasure of ideas and expressions — just by not capturing them in time — just because I tend to avoid the restless moments of creativity!
 
wassalam

// ch3ckmat3

 

xoom – the desktop magnifier

xoom is a free holiday gift utility to zoom anything on desktop by pointing your mouse to it. It is useful for graphics designer working with web and mobile UIs.

 

I have seen many useful utilities with similar functionality (i.e. zoom area of screen under cursor in a separate window), and always wanted that the zoom window should keep in rang of eyes when you point something with your mouse. So I came up with my own sort of system tray utility which sticks with mouse pointer while zooming, when you unhide it.

 

Free download and more details from Orison’s Product section.

http://www.orison.biz/products/xoom/

 

Comments and features requests are welcome.

 

Happy xooming and Merry Christmas!

 

// ch3ckmat3

FriendlyGhost Now Available

Tough day at Orison, as we launched our first commercially available product online – FriendlyGhost, The Ultimate Debugger for Macromedia Flash Platform and AJAX Innovations. See our Official Press Release and visit product website for more information.

We at Orison, have mostly been involved in developing customized software solutions and IT service provision for our local and foreign clients, so our software team is pretty excited about launching this product.

FriendlyGhostFriendlyGhost is a portable and unified debugger for Flash, FlashLite as well as for JavaScript based AJAX Innovations. For Flash and AJAX applications, it has a client-server model, where you include a component in your applications, and send on-demand debug messages to FriendlyGhost server to analyze events and data of your applications in real-time.

For FlashLite, it’s a go debugger, where you can include and integrate the whole debugger in your FlashLite application as a library with its interface and debug-engine, and take it on the road while you run and test your applications. Find out more on FriendlyGhost Lite and don’t forget to checkout screenshots at Flickr.

Like other technology enthusiasts, I have been playing around with AJAX and its various toolkits since it became popular. This technology has been on the internet with different applications, and with different names, and finally recognized as standard framework and got tokenized by the term “AJAX” by Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path (See his article on AJAX). AJAX surely is an interesting and tricky way to do rich internet applications, and this is reason we call AJAX based applications “AJAX Innovations”.

One thing which has been of real pain in developing AJAX applications is that there is no standard toolset available to debug AJAX applications in real-time, as it is asynchronous by nature, debugging AJAX applications is not really easy. When we were nearly done with our first product FriendlyGhost, which initially aimed at Flash and FlashLite debugging, we decided to add AJAX support to it.

Thanks to Macromedia Flash Player 8’s External Interface API which we successfully exploited to achieve real-time debug messages to FriendlyGhost console right out of our AJAX test application. We finally came up with an easy to integrate AJAX Toolkit for AJAX developers which they can use with their applications by adding just two lines of code! Checkout more on FriendlyGhost AJAX Toolkit on our website FriendlyGhost for AJAX Development.

Happy surfing.

// ch3ckmat3

JSP in the news, too

Source: ZDNet.com

Apache generates Java buzz with Beehive 1.0

“The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced the release of Beehive 1.0, its component toolkit for J2EE and Struts. Beehive is aimed at making it easier to develop Web applications in Java by reducing the amount of coding needed to produce a working application.”

Full Story

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