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Jun 06

Planning Transport with NSW Open Data Hub Trip Planner API

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TLDR;

NSW Open Data Trip Planner API is a convenient API which provides loads of data related to New South Wales. It can be used to plan journeys from one place to another. (Ex : How to get from Central Station to Burwood city center, which trains buses/trains/ferried should I take to accomplish that, and when will those vehicles arrive)

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Oct 07

Using dCharts in Vaadin 7

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I wanted a decent charting library to use in one of my FOSS projects which was created using Vaadin 7.1.2. Since Vaadin charts, the default choice for that purpose under Vaadin 7 needs a license to use it, I  switched my attention towards dCharts (https://vaadin.com/directory#addon/dcharts-widget). So I added the following maven dependency which is listed in the Vaadin site to my project and built it.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.vaadin.addons</groupId>
    <artifactId>dcharts-widget</artifactId>
    <version>1.7.0</version>
</dependency>

But when I ran the project in the application server, I got the following error.

12:27:18,947 WARN [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-6) Class Path entry vaadin-server-7.0.7.jar in "/content/ui-0.1.war/WEB-INF/lib/dcharts-widget-1.7.0.jar" does not point to a valid jar for a Class-Path reference.
 12:27:18,951 WARN [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-6) Class Path entry vaadin-shared-7.0.7.jar in "/content/ui-0.1.war/WEB-INF/lib/dcharts-widget-1.7.0.jar" does not point to a valid jar for a Class-Path reference.
 12:27:18,957 WARN [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-6) Class Path entry vaadin-theme-compiler-7.0.7.jar in "/content/ui-0.1.war/WEB-INF/lib/dcharts-widget-1.7.0.jar" does not point to a valid jar for a Class-Path reference.
 12:27:18,961 WARN [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-6) Class Path entry vaadin-client-compiled-7.0.7.jar in "/content/ui-0.1.war/WEB-INF/lib/dcharts-widget-1.7.0.jar" does not point to a valid jar for a Class-Path reference.
 12:27:18,963 WARN [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-6) Class Path entry vaadin-themes-7.0.7.jar in "/content/ui-0.1.war/WEB-INF/lib/dcharts-widget-1.7.0.jar" does not point to a valid jar for a Class-Path reference.
 12:27:18,965 WARN [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-6) Class Path entry commons-lang3-3.1.jar in "/content/ui-0.1.war/WEB-INF/lib/dcharts-widget-1.7.0.jar" does not point to a valid jar for a Class-Path reference.
 12:27:18,966 WARN [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-6) Class Path entry commons-codec-1.7.jar in "/content/ui-0.1.war/WEB-INF/lib/dcharts-widget-1.7.0.jar" does not point to a valid jar for a Class-Path reference.

Looking at the error, it was evident that dCharts was looking at the wrong set of jars. So here’s what I did to overcome this problem.

First of all, checkout the dCharts code from http://source.dussan.org/dcharts . Then change the com.vaadin.vaadin value in the pom to 7.1.2 . Then rebuild the dCharts projects (mvn clean install).

Now open your Vaadin project. Go to the place in the pom where you added your dCharts dependency and replace it with the following.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.dussan.vaadin</groupId>
    <artifactId>dcharts</artifactId>
    <version>1.7.0</version>
</dependency>

Now rebuild your Vaadin project (mvn clean install). Everything should work fine!.

p.s –

Don’t forget to add your chart to the UI using addComponent() method to make the chart visible!.

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Jan 19

A simple FAT32 bootloader written in assembly to boot from USB drives.

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This is an assignment done by me for a second year project  in the university. The goal was to write a bootloader that can boot the given OS ( JOSH ) from a pen drive which is having FAT32 file system( We were supplied with a bootloader that could boot only from a FAT12 file system ). 

 

What this bootloader can do:

 

It can load the first file( which should be a file less than 4096 bytes) which is located in a USB drive with a FAT32 file system to the memory and hand over the execution to that program.

 

Download location:

 

https://github.com/ishanthilina/USB-FAT32-Bootloader

 

Steps to use the Bootloader:

 

Included in the README file in gitHub. 

 

 

More information can be found in the pdf in the doc folder. 

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