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JavaOne Thursday & Friday Highlights
2008-05-11 11:59:00 Probably the best session I have attended so far is the JavaPossie BOF, for those of you who don’t know what the JavaPossie is it is a podcast which is centered around java and I highly recommend it. I was very happy to finally see the show done in person. The day started off with ... More About: General , Friday , Highlights , Thursday
JavaOne Wednesday Highlights
2008-05-08 17:45:00 The day started off with a key note from Oracle, tons of new features and improvements have been added to JDeveloper, check out some of the demos, it has everything built into it and surprisingly the demos were pretty fast (as you may know JDeveloper is built on Eclipse platform and the more things you ... More About: Highlights , Wednesday
JavaOne Day1 Highlights
2008-05-07 08:18:00 The coolest thing I saw today was sentilla , I have been looking for something like this for so long and add Phidgets to it and the possibilities are limitless. Sun wants to JavaFX on every device that runs Java from Mobile to BlueRay some of the demos crashed but it does look cool check it ... More About: Highlights
A Seti for the Human Brains
2008-04-25 23:54:00 Do you know what the Seti for the Human Brain is ? it is the TV (read this) thousands of hours of brain cycles waisted. How can we utilize these waisted cycles ? We need the brains to rest after a full day, but at the same time we need entertainment, so I propose we make ... More About: General , Brains , SETI
Free Source Code Repositories
2008-04-21 09:45:00 If you are looking to host your project in some repository , I would highly recommend Assembla , they not only provide you with a free account with 500Mb space to start off, but also provide you with a team group chat, blog, task tracker, bug tracker and a whole lot of other features. You ... More About: General , Free , Source , Code , Source Code
Dilbert Comic
2008-04-10 07:39:00 This is so true at my present employer ! More About: Comic , General , Dilbert
Monday Morning Blues
2008-03-24 17:46:00 Man, it was an hectic weekend now I am tired my eyes are droopy and I am drinking a cup of joe to get a jump start. Can’t complain the weekend was a blast. Anyone read Dilbert ? http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive /images/dilbert2008031349276.jpg if you have read code complete or programming pearls you will realize that “measure twice cut once” ... More About: Blues , Morning , Monday , Monday Morning
Random Musings
2008-03-21 08:05:00 Started using NetBeans for ruby development after a colleague pointed it out to me, so far I am quite happy with the choice. Just finished listening to Rubiverse Podcast on Zed Shaw leaving ruby it is very interesting and I would recommend you hear it, if you have read Zed’s Rails is a Ghetto rant. I ... More About: Random , Musings
Going to the Ruby MountainWest Conference
2008-02-27 08:23:00 Yay, I am going to the Ruby MountainWest conference and quite excited about it. I will be staying at the RedLion Hotel so if you see me there drop me a line. More About: General , Conference
The Big 31
2008-02-15 04:06:00 Sorry for not writing, lately I have been caught up in my head. This past Jan 26 I have turned 31 years old, Jan 26th is also the republic day of India, while growing up this day was a guaranteed holiday :-). But what really made the day special was my Dad, he would spend a ...
Jruby Blues
2008-01-03 01:02:00 Man today was one of those days, I am about to give up on Jruby. Don’t get me wrong I absolutely love the idea of Jruby, great way to sneak in Ruby into the enterprise. But I don’t think it is quite there yet. If you want to use Jruby and Spring all you got ... More About: Blues
Erlang Blues I
2007-12-06 18:13:00 So yesterday I had this bright idea to connect to MySql using Erlang , so in order to do this there seems to be two options one is to use a native interface completely written in Erlang or use ODBC . So I tried to use the native interface first. There seems to be no documentation on ... More About: Blues
How does Erlang Fare ?
2007-12-06 17:54:00 Don Stewart recently wrote a blog comparing the time it took to compute Fibonacci numbers in Ruby, Python and Haskell, according to his results Haskell blew away the competition. Here are HIS results Ruby (1.8.5) ... More About: Erlang , Fare
I am becoming a total nerd
2007-12-01 22:10:00 Ok it is Saturday and as usual I am reading my feeds and I come across this article Style or Function canI please have both and immediately my thoughts ran to hmm maybe he is talking about how Ruby language has beautiful syntax, and erlang is really great at extracting every bit of performance from ... More About: Nerd , General , Total
Desktop Show and Tell
2007-11-19 00:07:00 Two screenshots of my present desktop (Running on Ubuntu 7.10 with Gnome) More About: Desktop , General , Show
My ?InBox Zero? Way
2007-11-18 22:18:00 I am sure you have already heard about Inbox Zero by Merlin Mann, I love it and have modified to to fit my own needs. My process is very simple I classify all the emails I get into two categories, Ones that I need to process and delete which is a very broad category and, Ones that ...
Some Interesting Articles
2007-11-17 22:35:00 It is Saturday and I am just browsing and catching up on my feeds, came across some interesting articles. Defining Success is an interesting article on IT projects, talks about how IT project success rate is really not as bad as what The Chaos Report makes it out to be. Here is an interesting quote from ... More About: Interesting , Articles , General , Some , Eres
YAY ! Java Erlang
2007-11-16 01:00:00 Now that I got OtpErlang .jar (see my previous post), my next step was to connect Java to Erlang, if you have been following the book, you would have come across the Name server example in Chapter 10, this java code will connect to the name server static void store(OtpConnection connection) throws ... More About: General
YAY I finally got OtpErlang.jar
2007-11-16 00:07:00 It’s the small things in life that make you happy !! As you know I have Ubuntu 7.10 and I installed erlang using ‘apt-get install erlang’. Unfortunately this style will not install Jinterface libraries. So the only way we can get it is by actually downloading the erlang source and building it yourself. Download the source ... More About: Finally , Perla
RE: Software Metrics Don?t Kill Projects, Moronic Managers Kill Projects
2007-11-09 19:12:00 Great article Software Metrics Don’t Kill Projects , Moronic Managers Kill Projects, couldn’t agree less. I had written about working for good managers a while ago, thinking back about it and in general about the rate of successful Software projects I can’t help but think, Does the software industry in general have a high rate of ... More About: General
Busy Busy Busy
2007-11-05 18:57:00 It has been two months since I touched my blog, I apologize for that its been really busy. First there was the trip to India which was really nice, it seems like every time I go to India the traffic on the streets have increased. With the exponential increase in the number of banks that ... More About: Blogroll , General , Busy
Dynamically updating JBoss Rules with Spring
2007-08-03 03:35:00 JBoss Rule s or formally know as Drools is a popular open source Rules Engine, it is “augmented implementation of Charles Forgy’s Rete algorithm tailored for the Java language.” I have used it for the past 2 years in various projects and have come to like it below is a list of things I like ... More About: General , Spring , Dynamic
Minor Update
2007-07-27 01:50:00 It’s been slightly more than 2 weeks since I installed Ubuntu and I am happy to report that everything is well, Eclipse and all other programs feel more snappy, multiple desktops make life so much easier and a general overall increase in productivity. I also got Oracle instant client installed and working with Rails. Here ... More About: General , Update , Minor
Installing Ubuntu and VPN
2007-07-04 20:02:00 I finally got Ubuntu working on my laptop, YAY. Took me about a day and a little help from my friend Tim. The first problem I had was the install kept blowing away my MBR, using Partition Recovery I was able to recover it, for some reason the install had problems with setting up GRUB, ... More About: General
Cargo Cult
2007-06-15 22:24:00 The first time I heard about Cargo Cult was at the Rails Conf, if you have never heard of it, please read this article on wiki. Cargo Cult in a nutshell, during World War II the US established a military installation on some remote island and the tribals that lived on that island noticed cargo planes ... More About: General
Four Stages in a Programmer?s Job
2007-06-07 08:50:00 In any job one goes through four stages, The Anxious Stage , Excitement, SSDD (Same Shit Different Day) and finally The Bail Out. Stage One ‘The Anxious Stage’, you have just started off in a new job and not too sure if you did the right thing. You are surrounded by new and strange people, a ton ... More About: General , Programmer , Programme , Gram
devender.com
2007-06-02 23:45:00 I really wish I could get the domain devender.com, but alas it has already been taken. Try going to the site, it is clearly a parked domain I have tried buying the domain using godaddy’s domain buying service and sending emails to the contact listed on the page but nothing has worked. I have to ... More About: General , Ender , Vender
Rails Conferance 2007 Day 3 (Final Day)
2007-05-21 09:43:00 Today started with “The Rail s Way” keynote given by Jamis Buck, Michael Koziarski of the TheRailsWay site, on this site you can submit your code for review and they may do a write up about it, by the way both the speakers are part of the “Rails Core Team”. One of the important ... More About: General , Final , Fina
Rails Conferance 2007 Day 2
2007-05-20 17:44:00 So today started off with keynotes from the sponsors, first one was from ThoughtWorks Studios and the second from Sun (Sun sponsoring a Rail s Conf who would have thought), anyway ThoughtWorks Studios now has a bunch of Ruby related products, like now they have a CruiseControl.rb (don’t you think it should be cruise_control.rb instead? ... More About: General
Rails Conferance 2007 Day 1
More articles from this author:2007-05-19 15:51:00 The day started off with a Keynote from David Heinemeier Hansson the author of Rail s , he outlined some of the features of the up coming Rails 2.0, important note here is that there are not going to be any major overhauls or re-writes, they have realized just how many people are using Rails and it ... More About: General 1, 2 |
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