2009-07-10 18:30
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2009-05-16 18:30
Wolfram Alpha is becoming increasingly addictive. Check this result for 'Andromeda' - especially the bottom part Read More
2009-05-15 19:26
There's this webcomic I follow - Abstruse Goose.
The single line strip today had a line at the bottom – ‘Skynet becomes
self-aware tonight‘. The image was enough to jiggle… Read More
2009-03-27 18:30
I came across this slideshow by Alistair Cockburn
called Software Development in the 21st Century. Some of it would
obviously not convey much if you view it as a PPT as opposed to
listening… Read More
2009-01-11 14:30
These are the technical/programming books that I read last year.
Most of them were good, while some of them did not live up to my
expectations (and the price tag).Managing Humans Michael Ra… Read More
2008-06-28 12:30
On booting my laptop a few days back I opened up the task manager as
usual, before anything else came up. I always do this to ensure that
nothing that I do not need has been added to the lis… Read More
2008-06-08 12:07
The IPod Classic I bought some time back has been a personal revolution.I
can listen to audio books (language lessions, productivity and self
improvement), listen to music, watch movies… Read More
2008-05-22 14:58
Quite general, but the points made are very good and sound applicable in most cases.On Designing and Deploying InternetScale Services Read More
2008-03-29 16:14
I bought the book Programming Collective Intelligence
(PCI) and have been working through the examples as I was reading it.
The examples are in Python. So that meant that I had to pick up Py… Read More
2008-02-10 12:49
Barcamp Hyderabad. The fifth. Feb 16th 2008 Read More
2007-12-30 12:34
Was having a conversation with Rajiv
about a bug report filed months back. It wasn't fixed yet, but some
issues related to the bug were. The bug report was clear about the
problem, but neith… Read More
2007-12-02 14:55
I finished this book recently (Mindmap below).It is surprising
how many basic truths about our profession Frederick P. Brooks mentions
in his book - most of which are true and relevant today… Read More
2007-11-09 04:30
Do you use Javascript to inject tags like , and in your HTML so that users don't have to click on the yellow bar on top in Internet Explorer to actually display the tag? No more, according… Read More
2007-11-04 14:30
Opera is currently in it's 9th version. But it's Java support seems to be prehistoric.
Unlike most browsers Opera does not use the Sun Java plugin – it has it‘s own custom writt… Read More
2007-11-02 17:30
Crosspost from http://blogs.dekoh.com/dev/2007/11/01/signed-java-applets-broken-on-vista/ Read More
2007-09-15 01:35
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours Richard Bach. I'd like to paraphrase that as 'Think of your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Think of your milestones… Read More
2007-08-20 14:30
"Dynamically invokes the constructor reflected by this instance with the specified arguments, under the constraints of the specified…"
is the subject of a spam mail I got today. Bef… Read More
2007-07-03 18:30
I switched to Google Reader a week back. Previously it used to be Sage, a plugin for Firefox. My first reaction was - Why did I not start using it earlier! Maybe I am the only primiti… Read More
2007-07-02 15:47
Hyderabad is going to have it's 4th Barcamp on July 14th, one of the few cities to do so. The theme this time is Demo/Discuss products/startups/blogs/blogging/new trends. I don't want to mis… Read More
2007-05-31 15:53
File locks were introduced as part of the JDK‘s nio package from version 1.4 onwards. In a nutshell, the feature lets you obtain exclusive as well as shared locks on files. An exclusi… Read More
2007-04-25 17:49
A google search for the title would turn up a lot of links, but the really informative ones would be the top 2 (at least the top 2 right now) Chet Haase's Blog and the Sun Java SE 6.0 releas… Read More
2007-04-17 04:30
Dekoh had it's public alpha yesterday at the Web 2.0 expo. The first invitations have gone out - you can sign up here, download the platform (it's a small After all the numerous discussions… Read More
2007-02-25 14:30
Dekoh has finally been announced. It's an open platform for web-desktop integration and personal content management. So what, you say? Everybody's… Read More
2007-02-01 18:30
Night after day the coder codes on
Oblivious to all that goes on
And when the time comes to check-in
He‘s in for a shock-in
For some other meddling pest programmer
Has checked in ove… Read More
2006-11-26 16:58
With the connector 1.5 specification providing a standard way to integrate messaging providers with J2EE components I was wondering what are the standalone JCA containers, if any, out there… Read More
2006-06-11 18:28
at… http://barcamp.org/BarCampHyderabad2 Read More
2006-06-06 17:54
Had some struggle recently with Oracle‘s JDBC thin driver for some certification tests. The certification was JDBC specific, not Oracle specific, but that does not usually stop the tes… Read More
2006-04-15 19:25
After a few uncertain days during which both of my desktop‘s hard disks exhibited heart attack inducing behaviour (getting disconnected when the OS is running, refusing to boot up etc)… Read More
2006-04-08 17:46
The first Hyderabad Barcamp got through an enthusiastic inaugural session today. True to the professed nature of an unconference, it was full of interested (and interesting) people, ready to… Read More
2006-03-08 17:08
Ever tried putting a System.out.println(this) inside a overridden hashCode() method in a class which does not also have an overridden toString method? Then try putting an object of the class… Read More
2006-01-06 03:55
Came across this OGL based flight sim http://www.flightgear.org/. Can't wait to get home and try it out the screenshots look amazing, just a couple of shades below photoreal and definitely… Read More
2005-12-24 18:19
Been fiddling around with DHTML recently : XUL and Javascript, to be precise. Why this sudden foray into alien territory from cozy Javaland? My corporate intranet runs a JSPWiki based applic… Read More
2005-12-02 17:08
Having fiddled around quite a bit recently with CORBA/IIOP and CORBA based security in a J2EE environment, I can quite confidently say that the interoperability (CORBA based, not WS) require… Read More
2005-12-01 17:36
What does Jake 2 sound like? Think back some years, when there used to be a place full of enemy soldier bots, rivers of lava, a blood red sky with alien warcraft and weapons which used to ma… Read More
2005-11-22 18:41
Hokay. Moved my non tech stuff to talonx.blogspot.com. jroller ish for “tech” only!! Read More
2005-09-23 19:21
After my posting on what I think about the sf and f combination, it occurred to me that that was not everything I wanted to say, and not all I said was put very clearly. I've thought about i… Read More
2005-09-06 06:56
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4167472 Read More
2005-08-14 21:48
...the effects of which are visible on the right navigation pane. Last time I checked there were 6 (blogmapped) bloggers near me. Unable to see the word ‘Hyderabad‘ anywhere I in… Read More
2005-08-07 08:44
Ian Mc Donald‘s novella Pity it's continued in the June issue of Asimov's - the paper edition Read More
2005-07-30 18:26
Thanks to Beatzo sniffed out the 'Frankfurt' book sale near Odyssey. Well, not exactly sniffed out because it's right on the roadside, and you can actually see the rows of shiny, glossy jack… Read More
2005-07-21 15:38
Resurged into UFOs currently – finished Case of a UFO Investigator (Ray Fowler) and Alien Agenda (Jim Marrs). The latter gives the impression that the writer is no UFOlogist, let alone… Read More
2005-06-11 15:09
Kes is Kes from Star Trek Voyager. Easy Rider is my default pub. I occasionally have weird dreams. One of these featured the abovementioned female, in the role of the proprietor of the above… Read More
2005-06-11 15:01
Paid Best bookstore a long overdue visit. As it happens most of the time the original purpose of my deciding to deviate from the home-work-home-on-saturday route was to buy something for Rat… Read More
2005-05-28 19:03
Kes owns Easy Rider Read More
2005-03-12 20:41
Came across a referred article in the sf discussion group. Amy's links are always interesting, but this one really made me sit up. It also made me a bit angry, at the ignorance some people d… Read More
2005-03-06 19:41
OpenGL for Java, the Java OGL port. After my initial dissatisfaction, albeit a bit biased, I couldn't keep myself from actually coding something in it. So went ahead and downloaded it. The o… Read More
2005-02-27 15:46
Interesting thread on JOGL - a Java porting of the OpenGL API in the Sun Java forums. The OP had valid points about his dissatisfaction with the API but spoiled it with his flamebait referen… Read More
2005-02-22 19:10
...make sure you‘re using the latest version Read More
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