Angsuman's Java Blog

2005 JavaOne Conference - Java Platform Update: Roadmaps & Big Directions

2005-07-19T11:03:00.000+05:30

2005 JavaOne Conference - Java Platform Update: Roadmaps & Big Directions

Test Driving Java Studio Creator - Simple Thoughts

2005-07-14T10:39:00.001+05:30

Test Driving Java Studio Creator - Simple Thoughts: "An excellent article, with screenshots, describing in details the ease of use of Java Studio Creator and JSF (using Java Studio Creator). The author is pretty impressed with the product. I have started using Java Studio Creator, thanks to the free gift from Sun, and so far I too am pretty impressed with its capabilities. I think Sun finally

Brief Notes on Java Server Faces Technology (JSF) - JSR 172 - Simple Thoughts

2005-07-14T10:39:00.000+05:30

Brief Notes on Java Server Faces Technology (JSF) - JSR 172 - Simple Thoughts: "JSF (Java Server Faces) brings applet functionality to the web on any browser with pure HTML & CSS based rendering. Applets not only provide rich set of UI components (much of which is yet to be replicated in JSF), it also provides a powerful event-driven model. Event driven model is the immediate value of JSF. JSF

Java Studio Creator 2 Early Access is available for free - Simple Thoughts

2005-07-14T10:38:00.001+05:30

Java Studio Creator 2 Early Access is available for free - Simple Thoughts: "I have found Java Studio Creator to be very useful and worthwhile for JSF based development. Join the Java Studio Creator 2 Early Access program and download the new IDE for FREE through October 2005. Includes SDN Membership. As a Sun Java Studio Creator Early 2 Access participant, you gain access to the

(Java Applets == Stupid Design) == Stupid Comment - Simple Thoughts

2005-07-14T10:38:00.000+05:30

(Java Applets == Stupid Design) == Stupid Comment - Simple Thoughts: "I think applets suffered bad rap particularly due to ignorant coverage in popular media, not due to technological demerits. I can bet applets will make a comeback with wider usage of broadband. The technology is far from dead. Mark my words."

Asynchronous JavaScript Technology and XML (AJAX) With Java 2

2005-07-14T10:32:00.000+05:30

Asynchronous JavaScript Technology and XML (AJAX) With Java 2: "Anyone who has used Flickr, GMail, Google Suggest, or Google Maps will realize that a new breed of dynamic web applications is emerging. These applications look and act very similar to traditional desktop applications without relying on plug-ins or browser-specific features. Web applications have traditionally been a set of HTML

Google Releases Ajax code in Open Source named AJAXSLT

2005-06-24T00:20:00.000+05:30

Google AJAXSLT: "AJAXSLT is an implementation of XSL-T in JavaScript, intended for use in fat web pages, which are nowadays referred to as AJAX applications. Because XSL-T uses XPath, it is also an implementation of XPath that can be used independently of XSL-T. Overview XSL-T stands for XSL Transformations. XSL stands for eXtensible Stylesheet Language XSL-T is a language for transforming XML

RedNova News - Regeneration of the Pancreatic [Beta] Cell

2005-02-12T07:58:00.000+05:30

RedNova News - Regeneration of the Pancreatic [Beta] Cell

Web Publishers Branch out Beyond Banners

2005-02-12T07:18:00.000+05:30

Web Publishers Branch out Beyond Banners

Trackback As An Authority Building Tool - Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings

2005-02-11T17:46:00.000+05:30

Trackback As An Authority Building Tool - Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings

LinkBlog - Java, Bioinformatics, Outsourcing, Web

2005-02-04T15:06:00.000+05:30

I have created a LinkBlog on Java, Bioinformatics, Outsourcing and Web links while browsing. This is mostly for my reference. If you find it useful let me know.

New Year = New And Improved Blog

2004-01-21T18:55:00.000+05:30

I decided to start this year with a new blog focussed on Java and Web technologies. Please visit and bookmark Simple Thoughts - my new blog. This blog may not be actively updated in future.

Spammers: One down, thousands more to go. Kudos to Plaxo

2004-01-21T18:34:00.000+05:30

Spammers: One down, thousands more to go. Today morning I received a spam which originated from plaxo servers. It was interesting. Someone named Mr. Richard Milford felt he had my contact information on file and requested me to update it! Here's the exerpt of the email: Angsuman, I'm updating my address book. Please take a moment to update your latest contact information. Your information is

Better Eye Sight Without Glasses by Exercises, Herbal and Natural Therapy - Index

2004-01-10T05:44:00.000+05:30

Finally AdSensed my eye site - Better Eye Sight Without Glasses by Exercises, Herbal and Natural Therapy. It is a book by famoud Dr. M.S. Agarwal on improving your eye sight by fully natural methods, without resorting to glasses or other allopathic treatment procedures.

Sehwag's style...

2004-01-06T00:43:00.000+05:30

An excellent article on the Indian cricket team - @123India Cricket It has an uncannily accurate description of Sehwag - "I don’t think anything bothers Sehwag. Hitting him on the head is a waste of time because he doesn’t think much, so a smack on the helmet won’t make one iota of a difference to how he plays. He will not change his way of batting. He is uncomplicated and will bat like a saint

The Avalon Project : The Atlantic Conference

2004-01-01T11:44:00.000+05:30

The Atlantic Conference - Some say this had an influence in Britishers freeing India. I say we kicked some royal a**, out of the country. In any case - Good riddance!

Review On Electrolux EW-1045F by angsuman -- MouthShut.com

2003-12-22T08:40:00.000+05:30

Review On Electrolux EW-1045F by angsuman -- MouthShut.com

Pigdog Journal (Mr. Bad's List) -- Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument

2003-12-16T18:43:00.000+05:30

Pigdog Journal (Mr. Bad's List) -- Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument

Bill Gates' Web Site - Indian Institute of Technology 50th Anniversary Celebration Keynote

2003-12-12T11:17:00.000+05:30

Never thought I would promote Bill, but here goes, a mutual back-slapping... Bill Gates' Web Site - Indian Institute of Technology 50th Anniversary Celebration Keynote

Human Cloning: The final frontier

2003-12-04T12:32:00.000+05:30

Q. Are we playing God in attempting to clone humans? No, but we sure are playing God in trying to decide what God wants, in trying to ban cloning. Last I checked God hasn't delegated anyone the responsibility to be his mouthpiece! If God doesn't wan't cloning, being omnipotent as he is, he will not make it happen. In trying to support God, we are assuming he needs our help!! what an audacity! So

Ryze business networking

2003-12-02T08:51:00.000+05:30

Marketing is cornerstone of any successful enterprise. We should always go for marketing with integrity, where the role of marketing is to highlight the offering by itself and in contrast with others based on facts and facts alone. Here's a few quotes from notables in business - Ryze business networking: "Peter Drucker (In his 1954 book The Practice of Management): 'Marketing is the

The Java(tm) White Paper: Interpreted and Dynamic

2003-11-21T21:40:00.000+05:30

The Java(tm) White Paper: Interpreted and Dynamic: "Programmers using 'traditional' software development tools have become resigned to the artificial edit-compile-link-load-throw-the-application-off-the-cliff-let-it-crash-and-start-all-over-again style of current development practice."

SMTP & POP3 - A workshop transcript & some links

2003-11-05T15:09:00.000+05:30

SMTP & POP3 - A workshop transcript & some links > I have to write a mail server(without using any components available in market)from scratch in Java.But I don't have any idea how I can implement SMTP and POP3 protocols in Java.Can you tell me how should I proceed? Sometime back I gave an online workshop on these protocols which you can find at: http://www.geocities.com/caljug/archive/

2003-10-26T12:24:00.000+05:30

Technorati Profile

Laden defined!

2003-10-25T21:37:00.000+05:30

Difference between terrorism & Freedom Fighter - finally revealed! I am starting to like this guy for his uncannily accurate potrait of the world policitcs. He has finally found a way to define a terrorist versus Freedom Fighter & Jehadi! This is a must read for the INS. Guys take a cup of java and click on this link to finally have the mystery revealed to you, with a globe.

Be patient Mr. Vajpayee!

2003-10-25T21:18:00.000+05:30

Be patient Mr. Vajpayee! India is facing tremendous challenges due to terrorism for many years and always was requested to be patient and work it out with the neighbors! Wonder why the same policy couldn't have been applied to Iraq? An old but yet unanswered question. Any takers?

Dense Objects...

2003-10-25T19:07:00.000+05:30

Have you been near any dense objects lately that would make the fabric of space-time fold onto itself?

Links for UI development in Java

2003-10-25T17:54:00.000+05:30

Doubletwisters: "Some links for you to enjoy: LnF articles: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/techDocs/hi/jlf.html http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-1998/jw-04-crossplatform.html LnF graphics repository: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/techDocs/hi/repository/ Free Swing Book : http://java.about.com/library/swing/bl-Swing-Book.htm A commonly posted Java User's website

All Things: To EJB or not?

2003-10-23T16:04:00.000+05:30

All Things: To EJB or not? Interesting notes on the old questions, highlighting the issues rather well.

Angsuman Chakraborty's Ryze Business Networking Page

2003-10-20T13:56:00.000+05:30

Check out Angsuman Chakraborty's Ryze Business Networking Page for some cool pictures from Bangkok during APEC. Current news about APEC at Xinhua Times

Tetradedral Model of Business

2003-10-16T13:55:00.000+05:30

Tetradedral Model of Business Excellent article on the structure of a startup. I would recommend any entrepreneurs to read it.

2003-10-12T15:17:00.000+05:30

Thoughts about Outsourcing in response to an email in Ryze I have outsourced work and now provide outsourcing services. Why? I have seen a need in the market for high quaility work done at competitive price, more so when the economy is down. It would be a strategic blunder for any corporation today not to consider outsourcing as a strategic initiave to prosper & even survive in today's

Block Messenger Spam aka Webpopup Advertisements @ Re-QUEST dot Net (tm)

2003-10-06T11:25:00.000+05:30

Block Messenger Spam aka Webpopup Advertisements @ Re-QUEST dot Net (tm) To stop it for this session simply type: net stop messenger Sure you can put this in your startup script and make it stop every time. But it is simpler to go to your registry and disable it once and for all. BTW: I do not endorse their product nor have I used it. The only reason I pointed to this link is because I

2003-09-29T10:14:00.000+05:30

How humans read... An interesting finding on human reading capability first I saw mentioned in Matt Kruse's Site: "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae

2003-09-28T11:59:00.000+05:30

Thanks Google for freeing up Blogging! BLOGGER: Important Blogger Pro Announcement

2003-09-28T11:28:00.000+05:30

How to calculate the digits of a positive integer? 1 + (int) (Math.log(i) / base10) where base10 = Math.log(10) I just came across the need to calculate the digits of a number. It sounds trivial as we can see the digits & count them easily. How do you find them computationally?

2003-09-19T09:57:00.000+05:30

Why do we trust others? An interesting insight on the chemistry behind trust.

2003-09-18T17:38:00.000+05:30

Simple yet Useful: Unix Tail implementation in Java Free code for your to enjoy... do drop me an email if you find this useful. import java.io.*; public class Tail { public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream(args[0]); int ch; while(true) { while((ch = file.read()) != -1) System.out.write((char)

2003-09-17T02:47:00.000+05:30

Ryze: The new experiment on business networking As they say: I'm on Ryze!

2003-09-11T15:27:00.000+05:30

Applet: another view from experience Did anyone say applet was dead? He's dead wrong! Vive La applet! I successfully developed and deployed a web based graphical query tool using applet with Java plugin, signed & certified.

2003-09-11T15:18:00.000+05:30

OGSA-DAI: Thought to share Just completed a project on Distrbuted Grid Data Service Framework, specifically OGSA-DAI. Now I probably know more about OGSA-DAI then many of the creators :) And probably the only one to setup in under an hour, you will know what I mean if you have used it. I do like it in terms of the capability. I have some concerns about performance of the system.

2003-09-11T15:10:00.000+05:30

Friendster & Georgy I found Friendster through my friend and Friendster found me too! Already I have over 10, 000 genuine contacts, haven't checked fully but without fakesters I think! Looks like Georgy may have a decent chance!

2003-08-17T11:45:00.000+05:30

Embedded Unit Testing A simpler way to write tests, embedded. This is rife with possibilities and usefulness. More on it later...I have to run. import java.util.*; import junit.framework.*; /** Creates moving average of double data, everytime new data is added */ public class MovingAverage { private int setSize = 1; // Size of set private LinkedList set = new LinkedList(); private

2003-08-07T13:11:00.000+05:30

My friend Archie's sister is a democratic candidate for the post of California Governor, Yeah! Check out Georgy's website. Georgy you have my full support.

2003-08-06T00:00:00.000+05:30

Few Java Tips An site of Java Tips created by me sometime back: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JavaTips

2003-08-05T23:48:00.000+05:30

The code of NAV Download is more concise with: public static int update() throws Exception { InputStream is = (new WebConversation()).getResponse(new GetMethodWebRequest(URL)).getTableStartingWith("Filename").getTableCell(1,0).getLinks()[0].click().getInputStream(); drain(is, new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(new File(FILE)))); return execSync(INSTALL); }

2003-07-28T00:55:00.000+05:30

An excellent article on leadership - http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/73/leadnow.html

2003-07-28T00:17:00.000+05:30

Code snippet to download and execute NAV Update. Run this as as daily task from MS Task and you will never miss an update. navaut.exe executes the downloaded executable without user intervention. Email me if you need the executable, or you can hack a some cscript if you want. Running the executable directly from Java doesn't work for two reasons, one being user interaction is required to

2003-07-28T00:15:00.000+05:30

EastBengal: ASEAN Cup winners 2003! CONGRATULATIONS East Bengal for winning the ASEAN Cup. Wish you the best of luck in the coming tournaments!

Trillian

2003-07-20T11:40:00.000+05:30

This week I bring to you Trillion, the coolest IM Integrator from Cerulean Studios which allows you to access- AIM, Y! IM, MSN IM, ICQ and IRC! I am impressed. And it doesn't have any ad ware, spy ware etc. I could detect. Looks clean. I thought Kazaa smelled spy ware, ad ware and other bad stuff! While installaing, after reading some good reviews, I didn't specially like seeing that it wants to

taragana

2003-07-10T15:37:00.000+05:30

Welcome to the world of Taragana. We specialize in providing bio-informatics services and solutions. Please visit our corporate website.

2003-06-28T16:49:00.000+05:30

Best Technical blog is what I strive it to be. The best way to use this blog is to search for the words of interest on the left. The blog is currently rated by google first when you search for "best technical blog". Check here.

2003-06-28T16:47:00.000+05:30

An interesting web page template designer.

2003-06-28T16:46:00.000+05:30

2003-06-21T15:01:00.000+05:30

Looks like my blog is accessed almost every 5 days by google. Yeah! Check out my java technical blog on current google cache.

2003-06-19T12:09:00.000+05:30

Checked out (mentioned by him in a Shout Out below) http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/ an interesting technical blog, not much related to software though. Personally I was intrigued by the special ring that symbolized his qualifications. Maybe we IIT'ans should have something like this :)

2003-06-19T04:48:00.000+05:30

Quoting Paul's email to bloggerdev just for my future reference "I went hunting for documentation for all of the methods that I use in my Blogger API (v1.0) implementation. What I came up with was added as Javadoc comments in the source of Chronicle Lite. The following links are simply lifted out of my code - METHOD_DELETE_POST ------------------ documented "officially" at: http://

2003-06-18T11:53:00.000+05:30

Broadband gripe: Joke of the week The honor goes to BSNL. They promised to have DIAS available throughout Calcutta/Kolkata, took application forms for it and informed us it will be available within a week. Two months have passed by!

2003-06-15T12:35:00.000+05:30

Joke of the month: Cable Intenet from Alliance Broadband in Kolkata/Calcutta. The speed is a measly 23Kbps(yes kilo bits)! And yet they claim they are a broadband provider. My modem is twice as fast as them. SHAME on YOU Alliance Broadband.

2003-05-31T14:44:00.000+05:30

Bookmarklet for anonymous browsing Tool for the day: A bookmarklet for anonymous browsing using the services of anonymizer.com. Tested on both Mozilla & IE recent versions. Save/Drag the link here as your bookmark: Anonymous Browsing

2003-05-22T23:45:00.000+05:30

I am testing yet another blog client - MozBlog. This looks to be the simplest as I use Mozilla nowadays.

2003-05-22T09:18:00.000+05:30

Just for reference here is the new blogger API 2.0 The current endpoint is here

2003-05-22T01:41:00.000+05:30

This post is a test of Jericho, a java blogger client. It is hard to find blogger clients who does everything I want and foor free :)

2003-05-21T17:52:00.000+05:30

I marginally improved upon the Zap Events bookmarklet from http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html to create this bookmarklet which zaps mousedown event also to eliminate those pesky event handlers in some pages which doesn't want you to download images!

2003-05-21T16:02:00.000+05:30

I was looking for bookmarklet for accessing Google's cache for any page. I couldn't find one that works on IE and Netscape. So I created a simple bookmarklet, my first one. Drag the following bookmarklet to your favorites bookmarks to access google cache for the displayed pageGoogle Cache Bookmarklet.

2003-05-16T10:35:00.000+05:30

Know your own IP Address A simple free utility to reveal your IP address. The JSP code snippet to do it is: <%= request.getRemoteAddr() %> Here's your own IP address, displayed using the script:

2003-05-09T13:30:00.000+05:30

What is a technical blog? A technical blog is a weblog of technical tips, tricks, hints, pointers as we come across in our technical pursuits. This may contain occassional references to Iraq War, but always the main context of the page is technical in nature. This is not your traditional what have I done today, whom have I met and what did I say to so and so.

2003-05-09T13:26:00.000+05:30

> Sometime tables in a database have been locked. > What do you think? Are you closing the database after you are done in a finally block always? If not, do it. >I wonder if there is any error in sql statement, the error will be thrown in catch{…} right. Yes. >Will the application get confused where the error should be thrown? Software don't think so they don't get confused, we humans do :)

2003-05-03T18:43:00.000+05:30

Looking for Sr. Java programmers in Kolkata & California ASAP

2003-04-27T00:13:00.000+05:30

Yoohoo! This blog is ranked No. 1 by google when you search for "technical blog"

2003-04-26T17:06:00.000+05:30

Yahoo! News - Notable Quotes "We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values -- looking good, having cash in the bank, being perceived as rich, famous and successful or just being famous. It's the most superficial part of the American dream and who would know better than me?" -- MADONNA (news - web sites) in an interview with the British magazine Radio Times.

2003-04-26T16:46:00.000+05:30

Grokster "This ruling also means that the labels and studios cannot ban 21st-century technology in defense of their inefficient and outmoded 20th-century distribution models.”

Hotmail - What it is today

2003-04-25T07:11:00.000+05:30

Hotmail - A classic example of taking an easy to use and very functional product and turn it to an extremely slow and very unusable product, an anti-pattern to which the current owners of hotmail should take a patent on.

2003-04-22T15:07:00.000+05:30

> Is there any limitation in number of characters per line? No. Some application may however have it.

2003-04-19T12:15:00.000+05:30

Crime of the century?

2003-04-13T08:56:00.000+05:30

How to access MS Access database from JDBC? private static final String accessDBURLPrefix = "jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ="; private static final String accessDBURLSuffix = ";DriverID=22;READONLY=false}"; // Initialize the JdbcOdbc Bridge Driver static { try { Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver"); } catch(

2003-04-06T19:55:00.000+05:30

DB4O Lesson Assigning default values to object means you would have to unset those default values, if you are using the empty constructor. Otherwise no objects of the given type will be fetched, except for get(null).

2003-04-05T08:56:00.000+05:30

Interesting marketing jargon, couldn't find much research to support the tall claims. However te product does look very interesting, check out. OpenSymphony - OSCache Overview OSCache is the fastest, most comprehensive, stable, well-used J2EE caching system in existence.

2003-04-02T08:49:00.000+05:30

To EJB, or not to EJB?

2003-03-11T19:23:00.000+05:30

Right job for the right guy. Repetitive work is not my idea of work. So I gave it to someone who doesn't mind, maybe even enjoys a little as it gives him some security. And we are both happy :)

2003-02-22T20:52:00.000+05:30

XPloration with Angsuman from Taragana This is the Power Point presentation I gave at Jadavpur University (for an IEEE Seminar) on 21 February 2003 on Exterme Programming. Star Office, a free(as in free to use) software can help you view the file if you are on a non-windows platform, or even in windows if you don't use MS products.

2003-02-22T14:04:00.000+05:30

Feedback! If you find any tip here useful let me know through Shout Out or email.

2003-02-19T19:34:00.000+05:30

Note to Xp'ers: Yesterday I added a new feature to site because I felt I might need it someday. It wasn't XP as the customer didn't want it. However today I needed it very much and it is saving the customer!

2003-02-19T15:26:00.000+05:30

Is this a scam for collecting personal information? Smells like it to me. Please let me know. Dear Angsuman Chakraborty: During our recent study of millions of senior business professionals, you were noted for your exceptional reputation in your field and the business community. Accordingly, we are pleased to notify you that you were recommended to us as potentially qualified for selection

2003-02-17T01:13:00.000+05:30

Blogs of Note:

2003-02-15T11:16:00.000+05:30

1. Array good for index based retrieval 2. HashTable & HashMap good for random retrieval 3. HashMap not synchronized, HashTable synchronized, hence slower where synchronization is not required; HashMap requires external synchronization using Collections class, where synchronization is required 4. Vector like array, only resizable. Performance can be improved by estimating proper initial size --

2003-02-13T10:13:00.000+05:30

Requirement: Create a Comparator for sorting based on different fields Usage: Allow customers to sort by different columns of a data set. Solution: cFirst = (Comparable) first.getClass().getField(cf).get(first); cSecond = (Comparable) second.getClass().getField(cf).get(second); return (corder.booleanValue())?cFirst.compareTo(cSecond):cSecond.compareTo(

2003-02-11T12:33:00.000+05:30

Optmization tip when accessing two different databases I just optimized a JSP page which displays live userlist and other relevant information by accessing two tables in two different databases. It was talking 168 seconds on my 600mhz machine. Now it takes 3 seconds! Trick was to HashMap info from one table with lesser info and rs.next() through the bigger tables and slower access database.

2003-02-08T10:48:00.000+05:30

Eight ways leaders change the world Understand the Distinctive needs of the NOW hear the cares and Aspirations of Others communicate Achievement Worth celebrating Be Confident in Yourself and Your people Be Seen as a person of the people Paint the Vision with the Palette of the people Symbolically set markers in time Model the way

2003-02-04T23:55:00.000+05:30

Testing entity Beans with JUnit Either use Mock Objects ( http://www.junit.org/news/extension/mock_objects/index.htm )or Cactus http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/ (there are other options at http://www.junit.org/news/extension/j2ee/index.htm ). I prefer mock objects. BTW: I am now working at Taragana - http://www.taragana.com/ --Angsuman -----Original Message----- From: Sent: Tuesday,

2003-02-02T00:19:00.000+05:30

Kalpana Chawla Wish my great regards to great daughter of India, Kalpana Chawla. May she be the inspiration for all the women in India for generations to come.

2003-01-30T22:36:00.000+05:30

Oil War? Why I am getting the feeling that a big bully is threatening the small kid in the class umm in world politics. Something like we need to beat this guy up, he is evil, ok so lets find some reason for it. Ummm... no reason, ok just say he is bad over and over and people will start believing it. This is hilarious, except that some poor people's life is in the line, to pay for the whims of

2003-01-20T08:47:00.000+05:30

How to get PID in Java -----Original Message----- From: Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 11:32 AM To: caljug@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [caljug] Getting Process IDS from a Java Application [snip] I was just wondering if it was possible to get the pid's of all the running processes(something like ps command in UNIX) from a Java application. [snip] --Reply-- Umm.. PID's on MAC? No sure if they

2003-01-16T17:10:00.000+05:30

Who reads these blogs anyways? People with lots of free time and no life? I don't read them normally, don't have time. Blog is like a diary for publicity concerned folks.

2003-01-16T17:01:00.000+05:30

tomcat 4.1.12is buggy! I use a file as a constants file, which is included by all pages. Now this file contains sections for local, staging & deployment. I use single line comments. The bug:the commented lines absorb the non commented lines along with it.

2003-01-13T13:59:00.000+05:30

HSQLDB - My favorite for small lightweight and robust RDBMS with JDBC interface. Another reason for love? Database backup is trivially easy! Observation for today: It absorbs OutOfMemory error and returns SQLException that it couldn't connect to the client for the call and subsequent ones. BTW: Tomcat 4.1.12 is a memory hog, much more than previous versions.

2003-01-10T11:52:00.000+05:30

My Blog Philosophy My blogging philosphy has been to use the blog as a repository of tips, tricks, occassional commentary on any issue which catches my interest & sometimes experimenting with new/cool stuff :)

2003-01-10T11:47:00.000+05:30

An interesting dilbertism on XP. Check out.

2003-01-09T15:28:00.000+05:30

2003-01-06T00:37:00.000+05:30

"Certainly the wise person of self-knowledge, playing the game of worldly life, bears no resemblance whatever to the world's bewildered beasts of burden." - Astabakra, an Indian Sanyasin.