Contrarian Minds

I visits this page Every month ..This month Contrarian Minds speaks about something special...

"Guy Steele leads a small team of researchers in Burlington, Massachusetts, who are taking on an enormous challenge -- create a programming language better than Java."

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Velocity

VELOCITY

Velocity = Template engine
Velocity = Chance for designer act as programmer
velocity = Replacement to JSP(actually not..:-))
velocity = Rule Engine

A New Approach to Web Applications

Ajax isn’t a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates:
1) standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS;
2) dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model;
3) data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT;
4) asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest;
5) and JavaScript binding everything together.

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OSS

Truth about Open Source software (OSS)

1. If you're not willing to help fix it then you shouldn't complain about it
2. Open Source software allows you to get under the hood and fix problems
3. All software should be free
4. Open Source software is always better than closed, proprietary software
5. Scratching the personal itch
6. More choice is always better
7. Conclusion: It's Not So Simple

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The Code Quality Myth

we as developers must care about code quality, since we spend most of our waking hours working on code. And, as every good craftsman, we strive for quality. A physician would want to practice high quality medicine, or any carpenter worth his salt would want to produce a quality staircase or chest. As developers, we also like to produce and maintain a high quality code base.

The Code Quality Myth:

Happy Women's Day

Style Check(Tech)

Compare to other code analyzers checkstyle works fine..But it forces lot of restriction as per the SUN coding standards...but still worth to use and practise..

You can run this as STANDALONE tool (or) use the plugin to incorporate with eclipse tool..

Open Source Code Analyzers in Java:

Blogthis - Firefox plugin

I am just testing couple of post using BLOGTHIS plugin for Firefox. looks nice..
No need to save the URL in todo.txt file for post that later....just a mouseclick, next second that content posted in yr blog..This may be a old news for u..but for me, this is a fresh one...Very useful tool...

Blogthis download

Nice Quotes

"'Creativity is all about seeing what everybody else is seeing and thinking what nobody else is thinking.' Robin S. Sharma"

Self Discovery Quotes Motivational Inspirational Quotes:

20 Sites for Java Developers

20 Sites for Java Developers
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g4j

I am very big fan of GOOGLE products and also I love the language JAVA.
If these two join hands means...

GMailer API for Java (g4j) is set of API that allows Java programmer to communicate to GMail. With G4J programmers can made Java based application that based on huge storage of GMail.

I haven't checked the functionality yet....but its nice and useful combination.
Developed by single guy..checkout his blog(Chinese Content)

Quit Your Job to Blog

After years of juggling a full-time job and a high-profile blog, Jason Kottke is calling it quits.Quits for the job, that is.
From now on, the New York web designer will no longer be commuting five days a week to his day job at a Manhattan financial services firm. Instead, he'll be devoting himself full time to building out his blog, kottke.org, a scattered collection of writings and photos on topics ranging from web design to the politics of Girl Scout cookie sales.

Interesting...

Scalability Matters

Consider this type of technology...
Front end - Web Server
Back end - Servlet container
Don't confuse...checkout this functionality below...

Running cluster of Tomcat servers behind the Web server can be demanding task if you wish to archive maximum performance and stability. This article describes best practices how to accomplish that.

Worth to learn...

Boss (j)

When jboss3.0 released it was bit difficult to find a good tutorials for that(free)..But this time jboss guys come up with very good tutorials ....

Good Boss

OR mapping

If you do any projects in JAVA, Object relational mapping is the manadatory one ...That's why everybody speaking about HIBERNATE nowadays ....Sometimes back I had a chance to reviewiBatis'SQLMaps ..it looks cool..

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Guru -> Google

Cheat Sheet

I want to check this one-day...
"How many times I am opening a google search window per day?"
Already I knew bit easy techniques to find appropriate answer from google...(Frankly speaking.... For a given query, getting an accurate answer from google is an ART...)

Learn these techniques and redefine yr search from next time onwards.

FIRE FOX

Nowadays I am using only Firefox...Amazing ..
I am stunned by its extension and its themes...

checkout this news, then u can understand how firefox rocks.
Its an opensource product and its free...free....free...



I am just listing couple of features..
1) plugin for RSS reader
2) Download manager
3) plugin for Virtual browser....
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etc.

Google Zeitgeist

Every month Google updates Zeitgeist by Country wise (Top 10 search list)..
In that list, checkout the fourth one...

I SMELL SOMETHING...

SUN SHINES

Product of the Year 2005 contest!

And the Winners Are...

Technology of the Year
Java 2 Standard EditionTM 5.0 From Sun Microsystems Inc.

Development Tool of the Year
Eclipse From The Eclipse Foundatio
Runner Up: Sun Java^TM Studio Creator From Sun Microsystems Inc.

Enterprise Development Tool of the Year
Java J2EE^TM From Sun Microsystems Inc.
Runner Up: Microsoft® Visual Studio® .Net From Microsoft® Corporation

Development Utility of the Year
Firefox 1.0 From Mozilla
Runner Up: Altova XMLSpy® 2005 From Altova

DBMS or Related Technology of the Year
IBM Cloudscape V10.0 From IBM

Wireless/Mobile Development Product of the Year
J2ME^TM Wireless Toolkit 2.2 From Sun Microsystems Inc.

Web Service or Related Tool of the Year
Java Web Service Developer Pack From Sun Microsystems Inc.

Java Tool of the Year
Sun Java^TM Studio Creator From Sun Microsystems Inc.

.NET Tool/Add-in of the Year
The Mono Project Sponsored by Novell

Open Source Tool of the Year
NetBeans IDE From NetBean.org
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Simply I can say...."JAVA Gang ROCKS"

developer.com

j2me Rocks

Amazing article about j2me..
worth to read...atleast useful for me in coming years...

jTWOme

Huge Security Hole in .NET

"Java creator James Gosling this week called Microsoft’s decision to support C and C++ in the common language runtime in .NET one of the "biggest and most offensive mistakes that they could have made". Don Box of Microsoft has responded with a tongue and cheek posting: Huge Security Hole in Solaris and JVM".

As usual War between java and .net...

One interesting comment in that forum thread :
"I'd say the biggest security holes in .NET are Windows, DCOM, SQL Server and IIS. Like seriously... "

ha..ha..good one..most of my friends are surely agree with this statement...:-)

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I know what I did last New Year

In my previous post I said I will write about my Karaikal trip later in my blog..
But now there is no need for that..
My (ex)boss has written about it in his blog ...in his style(very long blog :-))

I am stunned by his memory power....
Actually I have the habit of writting diaries(in paper diary)....I am not using this blog for posting personal stuff...just as a repository for some tech and trivia stuff....I'm not too comfortable posting personal blogs yet unlike the paper one(diary).

After reading his blog, I realised I missed nearly 13 scenes when I was writing about it in my diary.

interesting scene...
"Scene 35:- 6:51 pm.To preserve privacy, I won't say who. But, one of us decided to pay back the ocean in our own simple way. He pissed against it in mute defiance and disagreement to what it had wrought."

I know who has done this work....:-)... I too won't say who....:-)
An interesting comment from someone nearby " Tsunamikku yathira oru Tsunnami"

As for my Pattinacherry experience:

1) It is very difficult to console the people affected..its impossible.... I saw one person there. He had lost his wife and his 3 children..I didn't know what to say to him....

2) I have never seen a temple like this...totally different from the normal temple going experience...The temple became a home for the village people...people washing clothes in one area and someone was crying in one area...etc. One weird sight was that of a lady calmly combing her hair sitting atop one of the lower levels of the temple gopuram...The temple somehow lost its sanctity and was simply a shelter to the needy.

3) Even if u give money or food to those people..I don't know who's going to take care mental trauma inflicted by the disaster...I saw some people just speaking to themselves ..(very pathetic )

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and lots more....

But one thing is sure..
"This was the most memorable NEW YEAR in my lifetime"

Enough, I don't want anymore experiences like this one...

Resolution

I never took any new year Resolution in my life...
I found this resolution has somthing different .... Techie - New Year's Resolution list

I too have the resolution like the above...but don't know which year i am going to take that...
my resolution : "I WANT TO USE ONLY OPENSOURCE SOFTWARES "

My List :
Linux (OS)
JAVA / PHP (language)
OpenOffice (office docs)
MySql (DB)

After 2 year or later .. I will take this has my new year resolution..lets see...

Happy New Year

Happy New year to all..
Most of the time when the new year comes i always celebrated with my friends..
In the year 2000, i did something different..enjoyed that year with my family ..cake,cracks,musics ..etc....because of i wanted to make that year something special in my life...

But this year celebration gone beyond that..I went to KARIKKAL to help the peoples those who are affected by tsunami.i went to that place with my friend MALI and my BOSS.

Most... Most memorable day in my life...what a experience that was.If i want to write about it means i need minimum 10 pages....if i have a time i will write about it in my blog later..

1 year Anniversary

Days are running in a lightning speed....I am celebrating 1st year anniversary of my blog...
last year my friend(he is also in the celebration mood)suggested this idea and guided me how to create and what's the purpose of blog and all stuffs..

At that time i thought what content i have to place in this blog..but later i was addicted to blog community..Do u belive or not i can have the capability to write a beautiful blogging software(lot more are there in opensource..but still..)

I have a strong felling that BLOGs are going to be a big HIT in 2005.If u don't have blog you are missing something in the web..seriously.

Still you have a dual thought like create a blog or not.... checkout the following sites..that will tell u the purpose of BLOG ..

1) Why There's No Escaping the Blog

2) How to Write A Blog... And Survive

3) Blog's another face