Happy Pongal

Pongal is an ancient festival of the Tamils and it is not known when exactly the Tamils began celebrating the festival, but some historians identify it with the Thai Un and Thai Niradal, believed to have been celebrated during the Sangam Age..that's the speciality about PONGAL

WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY PONGAL

Interesting Links

Interesting links i bookmarked in the last couple of days...

As usual monthly check on this site, I found very interesting essay on procrastination,

Richard Hamming suggests that you ask yourself three questions:
1. What are the most important problems in your field?
2. Are you working on one of them?
3. Why not?
Good & Bad Procrastination

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Servlet 2.5 features :

• A new dependency on J2SE 5.0
• Support for annotations
• Several web.xml conveniences
• A handful of removed restrictions
• Some edge case clarifications

There are few others features in pending/ wish list phase which will be coming in upcoming releases.More

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An engineer from Sun is teaching a online Java Class. The best part of it. Its free. This is the time to brush up on your programming abilities.More

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interesting tech interview to read...Excerpts from that interview...
You mentioned diversification, as a Java developer how should you diversify?
...This may involve looking at things like .NET, for example. This is a kind of knee-jerk reaction that lot of people have in the Java community now. I am aJava programmer, that's Microsoft; I am not going to touch that. I think, that's shortsighted, because as we're looking more and more at an interoperableworld, we are gonna to be looking more and more interacting with Microsoft front ends, whatever it might be and we need to work on how that happens.....More

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Joel writes :
"I'd like to claim is that Java is not, generally, a hard enough programming language that it can be used to discriminate between great programmers and mediocre programmers. It may be a fine language to work in, but that's not today's topic. I would even go so far as to say that the fact that Java is not hard enough is a feature, not a bug, but it does have this one problem."
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Netbeans Vs Eclipse worth to read

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
- Greek Proverb
I don't know the reason why i love this quote...hmmmmmm..still thinking..

2006

Generally for every new year, I will do 2 things...

• Take a december month balance receipt from my bank account & paste it in my diary's last page(to see what's my savings in the year end).I have been doing this for last 5 years..actually speaking nothing improved till now..
• Watch a movie with my friends on Dec'31st night & at exactly 12:00am, wish everyone who are all sitting in the row with us in the theatre.(so in the interval time we buy cakes for this celebration)

That's it, And on the resolution side...I want to be more aggressive on my wishlist..

New Year wishes to all...See you next year!

Quick links

I want to write some description about each link...but due to time constraints I am just listing below..Check out that..

• 10 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know About Ruby
• Java tips (In the URL change the number for more tips)
• 10 places you must use Ajax
• IT - Time Management
• Feedster Top 500 - Blogs - Summary View
• McNealy: Why "Sun Is Back"
• Think you could get hired by Google?
• Holiday quiz
• Computer Software That Writes Itself
• TIME - Persons of the Year
• Mobile Market Future

GYM

Nowadays wherever you go(in the net), you can find the name google..When surfing, I found this link(not the below image..:-)) which speaks about GYM!!!

10. Is your business GYM-proof?
I think GYM is a term coined by Robert Scoble - stands for Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. The question is "How do you know that one of these big companies come up with the same offer as yours but give it away for free?"

Recently Google announced "Google Analytics" - a simple, sophisticated Analytics solution for the web for free. I am confident that a few boutique firms whose bread and butter was to sell these solutions are worried like hell. It is hard to get information on what all projects that these companies are working on but sometimes they give a hint. For example, it would not be a good idea to work on something that is already being showcased in Google Labs unless you are pretty sure that you have some amazing technology and you know that your solution will be far superior than whatever Google will eventually come up with.

10 Questions to ask yourself when you are small

Interesting..Even I can say, its called "The height of confidence"

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One more info' about Google, how to handle knowledge workers..
excerpts from that link..

Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century.

"A good engineer is always convinced that he can build a better system than the existing ones, leading to the refrain "Don't buy it, build it.""
"knowledge workers believe they are paid to be effective, not to work 9 to 5"

Google: Ten Golden Rules

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This is really a DELICIOUS news...I've been using this for almost a year now..
"Del.icio.us provides a simple way for hundreds of thousands of Web users to share and categorize their favorite Web page bookmarks as Web pages."

Yahoo gobbles up Del.icio.us

M

Can This Man Reprogram Microsoft?

The familiar pattern of a decade ago begs the question that Bill Gates was asked when he met last month with a group of executives and journalists from The New York Times:
Will you do to Google what you did to Netscape?

Mr. Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and chairman, paused, looked down at his folded hands and smiled broadly, as if enjoying a private joke. "Nah," he replied, "we'll do something different."

More....(you have to register first to read this article..) or you can read the same article in yesterday's(12th dec 05) DECCAN CHRONICLE chennai edition( in the executive club section)

Discovery

I love to read this author books. My favorate book in that list, "The monk who sold his ferrari, Discover yr destiny"...recently I got a chance to read his another book,"The monk who sold is ferrari,The leadership wisdom"..superb book..I have to thank Mr.Rams. He only gave that book to read.

Couple of weeks ago, I got a mail which contains some inspirational quotes. After a lot of discussion regarding that quote mail, my friend said those quotes are taken from this website.The Success Manifesto™: 200 Powerful Ideas for an Extraordinary Life

Today morning when I was sleeping, Ganesh came to my room and gave me the hardcopy of this 200 quotes. thanks ganesh..When I was reading those quotes, sudden thought like, instead of memorizing the 200 points , why not I implement a single idea given in that list..so I decided to follow the 1st one.(most difficult one)

"Sleep less. This is one of the best investments you can make to make your life more productive and rewarding. Most people do not need more than 6 hours to maintain an excellent state of health. Try getting up one hour earlier for 3-4 weeks and it will develop into a powerful habit. Remember, it is the quality not the quantity of sleep that is important. And just imagine having an extra 30 hours a month to spend on the things that are important to you."

checkout his fav. books list( I don't know when will I get a chance to read all books in that page??)...if u r not interested in reading those kind of stuffs or if you are a pure techy(!), then checkout this site.( actually speaking, I want to read these books also)..Finding a good sponsor..:-)

Great Contest

JAVA Developers, here's a wonderful opportunity to showcase your cool apps and win big

Share yr experiences with Mr. James Gosling on how the sun java studio enterprise IDE(its free now) inspired yr creativity....

Initial criteria:-
To participate, you must be 18 years or older and a legal resident of one of the following countries at the start of the contest: United States, Canada, Japan, China, Russia, and India.


I wrote about BRIC countries in my previous post.. Except Brazil all other contries name are there in the intial criteria contries list..4 asian countries(japan,china,russia,india) got a strong position to participate... .that's great.

Don't forget to register yr email address to get more details about this contest...

Birthday Wishes

On November 9th, 2004, Firefox 1.0 was released to the world (in 17 languages and on 5 platforms) and Spread Firefox, and the rest of the Mozilla community celebrated with parties all around the globe.


Achievements

• “Better than Internet Explorer by leaps and bounds.” - FORBES
• The Best Products of 2005 – Firefox steals the position
  
• Top 10 Products for 10 years - Firefox catches its place.
  

If you check the latest news in the net, Mozilla’s Firefox has managed to grab over 10 percent of the Web browser market with its highest percentage to date.

Anyone can upload the 1st year celebration photo..I saw couple of nice pictures in this site..but i feel this one looks good..:-)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FIREFOX, Go Firefox, Go!

Free Software World

FOSS.IN is India's largest Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) event, bringing together thousands of participants from across India, Asia and the rest of the world.

checkout the International Speakers list..u can find Mr.PHP in that list.

Interview with JAVA CMS guy

BRIC countries,
B- Brazil
R- Russia
I- India
C- China

The Russia has professionals to design some algorithms and India has enough quantity of professionals to implement it quickly.....

Use a spade to dig a hole - Use a bulldozer to dig a trench

Blog worth??

My blog is worth $6,209.94.
How much is your blog worth?

Interesting, checkout yrs...

Smartphone

Don't think i bought this phone or anything like this..Just got nice info' about Smart phones..that's the reason for this post..

A Smartphone combines the functions of a cellular phone and a handheld computer in a single device. It differs from a normal phone in that it has an operating system and local storage, so users can add and store information, send and receive email, and install programs to the phone as they could with a PDA. A smartphone gives users the best of both worlds--it has much the same capabilities as a handheld computer and the communications ability of a mobile phone

More...

Ajax Vs Other technologies

The below link will give you the clear picture about what are all the alternatives available in the NET other than Mr.AJAX...(and also checkout google's new release based on AJAX...useful tool..)

• XUL - 25%
• XAML - 25%
• SVG - 25%
• Flash - 50%
• Applets - 75%
• Ajax - 100%

Why is Ajax getting so much attention when there are so many alternative technologies?

Father of Java

Question : Microsoft and Sun Microsystems: friends or foes?

Mr.Gosling : Yeah, we’ve had a lot of history… [laughs] and court cases. There was a period about 10 years ago when we had good cooperative relations. But when the top management at Microsoft decided that this cooperation was to the detriment of the company’s financial gains, and it waned.

We still have a contract with Microsoft. Mainly we continue to cooperate heavily around the evolution and implementation of web services. And we have access to all their internal specifications … Basically, we build products that are about compatibility with Windows.

Question : Any plans to retire?

Mr.Gosling : Hmm… What does it mean to retire? For some that comes after having children, when you lose the ability to work 16 hour days, which in some places is a requirement for software engineers. The limiting factor as far as I am concerned is: Does your brain stay sharp and can you learn new things?

More..

News feeds

I want to learn some information about RSS and ATOM areas....As usual google helped a lot to understand this..

Next, I searched for an opensource java RSS reader..And got this tool..Then I probed much into that ....I downloaded that tool and added all the jar files(\informa-0.6.0\lib)in the classpath..(its easy to put all the jar files in the classpath if you use eclipse or netbeans or any other java IDE, instead of writing a batch file..)
----------------------------testRssFeed.java--------------------

import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
import de.nava.informa.core.*;
import java.io.File;
import de.nava.informa.core.ChannelIF;
import de.nava.informa.impl.basic.ChannelBuilder;
import de.nava.informa.parsers.FeedParser;

public class testRssFeed
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
//File file=new File("c:\\test.rss");
//ChannelIF channel = FeedParser.parse(new ChannelBuilder(), file);
ChannelIF channel = FeedParser.parse(new ChannelBuilder(), new URL("http://feeds.feedburner.com/DuraiOnlyBlog"));
for (Iterator iter = channel.getItems().iterator();iter.hasNext();) {
ItemIF item = (ItemIF)iter.next();
System.out.println(item.getTitle());
System.out.println("----------------------------");
System.out.println(item.getLink());
System.out.println("----------------------------");
System.out.println(item.getDescription());
System.out.println("----------------------------");
System.out.println("----------------------------");
System.out.println(item.getDate());
System.out.println("----------------------------");
}
}
}

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Enable the above comment if you have the rss file in the local machine...That's also works fine..

Next, I have to convert this simple java file into thread based servlet(it has to check that URL regular interval of time)...After that I have to write a j2me application which fetches that servlet content and displayed in the mobile..So j2me application also thread based program..

Once I finished that code, I will upload here ..But that will take time,I think...Let's see..

Tamil Story

Generally i am not interested in reading long tamil stories..first of all, i don't have that much patience...but mr.gopi insisted couple of times to read the below story....I liked the way that story has written...worth to read..

ORU KAATHAL KATHAI

Testing pic blog

Testing photo's upload via blogger.. so next time onwards if I want to upload images, no need to go to flickr or weblogimages..i can use blogger site itself....hmmm....

Worth to Visit

I want to share some webpages I used to read in the starting of every month..Those sites are
1) The engineers, scientists, and dreamers of Sun Microsystems
2) Essays of Mr.paulgraham

Regarding the first link, I am a great fan of most of the dreamers in that list..
Regarding the second link, that's simply great..Most of the essays I have a hardcopy in my room..Especially this one ..I memorized line by line in that article...

Bookmark these pages and checkout that each month..

Love the CODE

I saw couple of official relieving letters, but this one looks simple and great ....I was stunned by reading the below lines from that page..

"I'll definitely get back into coding, I might write a book, I might do some consulting, I've even considered starting a different community site next year some time."

In the above quoted lines, after reading first 7 words, I started thinking..."GET BACK INTO CODING"..hmmmm..

Here, After 2 years of experience noone wants to write a code or they forced to do some other work other than coding like managing people, client interaction, document updating...(that's also different kind of stuff..But still...).In India, based on the position only u can earn more money..That's also one reason for that change..But this person 's future plan looks something different....

I too a great fan of TSS java community site..

Learnings..

Suddenly those peoples(weblog images site) stopped showing my blog picture ...i havn't read that site faq completely...and also who knows about sudden high traffic to my blog....anyway..

PHOTO's kku THISTI PATTUDUTHU..:-)))))that's also better, i will leave that images as it is...
If you see that images, its yr luck..

I will start use flickr images to post blog content from next time onwards....actually i learned something today like " what is meant by bandwidth?? and other net details.."

31st Aug - Pirrannetha-nale vazhthigale

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@28


Both photos are shot by my friend MALI...Can't you belive this?? 1st picture he took it from the photo album from my home..

if i was someone else, want to wish this guy, I am just thinking .....hmmmm..

"MAMA..Happy B' day da....Treat????"

AJAX - good or evil

The below article covers interesting point about AJAX...

Consider this example,
1) You are filling some bank's loan form..In the middle u get a call from yr friend saying don't apply loan in that bank..And yr friend suggests some other bank name....In that case you are closing that page without pressing the submit button...But if that page uses AJAX, your information have been updated their database and u can get a call at anytime from that bank ..

2) You are visiting one website...u r doing nothing in that page..not even clicked any single link...But you know , if that site uses AJAX, yr mouse move attributes and the time spent on that page, have been stored in their database..

like this we can say more examples.....But still I consider AJAX is the next revolution in the web..

checkout this link for more details....AJAX to Spy On You

RSS 2 PDF

Converting one file format into another is very much useful nowadays..this link convert yr blog feed in to PDF...interesting stuff..

copy & paste the below link in that page and select couple of radio button choices and press the Make PDF button...
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DuraiOnlyBlog

MY WISHES & DREAMS

Swami Vivekananda :
"Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live...."

Whenever I read about my nation its always start with like this "India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history."..that's OK..what's next????..i don't know..howlong we guys speak about our tradition & culture and other blah..blah old stuffs..

lets think SOMETHING BIG...like our beloved president....I alot more reasons are there why i am so much admired by mr Kalam...the below link information also one reason in that list....

• India leader advocates open source
• Opt for open source codes for better software security: Kalam

my wish also the same like his vision.....that's the reason I liked the above picture very much...

Dr Kalam Says 'The first vision for India was to gain independence. The second vision for a country of one billion people is to develop into a strong nation, economically strong and self-reliant, and its people to be globally respected.'

Happy Independence day....Jai Hind.

Uninvited G(ue/ho)st

Working in IT field is a gift.Always I feel like that . Just spend 10 mins and speak to any other department guys then u can understand what i am saying.(i am speaking knowledge wise...for example, everyday morning 7:00am what i am seeing in a daily newspaper is always an old news for me because i know most of the news from other blogs or from google alerts or someway the previous night itself...)

In this field, forwarding mails also one part of the job(even we can justify like saying, one way to keep in touch with other person)

Everyday i too get alot of forwarded mails. Then i too fwd. that to my close circles..then he/she will continue that job ....atlast that mail again will reach my mailbox.Last week i got a mail like that which contains the photo's of the people those who suffered in recent flood in MUMBAI(BOMBAY).In that ppt slide i got this picture which has something peculiar than other slides.

After I saw this picture, I had a questions like
1) when this child will come down? (that child not even removed his school shirt)
2) where will they sleep?
3) where will they sit and eat? ( if you notice well, that mother preparing something in the gas)
4) howlong that child will sit like this?
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If anyone asks you to write an essay about middle class people life in india, the above picture is enough..really, "a picture is worth 1000 words" .
In India, Last year we faced "tsunami", this year "floods" in unexpected area, then next year...???no problem...we are ready to face any surprise gifts given by GOD.