Interview Questions

In interview, if anyone asks questions like this,

1. Do you have a blog?
-yes..(its not personal blog and also its not technical blog ..its something like repository for my future use)
2. What's your home page?
-I don't have..still using goolge only..
3. Do you contribute to an open source project?
-not yet..but i am a very active(!) listener to a popular java opensource projects(12 projects)..In future, surely i will be in the opensource world..

Am I good at communicating, tinkering and passion for coding??My score will be surely low..but not bad...i think :-)
-Engineer Interview Triage?

And checkout the comments for this post..Interesting comment on that..
"I don't have a blog. I use google as my home page. I don't contribute to open source projects because there are other things in my life than the computer......"

This link also interesting.....How to hire a product manager

Corporate Blogging Comparison

Whenever new product or server or computer language..etc released we have this habit to compare that with the existing one(actually that's good only...!!).

In that category, corporate "BLOGGING policy"'s also joined..

"This page compared and categorized the corporate blogging policies and guidelines of IBM, Yahoo! , Hill & Knowlton, Plaxo, Thomas Nelson, Feedster, Groove and Sun. "

That page also discussed about what's usual/unusual things in all company policies and alot more interesting info.
Checkout the link which describes about lifecycle of bloggers..Interesting...

OpenSolaris

When I was reading Mr.jonathan blog, I found this link..Visiting that link i got this picture in the homepage of that site...i was thrilled when i saw the TAMIL word in that list..(based on the country IP address that language list image may change or not..i don't know about that logic..but still its a nice image to see a tamil word in that language list..)

"The number of languages listed for India is 428. Of those, 415 are living languages and 13 are extinct." - reference

Not only the image, the content what that page contains also very interesting..checkout that..

World's largest media company

Google has even entered common parlance as a verb: 'I Googled it and got all this information' or 'let me Google that and see what we come up with'. You've probably used it yourself.

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Funny mails...

My friend sithik forwarded this mail ...interesting to read..and this is bit true too ...:-)
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top21(why 21?? may be like 43things.com..) things a desi (Indian)does after he returns from the US

21. Tries to use credit card in road side hotel.
20. Drinks and carries mineral water and always speaks of health conscious.
19. Sprays duo such so that he doesn't need to take bath.
18. Sneezes and says 'Excuse me'.
17. Says "Hey" instead of "Hi".
Says "Yogurt" instead says "Curds".
Says "Cab" instead of "Taxi".
Says "Candy" instead of "Chocolate".
Says "Cookie" instead of "Biscuit".
Says "Free Way" instead of "Highway".
Says "got to go" instead of "Have to go".
Says "Oh" instead of "Zero", (for 704, says Seven Oh Four Instead of Seven Zero Four)
16. Doesn't forget to crib about air pollution. Keeps cribbing every time he steps out.
15. Says all the distances in Miles (Not in Kilo Meters), and counts in Millions. (Not in Lakhs)
14. Tries to figure all the prices in Dollars as far as possible(but deep down the heart multiplies by 48 times).
13. Tries to see the % of fat on the cover of a milk pocket.
12. When need to say Z (zed), never says Z (Zed), repeats "Zee" several times, if the other person unable to get, then says X, Y..Zee(but never says Zed)
11. Writes date as MM/DD/YYYY, on watching traditional DD/MM/YYYY,says "Oh! British Style!!!!"
10. Makes fun of Indian Standard Time and Indian Road Conditions.
9. Even after 2 months, complaints about "Jet Lag".
8. Avoids eating more chili (hot) stuff.
7. Tries to drink "Diet Coke", instead of Normal Coke.
6. Tries to complain about any thing in Indiaas if he is experiencing it for the first time.
5. Pronounces "schedule" as "skejule", and "module" as "mojule".
4. Looks speciously towards Hotel/Dhaba food.

Few more important
3. From the luggage bag, does not remove the stickers of Airways by which he traveled back to India, even after 4 months of arrival.
2. Takes the cabin luggage bag to short visits in India, tries to roll the bag on Indian Roads.

Ultimate one
1. Tries to begin conversation with "In US ...." or "When I was in US..."

I know what you are doing in this summer

If you discuss OPENSOURCE topics with any college student, surely he can't understand the proper meaning of that word. But if u say FREEWARE means they will understand bit

For college students, this is the time to learn more about opensource projects.But who will introduce this to that students?(atleast for final year guys).But google has come up with beautiful concept called "the Summer of Code"

Form Google
"we’ll give $4,500 to applicants who successfully work with a sponsoring organization or advisor to create innovative or useful open source software.We’ll also get you a t-shirt to go along with the cash."

and also checkout the interesting debate in the slashdot site..

When i am speaking about students here, this essay also worth to look into. This essay talks about wide range of topics. In my experience(!), what this article says is absolutely right.

This essay mainly focused on students..but i don't know howmany students(or professors) have got a chance to visit that page....what i feel is, this article not only for students..this will also applicable to bachelors ...

Read between the lines or take this page printout and read this everyday when u getup from the bed if you want to do something big in the coming future.

Hiring is obsolete

43(?) - Things

I want to write about this site after i finished my list ....but I don't think I can finish that in couple of days....

This site is something similar like "todo.txt" in yr desktop..

When i found this site only two guys was there from chennai. but if u search now u can find minimum 30 peoples there..and its still growing....that's great..

Before writing yr 43 things, just read others first..then decide what to write & try to write some unique list..just do a surf completely ..u can understand better about this site..checkout
1) my list
2) Mali's list ...(Mali's blog..)

if u r a techie, want to know what technology & framework this site follows and other info' means checkout this page.. and also find an interesting info' about RAILS vs STRUTS

Send me the URL once u finished yr list in that site...

Popular JAVA

Interesting article to read....
I agree with the following points from that article..

1)Most developers might spend more time writing Java code than they spend with their family and friends
2)This is part of the Java paradox, it takes all of about 10 minutes to setup a Ruby on Rails application or to deploy a PHP based forum or Blog on top of Linux and MySQL, but this still didn't sway the devoted Java users
3)A Java developer has to study with the rigor of a Nasa physicist to keep up with everything Java related.
4)let us say I need to write a sophisticated web application framework that has 1000 dynamic webpages and connects to an Oracle database with 50 billion rows. Will python be productive then?

WhyJavaSoPopular

Hi JAVA --> Many More Returns of the Day

JAVA's 10th year celebration is going on. So this is my celebration post ..

you may be bit bored reading evolution of java and history of java from so many sites or books. This link will give u something different view about "The evolution of the www.java.sun.com"....After December 5,2003, again java.sun.com changed its UI...now go and check the..www.java.sun.com.

On May 23, 1995, John Gage, director of the Science Office for Sun Microsystems, and Marc Andreessen, cofounder and executive vice president at Netscape, stepped onto a stage and announced to the SunWorldTM audience that JavaTM technology was real, it was official, and it was going to be incorporated into Netscape NavigatorTM, the world's portal to the Internet.

At that time, the entire Java technology team, not yet a division, numbered less than 30 people. It was the original members of this small group who created and nurtured a technology that would change the computing world.JAVA TECHNOLOGY: THE EARLY YEARS



And interesting interview with " The Man Who Brewed Up Java" ....
Some excerpts from that interview..

Q: Are Java's best days behind or still ahead?
A: It's a bit of both. It has become very mature in a number of areas. But in a number of areas, it's just beginning, like in the embedded world and in cell phones.

Q: Where is Java heading in the future?
A: The thing I've been most involved with is the embedded world. People are embedding Java into really interesting devices. These folks tend to move very, very slowly -- people who do avionics or automotive control systems or heating control systems. But there's a lot of interesting work being done.

There are diagnostics systems for gas stations or locomotives, so you can tune a locomotive while [it's] in motion. You might have a locomotive hurtling down the tracks, but you can't have the world's best locomotive mechanic on every train. But if the train can sense something is funny and cause a screen to pop up on that mechanic's desk, he can do some tuning and maintenance remotely.

And there are some [experiments] in the automotive world that are pretty entertaining. To be able to pull out your cell phone and say, "Please lock yourself," that'd be pretty neat.More...

Gosling takes pride in the fact that Java has worked well enough for many developers to simply take it for granted at this point. He twice cited the example of developers who build Java apps on Mac OS X and then deploy them on Windows without even testing, because they just assume it will work

checkout the following links I collected over couple of days regarding this java celebration feast...

1) At 10, Java's wild success, missed chances
2) Java's tenth birthday party
3) Java's 10th B-day: Jonathan Schwartz and the cake
4) interview with mr.gosling
5) Java 10 years...
6) Java Everywhere
7) Java Timeline - 10 years of Java.
8) Java still brewing strong after ten years of IT
9) Java flows from the browser to the datacentre
10) looks like a hollywood website
11) Sun brings true interactivity to the world wide web
12) Mr.Gosling response to HARMONY
13) From Ludovic Champenois's Blog,
It's good to see there is some internet memory under http://sunsite.nus.edu.sg/java/... Imagine, you can still download the JDK 1.1.6 for Windows 95/NT4.0 - 8,230,260 bytes. What a good deal...

If you are not a java programmer or the guy who hates java, then this link would be nice to visit...i want to see little happiness in their faces also for this great occasion....:-)

Everybody refreshing their java skills with jdk1.5(TIGER). In our busy schedule(!!!), finding a good book(think about its size!!!) and spend time in that is bit difficult. so checkout the below link. This page contains core java concepts and an example programs with an additional information about java 5.
Java Programming Notes

java + dotnet >= mainframe (???)

Last couple of days in almost all the places in the net occupied by this relationship only...

In my mansion, always have a fight(at midnights) in this topic (JAVA vs .NET)...you can find interesting comics here describing the same.. Anyhow that will continue on the other end..

checkout this article to know what is happening in the language side......Especially I liked that article title...:-)

Real Programmer (!)

the Real Men were the ones who understood computer programming, and the Quiche Eaters were the ones who didn't

• No Real Programmer works 9 to 5. (Unless it's the ones at night.)
• Real Programmers don't wear neckties.
• Real Programmers don't wear high heeled shoes.
• Real Programmers arrive at work in time for lunch.
• A Real Programmer might or might not know his wife's name. He does, however, know the entire ASCII (or EBCDIC) code table.
• Real Programmers don't know how to cook. Grocery stores aren't open at three in the morning. Real Programmers survive on Twinkies and coffee.

very old article..but interesting to read..

Breadth Vs Depth

hat's the difference between a senior Java developer and a Java architect?


If you ask this question to me...I can simply say..
1) Java architect certificate is costlier than java developer certificate..So architects are big.
2) Architects may have more experience than developers.
3) Architects never write a code but developer should do.
4) You have to pay huge amount to architects compare to developers.
5) In a company, developers headcount always larger than architects.
and other blah..blah stuffs.

but if you see this article its not like that...checkout that..

Opensource Journey

I knew, certain companies have policies like not to use opensource softwares....Later they may change or the future will force that companies to change...but when reading this article i was amazed by the decision taken by the government...

"The Brazilian government will force public departments to migrate to open source software"

hmm.... interesting...

Bookshelf - Design Change

The below site will give you clear picture about what type of books and sites u must have in yr bookshelf or bookmarked ..

Last couple of months I started buying alot of java books based on top 10 list discussion in so many blogs....(java books are really good nowadays...interesting to read..not huge book like "The complete reference" by Patrick Naughton, Herbert Schildt ..even i say its a lengthy book..but that's a java BIBLE.. )

when i am seeing this books list, still i need to buy a couple of books..so next month, u can see some added books in my bookshelf..

checkout that..

Participation Age

what blogging’s role will be in this new Era?

It’s kerosene on the fire. The Participation Age has been on the Net since email. Moving from there to blogging is like moving from carrier pigeon to phone. The emergence of blogs means we have passed beyond early crude tools and it results in fundamental changes on how everything relates. While a journalist is writing about my blog, I’m blogging about his journalism. This is change...

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Interesting Debate

I thought its a beauty..but if you think the same in other perspective, u can get different views ..like this..

"but this is not the google calendar we were looking for. Come on, Google -- you know everything else about me -- my shopping habits, my personal emails, what I search for at 3am, don't you want my daily scheduling info as well?"

" As was pointed out by someone else, they definitely are tracking everyone's searches. See http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html [google.com]. "Each of these variations was entered by at least two different unique users within a three month period" You can't get that information without tracking searches and retaining the individual information over a three month period."

"It's annoying as hell, because it tries to auto-fill your searches. It does it at the worst times, too. I was sitting down with my g/f and was Googling for something and it was happily showing a list of things that I had searched for, giving away the fact that I was looking for restaurants to visit."

ha..ha..intersting slashdot post..

Google beauty

Google is doing something big(!)..everyday they comeup with things i couldn't imagine..
In my previous post(last month..i think) i said i want to have a note on,
a) how many times i am going to google home page per day
b) And also if i find a exact result, have a note on the key word i used for that search...
and alot..

Its not neccessary for now..google is doing this for me..

From Google Blog..
How many times have you used Google to find an obscure funny website or fun facts about "The Wizard of Oz," but then got distracted by other web pages and tasks? I know - me too. Wouldn't it be great to find them again, and for that matter review all your Google searches over time? Which is exactly why we built My Search History.

java in TRUCKS

Xora's product involves a Java software application on a mobile phone that communicates with Xora's servers to record the data.

More..

Frameworks - Review

In java, there are 'n' number of frameworks avilable in the opensource market. If you are a web programmer/developer , then you must have a proficiency in any one of the frameworks listed below....

1. Struts
2. Turbine
3. Tapestry
4. WebWork
5. Velocity
6. JSF
7. Spring

....
....
etc...
(I am not added any proprietary framework in the above list...that has a separate list..)

After seeing this you may have a questions like
a) Which is the best in the above list.
b) What's the difference between each one listed above(Advantage & Disadvantage).
c) Which one exactly suits for yr requirment.(If yr project duration is only a week, then which is the best choice from that list..)
d) Which one will ramains stable and grow in the long race?
e) Performance
f) Scalability
....
....

And 'n' number of other factors..

Actually speaking, no one find time for doing all these R&D stuffs...simply they can choose the frameworks based on the following things...

• I knew this framework, So this is the best one...
• Thatmuch of huge site based on this framework only ..so we too follow the same .
• In previous project we followed that framework..so use that .
• This framework comes from very matured opensource group..so this is the correct choice.
• In web, everybody speaking about this framework..so we can adopt this..

...
...

And a alot more assumptions..

Atlast, we have to give JUSTIFICATION for the framework what we take. Below link will give you clear picture regarding that.
I am very much enjoyed when reading that article..because not even a single anchor tag in that article..After a blog culture in the internet every single line conatins minimum two hyperlinks (for me its bit annoying thing...)...

checkout that..

XMLHttp

Someone says its a old technique or old concept...but if you check the examples in this site surely you can say its going to rule the web for next couple of years....especially the webblog based on xml http(checkout the calendar link in the top..its cool..)..

Happy Tamil New Year

Iniya Tamizh Puthandu Vazhthukkal!

JUG

Why JUGs Are Good for You

For Java programmers: A great way to keep up with new Java technologies. It also gives you a chance to network with your peers, which always helps in getting a job.

For business: Instead of paying head-hunters hefty finder fees every time you need to hire a Java developer, create a home for your local JUG by letting them use one of your conference rooms one evening a month. The return on this small investment will be phenomenal: whenever you need a Java person, post your job requirements to the JUG's mailing list.

For students: JUGs give you a chance to learn what's happening in the real business world and maybe find an internship or summer job.

For headhunters: Your local JUG may give you an access to a pool of Java developers. But you should contribute too: speak periodically on the status of the Java job market in your geographical area. Such sessions are pretty popular with developers. Here's a tip for you. Headhunters can create new JUGs and breed Java programmers for themselves.

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J2ME

Normally tax agencies are pretty boring, but these folks have been doing very cool stuff. For the last couple of years they've been using a Java tax submission system and are running almost entirely paperless. Their new thing for this year is that they've got a J2ME application that runs on all the cell phones in Brazil (and they have twice as many cellphones in the country as they have households). This app allows folks to submit their tax forms from their cell phone - no computer required. Quite a sophisticated piece of cellphone hacking.

Guru Speaks...

10th year celebration -> JAVA

Any device or gadget, which needs to be connected or networked, needs Java. Java is for the network world, whether wireless or wireline
Today
a) 4.5 million software developers work on Java
b) 100 carrier deployments and 579 million phones are on this platform
c) Also, around 750 million Java cards have been deployed globally.
d) “In India, over 3.5 lakh Java developers. Today Java is on India’s largest CDMA carrier with over 62 lakh units"

wow..interesting to read..

ajax + struts =hijackstruts(!)

AJAX is becoming more popular nowadays.. and STRUTS also a de facto standard for java on the server side...Just imagine, what can we do if these two join hands?
We can do superb web applications based on that...

checkout this , you can find source code also there...