Interview: James Gosling

Question : What is your impression of Google?
Gosling : Part of me feels really deeply disturbed that the killer app for the Internet is turning out to be advertising.

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Knowledge Worker 2.0

One more nice presentation from slideshare.net.

In the web2.0 era,a lot of things have changed.. this slide has a wonderful info. about how the transformation happening in the the knowledge worker side...




After reading these slides, I just thought of new roles in the web2.0 period ..its completely different from the old skill set like java programmer / dotnet programmer..etc..

Here is the list :
a) Mashup Developer
b) API designer(REST / XML RPC)
c) Ajax programmer(expert in in one javascript library, json, xmlhttp..etc)
d) Web2.0 UI designer
e) Facebook developer (customize your app to run in facebook platform)
f) Blogger & expert in RSS or ATOM
g) Plugin/widget developer
h) Web2.0 Market Researcher
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etc.

my favorite picture from the above slide..:-)
(click the below toon to enlarge)

Java

Question : Is it possible to write a "robotic" program using Java?
Answer : Yes, you can.....

:-)



source : http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070907.html

Presentation in a pleasant way !!!!

I saw this nice presentation in slideshare.net site. really cool . Especially I liked the 56^th slide which says "No audience? Present to the furniture. But ALOUD. Try it" ..wow..

Somewhere in the net I read like "more than 10 slides will kill yr presentation"..that's what lacking in the below presentation..that's ok if it has nice background images !!!!



Hope you enjoy this presentation..please follow this too..:-)

iPhone Mania

Much hyped "iPhone" is out. A lot of reviews & lot of issues(!) too.. I don't have a iPhone to write a review about that product.If i were in USA, i should have one.hmm...that's ok.

Checkout the review from the below sites..

• The iPhone is a Beta Product
• engadget.com
• scripting.com

Lifehacker started listing top 10 iPhone apps.
Top 10 iPhone applications

no J2ME support & no FLASH support(till now...flash is coming soon..!!!!)..but still it provides a big opportunity for java developers..checkout this below link to know more..
Is the iPhone an Opportunity for Java Developers?

Btw, who is going to write a first killer app for iPhone???
:-)

I am really scared..

Its really a wonderful video to watch & do some action now..whenever i receive any mails regarding GLOBAL WARMING, I just read it & throw it into my trash folder.

But this video makes me to think alot about this issue..

""I don't think we're going to make it," John Doerr proclaims, in an emotional talk about climate change and investment."

AppleTV

I love to read Steve's quotes and also collecting that list..recently when I was watching this interview found one..

“That makes Apple one of the biggest developers of Windows software around,” Walt observes. Jobs: “That’s right. … It’s like offering a glass of ice water to people in hell.”

checkout the interview here

simple & useful

For last one month, i am thinking how to have a mail signature with my blog URL. The problem here is, I have more than one blog & member in alot of social websites.
Do i need to list all the sites in the signature or ?

Recently I found this site which is nothing but a collection of my profiles in the web..checkout that
http://profilefly.com/duraionly

So, from hereafter i will use only this link as my mail signature which leads to all my blogs & myspace link..

what do you say?

-Durai.
[http://profilefly.com/duraionly]

Wonderful place to learn

I found this interesting document from the site called scribd....What i loved most in this site is, i can write anything(I mean, something useful) in the .txt file format and share it with the world..cool na!!!!.....

Ajax Vs JavaFX

Sun will roll out a Java-based product family called JavaFX, which covers Java development from the desktop to the Web to mobile devices


Question : is JavaFX makes AJAX obsolete?
Gosling : that was not a goal..

More...

checkout the techcrunch noise here...!!!!

Special Month Toon

Toon Speaks

I am bit late to update about "ToonDoo" in my blog..:-)..
Hereafter, I will write my blogpost via ToonDoo . ( click the picture to view large)

Web Links

I am just listing the links which I bookmarked recently . especially i decided to write a post after seeing this link.

Java popularized object-oriented programming and introduced many important new ideas. It’s used daily by many practicing computer scientists and will probably continue to be one of the dominant languages in use for at least another decade.....
Canada honors Gosling for Java

nothing to say more...he deserved it.

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This is really a cool tool which occupies one tab in my firefox browser ....its simple(only text) and very powerful
Digg Spy - A Real-Time View of Activity

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if anyone asks me to write an essay about WISDOM & INTELLIGENCE, I can't write it more than 10 lines..but check this link..amazing(for me, this page looks like a thesis/research paper on that topic :-))
the relationship between wisdom and intelligence

i used to read alot of books which speaks about customer satisfaction or customer thrill or...etc. but this link has some interesting tips. Check the 4th point "4. Take the blame" [Saying “it’s my fault” was completely out of character - wow !!]
Seven steps to remarkable customer service...

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Web2.0 : 25 startups to watch

See the employee headcount in each company listed in that link..that's really stunning..Does it convey any message to you?

Btw, can you able to judge who will become the next myspace or youtube from that list??? and also i thought surely one big company(obviously google/yahoo) will buy couple of services from that list..and at the same time i found this link which is completely contradictory with my statement..

Great companies are built by entrepreneurs who want to change the world. They have a basic belief that they will be rewarded for either defining a new market or redefining an old one. They do not want to be bought by Google or Yahoo!, they want to be the next Google or Yahoo!.
The Web 2.0 Myth

check the latest news......Google Launches Apps Premier

hmm.......interesting to watch this race!!!!!!!

Happy Valentines Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine's_Day

Happy Republic Day

Got this picture as a mail forward(with this embedded text) and I decided to keep that in my blog..

Happy Pongal

PONGAL WISHES TO ALL

PS :
Thanks to my friend(jayan) who did this design as per the client(me) requirement..:-)

New Year (web2.0) Wishes

Belated new year wishes to all. continue from my previous post, no changes in my blog vision :-) I will maintain this space for an interesting external links and my comment about that topic.

This season popular blog posts are PREDICTIONS & RESOLUTION..I will also do the same here.
I too thought of writing a prediction list..but in the net, I found couple of links(below links) which comes close to my listing..that is,

• ten predictions for Java in 2007
• Software Development Trends for2007

ok..my prediction part post is over(how easy it is!!!!...:-))..next my resolution part..this time no long 'to-do' list items . simply 2 wishes,
a) finish my previous year pending wishlist. (personal)
b) research on WEB2.0 products. (official)

I think, the first wishlist will continue for every year.don't know exactly how to explain that....let me give a try.."I can't live my life fixing a deadline because I am a human being"(nice escape ..is it?? but if you think again, its partially true).So, I can try to reduce that atleast not growing much every year.( If anyone asks me more about this topic, I will explain it in a next post..but its a complete philosophical post. If you are ready for that, then write it as a comment in my blog)

Regarding my second wish list, its bit easy because I am already a regular user of most of the WEB2.0 products. User is more different from Researcher..am I correct? So,initially I thought of finding the best 2 products in each category and start doing my research. But the below link helped me not to do that too(thanks to internet/google..:-)).

The new 100 most useful sites

So, every day browse and find what's common or unique in each products listed there. Addition of that alot more other research too..how the page UI designed & what's the technology platform..etc. For a developer,what's the benefit will I get if I do this?..I don't know. I will learn something new..that's it.

some one told me this year is 'James Bond' year ..2(007 )...lets enjoy more thrill and fun this year..wishes to all again.

Blog Vision

Can anyone teach me how to write a new blog post after a long interval of time? If its a first blog post, I can start with "hello world" or if its a last post i may start with "bye"..but now, how do I start??......hmmm...thinking..( I have already started well here, I think :-))



Everyone had the experience like "work pressure" or "deadline pressure"..etc. But last one week, I am facing a "blog pressure". Yesterday I got a mail from my sister asking "why no updates from your blog?"....that's also one reason for this post.

Actually, I never used my blog as an online diary because I am very much comfortable with traditional diary style(with paper & pen).Intially, blog boom was started for that purpose only, I think. But now its become like you can run a business based on blogs.that's a different story.

First, I started my blog as mail repository(in 2003 - no gmail at that time) where i can store the forwarded mails. I will laugh now if I read my old post. that's ok.that's what my intention at that time.After gmail, I moved these kind of mails there for future use. After that my blog focus has changed like giving an interesting web links and write 2 lines about my view on that topic. instead of sending mails to all my friends, I just update that info. in my blog where they can all read.Now, I am thinking how to move my blog vision to next level. hmm...thinking again..let me think and will update in the next post.

(If you notice well, I wrote this blog post without any external link/without any useful topic.that's itself a great move, i think..:-))

AJAX - defacto standard in the web

Last week I met a group of students(final year guys, searching for their last semester project)..all of them asked me the same question..What is AJAX??

I just gave an intro about AJAX (actually, nothing big to speak other than 'XMLHttpRequest' object) and asked them all to visit my blog regularly ..(blog marketing !! :-))

I don't have the patience to list all the AJAX links here. Click the below link and learn ( more than sixty thousand relevant links available in that site...)
AJAX


They asked me a couple of questions about AJAX...I don't know if I answered them correctly...

question : Which course should I join now ? j2ee or .net or mainframe or SAP or AJAX?
my answer: you can easily learn Ajax from the net ..& do a simple research on other technology part (but I gave a suggestion to join 'j2ee'- suggestion only.. because later if anything goes wrong (or) if he didn't get a job in j2ee side, they shouldn't simply say they would have thought of doing some #@$%$ technology, but only because of durai...:-))

question : Is AJAX more powerful than JAVA?
my answer: "NO"...it is a simple one javascript object..but Java is a programming language..Java supports AJAX strongly..nothing here to compare..but this simple javascript object is creating a revolution in the web.

question : Would I get a job if I learn AJAX?
my answer: hmmmm(thinking)...YES..(1 year guarantee in the job market)..but you should have more knowledge on HTML,CSS,DHTML,JAVASCRIPT,XML,XSL (tag based programming is easier to learn than the object oriented..but in the long term you should learn at least one server-side language )

question : How long will it take to read the above TAG based languages?
my answer: max. 2 months..(learn from home if you have 24hours net connection )

question : Can you forward my resume inside your company after I have learnt this?
my answer: hmmmm..(thinking again)..if you become an expert(?), i will fwd. your resume.

..and alot more interesting questions.checkout the links below ....it may be useful for you all..All the best guys.

• The World's Most Misunderstood Programming
• ajax - nice definition
• java & Ajax
• ajax-camp
• infoword ajax

Recent Updates

After a long time, I started posting a post in my blog...little update from my side

a) Last one month, I saw almost all worldcup football matches.(really enjoyed like sending SMS at 3:00am to all my friends about the match status & discussion after that)

b) Found a nice place nearby my hometown( I have this habit of finding the "hidden tourist places" in tamil nadu..In that list I found this place called "Beeman falls" in Tiruvanamalai district...I will post the pictures later...)

c) Reading Mr. Jayakandhan books, really a good novels..finished the book called "Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal"(1970 novel)...

d) Company Change !!!

f) Started reading JSF again..(pending for a long time)
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...etc
Check the below links for technical updates,

• AJAX issue in IE7
• The Future of Open Source

Public Speaking..

I am busy writing my Tamil blog, but deliberately want to post something in my blog regarding the upcoming election in Tamil nadu..I am not here to suggest some junk party to cast yr vote.

I am going to write about the greatness of political orators skills. I love to listen these people speeches if I come across any party meeting on the way to my room. And I like to watch these guys speech in TV too. They are damn good in expressing things in their own style. Whenever I find time, I just check these speakers programme and try to attend maximum like just standing somewhere in that crowd.(without showing any expressions)..The same speaker will speak in different manner with in a week after he/she changed their party..At that time also they will speak in a stunning manner supporting their current party..That's a different story :-)

Ok..Come to the point. After watching these scenes I have one doubt. Give the mike to one MCA/MBA finished guy. Ask him/her to speak about anything in the world for just 10 mins. And do the same to any political speaker. And see,who will win?? You will be really astonished seeing the result of any political speaker(you have to stop him after 10mins, otherwise he will keep on speaking)..surely the political speaker is a low profile guy in the education level and other areas too.

We can give a lot of justification like that political speaker has a vast experience and he has took that as a profession ...Etc. But the fact is, we never learned how to speak on the stage without fear. But don't know about others, but in my case its correct. But I too, keep on participating anything from my college studies(like taking part in cultural,seminars..And other interesting stuffs).But still lacking a lot when compared to those political people. I will simply list what are all the mistakes we do in the stage...
a) start speaking without switch on the mike.
b) audible ( distance to keep the mike)
c) how interactive you are when speaking.
d) how confident you are when speaking.
e) clarity of the speech.
g) swallowing words.
I) very fast or very slow kind of speech.
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etc.

(check this link if you want to learn more on this topic...)

But, in the political speaker case, u can't find not even a single mistake like what I listed above. That's their speciality. Today also I am planning to attend one party's election speech in T-nagar. For me, its really a enjoyable election this time.

இனிய தமிழ் புத்தாண்டு வாழ்த்துக்கள்

This is my Tamil New Year post…. if I check my wish list, a lot more things are pending. I want to reduce it one by one. So I am going to start Tamil blog for this tamil new year.

Mali and I were started one blog in the year 2004 after we saw the movie AUTOGRAPH (we posted one famous dialogue from that movie). After that we forgot about that blog.

So when I was thinking what name I have to give for this new Tamil blog, I just remembered this. And then found the password and going to start from today onwards. Autograph

checkout this, Mali wrote interesting stuff about Tamil New Year...

Hobby

If anyone asks me, “where will you be 3 years down the line?” Sometimes I don’t know what to say. Because everyone is saying the bore answers like I want to be a SYSTEM ANALYST, PROJECT MANAGER or PROJECT LEADER…etc (some kind of next level designation in their field)

I generally have the habit of saying something like “technical architect”, some tech jargon that should be different from normal answers (even that is common nowadays :-)). But if I think, do I really want to become like that? I don’t know.



When I was reading the below link, I thought I should change the answer for the question in the first line (3 years down the line)? So, my answer for that question is “ethical hacker”. It looks odd initially but if you explain well then no issues, I think. (If I read any other article, I may change it to some other designation:-), But time being I will choose this)

Definition for ethical hacker:
An ethical hacker is a computer and network expert who attacks a security system on behalf of its owners, seeking vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could exploit.

I heard this word long time back and I knew a lot of financial domain groups are spending very big chunk money in this field.

Checkout this link, where I got this lead,
What I Learned at Hacker Camp

In the same way if anyone asks about my hobby that ‘s also one difficult question to answer (I mean tech. Hobbies, not cricket and other stuffs). My default answer for that question is ‘READING TECH BLOGS’. I think this is correct time to change that habit too.

So here after, my tech hobbies should be,
* Play around with · REGEX (Regular Expression)
* Writing SQL queries (single query length should be more than 3 pages in the word document)

I have a basic knowledge on these areas. But I want to become an expert on this. For that, what are all the steps I should follow? I have to think (!). So, if you have any idea on this or if you find any web links, please send it to my gmail id (duraionly@gmail.com) or put that link as a comment here. Happy surfing.

Q & A

Generally I like to read alot of question and answers type of pages in any magazine or in newspapers or in the Internet. Don't know how I learned this habit because in my school days, I hate this kind of culture when preparing for exams. (obviously everyone :-))

If I think back , it may be began with when I started reading Anantha vikatan(Tamil weekly) Mr. Madan's question and answer. Still I am enjoying that page. Not only by the weird answers and also something different from normal stuff. After reading that, I will also start giving answers for that question. Unfortunately I am the only reader for that answers…:-)

In that series, Q&A I enjoyed recently,

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From the JAVA Guru,
Question : At Sun, are you closely involved in managing the company?
Gosling replied : Not really. I'm pretty high up in the ranks, I'm a vice-president, but I have the luxury of being able to stay away from stuff. Sun's kind of a funny company when it comes to management. A lot of the oil companies are very hierarchical and Sun, on paper, we have a hierarchy, but as somebody once said, "Sun doesn't have an org chart, it has e-mail." Sun is more of a debating society than an organized corporation. More..
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Yakov Fain asked Gosling: "There are many different languages in the world. Some people are saying there are some other new languages coming up and Java is endangered. Do you feel this way?"
Gosling replied (in full): "No I don't, really. Most languages that have been coming up lately have been scripting languages - things like PHP and Ruby. And these are all perfectly fine systems. More..
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Wonderful answer given by Master Blaster,
When we are at losing side we stop matches at Eden gardens, if we don’t like the performance of maestro we boo him in Mumbai. Does cricket lost its sporting value?
Tendulkar replied : "I have to ignore them. I cannot forget the backing I have got from the people all these years just because of this. I appreciate the support I have got over so many years,'' he added. More..
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Especially I love to read Mr.Jayakanthan interview. Last week Vikatan weekly(81'st b'day special) contains his interview, but I couldn't find a web link for that....he is really stunning personality..

WEB 2.0

Checkout the WEB2.0 Companies(KINGS) List...The Next Net 25..In that list, I did a quick demo on WRITELY tool and liked very much..Its called online word collaboration. (AJAX based MS-WORD)

Recently, I was stunned by seeing the below news..( because In that list of 25 companies, I did a quick research on this tool only and the rest of the tools I just read the features alone...Is that mean,I and google thinking alike..:-))

Writely is now part of Google!

Yes, we've been acquired by Google, and we're really excited about this for many, many reasons. But I can hear you saying, "I don't care why YOU'RE excited - I want to know how this change will impact ME!" More...

Generally I have a doubt like why google acquiring (startup)products instead of creating a new one. After seeing the demo , they can comeup with a new product which is better than the existing one(they have a BRAND & BRAIN as well). I found the perfect answer for my question from one blog....

During one of the final internal "sales pitches" for the purchase, I had finished demonstrating Flickr to some important Yahoo's that weren't as familiar with it. One of the technical leaders in the room suggested, politely, that it was a waste of money and that "we could build this in six months."

I honestly don't remember if I responded to his assertion in that meeting or not (I think I did), but to me he was wrong and missing the point. Yes, we could have replicated the technology in six months. Heck, we probably would have improved it quite a bit. But we didn't have the experience to replicate the "feel" of the early Flickr community. More..

One more info, about google..

Most of you knew about the service offering by Google like Google Earth, Google Moon..In that series, Latest release speaks about Google Mars(Have a nice trip :-)).....checkout more from Google team blog

Instead of "WEB2.0", I think I can give a heading as "GOOGLE " for this post..( that much Google info than web2.0)

checkout the WEB2.0 companies logo....(looks like WEB2.0 COLLAGE ..:-))

When I write about WEB2.0 I forgot to mentioned one more thing...This time GEEK CAMP(officially "BAR CAMP") is happening in CHENNAI .. nice quote from that page.."NO SPECTATORS, ONLY PARTICIPANTS"..actually I too want to participate..lets see.