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When Google Owns You

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Chris Brogan asks the tough questions about the internet Empire Google. What happens if you’re a user of Gmail and other Google services, and one day they disable your account? Monday afternoon, after lunch, Nick came back from lunch to find out that he couldn’t get into his Gmail account. Further, he couldn’t get into [...]

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Configuring Applications with Spring

Monday, April 28, 2008

Carbon Five Community has a really nice article on different ways of implementing/overriding properties files in Spring. In a real-world application, we not only need to collect settings, but also override them in different environments. Many of our applications are deployed in 4 or more environments (developer machine, build server, staging server, and production), each [...]

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Google sponsored links point to fraud/scam shopping sites. Beware

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

The next time you google for a Digital SLR Camera (like the new Canon 40D or Nikon 200D) or a LCD hi-def TV,  beware of fraudulent websites being shown in the Google sponsored links on the top and to your right of the browser search results! Some of these sites, promote with a price [...]

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Where are the women in IT?

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

I thought the blog title calls in for an interesting research topic, however someone has already presented a paper on exactly the same name. I’ve been working on writing code and not-writing-code-but-getting-paid-for-getting-code-written kinda job all the while, it’s almost a certainty that today, serious women programmers are as fictional as marvel comic characters. Well, I’m [...]

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