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Redesigning Login on the Web

Friday, August 24, 2007

Scenario 1 – You are checking the Status of your package on Amazon. You login in the morning. Click Account. Track Packagaes. Amazon.com ‘forces’ you to login again. Why? Ah. Security. You do this 10 times. You are forced to login 10 times. Scenario 2. Ebay. Imagine you are bidding on an item and are [...]

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IPhone Review Blog, first impressions – Live update!

Friday, June 29, 2007

IPhone Review, first impressions, IPhone Problems [03 Jul evening] Well, the honeymoon is over and it’s time to get into reality. After getting pampered so much, both in public space and blogs, there are certainly some problems that have sneaked in. Battery life, better signal strength, minor bugs, some WantedLists, quite a few things now [...]

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Eclipse Plugin: Log Watcher

Thursday, June 21, 2007

I found this plugin to be pretty useful. You can set up a variety of log files to tail, and create filters for them. Per this summary: LogWatcher – A Plugin for Monitoring Changes to Files Summary: The LogWatcher plugin is precisely the kind of plugin I like: compact, focused, and well thought out. LogWatcher [...]

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Compiled, interpreted, scripting languages explained

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Came across this article.Strange that the guy is not a well known author but makes some very interesting points … “Because of this every implementation of any language is interpreted, they only differ in the level at which the interpretation happens, or is most conveniently to look at by us. Languages are not implementations, they [...]

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RTC goes IRC!

Thursday, May 10, 2007

We wouldn’t be old school without an IRC channel. I’ve registered #rtconsole on dalnet. irc://dalnet/rtconsole

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how many web frameworks?

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Frameworks, Frameworks Everywhere !!! Read this somewhere, thought of mentioning it, in case you’re wondering there are only 5 Web frameworks that exist today! Echo Cocoon Millstone OXF Struts SOFIA Tapestry WebWork RIFE RubyOnRails Spring MVC Canyamo Maverick JPublish JATO Folium Jucas Verge Niggle Bishop Barracuda Action Framework Shocks TeaServlet wingS Expresso Bento jStatemachine jZonic [...]

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next Big thing – Grid?

Thursday, February 8, 2007

It’s been a while since I’ve heard anything interesting in opensource. Hibernate, Spring, RubyOnRails … what next? I see a potential of Grid related software transforming the way stuff works on the internet. Imagine a “Software Platform” where every clinical trial in the world can talk to each other, are interoperable, exchange data in the [...]

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abusing the “I”nterface

Monday, January 1, 2007

Developers tend to abuse design patterns and software standards. One such paradigm is Coding for an interface.. When writing daos, the first thing that the book says is “write an interface first”. Good, I write an interface and a hibernate implementation.Then I write another interface and another implementation. I add a method here and a [...]

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Fun with USB Flash Drive

Sunday, October 29, 2006

I’ve got a 2G USB Flash Drive and I’ve been trying to find the most useful ways for me to use it. Here are some things I’ve discovered on my journey. Safely Remove Hardware Clicking on the tray icon to safely remove the USB drive tells you that the drive is still in use. After [...]

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CSBS – Open Source Professionalism

Wednesday, October 4, 2006

This blog is meant to be an educational one, but I found something I had to complain about. Check out this block of text from the Acegi Security System for Spring reference manual. (Section 2.4) “For those not familiar with AOP, the key point to understand is that Acegi Security can help you protect method [...]

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