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My Twitter Updates
My daughter's getting one.. RT @cshirky: Dollhouse kit for girls that includes circuit comps: lights, fans, buzzers.. http://t.co/EJUec087 - 1 day ago
RT @jansegers: TwitInfo: Aggregating and Visualizing Microblogs for Event Exploration - http://t.co/x0djN2Ru - 1 day ago
Facebook buys Karma app http://t.co/gECKtXMv - 2 days ago
Very cool. I want one of these! Now where do I find a suitable car? http://t.co/cv6TLWFq - 2 days ago
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Author Archives: admin
Love What You Do!
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love … Continue reading
My first impressions on Google Wave
I am very excited to receive my Google Wave Developer Sandbox account. Google Wave is actually three layers – the Product, the Protocol, and the Platform. What I am seeing in the Developer Sandbox is actually the Product using the … Continue reading
Hibernate and Composite keys
I like using surrogate keys for most of the database designs for the following reasons: Simplifies design and may improve efficiency Maintainability: Change to the meaning of the natural key could change the table structures when using natural keys Natural … Continue reading
Mock objects and Testing
This has been a much discussed topic over the web in the last couple of years. I was responding to one of the emails at work about mock objects. While organizing my thoughts about Mock objects, I decided to write this post. … Continue reading
Feedback for improvement in agility
Last week, during a casual chat with our Agile evangelist, I asked about what could be improved in our team based on what he observed. He quickly said that it depends on a lot of things and that it is difficult to … Continue reading
Application Configuration properties simplified by Spring
The combination of PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer and PropertyOverrideConfigurer classes in Spring Beans API have been invaluable for me to simplify configuration properties for a few of applications I have worked-on recently. The placeholder configurer helps us to share the properties across various … Continue reading
Best way to demo/learn a Java-based API
I designed and implemented a dual-API SDK at my current job. This dual-API SDK did not initially run on any application server. During this implementation, I learnt that it is best to use a dynamic language like JRuby or JPython or Groovy for … Continue reading
Posted in Java
Tagged Calling Java from JRuby, Dual-API SDK, Dynamic languages, irbrc, JPython, JRuby
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OSGi for Web Applications?
Web applications are the most common type of deployments on the application servers. So, if OSGi is going to be a serious contender in the application server market, I would expect it to have great support for deploying web applications … Continue reading
Posted in Java, OSGi, Web Technologies
Tagged Equinox, Jetty, OSGi Compendium, OSGi HTTP Service, Servlet Bridge, SpringDM
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Stig’s identity revealed..!
TopGear is one my favorite TV shows. One of the attractions about TopGear was the suspense about the Stig, especially after the hilarious introductions (“some say…..”) of the Stig by Jeremy Clarkson in almost every show. Today, this was revealed by BBC. … Continue reading
Hibernate direct field acess and encapsulation
I am a big fan of the Hibernate’s direct field access functionality. I am not sure why ”property” access is the default instead of “field”. Direct field access allows me to control the number of getters/setters that are actually needed from the DAO Client’s perspective. … Continue reading