3 High Quality JRuby Introductory Videos

December 18th, 2005 JRuby is a project to watch for. It implements Ruby on Java virtual machine.

December 7th, 2005 I personally used JFreeChart is several projects. I found it to be of very high quality.

March 10th, 2006 Google Inc. bought the Silicon Valley start-up Upstartle, creators of Writely , high quality internet word processing software. Writely lets users compose documents on the Web and share them with others as well as blog them.

September 4th, 2006 It is surprising to see MySpace still allows simple hacks like this. You can view any user's private videos on MySpace with this simple trick.

April 11th, 2007 RSSOwl is a high quality cross-platform (written in java; uses swt library) RSS / Atom Feed reader which is a superior free alternative to Newzcrawler or Feedreader for linux. Fedora Core 6 provides an RPM distribution for it (doesn't work) which you can install simply by: yum install rssowl However as stated before it doesn't work.

December 18th, 2005 Tomorrow I am presenting an overview of Java to management students of The Institute of Business Management, Jadavpur University. This is a introductory lecture.

October 6th, 2007 iPhone Magic AT&T iPhone Bill (30 pages) iPhone versus ePhone iPhone Calamiri Commercial Parody iPhone Shuffle Leave Steve Jobs Alone!

April 7th, 2006 Perceived leaders of all three principal open source stacks (LAMP, J2EE and .NET via Mono) on Linux debated the merits of their respective platforms at LinuxWorld 2006 in Boston. My humble annotations are in square bracket.

July 31st, 2006 jEdit is a popular Java based code editor. I have used it extensively and highly recommend it.

March 10th, 2008 Here is a nice video on the quintessential Hello World program. All you need is Java to go through this excellent introductory tutorial for Windows users.

September 21st, 2007 We will soon get into vodcasting / video blogging. I am looking at using either a decent mobile camera with video capabilities like the Samsung U600 or using a digital camcorder.

November 7th, 2005 Have you ever tried to configure your ADSL Modem to automatically connect to the internet without requiring to connect from a computer? Are you a BSNL Broadband user? I have played without success with the ADSL Modem manual before I found this gem on BSNL site. Full Screen View Link Few Tips: You may not want to keep the default IP address of 192.168.1.1 for the DSL Router.

December 28th, 2005 SwingLabs is an Open Source laboratory for exploring new ways to make Swing applications easier to write, with improved performance and greater visual appeal. It is an umbrella project for various Open Source initiatives sponsored by Sun Microsystems and is part of the java.net community.

September 16th, 2008 For several years Simple Thoughts has been authored solely by me. This ensured that we maintained the quality I am proud of.

June 3rd, 2009 With Hulu releasing its Hulu Desktop a week ago, YouTube declares a video war with its YouTube XL. With the new product, YouTube would take site viewing experience a step further.