Problem with bazaar style of development

January 22nd, 2007 We planned to ship most of the updates for existing customers on Sunday, yes we did work on Sunday too too get your updates in time. However while trying to ship Translator 4.0 update we faced a small problem with the batch file.

July 13th, 2009 Often its hard to control when you have multiple versions of the same document to choose. You might be confused over the fact whether you are using the an updated version or if there is any revision you have missed out to include.

March 12th, 2004 People hate abrupt changes to the way they work. So changes have to be introduced, slowly but steadily.

April 1st, 2006 In a significant (read earth shattering for Java community worldwide) move Sun has announced their decision to open source Java technologies. The JCP will be disbanded in favor of open source bazaar model.

February 10th, 2007 Twenty years before most scientists expected it, DWave has announced a 16 Qubit quantum computer that promises to massively speed up computation as we know it (64, 000 operations simultaneously). DWave will debut at two locations, one at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on February 13th, and the second at the Telus World of Science in Vancouver, Canada on February 15th.

May 4th, 2005 I am sure most of us have noticed at grocery stores and large retailers, the cashiers rarely, if ever, verify your signature. In fact some even give back your card before you return your signed receipt! I didn't know how pervasive the problem was till I read John Hargrave's exploits with credit card.

March 10th, 2008 It was well known that there is a significant amount of Java development in Bangalore these days. However it took me by surprise to find that it may actually be a world leader in terms of amount of Java and India too as a country.

January 15th, 2007 I wanted a seamless procedure to update web sites and web applications without compromising security. The development server is under a firewall and so is the production server.

April 19th, 2005 Recently the question (How to add add custom functions to a theme) was posed in WordPress Support Forum. Personally I faced the same question when re-designing this site.

June 24th, 2006 HitTail is a nifty utility to get suggestions for writing your blog entries following the long tail model. All throughout the day I couldn't login to their site, proving once again - If it sounds too good to be true...

August 11th, 2007 I have a Samsung GSM mobile phone SG R220. It has been working fine for last 6 years.

August 2nd, 2005 Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame has written an excellent article on the value of star programmers in a product development team. To summarize: Star programmers significantly outperform average programmers often with 5-10 times difference in productivity.

May 25th, 2009 After writing a detailed guide of tips and howtos about Xfce (a free desktop environment for Unix and other platforms such as Linux, Solaris and BSD) we started our expedition on Xfce and soon encountered a problem that we had no feasible and complete solution to. One of our developers was having some problems with the Xfce panels.

December 21st, 2007 strip_tags() in PHP has several problems. It doesn't recognize that css within the style tags are not document text.

September 18th, 2005 I posted earlier about my inability to use Sysdeo Tomcat Plugin with Eclipse 3.1. I found the solution.