The Rise of POJO’s (Plain Old Java Objects)

August 9th, 2006 Ozura Mobile, a leading publisher and developer of mobile entertainment, today announced they are releasing Lava Kroft to mobile phones and users globally. This mobile action adventure game stars Lava Kroft who is a new age woman who has an exceptional thirst for discovering some of the most intriguing and mystical treasures in the world (tell me that doesn't sound familiar to a certain female whose name happens to rhyme with Lava's).

September 24th, 2007 Simple Thoughts has always been about technology. However occasionally I like to post something humorous.

September 29th, 2005 According to TIOBE Programming Community Index Java is the leading programming language again, ahead of C and C++, its nearest rivals. Perl and PHP occupy 4th and 5th positions respectively attesting to the power of scripting languages.

February 4th, 2006 Sun Microsystem (SUNW) is down in many sense of the word. The billion dollar question is whether it can come back again.

November 29th, 2005 With the merger of WebWork and Struts now it is crystal clear that our beloved (not to speak bad about the dead) java web framework is no more with us. It's parts will however be salvaged and added to WebWork.

June 6th, 2006 What is my agenda for Simple Thoughts blog? What are my goals? My goal is to provide accurate and quality information on java and web technologies. It includes providing code samples, software, wordpress plugins, software reviews, news and views, architectural discussions and much more.

October 22nd, 2005 Unisys is putting Open Source Java software technologies (J2EE stack) directly on the mainframe using a native Java virtual machine. Why? to improve the scalability, security and transactionlity integrity of J2EE apps; to make it easier for J2EE and mainframe assets to communicate with one another; and to provide n-tier Java/J2EE and mainframe developers a “back door” entry point through the mainframe-based J2EE app server to achieve complex (or tricky) updates/changes to mainframe programming.

July 21st, 2005 When Java software developers consider portable devices as platforms for their applications, they often see cell phones as the only real option. Cell phone only focus is now changing.

June 15th, 2005 Here is an opportunity to vote for your favorite programming language and get others interested in it too, including myself. The languages are presented in no particular order.

June 3rd, 2009 In a recent development, Sun Microsystem has joined hands with mobile phone majors Orange, Vodafone Group and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications to make it easier and cheaper for the developers to bring Java programs to mobile phones. On Tuesday, Sun Microsystem released the new open-source testing tools in JavaOne developers conference in San Francisco.

April 22nd, 2009 Unlike IBM's failed attempt to acquire Sun Microsystems, the $7.4 billion tendered by Oracle to buy the Santa Clara-based enterprises solutions firm makes good sense for all three companies. It is also gives an honourable exit and hope of a new dawn for a setting Sun, in danger of being gobbled up and swallowed.

March 4th, 2004 Update: Many of you are coming to this link as it is top ranked in google for jdk1.5. Welcome! Few links of interest judging from your comments: Download Java Development Kit (contains compiler, interpreter (with just-in-time compiler) and other tools for development and deployment) - This is a must download if you want to learn Java Java Tutorial - A good introductory tutorial on most Java topics Thinking in Java - For many it is a favorite book for learning Java.

December 11th, 2004 Using php 5.x is not documented in the manual, there are lots of questions with few answers, redundant hints etc. Even php 4.x users will benefit from this as it shows how to enable php only in a single web application, instead of all web applications as all the existing docs state. Enjoy!

September 4th, 2006 Last week was an interesting one as hot debate raged over Joel Spolsky's article on enterprise language, Hani rightly bashed copious logging of open source software and my article on hacking attempts from Caltech topped the list of most read articles. We released Anaconda, a beautiful 3 column WordPress theme and version 3 of Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress.

April 27th, 2009 There can be a number of test cases for every system and only a few of them can be run. These cases can be used to detect most of the defects in the software.