UDDI: Hype & reality & Role of Standards body

December 14th, 2005 In a significant move IBM decided to shutdown its UDDI business and test registry, one of the earliest available. I would be very interested to know the real reason behind the shutdown.

July 6th, 2007 Two good articles on coding standards and traits of good software developer which I think you will enjoy: 1. Top 10 Reasons Not To Use Coding Conventions / Standards 2.

June 12th, 2008 Sun offers 5 free proficiency assessment examinations. Read below for details and how you can take them.

June 28th, 2006 Surfing the Web on a mobile device may become easier thanks to a new set of standards approved by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The new set of rules and guidelines specify how Web sites should work and be viewed on portable devices are collectively called - "Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0." The standards offer instructions for creating the best user experience for accessing the Web from such devices as cell phones, smartphones, or PDAs.

June 2nd, 2006 Top 10 reasons not to use coding standards: 1. Coding conventions are hard to remember.

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

September 6th, 2006 One of the core architects of Windows Vista is leaving Microsoft weeks after it emerged he would be re-assigned once Vista operating system is launched. Valentine led Windows code engineering for seven years and is joining Amazon as a senior vice president.

March 25th, 2006 According to latest news flash scientists have found mice testicles can yield embryonic stem cell like cells. A team in Germany has successfully grown mouse ESC-like cells from spermatagonial stem cells which normally turn into sperm.

December 16th, 2005 It has become a fulltime jobs of some morons to reverse hype Java for several years now. First it was "Java is slow" myth which was perpetuated.

September 12th, 2006 Lately whenever I am checking my blog stats in PubSub, I am getting "blog.taragana.com" has not been active in the past 30 days.. blog.taragana.com has been very much active during this time.

March 18th, 2005 LOS ANGELES -- Researchers might be getting closer to finding a cure for diabetes. Researchers announced a new treatment and medicine, and the discovery of a gene that might play a role.

January 29th, 2007 Now you can easily convert your .NET applications to Java / J2EE and run it on Linux or other Java enabled platforms directly from your Visual Studio .NET IDE. You can use your Visual Studio .NET IDE to build server applications that can run natively on J2EE and hence on Linux and other Java enabled platforms, with the help of Visual MainWin for J2EE from Mainsoft.

December 19th, 2005 I just happened to chance upon much hyped WriteBoard from 37Signals. It is an online (ajax enabled; what isn't these days?) service to create and edit text documents with a wiki like syntax.

March 17th, 2006 In order to deal with both old tag soup written to old browser quirks and new standards-compliant pages, Mozilla (and Mozilla-based browsers), Mac IE 5, Windows IE 6, Safari, Opera 7 and Konqueror 3.2 have two main layout modes. In one mode the layout engine attempts to render conforming pages according the CSS and HTML recommendations.

October 11th, 2005 Everyone today is talking about Web 2.0. In the post-dotcom era several concepts were re-defined, old ideas re-emerged with new variations.