50 Random Articles
- JBoss Seam, Stripes and Hibernate: An Irreverent Look at Java Software Frameworks & RoR
What is it with all these frameworks? Why can't JBoss Seam or even good 'ol Hibernate give me a simple HelloWorld example anymore?
Also have you noticed how complex it is to setup the whole JBoss Seam in the first place?
I
- Simple quick search (I am lucky!) feature in FireFox
Typing a keyword like java in the location box does an automatic search and takes you to the first link it finds. It fails when the link contains a (dot).
This is useful for "I'm lucky" kind of search.
- Are Most Link Extractors (Including WordPress Comment Link Extractor) Wrong?
Most link extractors I know, including the function in WordPress to linkify comments, incorrectly assumes that any text containing http:// is a hyperlink including obvious mistakes like the following:
I propose a new protocol starting with phttp://... What do you think?
phttp
- Understanding the Role of Manuals in Software Development
Contents
Role of Manuals in Software development
Debunking the XP Myth of Code is Documentation
Additional value of Good Documentation
Role of Technical Writers in XP project
Summary
Role of Manuals in Software development
I was reading an interesting article from Ron Jeffries on issue of
- Researchers claim that your typing style can be used for authentication: Security Pipeline
If this works out then no more forgotten passwords for me!
Keyloggers will still work. Not only that you can now trick anyone to type on your computer anything and analyse the pattern to figure out his password. Or you could
- A Plan for Stopping Online Music & Book Piracy
Online piracy is assuming alarming proportions and will continue to do so with the popularization of internet and better bandwidth availability to customers. Online piracy affects every material that can be moved online - music, video, books and software. A
- Java Software Performance: Stories from Trenches
James Gosling blogs about Java software performance myths and posts an interesting story (below). The comments contains few more stories from the trenches as they say. Lets look at the real picture shall we?
There was a funny incident at a
- Power Interviewing Tips for Landing your Dream Job
I am now out of the job market for quite sometime. I enjoy leading Taragana. I enjoy everything I do there.
However not so long ago I too was in the job market - interviewing and evaluating job offers. And
- Foxconn Denies iPod Sweatshop Claims
Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry) has sternly denied a report insinuating that the company was making iPods for Apple Computer in sweatshops.
Edmund Ding, spokesman for Foxconn - chief maker of iPods - said there
- 4 Safe Weight Loss Tips From FDA
Most of us, myself excluded, aspires to be thin especially so much so that they often adopt unhealthy practices which lead to bulimia or diabulimia. Here are some safe tips from FDA which doesn't involve consulting a doctor and can
- Revenge of The Vole (aka Microsoft)
I know "The Vole" is so The Inquirerish. However I couldn't resist the intended pun. Google claims in its countersuit filing that Bill Gates warned Kai Fu-Lee that Steve Balmer, CEO Microsoft, is going to sue him and Google to
- How To Add Single Quotes In WordPress Posts
Single quotes are a royal pain when using WordPress to post your code. WordPress, in its infinite wisdom, does some really bad things to it. And anyone who attempts to simply cut-n-paste your code sample is in for a rude
- How to have a meaningful chat with your dog
Psychologist Stanley Coren says there is a way to understand what your dog says and thinks.
He claims any communication breakdown is not the fault of the dogs, but of the stupid humans who cannot decipher what they are being told.
Some
- AIDS Patient & Children: Dangerous Mix?
Today's newspaper reported a heart-warming story in a village in West Bengal who has adopted a widow with AIDS. She is allowed to freely mix with the families and even cuddle their children. His husband contracted AIDS which on job
- How To Fix WordPress Image / Media Uploader
Frankly I am tired of the Flash based image uploader. It doesn't work most of the time, when it works it is pretty unstable, frequently fails on Opera, doesn't work (for me) on Firefox in Linux even with latest Flash,
- Free Eye Care Book - Better Eyesight Through Natural, Herbal and Yogic Methods Updated
The free book on complete eye care by natural, herbal and yogic methods has been updated.
More updates are on the pipeline as well as an e-book containing the new version of the book.
- Translator Plugin Pro / Gold 5.0: Multiple Engine Failover Support
Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 (& Gold) provides automatic multiple engine failover support. What does it mean to you as a WordPress blogger?
First let's understand how Translator Plugin translates your blog. We rely on multiple external translation engines like Google
- Proposed Features For Angsuman's Translator Pro Version 4.0
We are in the final stages of testing Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro Version 3.1 for WordPress blogs. The next major release will be 4.0. Version 4.0 will add several much requested features in the Translator plugin. The major features are:
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- State of comment spam
1 comment approved
69 comments deleted
Its kind of getting painful deleting "texas-holdem", "debt-consolidation" emails by hand.
What wordpress needs is a bulk moderation folder where such emails can be automatically dumped and if un-moderated deleted after say 30 days.
However word filtering is
- A calculator for multiline numerical / accounting calculations
There are hundreds of online calculators ranging from javascript, flash and java calculators. Many of them provide an astounding array of functionalities.
However when I needed a simple calculator, which allows me to enter numbers by hand in multiple lines (
- Free Java Utility To Touch Files (Cross Platform)
This is a simple commandline Java utility which I wrote down in under 5 minutes to help in checking-in (svn commit) over 500 files which were modified but the dates weren't changed due to an error in our settings. So
- Groupware on Linux Recommendations
I am evaluating different Groupware packages (like Microsoft Exchange) for Linux. Can you please give some recommendations? So far I have come across Scalix, eGroupware, Open-XChange and The Horde project. Have you used any of them for business?
- How to close all connections in HSQLDB (also prevents a locking defect)
I have noticed that despite closing all connections and exiting a standalone HSQLDB database, at least one connection still remains open.
The defect is manifested in HSQLDB 1.7.3 and HSQLDB 1.8.0 RC 8.
If you compile and run the sample code
- Google Spreadsheets Takes on Microsoft Excel With Online Collaboration
Google released a limited test version of Web-based spreadsheet program to make it simple to edit and share lists and data online. It comes barely months after Google bought a small Silicon Valley company called Upstartle, creators of a Web-based
- Oracle Database Management System 10g R2 takes a huge leap forward on Automated Diagnostics and Monitoring
The newly released Oracle Database 10g Release 2 offers enhanced automated features designed to ease the burden of statistics collection and analysis.
Automation is the key mantra with 10g release. In the words of Mark Townsend, Oracle's Senior Director of Database
- What is comment spamming? Couple of interesting case studies.
Sometimes I find people evangelizing some religion through comment spamming. Is it spamming?
I think it is. Without knowing the religion of a person if you try to thrust your own religion down his throat, it is wrong. The comments are
- Tips on Java Software Certification Options
I have received several questions regarding java certifications. This is a concise guide to java software certification options for java developers, software architects, non-developers like project managers, product managers etc. considering your current expertise and career goals.
There are two
- WordPress Plugin - Strip nofollow tag from comment URLs
Introduction
WordPress (a Weblog/CMS software) comes with "nofollow" enabled by default, with no option to disable it! This plugin provides an option to disable "nofollow" in the most efficient way possible without altering any WordPress code.
Background
Any comments URL's posted by
- Mysteriously children are getting saved from near death in Bengal!
First there was this newborn child. Her mother accidentally gave her birth in the toilet of a running train. And the child slipped from her and fell down the toilet tube in between the railway tracks (from a train moving
- Arabs face higher risk of diabetes
According to a study by Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services in cooperation with Wayne State University -
People of Arab descent are at significantly greater risk of diabetes than the general population and use tobacco at high rates,
- WordPress 2.0 - The Horror Story and How to Downgrade
I have been hearing horror stories across the board with WordPress 2.0 release. The wordpress forum is filled with wide ranging issues. Here's what you can do.
If you are on WP 1.5.x version then I strongly suggest that you wait
- Dell Laptop Explodes in Conference
A Dell laptop sudenly exploded into flames, in what could have been a deadly accident, at a Japanese conference.
"The damn thing was on fire and produced several explosions for more than five minutes"
via The Inquirer
I suspect it is the battery.
- Free Book on Complete Eye Care Updated
The free book on complete eye care - Better Eyesight Through Natural, Herbal and Yogic Methods has been updated to provide commenting support. Now you can add comments and share your experiences in using the book on each page.
Looking forward
- Cuil Search Engine: Google Competitor From Ex-Google Employee
An ex-Google employee and her husband has taken on the task of creating a good competition for Google by the name cuil (pronounced cool). Cuil is a search engine with a difference.
First of all the results are presented in a
- Writing Comparator for sorting on columns
The challenge is to write a generic comparator which allows for sorting of the data based on a chosen column in either ascending or descending order when the column data type is not known upfront.
When I faced with providing the
- Guide To IT Entrepreneurship in India
I gave a presentation on IT entrepreneurship at National Institute of Technology Durgapur to MBA students and local entrepreneurs in summer of this year. The presentation was in my laptop which I finally got a chance to open today. The
- Developing Clean AJAX / Javascript Driven Websites; Say No To Tag-Soup
Behaviour promotes itself as "the missing link for your AJAX apps". It allows you to use CSS selectors (like id or class) to apply Javascript behaviors to your HTML elements.
No more embedding Javascript tags in your HTML. What Behaviour
- My Dad's burgling your house
A 31 year old Dutchman returned from work to find a strange car in the drive of his home in Pieterburen, near Groningen.
Two children were sitting on the back seat so the man asked them where their father was and
- Using RentACoder To Outsource Spam Software Development
RenACoder is used to outsource projects at riduculously low prices. RentACoder, in my experience, often contains dubious project postings which are clearly for unethical purposes. Today's project stands out for its clarity of purpose - to subvert Yahoo Mail's spam
- Blog Buzz: Java vs PHP vs Ruby
All these three languages are generating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. It appears Java is currently having an upswing while Ruby is having a downward trend. I hope it is just normal fluctuations for Ruby and not the
- Experiences With eBox Platform (Total Network Solution for Small Business)
eBox platform provides a mini-debian installation along with its modules to allow you to provide and manage network services on your corporate network. The key capabilities includes support for multiple external network interfaces with load balancing, traffic shaping, transparent proxy,
- The sad story of a good Netizen.. can you do anything to help him?
Many of you have downloaded WarFTPD and other communication programs from www.jgaa.com. I had done several times before. Today when I was downloading warftpd, I noticed a small link on the main page which lead me to the story of
- iPhone Activation for Dummies
iActivator is a nice Mac OS X application which allows activating your iPhone without a contract. It provides a nice graphical user interface and is very well suited for the non-technical people.
You can easily do with the UI the
- Monsoon Season... My Love
Monsoon is a feature of Indian sub-continent. The rainy season is upon us and with a vengeance this time. There are water-logged streets and homes everywhere, thanks to effective drainage management of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Businesses, including IT, are being
- Top 10 Web Hosting Providers (Updated August 2005)
According to Hosting-Review, an independent provider of web hosting reviews, the Top 10 Web Hosts (updated August 2005) are:
BlueHost
IX Web Hosting
Powweb
Lunarpages
iPowerWeb
Yahoo Hosting
StartLogic
Host Excellence
Bluefish Hosting
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- Blogs I Read - Russell Beattie Notebook
I have started covering some of the blogs I love to read, bloggers who resonate with me at some level. In the first article I covered Guy Kawasaki's blog. Today I will talk about Russell Beattie's Notebook.
Old Russ is a
- Providing Free Upgrades for Translator Plugin Pro & Translator Plugin Gold
We have started providing free upgrades for (WordPress) Translator Plugin Pro (Version 5.2) & (WordPress) Translator Plugin Gold (Version 1.2) to all our existing customers.
Please let us know if you haven't received your upgrades within 24 hours.
Notes:
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- How To Judge A Man
The true worth of a (wo)man is not how much he has accomplished when things are going in his favor, when fortune is smiling on him.
His true worth is revealed when in stress, how he stands up against his enemy,
- Google Spamming Mailing Lists!
You heard it right. I too am surprised to say the least. I am part of JavaJousters mailing list, a Java algorithms challenge group, where we discuss about JRobots tournaments and tips and tricks on creating or improving JRobots, an
- Google Earth Rival for France
France unveiled Géoportail website on Friday. It allows people to access detailed satellite images of the country and offers more detail of France than Google Earth.
France President Jacques Chirac realized the need for France to have a site which beats
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