I am preparing for attending JavaOne. I will cover JavaOne 2008 live on this blog and on twitter.

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I got an invitation for covering JavaOne and received a Press pass for the conference.

I am planning to attend the conference from 6-9 May in San Francisco and live blog about the event. I will be updating soon on the sessions I plan to attend and more.

Looking forward to meet some old friends in San Francisco during my stay.
Let me know if you are planning to attend too…

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. What was even more surprising is that USA doesn’t figure in top 10.

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Openfire (Jabber/XMPP server) by default binds on port 8080 which is also used by Tomcat. This causes Tomcat to fail when openfire is started before it. The solution, as always, is simple.

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Simple Thoughts was chosen as the name of this blog in distant past to highlight my approach - simple solutions for complex problems.

The name stuck over the years. However as many pointed out that Simple Thoughts is about Web software & technologies like WordPress, Java, PHP etc.; none of which is reflected in the name. It is a technology centric blog.

What would you, my reader, suggest as the most appropriate name for this blog?

After sometime I am back to developing in Java & JSP. And boy does it smell good! If there is a programmers heaven, I am in it now. I have small self-made libraries to help automating regular tasks, tons of high quality free third-party libraries for the bigger ones like opencsv, poi etc. and I am kicking some coding storm. After spending sometime with other languages and environment it sure feels sweeter.

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GCJ 1.4.2 which was forcefully bundled with Fedora Core 6 (and has been updated from their repository to the latest available version) must not be used with any enterprise product, nay for any Java project at all. I know it is being used in OpenOffice, which I think is a serious mistake. It is dangerously buggy and needs tons of testing even for hobbyist usage. Let me explain why.

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