Saturday, August 30, 2008

Monthly BOJUG meet was good


Today, just came back from the BOJUG (Bangalore Open Java Users Group) meet which held at ThoughtWorks' Pathshaala.
As like always, it turned out to be a nice platform where java users can learn, present, collaborate and exchange knowledge. The following topics were presented and discussed:

1. Java FX..Its just the beginning by Vaibhav Choudhary
Shared knowledge of JavaFX with Demo. How to make timeline, reflection, constraint,easing, shapes, animation, Java AWT/Swing.
2. Beans Binding and Beans Validation by Sathish Kumar
Short discussion on Bean bindings.

3. Tomcat Internals by Sriram Narayanan
Sriram covered in brief various Tomcat configuration issues (server.xml, how to avoid having to deploy during development time, etc). He shared stuff like developing custom Tomcat components, and how the component assembly mechanism works.
I must say I became really amazed by the fact that what is known as Tomcat web server, is nothing but a collection of components that can be assembled and disassembled on the fly to put together custom environments.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Clean Green Nandi Hills Drive

Last Sunday, 24th Aug, I joined an ecological campaign to contribute in making Nandi Hills litter-free. Nandi hills is situated 60 km on outskirts of Bangalore and is a cool weekend day/night-out hangout for most of the Bangaloreans. Recently we have observed it being littered with plastics, polythene and glasses. We thought of making a 'buzz' by taking this step to start a clean-up drive.

Caught the bus with couple of friends from Cisco, Yahoo, Cognizant and other IT/BT folks and we were there by 7:00 in the morning. Initiative and sponsorship was taken by Yahoo! folks to arrange cleaning kit (gloves, plastic and cotton bags ) which really helped us in collecting 25 plastic bags and 4 bags of bottles.

All I could say that we have really M.A.D. ( made a difference ) at Nandi hills.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Govinda Online -> Worth playing

This is mast-playing online flash game on occasion of janmashtami.

http://www.dahihandi.com/

Do take a look and I bet u will enjoy!

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Unnecessary evils of software services industry- The trio

Nice article and a must read. Think about it as it is a serious bottleneck for future innovations in India.

Why Wipro, Infosys and TCS are “The Axis of Evil” for Indian startup space
by Ashish Sinha
This article by Vishal echoes the true sentiments of an Indian entrepreneur- so share your opinion

Why Wipro, Infosys and TCS are “The Axis of Evil” for Indian start-up space ?
Yes you read it right I am calling this trio and their thousands of offshoots “The Axis of Evil” for Indian Software and Start-up space.....


Click here to read full article

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