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Happy Holi

2009-03-11T14:27:00.002+09:00

Its been almost two years after returning to India, feels like a long time as lot has changed not only in terms of regular life but in terms of overall market condition of the world
Wish you all a colorful and happy holi and days ahead

Leadership

2007-09-26T19:26:00.001+09:00

"There's a Hole in my Sidewalk", by Portia Nelson

Chapter 1.
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost...
I am helpless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.
Chapter 2.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I cant believe I am in this same place.
But it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.
Chapter 3.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in... its a habit.
But, my eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.
Chapter 4.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.
Chapter 5.
I walk down another street.

Internet penetration statistics

2006-09-19T20:00:00.000+09:00

Read an interesting article on internet penetration statistics around the world which now amounts to 16%. Asia growing fast with China leading the way followed by Japan
Top 5 countries with highest number of internet users are

U.S.

China

Japan

India

Germany

Remote debugging with Eclipse and Tomcat on Windows

2006-08-22T10:24:00.000+09:00

Having worked in Java mostly from GVIM, I felt very uneasy with the words like Remote Debugging in Eclipse integrated with Tomcat Running In Debug Mode, until I tried it out.
The procedure really is very very simple, and following writeup might help someone in similar situation.

Deploy your war file in Tomcat

Test the deployed application works in non-debug mode using web browser

Start Tomcat in debug mode by following steps mentioned below
- Set the following paramters in environment
- Start Tomcat as C:\Apps\Apache\Jakarta\Tomcat\bin>catalina.bat jpda start

In debug dialog create new 'Remote Java Application'.
Set host to where Tomcat is running and port to JPDA_ADDRESS
Set breakpoint whereever you need to and take action to execute that code path.
That's all there is to it.

Problems encountered:
For some reason, JPDA_ADDRESS value was ignored in startup, you can cross check that by the logging @startup of Tomcat

Picassa for Linux

2006-05-29T09:19:00.000+09:00

Relieved to read that Google has released Picasa for Linux. Can't wait to give it a try.

Testing Marathi Input

2006-03-30T12:41:00.000+09:00

बारहा चे फ़ौन्ट वापरुन मराठि मध्ये टाइप करत आहे
माहित नव्हत कि हे इतक सिम्पल आहे :-)
This is a test using Baraha devnagari fonts. Didn't realise it's that simple :-)

Why should I learn Python ?

2006-03-21T15:45:00.000+09:00

ps -ef | grep thoughts
Bitten hard !!! Actually the title is bit misleading, I have been looking into Python recently and am already a complete convert now. It is very difficult to convince your mind "Why learn yet another programming language ?". And Why Python ? Why not perl ?. I would recommend you to read Eric's article in previous link but in a nutshell
1> Python is not just a scripting language
2> It drastically increases programmer productivity
3> Difficult to write cryptic code like in perl
4> Programming becomes fun
Give it a try, you will love it

How Linux Could Overthrow Microsoft

2005-09-09T15:48:00.000+09:00

Read a very interesting article here.
I gave up Windows in favour of Linux little more than a year ago. Sure it was painful initially but staying with windows was more painful than the migration. And of course one must not forget than there was a period, not very long ago (when I started programming), when there were no (M$) Windows :-)

This is my first mail blog

2005-09-09T12:41:00.000+09:00

Just testing how mail blogging works

Random thoughts

2005-05-30T08:20:00.000+09:00

Monday's in Tokyo somehow manage to be very dull. Recently I have been thinking a lot about Peter's principle, feels like I am on crossroads...