TechLads

Motivate team to work on legacy products...

2010-05-21T05:41:00.000+05:30

In every company, we have situations where some legacy products. Legacy can be in sense of programming language OR platform OR UI OR features OR anything else you think 'legacy'! But still we need to work on it because we have clients using it and we need to provide maintainability/support for them.

Only cash can not make the developers happy. You should provide them good environment so that they can pay attention to their work.

Another thing is no technology is bad OR legacy OR older. Thing is if your company needs to maintain it, then you must keep it going. But keep all standards for designing, coding, testing, code review, interactive sessions etc...

Also you can motivate them to convert your legacy code to some new platform for better performance and maintainability. Every company does that even once. Why?I think, because they want to compete with other market products.

Also provide them some cool sessions for other technologies which are used in your company but they don't know or use. Let them be deeply in the things, give them proper time and support and be problem solving. Main goal is to deliver on time with less rework and bugs.

Provide some rewards towards their work and keep them happy about their work. After all work is what we do together. If the team feels right, they will do right and develop right.

Until your product works fine without any problem and client is happy then you can think to add new feature to it. Today technology is better and we can integrate different applications without any programming language bar. You can do new development in new-age languages and integrate them with your product, which will keep your product ready for today's competition.

Google wave is open now...

2010-05-20T11:51:00.001+05:30

Hey friends, I know i am not online since last 1 year but sorry about that. I was bit busy working around new RnD stuff, so not found time to blog. But now i think i will be able to do this. I would love to tell you that Google wave is now open to all, and anyone can create new account Or use it by gmail account.

I don't think you need an introduction to google wave because many of us know it and use it. Also many sites are providing detailed usage and examples of using google wave. So i am not bother to write about that. Try it, use it as meetings, collaboration, communication, tutorials, polls etc... anything you want.

Google Wave

Zemanta - Enhances your writeup with suggested images, links, videos...

2009-06-18T07:36:00.003+05:30

Guys guys, this is my second post of today, i just can not stop myself sharing this with you. Its very nice tool. This tool does is to try to help you making your work looks more creative.

while you write your blog post in Blogger, Zemanta opens up a sidebar next to the Blogger post editor. After you've written a few sentences, Zemanta analyzes the words in your post and suggests images and video that are relevant to your post; with one click, it inserts them into your post.

Check out the screenshot, click on it view in full size. I have written "Firefox is a nice browser", the text i have pointed with green arrow. and it has suggested me links, tags,images in the sidebar etc...

Yeah may be the main image it has given has nothing to do with firefox, but i said, ' It analyzes the text" so..we will understand, it can happen :).

More @ Zemanta

MyZilla - Bugzilla desktop client...

2009-06-17T22:10:00.004+05:30

We all know what bugzilla is, But still i am mentioning for them who heard it first time.

In software development, we keep track of problems in some kind of database system. We call them 'Bugs', not those creatures :). There are some cool software systems provided for bug tracking. Bugzilla is one nice bug tracking web based tool, which can keep track of all our bugs and having many cool features.

Rather then writing myself lets see what they say about it,

Bugzilla is a "Defect Tracking System" or "Bug-Tracking System". Defect Tracking Systems allow individual or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively. Most commercial defect-tracking software vendors charge enormous licensing fees. Despite being "free", Bugzilla has many features its expensive counterparts lack.

MyZilla is a free desktop client for Bugzilla bug tracking system. By providing the means of working with a desktop application, it increases the productivity of all project members.

Here’s a short list of what’s new in MyZilla 1.2:

Enhancements

* Http basic authentication implemented.
* Access bugzilla server configured on different port that the standar one.
* For unknown file types, open with window is shown (for attachment and export files).
* Attachment icon column added to the query results grid.
* Attachment list accesible from the bug preview pane.
* Menu option for checking new MyZilla version.
* Enhanced search for bugs(search criteria using any of the bugzilla fields).
* MailTo functinality for the asignee and reporter fields.

Some of the bug fixes in 1.2

* CC and assignedTo list were not accesible in certain bugzilla configurations.
* Character encoding was not properly handled. National specific characters were not properly send to the bugzilla server.
* Some fields were not retrived and displayed in search grid.
* Exporting failed when due to width of the page.
* Date format fields not always correct handled.

More @ MyZilla

Release : JBoss AS 5.1.0.Beta1

2009-03-15T00:11:00.001+05:30

The Beta version of JBoss AS 5.1 is out. This is very much aligned with AS 5.0.1 with changes in the new configuration API (i.e. Profile Service) to be used by the next version of embedded Jopr, as well as a WebBeans preview.

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Pic: Where your Apple Tax goes?

2009-01-06T21:15:00.001+05:30

See the picture below.Its too hilarious.I am attaching here because may be if apple got eyes on the link below,then also you can see it ;).

pikchur

wyBuild

2009-01-06T21:10:00.001+05:30

With wyBuild you can deliver updates of your software to your users fast. No confusing interfaces - just simplicity.

Make your users happy by keeping them up-to-date. They'll love having the latest bug-free versions of your software. They'll talk far and wide about how great your software is.

wyday home

DivFix++ v0.31

2009-01-06T20:40:00.002+05:30

DivFix++ is an AVI Video Repair and Preview Utility. This Program allows you to preview your AVI videos which are currently downloading from ed2k, kad, bittorrent, gnutella and any other network. Simply fix them and watch them.

DivFix++ support's multiple OSes such as Linux, MacOSX, and Windows.

What is new in Version 0.31 ?

Fixed preferences dialog size on MacOSX.
Fixed unicode definitions at header files for compilation errors at windows.
Fixed shutdown behaviour at language change on windows.
Removed unnecessary Code::Block files.
Fixed non-AVI files execute player directly on preview mode.
Fixed compile warnings on XPM files.
Fixed languge scan on both /usr(/local)/share/locale on Linux.
Added DivFix++.desktop file for linux compilations. (Thanks for robocat)
Fixed Makefile uninstall options.
Added French translations. (Thanks for Didier Bourre)
Added Italian translation. (Thanks for Giovanni Fiocco)
Added korean Translation. (Thanks StarCodec)
Fixed Makefile's DESTDIR patch. (Thanks to Serkan)
Fixed Remove Files button deletes 2 file while 1 selected.
Changed Fix button to Fix / Pause / Resume tri state button.

DivFix++ Home

Torrent sites blocked by Trojan...

2009-01-06T20:34:00.003+05:30

A trojan named Troj/Qhost-AC has been spotted on torrent sites labeled as a keygen for popular software. But in a strange surprise, the trojan would modify the users host file, rather than generating a key, changing popular torrent web sites like, The Pirate Bay, Suprbay (The Pirate Bay forum) and Mininova, the two most popular torrent sites on the internet to 127.0.0.1, making it impossible to visit these sites.

The Trojan caused pop-ups on users screens and played a sound file saying "downloading is wrong". The Trojan didn't install any other spyware or malware onto the victims PC, other than blocking the three web sites, something that many users thought was strange.

I know this is not so harmful trojan,but only if you know the technical details.For novoice users it can block their daily torrent spot.So,beware and very before you download torrents using vertor.com

Firefox: most vulnerable Windows application

2008-12-16T21:20:00.003+05:30

A firm Bit9, who listed 12 most vulnerable applications on windows,has taken Firefox on top of the list.

The browser has earned the reputation from Mozilla patching 10 vulnerabilities which could be used to gain control, access, or execute miscellaneous code via buffer overflow, malformed URI links, javascript, documents and third party tools.

The browser is well respected throughout its open source community. Users can download add-ons, themes and many other tweaks that users can be used to adjust, modify and tweak their browser for maximum performance and appearance.

List of the top 12 vulnerable applications:

Mozilla Firefox
Adobe Flash and Adobe Acrobat
EMC VMware Player,Workstation and other products
Sun Java JDK and JRE, Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
Apple QuickTime, Safari and iTunes
Symantec Norton products (all flavors 2006 to 2008)
Trend Micro OfficeScan
Citrix Products
Aurigma Image Uploader, Lycos FileUploader
Skype
Yahoo Assistant
Microsoft Windows Live (MSN) Messenger

ZoneAlarm 8.0.065.0

2008-12-16T21:17:00.001+05:30

ZoneAlarm is an easy-to-use firewall that blocks hackers and other unknown threats.

Intrusion Blocking systematically identifies hackers and blocks access attempts.
Stealth Mode automatically makes your computer invisible to anyone on the Internet.
Automatic Program Configuration provides safety and simplicity by automatically configuring programs. Automatically decides whether to allow or deny Internet access to individual programs.
Expert Controls give savvy users precise control over security settings.

This free version is for non-commercial use only.

ZoneAlarm

Notepad++ v5.1.2 Released

2008-12-16T21:11:00.003+05:30

Released: 12.14.08

Whats New:
1. Fix localization (Japanese/Cyrillic/Hebrew...) display bug under Notepad++ Unicode version.
2. Fix Find in Files search in both Unicode/ANSI files.
3. Make Find in files thread-less to improve the performance and to avoid the crash.
4. Fix crash bug while loading File of User Defined Language.
5. Fix writing a key in registry while preference dialog launches
6. Fix crash in File Dialog if too many languages or extensions were added.
7. Fix memory leak when a file cannot be opened if it consumes too much memory.
8. Fix a vista issue : prevent Notepad++ save files to "virtual store" under vista.
9. Fusion 2 commands "activate main view" and "activate sub view" in "Focus the other view".
10. Fix close all files/app exit cancel bug.
11. Fix default button problem in Find in Files dialog.
12. Fix caret position moving problem after loading a session.
13. Fix bug when pasting to bookmarked lines in Unicode version.

NotePad Forum | Notepad++

Bonjour - Zeroconf Service discovery protocol

2008-11-18T23:17:00.004+05:30

Hi everyone, sorry i have been too busy since last 2 months in my new job. You know guys when we change job we need to learn lots of new things (Specifically, we IT guys :( ).

Now everyone has this problem that which protocol should be used for local corporate LAN chat.Basically now a days many things are available but i think most popular one is jabber.

You can simple go to jabber.org, get good open source/freeware jabber server and client, and chat on LAN. But this needs your company to install jabber server on local server, and they can see what you are chatting in logs :).

So better you get bonjour from Apple, which is a zero config protol. It will automatically detects all PCs and printers in LAN and show you in you buddy list. You just get it from apple's site and intall you specific OS version. As a client, you can use Pidgin.

Check the image for pidgin configuration of bonjour on you local network.You must install the bonjour library from Apple which is free.

Bonjour | Pidgin

Privacy/security breach?IPhone Snaps Everything You Do

2008-09-13T10:20:00.003+05:30

What is apple upto? I mean... this is totally a privacy breach for any user who just uses a iPhone because he likes it.

wired.com says

While demonstrating how to break the iPhone's passcode lock in a webcast, iPhone hacker and data-forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski explained that the popular handset snaps a screenshot of your most recent action -- regardless of whether it's sending a text message, e-mailing or browsing a web page -- in order to cache it. This is purely for aesthetic purposes: When an iPhone user taps the Home button, the window of the application you have open shrinks and disappears. In order to create that shrinking effect, the iPhone snaps a screenshot, Zdziarski said.
The phone presumably deletes the image after you close the application. But anyone who understands data is aware that in most cases, deletion does not permanently remove files from a storage device. Therefore, forensics experts have used this security flaw to gather evidence against criminals convicted of rape, murder or drug deals, Zdziarski said.

"There's no way to prevent it," Zdziarski said during the webcast. "I'm kind of divided on it. I hope Apple fixes it because it's a significant privacy leak, but at the same time it's been useful for investigating criminals."

Now what is that means?It means.. to catch such people,everyone is a suspect?And every user who buys an iPhone will have to suffer such things? This is not the right feature if its breaching your security and privacy.I hope wpple will do something in this regard.

iPhone 2.1 firmware

2008-09-13T10:13:00.003+05:30

Apple has released new iPhone 2.1 software on its iTunes online service that offers to decrease dropped calls, improve the battery life, improve e-mail reliability, improve text messaging notification, reduce 3rd-party application crashes and reduce the time it takes to sync the device with a computer.

Users have noticed more "bars" on the connection meter and have reported that it was faster performing key tasks. Last month's update from Apple drew some criticism from users that claimed that it did not enhance access to high-speed data networks as Apple had predicted. In this update, Apple also patched 8 security vulnerabilities including the "passcode bug" they fixed last January but failed to include in the July iPhone 2.0 update.

It seems now iPhone will be more of interest if it gives what it claims to provide!What you say?Lets hope this will bring it to what people expect from apple.

Google : Chrome EULA Update!

2008-09-06T17:34:00.004+05:30

We just have discussed the issues about 'chrome is having and Google has done it right!Google has changed their EULA and now its your rights on your content,finally :).

The search engine has been quick to rectify this issue, attributing the whole issue to accidental copy and paste. Under Section 11 of Google's Universal Terms of Service, Google retains a license to transmit or display content through its services, as per US copyright law. However, the section in Chrome was not updated. Mike Yang, Senior Product Counsel at Google, writes:

"[Our] license is limited to providing the service. In Gmail, for example, the terms specifically disclaim our ownership right to Gmail content. So for Google Chrome, only the first sentence of Section 11 should have applied. We're sorry we overlooked this, but we've fixed it now..."

The updated EULA now reads:

"You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services." And, yes, these terms are retroactive."

Google Chrome - reasons to avoid

2008-09-03T22:52:00.003+05:30

This is something really we should consider.I read this on neowin. Google chrome is a big thing these days.Everyone is talking about this small piece. But here users have submitted the flaws and vulnerability in this browser. It talks about what the users must keep in mind before use it because just the name of google. Google has released the thing without the patch for the problems.

Neowin said,

"The first, is the popular "carpet bomb" vulnerability that still exists within Chrome, as pointed out on our forums by our member matessim. This vulnerability allows malicious websites to drive by download and execute programs on your machine. Our visitors may remember the uproar that this same vulnerability caused for Safari users, and that Apple patched the carpet-bombing issue with Safari v3.1.2. Chrome is vulnerable to this exploit because it is based on the same engine, WebKit 525.13, and Google did not patch or update the engine before releasing the software.

The other, and less technical, problem with Chrome exists in its EULA. More specifically, the point that would seem to give Google rights to anything you post on the Internet while using their browser, mostly in conjunction with the promotion of its services."

As the google EULA says,

"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."

Which should not be in some browser which is an Open Source piece and expected to be a good software from a reputed company. I mean what google wants to prove?

So please think before you use it without the patch released and about your information sharing with google :).

Paint.NET v3.36

2008-09-02T10:17:00.001+05:30

Whats New:

• Improved: Effect rendering should be a little faster now.
• Changed: Implemented some changes to the "Add Noise" effect that were suggested by a forum member.
• Changed: The canvas background color is now always #c0c0c0.
• Changed: The auto-updater should now correctly detect .NET 3.5 and newer, which will help to save bandwidth when Paint.NET v4.0 is released (it will require .NET 3.5).
• Fixed: Paint.NET now works on a system that has the .NET 3.5 SP1 "Client Profile" installed.
• Fixed: When zoomed in and the cursor is to the top-left of the image (negative coordinates), the ruler is now highlighted in the correct area. Fixed: The effect rendering system no longer sets the "Tag" property on the configuration dialog.
• Fixed: Some incorrectly authored plugins would cause a crash when loading their support details (author, copyright, etc.).
• Fixed: There was a bug in the color wheel for IndirectUI that caused it to show the wrong values at initialization.
• Fixed: There was a performance problem for effects that used the IndirectUI color wheel control.
• Fixed: In some rare cases, Paint.NET would crash while shutting down.
• Fixed: When using the "Fixed Ratio" feature of the Rectangle Selection tool, it would crash if 0 was specified for both the width and height.

Paint.NET v3.36

Google launches new browser!

2008-09-02T10:10:00.002+05:30

Google is launching an open source web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox.

The browser is designed to be lightweight and fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia. Called Chrome, it will launch as a beta for Windows machines in 100 countries, with Mac and Linux versions to come.

"We realized... we needed to completely rethink the browser," said in a blog post by Google.

The new browser will help Google take advantage of developments it is pushing online in rich web applications that are challenging traditional desktop programs.

Google has a suite of web apps, such as Documents, Picasa and Maps which offer functionality that is beginning to replace offline software.

Is this will be a successful browser, because there are many of them now rocking the market. Firefox,Safari and IE will face a tough competition?Is this a way to kill all other companies or so, because google is entering in everything on the internet now.May be this is helpful to growing technology,but may be it can make monopoly or something like that.Lets hope a better Open source thing from google.

BBC News

ErrorKey - Search engine for Error codes and messages!

2008-08-26T22:31:00.003+05:30

The screenShot shows it all.I don't think i need to write about it :)

ErrorKey.com

Photosynth - Converts Pics into 3-D environment

2008-08-26T22:23:00.002+05:30

Photosynth takes a collection of regular photographs and reconstructs the scene or object in a 3-D environment. For those of you who have seen the videos or tried our tech preview, you could experience synths that we made in the lab and get a feel for what Photosynth is and how it works. But now, for the first time ever you can create synths from your own pictures and share them with your friends. Explore great synths from others or create a few of your own.

photosynth.net

SQLyog MySQL GUI

2008-08-26T20:36:00.001+05:30

SQLyog MySQL GUI Community Edition is a front end for the MySQL database server. The program is aimed at users that are familiar with SQL statements and need an easy to use, no fuss, graphical interface to execute SQL queries, manage users and permissions, edit table properties and more. The program supports execution of multiple queries and selected (highlighted) or single queries and offers a template explorer to quickly insert commonly used queries, such as create table, insert, drop table, rollback and others. In addition, you can export data in CSV, HTML & XML format and Import from a text file, export data and schema itself, flush hosts/logs and more. The program also allows you to diagnose and optimize your databases, save your favorite SQL scripts in favorite folders and more.

webyog.com

KDE 4.1 Final

2008-07-30T22:04:00.002+05:30

This release is the second feature release of the KDE 4 series, sporting new applications and newly developed features on top of the Pillars of KDE4. KDE 4.1 is the first KDE4 release to contain the Personal Information Management suite KDE-PIM with its E-Mail client KMail, the planner KOrganizer, Akregator, the RSS feed reader, KNode, the newsgroup reader and many more components integrated into the Kontact shell. Furthermore, the new desktop shell Plasma, introduced in KDE 4.0, has matured to the point where it can replace the KDE 3 shell for most casual users. Like with our previous release much time has been devoted to improving the framework and underlying libraries on which KDE is built.

HomePage

Ex-Google employees are Cuil!

2008-07-29T09:40:00.002+05:30

It seems that now google has to be in tough competition in its main area,Search engine service. Yes, new search engine named 'cuil' which means 'an old Irish word for knowledge'. As per the team of this service, it seems now the person who had given google the basic architecture is in the bussiness. Check out the homepage for more.

Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.

As they said,

"Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency.

Then we offer you helpful choices and suggestions until you find the page you want and that you know is out there. We believe that analyzing the Web rather than our users is a more useful approach, so we don’t collect data about you and your habits, lest we are tempted to peek. With Cuil, your search history is always private."

cuil.com

Site Review: FontTester.com

2008-07-28T11:45:00.002+05:30

Font Tester is a free online font comparison tool. It allows you to easily preview and compare different fonts side by side with various CSS font styles applied to them. It is very useful for web developers who are looking for just the right font/style/color to use in their pages. To use it all you have to do is simply enter the text you would like to preview, modify the various CSS properties until you find a style you like, and then click on the Get CSS Code button to generate all the necassary CSS code to reproduce those styles in your webpage.

It allows you to preview in real-time all of the available CSS font properties and includes a real-time color picker for choosing just the right color (and background color) for your text. The color picker also supports direct editing of the HSV and RGB values and includes over 1,000 pre-defined colors for you to choose from. As an added bonus, Font Tester also comes with a handy character map which you can use to quickly find the corresponding HTML Entity for a particular character.

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