tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088Wed, 02 Oct 2024 05:23:11 +0000javaNewsHow TosFunOSGIProgrammer's loungeUsabilityphptomcat 5.5velocityhttp://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)Blogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-6782486257820761340Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:46:00 +00002009-08-28T15:28:08.082+05:30Fun<!--– google_ad_section_start –--><!--–google_ad_section_end –-->http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/linux-baby-rocker.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-739105031262411864Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:27:00 +00002009-08-27T20:55:40.703+05:30Programmer's lounge<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->One of the main reasons I have written this post is to share my experience and warn other fellow programmers. Please do NOT request other programmers in most USENET groups to review your article. You can get attacked.Few weeks ago I have written a post which I think is a quality post, as a result I wanted to have a honest opinion and thoughts from other fellow http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-programmer-was-abused-by-writing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-1181009866877344227Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:10:00 +00002009-08-11T18:50:50.041+05:30News<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->Today VMware announced they have acquired SpringSource for a mix of approximately $362 million in cash and equity plus the assumption of approximately $58 million of unvested stock and optionsSpringSource founder Rod Johnson said"Working together with VMware we plan on creating a single, integrated, build-run-manage solution for the data center, private clouds, http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/08/breaking-news-industry-reaction-vmware.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-5635121204932316732Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:20:00 +00002009-08-07T12:19:39.971+05:30Programmer's lounge<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->Most of the programmers are busy people working on some kind of projects. Having a video tutorial can provide some quality time with learning but on the other hand reading tutorials can be fast all we do is skim the main points of the post and move on.while I was discussing the topic with fellow programmer friends on twitter, USENET and online some interesting http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/08/video-tutorial-vs-written-tutorial-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-6421508110894559620Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:35:00 +00002009-08-04T20:52:40.523+05:30FunNews<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->Google has joined the bandwagon of twitter.Google said :"Like lots of you, we've been drawn into Twitter this year. After all, we're all about frequent updates ourselves, and there's lots happening around here that we want to share with you. Of course, we enjoy watching, and contributing to, the tweetstream (we hope you find our tweets useful, too). Because therehttp://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-is-on-twitter-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-3546946243636511608Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:04:00 +00002013-06-04T12:02:08.185+05:30javaProgrammer's lounge <!--– google_ad_section_start –--> While I was discussing with a few programmer friends who have subscribed to my blog, a really creative idea comes out from our discussion and I am proud of that. Discussion are important and allows programmers to expand their knowledge. They are like distributed computing, many brain works together on a topic hence Volla!!! a creative result. Don't we agree http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-gear-vs-java-ajax.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-7431197688954987664Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:02:00 +00002009-08-04T16:26:10.660+05:30How TosProgrammer's loungeHave you ever get demotivated from programing or the arena(language) of programming you are in ?I will be very honest to you about how I feel. In this time of recession many are jobless in IT industry and many are struggling with there job to be in job. Yes you guessed it right I am one of the victim of recession, its being more than six months I have no job and now I am feeling rusty in http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-i-beat-demotivation-for-programming_4454.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-6395780811617817466Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:57:00 +00002009-07-31T14:28:07.140+05:30News<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->The 10-year deal will see Microsoft's Bing powering Yahoo search, while Yahoo will use its solid relationship with advertisers to become the sales force for both companies' search advertisers.Yahoo said that it had received questions from developers immediately following the announcement about what will happen to offerings such as the Boss search API and http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/yahoo-developer-programmes-under-threat.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-7741698934999386729Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:50:00 +00002009-07-30T23:26:11.689+05:30FunNews<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->Twitter has entered the corporate world. You must have heard employees of the big companies using Twitter but Hey wait a minute now big brand names in IT world are also joining the bandwagon of twitter.Now you can follow Mysql on twitter get the latest MySQL updates, including new product releases, upcoming webinars, technical articles, newly released white http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/follow-mysql-on-twitter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-1376383559742345441Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:25:00 +00002009-07-30T22:56:20.334+05:30News<!--– google_ad_section_start –--> Internet is growing in dimensions every second, so much so that there are more addresses than there are people on Earth, claims the team behind Microsoft's new search engine Bing.Bing has put the number of web pages at "over 1 trillion", while Google had earlier indexed more than one trillion discreet web addresses.The current global population stands at more http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/web-addresses-exceed-worlds-population.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-3061282539151332087Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:41:00 +00002009-07-31T21:50:48.022+05:30OSGI<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->OSGI is a very existing technology, it provides an open common architecture for service providers, developers, software vendors. It provides an general-purpose, secure and managed framework that support the deployment of extensible and downloadable applications called BUNDLESBundles are like plugins. A developer can extend the framework to his wildest dreams by http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/step-by-step-tutorial-of-osgi-chapter-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-4386820588104435143Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:24:00 +00002009-07-23T16:57:32.671+05:30FunNews<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->The Western Wall can now be accessed through the networking service, allowing believers anywhere to have their prayers placed between its 2,000-year-old-stones without leaving home.The Tweet Your Prayers website said supplicants' messages will be printed out and taken to the wall, joining the thousands of handwritten notes placed by visitors who believe their http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/jews-can-now-tweet-prayer-to-god.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-3189035976832522497Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:06:00 +00002009-07-23T15:39:24.241+05:30php<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->Elegant Ways of Handling PHP Errors and Exceptions<!--– google_ad_section_end –-->http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/elegant-ways-of-handling-php-errors-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-8954805602047486922Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:14:00 +00002009-07-22T23:46:17.217+05:30javaNews<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->Sun Microsystems has unveiled new 1.6GHz processors for its chip multi-threaded (CMT) Sun Sparc Enterprise systems running Solaris, as well as a number of other tools and systems designed to boost performance. Skip related contentThe chips are pitched at companies looking to get the most from their servers, while also increasing their use of virtualisation. Sun http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/sun-extends-open-systems-architecture.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-1170849251294116952Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:28:00 +00002009-07-23T19:08:07.020+05:30NewsOSGI<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->Today Google has released the code of wave protocol which allows you to run Wave Server.Source CodeGoogle Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web. Watch the demo video below if you don't know what google wave is.What is Google WAVE: The VideoSome of the key features of Wave Technology isReal-time collaboration VideoNatural language http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-has-released-wave-protocol-code.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-2763593442900636409Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:41:00 +00002009-07-22T12:20:03.618+05:30News<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->"Adobe is committed to providing core Flash platform technologies to the community as open source," said Dave McAllister, director of standards and open source at Adobe."By releasing OSMF and TLF as open source, we are helping to facilitate the creation and sharing of best practices for media players and rich text-based web application development. We believe http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/adobe-has-announced-plans-to-make-its.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-6153235625107243361Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:36:00 +00002009-07-22T12:17:18.306+05:30javaOSGI<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->It been two days I am playing a lot with OSGI framework and also in a process of learning the technology so stay clam if you find any mistakes.While learning I came across a challenge to use Derby as a service in OSGI framework.The Googling BEGINS !!!!After searching for a while I came across that there is a plugin for derby in eclipse but I was reluctant to use http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-to-runuse-derby-on-equiox-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-376818957051273152Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:22:00 +00002009-07-21T17:57:41.353+05:30<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->Goosh is a Terminal-style web shell for Google services (and others)goosh provides some cool facilities like searching wikipedia, news, rss feeds, blogs etc etc with simple to use (and remember) commands.We present you The GooshSorry for the blurred image... In-order view image clearly just click on the image.We present you The Goosh<!--– google_ad_section_end –-http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-web-shell-goosh-unofficial.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-7072681243378482480Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:46:00 +00002009-07-21T18:09:43.323+05:30java<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->Providing support for Stream Control Transport Protocol (SCTP) in Java has been approved as one of the JDK 7 features. The work of defining the API and reference implementation was done through the sctp openjdk project. This work was integrated into JDK 7 Milestone 3 and is available in all future promotions.What is SCTP ?The Stream Control Transport Protocol (http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/stream-control-transport-protocol-sctp.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-7759982063850832389Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:30:00 +00002009-07-19T16:14:48.469+05:30java<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->MySQL is the world's most popular open-source database, and there are a lot of Java developers who use MySQL databases in their applications. In the video above, Mark Matthews, architect for Enterprise Tools Team at Sun Microsystems, demonstrated some of the techniques that can help Java developers get more out of their applications that use MySQL.Mark is a http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/some-of-most-powerfull-tips-for-java.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-1597959383182497623Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:07:00 +00002009-07-22T14:24:48.953+05:30javaOSGI<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->In OSGI framework, How an OSGI bundle going to read from a properties file [or any configuration file for that matter].At the moment any property file created for OSGi is added into the bundle [jar file] thus making it real tough for the user to modify its contents. Is there any other way to provide/read a configuration/property file which is outside bundle ?<!-http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/java-question-of-week.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-3947549573108598036Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:34:00 +00002013-06-04T12:03:35.817+05:30NewsUsability <!--– google_ad_section_start –-->Google Chrome OS is FREE, Fast and Lightweight Google Inc plans to attack Microsoft Corp's core business by taking on the software giant's globally dominant Windows operating system for personal computers. Google, which already offers a suite of e-mail, web and other software products that compete with Microsoft, said it would launch a new, free operating http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-planning-to-smash-microsoft.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-5215047805553671820Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:40:00 +00002009-07-22T12:13:18.123+05:30javaNews<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->Google plans to announce within the next day or so the names of PC makers in Taiwan and China that have already signed on to work with its new Chrome operating system, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. The list will be similar in style to that made for Google's Android mobile operating system, on the Open Handset Alliancehttp://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/wow-that-was-fastgoogle-started-working.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-6685327298156563680Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:42:00 +00002009-07-22T12:13:41.844+05:30javaNews<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->Google launched new operating systems Chrome OS an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. (...) Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/breaking-new-google-launched-new-os.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817341111091650088.post-6798531276718855909Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:05:00 +00002009-07-22T12:14:09.622+05:30javaNews<!--– google_ad_section_start –-->Carbonite, Inc., the leading provider of online backup to consumers and small businesses, announced today a consumer education effort and distribution program with Sun Microsystems. The distribution deal provides a free 30-day trial of Carbonite Online Backup(TM) to Sun customers who upgrade to the latest version of Java or download it for the first http://thegeekhead.blogspot.com/2009/07/flashing-news-carbonite-announces.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Abhishek Kapoor)0