tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83827079860016881022026-10-10T02:05:17.302-07:00My personal side.Vinay Srinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04422850554964997403noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8382707986001688102.post-40563715444874020322012-07-28T19:37:00.000-07:002012-07-28T19:37:10.905-07:00

A quick introduction to byteman: Built by the jboss community, it allows you to add code to your existing java program on the fly. It is very handy in situations like: You want to print a parameter value on the method (better yet, run a getter chain on it) Change return value of the method Know what's going on in code that you don't own ... This demonstration is to enable debug logging

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One of my not-so-much-of-a-morning-person friends had to catch a train at 6am every Monday. The thought of the merciless train that will leave him behind, scared him enough to make sure he never missed it. That got me thinking - discipline - forced or not, he had it. Train to catch - although I don't mean it literally, having a fixed schedule will force you to be a bit more punctual. My commute

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Had to post this picture! Found this advertisement for scooter rental on the streets of Rome! Only in Rome can anything like this can be pulled off! For those who don't know, the picture here is one of Michael Angelo's famous paintings depicted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

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And then there was Paris. Bidding 'au revoir' to Paris, all I can think of are the ice-creams and sorbets I had. The first spoon of melon sorbet was a melon explosion in my mouth. I had never tasted anything like it other than the fruit itself, and this was much better. The sugar content was just right, and surprisingly, the one thing about cold things I don't like - the coldness - didn't bother

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Have you really planned well? Think again, if you don't speak French, you can easily get lost here. After buying like what seemed to be the train tickets to Paris from an automated machine, we accidentally disabled them by walking in out of the ticket protected area of the station! oh boy! €17 down the drain? The people at the kiosk were kind enough to speak English, we were on our way! The

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Sept 3rd '10 6pm, finally the much anticipated time has arrived, and we are all packed and ready. Can't wait for the flight crew to start boarding and fly out way to Paris. Paris, Rome, Venice, Pisa - the names that I had heard so many times in my history lessons, and have seen gazillion pictures over the years - The dream is about to come true, and we will be there in person, watching the

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We started using amazon web services at SpikeSource, and a large machine running in one of the zones just went unnoticed until our monthly bill! The monthly bill told me that I had run a large machine on the west zone for 110 hours - didn't tell me when! There are no controls on amazon to setup alerts to check if "I have left the lights on" The usage reports that amazon lets you download have

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Today, my TestGen4Web moved past a million download mark on our developer website. It has come a long way since the original idea of just automating your actions on the browser. To mark the occasion, Calvin got me ten '100 Grand' chocolate bars :) A quick word about what the tool does: TestGen4Web is essentially a recorder of your actions on the firefox browser, and can play it back (you know,

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If you use thunderbird 3, you may have noticed an annoying link labeled 'more' on every address category (to, cc) after just 1 address is listed. It is not smart  to see if there is some more extra space to fit any more of the addresses in the category even if there is a tonne of space available. First rule of thumb when you use mozilla products, check the configuration to see if you can

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The story begins when I got a laptop (netbook I should say) with a touch screen from a company named "MosArt" A version of 64-bit windows 7 came pre-installed on it, and the touch screen worked pretty well - it had its moments, but worked. I installed ubuntu on another partition, and expected the touch screen to work out of the box. But doesn't look like anybody has heard about the company yet

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Ever wondered how those tabs are created in html? You can create tabs very easily using html list elements Here is a screenshot of simple html tabs All you really need here is to create a unordered list (UL) with class attribute set to "nav" and the list element (LI) with class attribute set to "selected" for the tab you need selected. <style>     ul.nav {&nbsp

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When I was a kid, the only television channel was doordarshan. In 1988, there was a national integration video produced called Mile sur mera tumhara. The national integration video was intended to instill a sense of pride and promote unity amongst Indians, highlighting the different linguistic communities and societies that live in India -- India's unity in diversity, so to speak. This

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Almost everyone I know have a work computer, and a home use computer or a laptop, and the problem of synchronization is too well known. You are looking up something at work, go home, and can't remember the url? The bookmark on your work computer is not available on your laptop at home? Mozilla Weave solves the problem for us. It can synchronize and merge your bookmarks, browsing history,

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Just my perspective, debates welcome. A believer has not many questions to think answers for, they have one black hole - God - that they can throw the question at it gets sucked into the mysterious nowhere, and they breath in relief. A non-believer on the other hand, has a lot to think about. Just for starters, a way to prove to the believers that there might not be a God at all. This is a bit

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Microsoft today struck a search deal with twitter and facebook - .. Microsoft has reached collaboration agreements with Twitter and Facebook to get their members' public status updates and messages indexed and presented in useful ways on the Bing search engine... Read more here: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/174061/microsoft_strikes_search_deals_with_twitter_facebook.html And

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Jumped off a 40 foot cliff at the southern most point of the United States! Risky, might not do it again, but could not resist the temptation at that time! Madhu took the pictures.Full size pictures here:http://picasaweb.google.com/vinayms/MyCliffJump

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I have heard a lot of pronunciations for "Linux", anything from Lienux, Lienex to Linux - I always wondered who was right, until I heard it from the creator - Linus Torvaldshttp://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/Listen for yourself: http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/torvalds-says-linux.wav

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A conversation in a Japan's night club, could go something like this:Boy: Hey there, what's your [blood] type?Girl: I am a A, and you?Boy: Sorry, you are not my type [literally]Japan, as advanced as it is - is apparently obsessed with blood types of peopleRef: http://www.physorg.com/news152723712.htmlIn the year just ended, four of Japan's top 10 best-sellers were about how blood type determines

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While in the back of our head we are still contemplating the idea of buying a home, I came across this article explaining why Jack wants to rent until a foreseeable future instead of owning a home.Following is his summary, but the article is a good read. He does answer common questions that people might have like "home owners get a tax break.", "why throw money down the drain", "I just made a

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The found this article through a reference -The author Ruth N. Davidar is a nutritionist and a food writer. Explains how vegetarian indian cooking compensates for the nutrition the body needs as compared to meat based cooking.http://www.hinduonnet.com/folio/fo0004/00040260.htmSome excerpts from the article:Experts will also tell you to watch your intake of iron and calcium in vegetarian

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Coffee powers my brain and Vim powers my codingYou can also see the "Official VIM Mug" in the background!

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and yes, that is my iphone ;-)

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Recently India won the much celebrated and a new cricket world cup format Twenty20I could not be more happy after a humiliating defeat in the recent normal (one-day) world cup, but look at the sheer media attention, and the amount of money that each of these players made in comparison to our national Hockey team players who recently won the Asia Hockey Cup 2007 beating Korea 7-2 to defend the

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Click: 10 great things about testing I have seen some people frown on a testing career! Simply put it, they are just naive. Although my business card says "developer", I could have been a great QA personnel. I have great respect for any individual with a passion for QA, which makes any product presentable to the customer.If it were just for the developers.. well, let me not write anymore

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oh! crap. That is my car. Plain and simple, I am going thro' hell with the insurance company right now. Even though the other driver accepted fault that she jumped the red, with the cop on scene, and the incident report clearly says so, the insurance company "respectfully denies liability"!Now, after being robbed off my transportation vehicle for the next 2-3 weeks, I have to run around for no

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