Tech Mantra

Inside Android

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:39:00 +0000

Android arrives!

$10M developer awards!!

A good discussion at Arstechnica on why Google chose Apache license

“Open is good because it’s about choice. It allows people to do what they want,” says Steve Horowitz, engineering director of the Open Alliance.

Write your first Android application and let us all see what open source does to mobile industry.

Google Collections API

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:24:00 +0000

Via InfoQ, Google comes up with advanced java collections API

Google Collections home

OSGi Basics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:18:00 +0000

from InfoQ, This is a very good presentation by Peter Kriens

OSGi Foundation

SEO Jokes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:49:00 +0000

The problem with SEOs jokes is that most SEOs don’t think they are funny, and most people don’t understand that they’re just jokes!

More jokes about SEOs:
http://seo-theory.com/wordpress/2007/08/30/old-seos-dont-joke-they-just-make-you-laugh/

If you asked yourself "what is SEO"?, read this.

Bumptop - New path to your desktop

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:17:00 +0000

A little outdated but interesting. I was browsing through this list of technology talks at TED, this one about new desktop got my attention. There is a youtube video explaining how it works.

More graphics about bumptop.
Not much news about what they are doing with this now. They are still hiring. I hope something cool comes out of this.

JavaFX

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:57:00 +0000

Microsoft has Silverlight, Adobe has its Flex and now Java has its JavaFX. At work, we have a kiosk with super-cool UI. First we used Flash, completed another prototype in Flex but ditched it because it got too complicated to code and deploy. We switched to good old Swing and it worked as expected and looked neat. It is the first Java based thick app I really liked (stupid IBM DB2 command center flashes in my mind) and it works perfectly. Then came JavaFX and my fellow codemonkeys jumped on it. Here is a list of links to get started. Enjoy!

Main sites
http://sun.com/javafx/
https://openjfx.dev.java.net/

Overview

http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2007-0508/javafx/index.jsp

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070509-first-impressions-suns-javafx-platform-for-rich-application-
development.html

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/07/27/introduction-to-javafx-script.html

More tech-rich articles

part 1: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/scripting/javafxpart1/
part 2: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/scripting/javafxpart2/

http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/knowledgebase/2007-07/index.html

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2007/09/javafx_javafx_s.html

FAQ

https://openjfx.dev.java.net/JavaFX_FAQ.html

Download JavaFX

https://openjfx.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList

Eclipse plugin

https://openjfx.dev.java.net/javafx-eclipse-plugin-install.html

Alert: Whenever you open a .fx file, this plugin adds javafx libraries to build path and adds javafx nature to EVERY open project in your workspace.

Getting started

https://openjfx.dev.java.net/Getting_Started_With_JavaFX

Geting started with Eclipse

http://www.mrbool.com/articles/viewcomp.asp?comp=5549

http://www.thescreencast.com/2007/05/running-your-first-javafx-program-in.html

Reference

https://openjfx.dev.java.net/JavaFX_Programming_Language.html
http://jfx.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Read JavaFX book in JavaFX - this is a very nice read and gives you a feeling of JavaFX capabilities as you read

http://jmentor.com/JavaFX/IndyJUGPres.jnlp

API reference

http://evc-cit.info/jfx/makeapi/api/index.html

Blogs

Chris Oliver
http://chaoticjava.com/posts/category/javafx/

Tools

A nice tool to get started: http://www.reportmill.com/jfx/

Translate SVG to JavaFX : http://blogs.sun.com/chrisoliver/entry/javafx_svg_translator_preview

Some known problems

http://colmsmyth.blogspot.com/2007/07/javafx-script-this-is-easy.html
http://jfx.wikia.com/wiki/Frequently_Encountered_Issues

New opensource Wi-Fi baby

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:16:00 +0000

Software Freedom Law Center concludes OpenHAL does not infringe any copyrights of Atheros' proprietary HAL code. Now, OpenHAL developers can continue their work and hopefully get this new driver in the kernel soon. Thanks, Atheros.

history|grep linux0.01

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:02:00 +0000

A curious email was sent on 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT.

Rest is history

Online gaming in India

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:35:00 +0000

A detailed analysis of the growing gaming industry in India

Welcome to Human Computer Interaction (soon)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:24:00 +0000

We all raved about the Apple iPhone and the cool technologies packed in it. It is designed to be an ultimate "one-device to rule everything else" package of very cool Apple products. What makes it "so cool" is the innovative multi-touch screen and its intuitiveness. I hate the menus, keyboard and utterly useless shortcuts in my new Motorola Razr. If you love your cellphone's UI, you haven't seen the best yet. Everyone is amazed at how Apple has redefined the cellphone experience.

Not only that, Apple has started and taken user experience to a whole new level.
If you thought "that's cool but they can't take take this technology too far", you are wrong, buddy. Don't be mistaken Apple can offer only two points-of-contact (POC) on its screens. With iPhone, you can pinch and stretch objects on screen with two fingers. How about using all your fingers to move, stretch, tap, back-rub?! windows on a screen, just like Tom Cruise in Minority Report? Is that possible? your dreams have come true!

Enter Perceptive Pixel founded by Jeff Han, "a spinoff of the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences to develop and market the most advanced multi-touch system in the world." See how big an impact he can make in computing.His demo at TED in February 2007 is just mouth-watering. Take a look

Apple has loads of patents filed under multi-touch screen category in 2004. So, who invented this first? Steve Jobs thinks its Apple. Is Jeff working for Jobs now?
Nope. Not yet. As of today, Jeff is not working for Apple.

Anyway, if I can get rid of my keyboards and "feel" the screen, that will be awesome. I hope either Jeff or Jobs or both make that dream come true.

Welcome to Headline News

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:41:00 +0000

Open source java

This one has been due for a long time. When I first heard this news, I doubted it. When it became official after JavaOne 2006, I guessed they would make it in 2007 but not this fast. We'll get to see Java C and Hotspot VM by October, 2006; rest of JDK in early 2007. yeah! wait there is a catch: "The company is still considering the licence under which it will release the technology"

what will be the effects? which license would it be? Read what Geir Magnusson of Apache thinks about this. Also the discussions in that post are interesting.

Oracle and i-flex

Oh dear! I hoped i-flex would become a mega-banking software company. The way I see it, Oracle is gonna swallow it and make the whole company and its amazing product one of many oracle solutions. If you are wondering "what's the big deal about i-flex?", you are missing a big picture. i-flex's Flexcube is the #1 banking product in over 100+ countries. It is also one of the best product development companies in India.

GoogleFi

72,000 residents and $1 million. Google says this is just a demo of their power :-) No - they will not provide wifi for entire US. On a similar note, project Green wifi, backed by all these big guns, is working on wifi in developing nations. Let's see how long does it take to go live.