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Tech Talk: April 2010
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010. This was the third season of the Great Indian Developer Summit and like the previous conferences, this one too saw developers, technologists, evangelists and motivation speakers come from all parts. Yes motivation speaker! There were a couple of sessions on cloud computing by Amazon and Adobe. But they just scraped the surface. We have heard enough about it. Some practical exercises would have been really useful. The presentations will be up on the devsummit. A technical enthus...
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Tech Talk: March 2007
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007. I had done a study on the size and effort metrics and performance of an application developed on Rails vs that on Struts. Here are the observations:. Ruby VM: Ruby is right now an interpreted language. But a project (code name Rite) plans to make it byte compiled. This would improve the execution speed of Ruby based programs. Choice of web server: WebRick was used as the web server for this application. Apache and Lighttpd are the suggested web servers for better performance.
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Tech Talk: February 2007
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007. Last week saw techies from all around the country and outside flocking at the International Convention Center in Hyderabad. It was the Sun Tech Days symposium, a worldwide developer event organized by Sun Microsystems and touted as the mini Sun One conference! Event of this scale can of course not do without sponsors and the list included some of the big names from the industry like AMD, Oracle, VmWare, Accenture, SAS, and NIIT. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A technical enthus...
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Tech Talk: January 2008
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008. Merb - A new Ruby framework. Merb (Mongrel ERB) seems to be a new addition to the Ruby based frameworks. Like Rails, it complies to the MVC architecture. But instead of having all the components as part of the core, it relies more on plugins. It therefore claims to have a lighter footprint which can be extended through plugins. This makes it ORM agnostic, template language agnostic. Plugins are available for ActiveRecord, DataMapper, Sequel ORMs. Learn more about it here.
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Tech Talk: December 2006
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006. For a precise definition. I recently completed a project involving Ruby on Rails. Having worked with Java for the last three years, I could not help but compare it with Java. I was wondering if any of the language and framework features could be implemented in Java and the numerous frameworks based on it. Blocks and closures are impressive language constructs that allow customization and extension of other language constructs (like the looping constructs) and APIs.
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Tech Talk: April 2007
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Thursday, April 12, 2007. The idea of a web based source browser instantly appealed to me. I heard about OpenGrok. In one of the sessions at the Sun Techdays and tried it out right away. OpenGrok is a web based source browser with cross referencing and freetext search. All that I need to do is to configure the path of the codebase and run OpenGrok. OpenGrok generates a war that I dump into tomcat and that's all! OpenGrok uses exuberant Ctags. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
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Tech Talk: March 2008
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Saturday, March 22, 2008. Which language should I learn next? I had always looked at programming languages as means of achieving the ends. Probably that's why I was stuck with Java for the last four years. That was until the Ruby bug bit me and I was awed by its features. Really learning a new language can be both fun and a learning experience. This blog on Dobbs tell us which languages to focus on. Learn as many languages as you can. Slashdot has some interesting comments on it:. Monday, March 03, 2008.
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Tech Talk: REST explained
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Sunday, April 12, 2009. Came across this funny yet revealing post of this guy explaining REST to his wife. It's simplistic and comprehensive starter on all that is REST. REST to my wife. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Bangalore, Karnataka, India. A technical enthusiast who likes dabbling around with technology. Read books on theoretical physics, sci-fi, fiction, (auto) biographies. Love to travel and explore places. View my complete profile.
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Tech Talk: March 2009
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009. XML generation using SAXTransformer in Java JDK. XML generation is a common found requirement in applications. Typical way to address it in java is to manually append the XML string in a StringBuffer. Firstly this can be quite tedious. Secondly it is susceptible to manual errors while writing the XML. Also, the developer needs to take care of the escape characters etc. Clearly this is not the best way of XML generation in Java. StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();. For (Scen...
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Tech Talk: January 2006
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Thursday, January 19, 2006. Sudoku has become the buzz word around. Small or big, everyone seems to have been enchanted by this apparently simple number game. Like most of us, I stumbled upon this game a few days back in the Times, and have become its avid fan ever since. The only game that had driven me nuts like this before was the Rubik's cube! Basically of Japanese origin (or is it US! And you would know what I mean! A trivial approach to it would of course be the good old backtracking! Starting with...
