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Mera neta chor hai - I support Anna Hazare

Yahoo has an amazing audio player that can be embedded into your website to support the playback of audio files linked on your site. This i...

Thanks to an awesome app called Draw(er) on Android

Go to the source at Visual News Infographic by: TheVisualNews

Following up on my previous posts about Maven, Eclipse on Tomcat, I ran into a a very interesting problem that I wanted to share with you so...

Following up on my previous post, I went through another frustrating experience trying to develop a webapp that was built using Maven and de...

I just went through a very frustrating time trying to get a Tomcat instance configurable and usable from within Eclipse. As you will realize...

I am not a fan of large multi-billion dollar tech corporations but I am a fan of Google. Here's why: 1. Google tries to balance openne...

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Here is an article I wrote a long time ago (11/2004 to be precise) about J2EE Application Servers on Desktops. It is 2010 and obviously my p...

You probably have heard about WikiLeaks and the cowardice of Amazon and PayPal. If not, go to this link for details on the appalling coward...

Here's a crude but very transparent way of doing the locking. Note the below code assumes that the implementer will ensure by design tha...

Recently, I decided to drop off Facebook and deleted all my relationships on the site. Here are some of the reasons why I decided to get out...

As is standard procedure in Corporate America, I had my annual performance review done by my manager. During the year, I had performed well ...

Documentation is an onerous task that very few engineers (read geeks) will willingly do. It requires discipline, patience and time to prepar...

Here are some reasons why I like the Droid X : It runs Android The best distro of embedded Linux and micro Java. Open source - thousands of...

For a long time now, I have been trying to convince my management to implement an 80/20 work schedule where everyone would be forced to do s...

As many of you may already Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are the world's biggest philanthropists having already pledged a huge percentag...

My saga with Comcast started a week ago when I moved from one apartment to another ( read my previous post about this). Ten days, 10 phone ...