I think it is time to remember Microsoft’s antitrust suit because another one may be coming soon to Apple. Apple has been monopolizing the platform by blocking all applications which competes slightly with it getting passed through the gate. Apple should have confidence that if it has better product than others, people do [...]
Archive for October, 2008
When I moved to California from Jersey and getting ready to take the California Driver’s written test, I didn’t find good sample test papers to get the feel of the test or to evaluate myself to see where I stood. After the exam, I thought I will collect/create some sample test papers to it [...]
NullPointerException vs IllegalArgumentException
Published October 28th, 2008 in All and Java. 0 CommentsThere has been lots of discussion going on for a very long time weather to use NPE or IAE when a null is passed when a non-null object is expected as an method/constructor argument.
After developing java applications for quite sometime, I have observed that when one sees a NPE in the log file, it usually [...]
Wish everybody a very happy and safe Diwali festivities (also known as Deepavali in Karnataka).
I have been wanting to write some tutorial about Java Server Faces for easy on-ramping. I will be writing the tutorial in slow paced, simple steps which learners can be follow along as they try out. This post would be updated with links for all of these steps as and when they posted.
Step 1 [...]
If you have programmed any considerably sized Java web application, chance that you wrote some debug statements to dump what’s coming over wire as request and going out as response. Next time you run into such requirement, well, save some typing and use this Http Servlet Debug Filter.
This is simple jar file [...]
If you are writing technical blogs, it is apparent you would need to post some source code of some language at sometime or the other. Posting code with no syntax coloring works fine but coloring makes code goes easy on eyes and to understand it faster.
The tool of choice I prefer for blogging is [...]
For friend of mine I created a events map based on the google maps API (original idea credit goes to Virender Ajmani), which takes a data file with set of events and shows the events details on map as slide show. For ex., here is event map created with my major lifetime events. [...]
It is sad to admit that some Indian privately owned businessmen are deceiving at best. It is evident when you go to most of the Indian groceries in North Bay area (San Rafael, Vallejo, Berkeley etc) and check out the packaged food packets. Most of them are either,
Expired
Or there is no expiry date
Or expiry date [...]
Even though CNN has named around 10 names for the current crisis, everybody knows it is the whole system which failed. The so called bankers, politicians and people who went beyond their limit resulting the crisis.
Because of few percentage of people, lots many people are suffering due to lost jobs or investment value (401k or [...]
