"If your house was on fire and you had 60 seconds, what would you take? "This question was in the movie Leap Year, a movie about a soon to be engaged, confused Boston girl meeting a country bartender come chef, an Irish boy in a little town called Dingle. The girl is well educated, intellect but totally confused with what ...

There are days one feels, everything is blacked out. There wouldn’t be any reasons for it, but it just happens. Its like an opposite to big bang. Everything you do go nothing. That includes, time, space, mass and energy. You would have counted on them in your entire life right? Now imagine everything without time, space, mass and energy? ...

The odometer almost touching 140 mark. But he didn’t notice. He didn’t realise how fast he was going. There was nobody in the road. It was a deserted out creek drive with full of livestock farms around. Its the first day of the autumn season. One could see the bush fire affected remnants all over the places. It wasn't hot, ...

Yesterday found this amazing video of a desperate kid trying to reach to moon. Taken aback by the freshness and the innocence in this kid, I watched this video again and again. Interestingly a NASA employee must have seen this video, now invited the girl to have a visit to their lab to see how close she can reach ...

When I was going through Google’s aggregation on 2012 resolutions, I was kinda thinking what could be mine this year. Checking into a gym? Learning Guitar, honestly? Not to appear on stages anymore, not to commit with any of the rubbish debates, poetry sort of things which I recently pushed into. I am gonna let all these go and ...

When Google released its YouTube application for iPad, I was one of those who got damn excited. Soon switched to it and started using it. But then it was like a fiscal cliff! Its pathetic I couldn’t multitask it. The moment I start using the chrome or safari, YouTube would stop playing the video. If you go to volume ...

Recently I had a chance to play around with JMockit. We need to introduce a mocking framework which could support legacy code seamlessly and JMockit pretty much does as it claims. It wasn’t a straightforward experience though. Since the code I was testing against has a tightly coupled servlet and backend legacy APIs as well as Java’s own system/lang ...

Yarl Geek Challenge finally happened. It was in October, we ran the show for four days, four consecutive days in a fashion we wouldn’t have imagined even in our wildest dream two years back. There were about ten teams from Jaffna, Vavuniya, Moratuwa, Colombo, Trinco and Pera. The students from different institutions. The judges had diversity too. Some of ...

Renovators, a reality show which was happening in Australia. A flop show, never had its second season apparently. But I kind of fell for the show and hardly missed any episodes. You get five teams assigned homes/buildings in crappy conditions. The teams need to renovate the them in a given budget and this show would go for six to seven ...

So it happened. The first ever YIT call, and if I recall it correctly, it was attended by Sayanthan, Sarves and Vimal. We were just brainstorming on the plans. None of us were too sure about what we gonna do at the ground level. The idea was not to try too hard. We should enjoy what we do, and whatever ...

It was the 9th of October 2011, a Sunday morning, as usual I woke up early in the morning, made my coffee and settling in my couch with iPad, going through the heaps of emails, and to my surprise... there was this email.Hi JK, Hope you are doing great! Since I visited iHub in Nairobi, I had been toying with ...

It was early 90s. 1994 I think. My brother was an English teacher by then, undergoing the teachers' English literature training program. I still remember his long study table with full of scattered literature books. Shakespeare, R.K Narayan, Charles Dickens, you name it. Never a natural reader by himself, he often finds it hard to study those books, and he ...

Yesterday I started writing my weekly column in my Tamil language blog (www.padalay.com), and there was a reference to "mustache is the mirror of heart" quote popped up. I could have just mentioned it and gone, but as usual I sucked in, wanted to know who said it and when. Because although it sounds like a nice proverb, it doesn't ...

Recently I have seen a code, converting the String value into integer, catching the "NumberFormatException" and handle it there propagating a custom error message back there. try { int i = Integer.parseInt(x); } catch (NumberFormatException e) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Not a valid number"); }This is not desirable for two reasons. Firstly, you don't handle the RuntimeExceptions but prevent them from ...

"And of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs. Who's Steve Jobs again?"But Gates, there will be statues of Gates across the Third World, and people will remember him as the man who ... you know, there's a reasonable shot, because of his money, we will cure malaria." The man who uttered these words is ...

As it suggests one would usually use Named Queries for select queries only. For Update/Inserts we usually go for JPA entity persistence. Last week I needed to update the list of records based on a condition. In a usual scenario this would be a walk in the park, you just need to get the list first and then update the ...

Last Saturday I did a small talk (2 hours!) on Java Web Programming concept in Tamil. This is first of many sessions we going to do in Yarl IT Hub to prepare the folks to get ready for ySchool development. My discussion was followed by Maven and source control session by Gayathiry .. Lets see how the rest of the sessions go.http://www.slideshare.net/jkumaranc/java-web-programming

I had a situation today where I need to create a patch on my project changes and keep it for a possible use in a later date, as I cannot commit my changes to any of the repository we have currently. Because this is some random work I did as enhancement. Initially I thought of taking a backup and then ...

Sir, we are calling from "Windows Technical Team"Ok .. So?From your computer, there have been number of malware software getting downloaded!Who is downloading maite?There are some harmful viruses in your computer download them from Malaysian websites. Very dangerous Sir!Ok ... How come I don't know .. Even my anti virus program?These viruses are so advanced Sir! They can fool even ...

ySchool project started rolling for some time now. We have a senior developer actively working on setting up the initial environment on git repository. The idea is to get something working initially, build a team around it and then go on to assign task to individuals. Without a ground model, its hard for us to accommodate volunteers especially the trainees ...