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 ...
Yesterday I made a call to one of the institutes' director in Jaffna, to brief our intentions about Yarl IT Hub. To my surprise, he had already read my blog about it in Tamil as well as Sayanthan's visions in his blog. He was excited and thrilled to talk more about and even emphasized the need of giving more and ...
When Obama was successfully marching towards winning presidency in his first term, one of his famous interviews, he talked about the problem of others! Without being a victim, one never gets to know what does it take to be a victim. You can be a victim from a ruthless bloody war or even a man who gets cheated by a ...
Its been a long talked argument on where exactly the Quality Assurance(QA) team in IT department belongs to. They are usually on the point where it could either go cold or hot from no where. The success stories of a project would be attributed to dev teams/PMO and the failures would boil down to QA team. Poor chaps, often the ...
Today during the lunch hour, the topic of Darwin and Vestiges popped up. We started talking about Einstein and his childhood vocal disability and reluctant nature, later moved to his theories and public reception. This lead to how Darwin's views received in contrast to the controversial reception for Vestiges theory. Not knowing the Vestiges theory much, I kept quiet, thrilled ...
As you may be aware that, ySchool open-source rural school management system project works already kicked off. While the current discussions centered around the requirements gathering and feasibility study with the help from a researcher from University Of Jaffna, few of us started looking at the possible technology stack we should adapt to.The idea is simple, the technology stack should ...
After six months .. yes six months ... I watched a movie and it was the movie "Nanban", a Tamil movie, remake of Hindi movie "Three Idiots" adapted from Chetan Bhagat's Novel called "Five Point Someone".Having watched the Hindi film and read the book already, the movie didn't excite me much except the acting of Vijay. Now not gonna talk ...
Time : 2.00 PM I am reading Gordon Weiss's book The Cage, written about the mass killings by the two warring parties during the final days of Sri Lankan bloodiest civil war. I am on the 40th page still!The book starts with the discovery of the late LTTE leader Prabakharan's corpse, and the following jubilation of Sri Lankan Sinhalese and ...
1.20 PMToday much anticipating iTV's details leaked out. Sources from Canadian telecom operators leaked out, if are to believed, then the iTV would become truly magical, a revolutionary product to-date ever since the transformation from the black and white to Color TV in 70s (Was it 70s?).The idea is simple. iTV is gonna be the 42inch iPad + Siri + ...
Time 1:45 PMToday morning, I was hit with an irritating UI issue. I was working on a JSP with combinations of div elements with rich use of jquery. Upon different combinations we may need to show and hind the div elements accordingly. There goes a problem enabling the focus on the logical input element.So I was reusing a simple window.onload ...
Time 1:45 PMToday morning, I was hit with an irritating UI issue. I was working on a JSP with combinations of div elements with rich use of jquery. Upon different combinations we may need to show and hind the div elements accordingly. There goes a problem enabling the focus on the logical input element.So I was reusing a simple window.onload ...
12: 25 PM Using Samsung Galaxy Ace, recently bought from Singapore. I had been an iPhone user and moving to Galaxy is like moving from palace to townhouse! Listing few of hundred issues I have seen compared to iPhone (was using 3GS by then)...1) Terrible touch sensor! One could go for a nap before the sensor actually works. It tries ...
12: 25 PM Using Samsung Galaxy Ace, recently bought from Singapore. I had been an iPhone user and moving to Galaxy is like moving from palace to townhouse! Listing few of hundred issues I have seen compared to iPhone (was using 3GS by then)...1) Terrible touch sensor! One could go for a nap before the sensor actually works. It tries ...
