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Agility and more: better & faster business solutions with software - part-2

In my previous blog post, I talked about why software development needs processes, and the need for agile in the processes. Here, I continue with the discussions, focusing on how the basic principles of agile itself has a lot to say, that can help us
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tags: agile development software project management
Mar 29 2010 05:31 PM
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Agility and more - better & faster business solutions with software - part-1

Software development is a creative process, where we create software to deliver solutions to business problems (most of the time), and/or to add value to it. Although the holy duty of a software developer is to deliver solutions to business problems, and
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tags: agile development software
Mar 25 2010 06:14 PM
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Downloading InfoQ videos and slides

InfoQ is a portal with lot of interesting and happening stuff for IT people, and especially for the developers. Some of the areas, it specializes includes - Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Agile and Architecture. Like many others, I am a regular user of the site,
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Mar 24 2010 10:45 AM
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Tech and some...

I had just brought a new headphone for making Skype calls. I was trying testing it out, and I recorded my voice to test it. What came in was a movie song that I was chanting over. I played it back to find too much of background noise. I wanted to remove
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tags: tips linux leasure
Mar 17 2010 08:33 PM
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A tribute to my ex-colleagues

Moving with the waves of time, I changed my job. So did some of my other colleagues at Miediant Solutions - my previous employer. Now after we all are into our new jobs, happy and looking forward for a pleasant and prosperous future with our new jobs, we
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tags: thanks
Mar 16 2010 04:48 PM
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QCon London 2010 slides

The QCon London 2010 has just concluded. There was extremely good response from the delegates. Many attendees have blogged on the same. The conference had 19 tracks spread over 3 days: Wednesday Architectures You've Always Wondered About Software
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tags: qcon
Mar 16 2010 04:17 AM
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Saving a streaming video / presentation

Ever wondered to to save those streaming videos from Youtube, Metacafe, InfoQ, and so many others? I always wanted to save those streams, so that I could watch them again and again even without an Internet connection. I am a faithful Firefox user, and
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tags: tips linux
Jan 05 2010 11:51 PM
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Configuring log4j with XML in OSGi

Sometime back, I had to make perf4j work on OSGi. It required log4j as the logging library and purely demanded log4j.xml (it would not take the .properties file since the configuration must attach downstream appenders). I assumed that it should be
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tags: ops4j osgi tips
Dec 15 2009 07:13 PM
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Microsoft ASP.NET MVC - Why Java web developers should reconsider action frameworks?

Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC is a paradigm shift in web development from its pioneering component based development offered with WebForms to action based web framework. This was a natural evolution due to the pains in the component based web development.
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tags: web frameworks polyglot
Nov 18 2009 10:23 AM
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Evolving persistence, SQL and ORMs to the next generation

Recently there has been a lot of discussion on the web describing the ORMs as a thing of the past, and its associated discussions that agreed and disagreed with their arguments presented to various degrees. The discussions even took a long conversations
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tags: sql persistence orm nosql
Oct 29 2009 05:50 PM
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My state of affairs - part 2 (looking for new projects)

In my previous blog post, I mentioned about the my state of affairs, of how things have been moving in last 2-3 years, and why I was so irregular at posting blogs. The state of affairs was actually not finished yet. I continue it here. Looking out for
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tags: career
Oct 27 2009 07:14 PM
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My state of affairs - part 1

Now it has been a while that I have blogged, and I understand that not many people are there who follow my blog. Though some of the topics on which I have blogged in the past have been getting some good hits, I cannot maintain a regular list of people
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tags: career
Oct 27 2009 01:40 AM
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JavaOne 2009 slides are now out!

Now the slides of the sessions at JavaOne 2009 are out and available at Sun Developer Network (SDN). You need to be a registered user there! (For some, this sucks!) Modularity and OSGi was one of the discussed topics in the sessions, but worried to find
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tags: java javaone
Jun 11 2009 11:56 AM
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OSGi DevCon 09 - Component Oriented Development in OSGi with DS, Spring and iPOJO

This slide discusses some comparisons on the various component oriented development models with OSGi. Probably there a mention of Peaberry, would have been good. Sure, I will post some in the coming posts. OSGi DevCon 09 - Component Oriented Development
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tags: osgi devcon
Jun 11 2009 11:01 AM
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OSGi DevCon 2009 Review

Last few weeks I was more into the OSGi updates going around with the EclipseCon and JavaOne. In this and few more posts I will try to put something to capture on the recent developments on OSGi and related fields and technologies. So here is an
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tags: osgi devcon
Jun 11 2009 10:46 AM
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Book Review: Maven: The Definitive Guide

Sonatype recently released its 0.5 version of its Maven Book - Maven: The Definitive Guide.The print edition published by O'Reilly, the printable PDF published by Sonatype is available as a free download! I went thorough the book quickly and here is my
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tags: book review maven
May 14 2009 04:49 PM
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Flex Clients for OSGi apps

As I continued to work on OSGi based web apps, there was rising demands from our clients and partners about supporting Flex clients in future. I took a lead to evaluate our existing architecture consisting mainly of POJOs, supported with Spring and OSGi.
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tags: osgi java ria
May 12 2009 12:34 PM
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Guice getting into Java SE?

One day I may use @javax.inject.Inject as my regular Java annotation! Yes, dependency injection with annotations might become a standard Java API. Google Guice and SpringSource have partnered to standardize a proven, non-controversial set of annotations
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tags: java news
May 08 2009 07:30 PM
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Submitting form to new window

Today one of my co-workers was in an effort to submit a form that would bring up a new popup window. After some Googling, they found a solution. <form name="datacollector" method="POST" action="new-url.do" target="_blank"> <!-- ... other form
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tags: tips html
Apr 20 2009 04:36 PM
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Cross Platform Java Daemon

Running a Java application (non graphical) would normally need a command line for it. This seems OK if we are developing small applications, but today we see enterprise applications that often needs to go and work as a server, that need to start up and
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tags: java tips daemon
Apr 16 2009 08:19 PM
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Exciting future for the web

The future of web applications seem to be exiting for every web user. With the drafting and evolution of HTML 5 , and browsers like Firefox coming up with plans on Prism and Weave , its plugins, and evolving nature of supporting applications such as
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tags: web 2.0 news
Apr 08 2009 03:51 PM
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Beating the Recession with Free Software

Few weeks back, one of my friends working with a big enterprise asked for my help in getting his personal PC to the right health. He would use computers only for browsing, spreadsheets, preparing presentations, and for word processing. His PC had Windows
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tags: open source free software corporate enterprise
Apr 06 2009 12:38 PM
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Domain Driven Design in 10 minutes

I had prepared some notes, when I was reading through the DDD book from InfoQ - "Domain Driven Design Quickly " which is just summarizes the essence of what DDD is, drawing mostly Eric Evans' book. I thought, this note might be helpful to somebody who
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tags: ddd enterprise
Mar 31 2009 03:29 PM
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OSGi Discontent

Nice post on OSGi and its current problems on enterprise world. http://java.dzone.com/news/osgi-discontent-no-migration This was something that I was planning to make a post from a long time, that I' ve been facing such problems myself. But I was pushing
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tags: osgi java enterprise
Mar 26 2009 04:56 PM
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Clearing the Terminal Junk

Today as I was on my regular - code, build and test cycle, that suddenly there was a huge lump of error trace. It was so huge as to going to the exact origin was making my work take long. After every build thought I did a clear, it hardly helped me
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tags: tips linux
Dec 10 2008 11:39 AM
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Getting your toolbox ready for OSGi

Getting your toolbox ready for OSGi This is my second post on OSGi. In my previous post, I just mentioned about what OSGi is all about. In the coming posts, I will be explaining on developing OSGi applications. As before, I won't be repeating anything
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tags: osgi java
Aug 17 2008 11:08 PM
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Thinking beyond liberty of Source...

Thinking to start or contributing to Open Source project ...? Have you ever wondered at the richness of the Wikipedia, the amount and variety of information it contains? You can think to find there almost everything under the sun over there,.. and if you
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tags: java open source free software
Aug 11 2008 12:07 AM
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Open Source with Liberty

How many of us know that Open Source softwares essentially are Free Software as well (most of the time)? Again, if one has read the definition of Free Software? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source.
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tags: open source free software
Aug 04 2008 10:46 PM
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OSGi - Add dynamic modularity to your Java applications

Ever imagined, how the Plug and Play (PnP) devices have eased the way we use our electronic devices, especially our PCs and laptops? You purchase a TV tuner card (or any of your other favorite card), plug it into your PC's PCI/PCMCIA slot, and ... Viola!
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tags: osgi java
Jul 30 2008 06:24 PM
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Shed the experience myth, get the most out of your employee

Summary "Get the most out of your employees". Industry freshers at companies are not given up task for a good time, thinking that they will not be able to handle it. Pre-convinced notion that they cannot simply handle such task until they become
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tags: hr sightings corporate project management
Jul 17 2008 11:32 PM
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Rules Engines for Business Rules

Rules Engines for Business Rules Rules Engines brings agility into business systems by providing way to dynamically change business logic according to the dynamic nature of business. The power of Rules Engines lies in the declarative nature of defining
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Mar 18 2008 01:46 PM