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Ever thought you are so addicted to Java that although the world is talking about moving to functional languages, you just cannot see yourself leaving the JVM? Well, , could be your solution. You c...
First a bit of background on this post. It is new year's time and I was busy preparing my resolutions for the next year. Now, I like a systematic method of capturing the information about how I far...
A long time back in the dense forests of WonderLand, 'people' decided to create a multi core 'processor'. For those who don't know what that is, a multi-core processor contains more than one proces...
I had a very simple requirement. I had to escape certain characters in a string using a backslash. Backslash is a very tricky character. Escaping involves preceding the character to be escaped with...
My first experience with any Linux flavor has been usually bad. But this one wasn't. I had heard about a long time back but somehow could not use it. The requirement of the Internet for installatio...
Consider the following piece of code: In functional programming, we cannot assign values to variables; variables can only be initialized. So I can't use a 'flag', the reason being that if I initial...
I recently blogged about , where I mentioned that over-dependency on technology might create problems. Here's what I found today regarding responsibilities of humans in technological evolution. fro...
| Your Brain's Pattern | | :-: | | You have a dreamy mind, full of fancy and fantasy. You have the ability to stay forever entertained with your thoughts. People may say you're hard to read, but th...
Pardon me for the title. I am not on either side of the balance. Let the law decide who is right and who is wrong. But this one really seems interesting. This is a continuation of the blog , that I...
Recently someone claimed that XML is something that they have patented [ [News story ]](http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513 22-5905949.html). A similar thing happened with JPEG patent [ [News story ]](...
There was a time when there was no electricity. And then came this wonder. Today we take it for granted, although there are occasions when we need to go without power. It is a really dreaded feelin...
It occurred to me when used it. Many other sites/products/services were using this same concept, albeit with different names. I am talking about the concept of (or labeling). There is a very intere...