My Little Van Gogh - Dec 22, 2014
Last Friday, I got a text message from a school in Gurgaon to collect an appreciation gift for my younger son who won the first prize in a colouring contest that they held at their school and where several schools from Gurgaon participated. First prize??? That can’t be true, at least genetically, I thought. I never got a first prize in my life in anything. But I had seen Rajit scribbling on and ruining the walls of our drawing room a few times and knew that he had it in him :-).
More...Linked data based integration - Dec 12, 2014
Recently I was involved in a study to evaluate how the semantic web space is evolving and how can we leverage these new technology trends to power our integration architecture. Linked data was one of the many building blocks of semantic web and I found it really interesting technology that I believe has a potential to be used as a key integration technology in future.
More...Things our kids will probably never relate to - Dec 02, 2014
Today morning while Ranit and I were on our way to Ranit's bus stop, he was telling about how disgusting it was to see cowdung lying around in a farm house that he visited with his classmates sometime back during a school trip. He couldn't make sense of people making cow dung cakes with bare hands. That made me realize how the time has changed and how much fun it used to be for me when I was his age doing the same things that he finds disgusting.
More...How "Paid leave" and "April fool" were born - Aug 10, 2013
Today I learned an interesting historical fact. Just have a look at the calendar for the month of September 1752. You will notice, 11 days are simply missing from the month
More...New Date and Time API in Java8 - May 28, 2013
The existing Java date and time classes are poor, mutable, and have unpredictable performance. There has been a long-standing desire for a better date and time API based on the Joda-Time project. The good news is that the ...
More...Re-platformig this blog to Wintersmith - May 25, 2013
After deferring it for more than a year, finally I decided to re-platform my blog. After careful analysis and research trying out several several viable options at hand like ...
More...High school reunion - May 19, 2013
It was pleasure meeting childhood friends from school after 18 years. We were expecting at least 10 of our 95 batch mates of KV1 Hindon but only 6 of us could make it for the first reunion. Nevertheless, it was quite a fun and we all had a blast ...
More...Improving code quality in agile teams - Nov 21, 2012
Here are a few quick pointers that have worked for me to improve code quality in agile teams and to deliver stories completely without leaving bugs behind
More...Java7 updates - May 11, 2012
It has been quite sometime that Java 7 got released with plenty of new features and enhancements that shall interest Java developer community. Following sections of this page cover some of these changes with examples
More...Evolution of Java - Mar 23, 2012
I thought it would be useful for java developers to understand how Java has evolved since its inception so that they are aware of what all capabilities they have access to when working with a particular version of Java.
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