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Archive for December, 2004

Google Suggest and other things

By debashish • Dec 14th, 2004 • Category: Miscellany

Joel pointed to Google Suggest, another incredible offering from the guys who always think different. I agree with Joel when he says that “Google is very publicly raising the bar on the quality of interfaces that people will expect from web pages.” What inspires me is the approximate number of search results displayed along side [...]



Title does matter!

By debashish • Dec 11th, 2004 • Category: Entertainment

Jivha posted an interesting piece (or was it the Kournikova stuff?) on the significance of Titles of blog-posts. I can't agree more with him. A quote from his blog:

With the increasing popularity of RSS-based newsreaders it is neccessary that the title of your post stand out from the tens and hundreds of other posts from [...]



Maintenance projects and DPs

By debashish • Dec 7th, 2004 • Category: Technology

Not many developers get the opportunity to be part of a project through the entire SDLC. For many people who are working on maintenance project, where the product is already there, the developer is usually involved only in bug-fixing or minor enhancements. Having been involved in a few, I have always wondered on the question, [...]



BBM on Nuktachini

By debashish • Dec 7th, 2004 • Category: Life-Around

As the baton is passed by Ek Cup chai!, my Hindi blog, Nuktachini becomes the first indic blog to host the Bharteeya Blog Mela. Nominations are being invited for BBM's 37th edition. Blog posts written by Indians on Indian topics during December 7 - 10 can be nominated for the mela. This blog had the privilege to host mela once, you [...]



Generics Preview

By debashish • Dec 4th, 2004 • Category: Technology

Generics is the most profound of changes envisaged in Tiger. Greg Travis has this nice preview on it.



Faulty Comments Tag in RSS Feed

By debashish • Dec 4th, 2004 • Category: Technology

JRoller provides the RSS feed for blogs hosted here. From the aggregators I have recently noticed that the comments tag in the XML generated does not point to the right URL for example for this post of mine the comments tag is being displayed as follows:
<comments>http://www.jroller.com?anchor=bush_rivals_vajpayee_on_poetic</comments>
while it should be formed as under:
<comments>http://www.jroller.com/page/debashish?anchor=bush_rivals_vajpayee_on_poetic</comments>
I am not aware [...]



Tomcat as NT Service

By debashish • Dec 4th, 2004 • Category: Technology

I recently received a query from Zena Sam based on one of my post at Javaranch on installing Tomcat as a Service. She writes:
I have seen your post about Tomcat Service in Javaranch site. I looked at the posts…am trying to a similar thing what you have tried to…call a batch file from Wise Installer [...]



Blog strolling -1

By debashish • Dec 4th, 2004 • Category: Miscellany

With most of the bloggers being IT professionals and students (I seem to be too sure on that), it is a refreshing change to see a lady “criminal psychologist” blogging. Thenga, Manga, Pattani, Sundal is the blog I stumbled upon recently (though I didn't quite get the need of having another blog with the same [...]



Zooming in on India's map

By debashish • Dec 3rd, 2004 • Category: Miscellany

At least there is some initiative for India. Me thinks Map My India, the desi version of Mapquest has still long way to go but it's good. I tried searching for my locality at my native place Bhopal (only a limited number of cities are covered as of now) and though it just managed to [...]



Gosling coming to India

By debashish • Dec 2nd, 2004 • Category: Technology

The Java “pitru-purush” (father figure), James Gosling will be on his maiden India visit this week. He would be here to participate in the Sun Tech Days, taking place on May 20-21 at Hyderabad. The theme for this year is “Turning Ideas into Innovation”.
It should be a grand event as there are almost 3 lacs [...]