I really envy these guys having fun at work. Based on the Google Maps they have a funsite called Google Moon featuring the NASA pictures of Man's 1969 landing on the Moon. As for the “cheese” in the title of this post, look closer

Just heard about this new Sun certification exam. The beta version of the exam, with a whopping 122 questions to be answered in 3 hours, is being offered free from June 20 for a month.
I am not sure why Sun went for this, an exam for entry level programmers and IT managers with just 6 [...]

Atleast this is what Google groups (beta) opines. Once you make a post, the resulting page makes you unsure whether the post will make it to the archives. Or am I sounding too British

Java's friendly mascot Duke has got a blog too.
Indic threads has a 3 part skinny on J2SE 5.0
Bus Service to Pakistan. Oh no not again! I am sick and tired of these gimmicks.
“some countries“..so sweet Patil saheb! India ki diplomacy da jawab nahin!

Getting tired of my Celeron with 32 MB RAM and 10 GB hard disk (yes I was surviving on that) I have almost made up my mind to go for a new PC under exchange. Pentium P-IV with 512 MB DDR RAM, 80 GB HDD (Hynx).
But I have two problems, being new at Pune I [...]

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, [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]