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December 11, 2004
Title does matter!
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 […]
December 7, 2004
Can Design Patterns be applied in Maintenance projects?
Over time, a maintenance worker often becomes the de facto expert on the codebase, particularly after multiple fixes and upgrades. This expertise allows them to identify potential issues arising from requested bug fixes or poor design choices. Employing design patterns aids in recognizing areas where a program requires greater flexibility to adapt to evolving requirements.
December 7, 2004
BBM on Nuktachini
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 […]
December 4, 2004
Generics Preview
Generics is the most profound of changes envisaged in Tiger. Greg Travis has this nice preview on it. In summary Generics offer the following advantages as per Greg: Better compile-time type checking: With generics, the type casting is implicit in the instantiation you are using, and it’s done at compile-time. By using a particular instantiation, you […]
December 4, 2004
Faulty Comments Tag in RSS Feed
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: [code lang=”xml”]<comments>http://www.jroller.com?anchor=bush_rivals_vajpayee_on_poetic</comments>[/code] while it should be formed as under: […]
December 4, 2004
Tomcat as NT Service
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 […]