Category: Technology

The Bad Code Offset 7

The Bad Code Offset

All of us at one time or the other written bad code. Now we cant go back and correct it, but we can offset it by buying “The Bad Code Offset“, just like how big companies buy “carbon offset”. The money spent on buying “The Bad Code Offset” is sent to these five...

Joy of using Jolicloud on my Netbook 5

Joy of using Jolicloud on my Netbook

I am an early adopter of eeepc but never got a chance to write about it in detail. EEEPC became part of my must carry travel gadgets during my euro trip last year. Ever since them I have carried it to multiple conferences and backpack travels. The only problem I faced was battery...

IT is not the place for women especially young mothers 22

IT is not the place for women especially young mothers

Okay, now before you question my intentions, let me make it clear. It’s not about women, I think they are very capable (much more than men most of the time), it’s about where we work and about our so called work culture. Also this is not based my experiences inside Infy alone (a...

RegExGeleya 2

RegExGeleya

I am big fan of RegExBuddy, but its windows only. Even though I am not as efficient product developer as people at Just Great Software, I wrote a simple UI based RegEx tester called RegExGeleya. I used Netbeans, its a pretty cool IDE to develop Java UI. You can get the code and...

Getting started with Processingjs by writing Analog clock 8

Getting started with Processingjs by writing Analog clock

As most of you know, I love JavaScript.  Recently I started exploring Processing.js to create some dynamic graphs and animation. I was bowled over by the power of Processing.js. “Processing.js is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java...

Logging uncaught exception (redirecting from sysout to logger) 0

Logging uncaught exception (redirecting from sysout to logger)

Uncaught exceptions in Java are handled by the System. The JVM usually logs the exception into the System.err and then shuts down. But in case of web applications its different. It logs the printstack trace to server console and then continues. Even though most of the time System.err is redirected to a file...