A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
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...
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...
I am attending FOSS.IN/2008 virtually through twitter (unfortunately I could not attend due to work pressure). Here is my contribution to the FOSS world as part of FOSS.IN/2008. Go to jFotoNotes project page jFotoNotes is java implementation of famous FotoNotes in php. A variation of FotoNotes is also used by flickr. Fotonotes is...
Last few days I have been reading more books, coding more scriptlets than twittering or blogging here. I am yet to decide on coffee project of this month. I might send it to Wikimedia Foundation as I don’t have any other project in my mind. Two weeks back I was at Google Developer...
Why comments in the code are not always good! (1) Because they are not updated. When ever the code is changed, the comments should also be changed. But it may happen like the code is updated but not the comments which may confuse the next developer. (2) Maintenance problem. Highly commented code is...
I have seen developers writing toString method in each of their bean class. The purpose is to print the bean variables for logging or debugging purposes. I thought of reducing their effort by writing a generic toString method to have in their base bean class. It works for simple bean classes. Its no-brainer...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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