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Enter Quick Basic
Prudhvi Tej, the lad from West Godavari district who topped the IIT Joint Entrance Examination this year said that he wants to become an IAS officer. And in order to focus on the civil services examinations, he said he will do electrical engineering to make it easy for him to prepare.
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From Mr. Perfect to Social Technologist
Today, Sunday (29-May-11), I watched the Telugu movie Mr. Perfect at Prasad IMAX with my family. The movie is a hit, something of a rarity these days in Tollywood. One of the lines in the movie that stuck in my mind is said by K.Viswanath the veteran director who, in the movie, is grand father of Maggie (played by Taapsee). I don’t remember the ( Read more... ) -
An Evening With Documentaries
Spent the evening of the Friday gone by (13-May-2011) attending a show of documentaries held at Lamakaan. A few days before the event, I had read about it in the letters section on the editorial page of Andhra Jyothy. Until then I didn’t know there was a place called Lamakaan in Hyderabad.
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Weekend Miscellany (23/24-Apr-2011)
This Saturday I went with my team to a full-day outing at Pragati Resorts. It's so invigorating for teams working in companies to take a day off to a get-together with families. Housie, cricket, water games, rain dance, musical chairs, group songs and dance were on the agenda apart from lunch, high-tea and drinks. Enjoyed the Saturday thoroughly ( Read more... ) -
Communist Desphoenixism
Of all the news programs that inundate TV channels these days, the one that I like a lot is hosted by Nidhi Razdan on NDTV, not just because she is easy on the eye and has a non-intrusive style that reminds me of a previous favorite Larry King, a style which maximises the speaking time of the guests. These, of course, are reasons enough to watch, ( Read more... ) -
Richa Poetry: Technically Enabling Twoems
Was having fun with Ruby programming language and Richa’s tweets during my spare time in the last few weeks. My idea (and implementation) of having fun is:- Implement Markov chain algorithm in Ruby.
- Make a change. Print the output in a structure that looks like a poem.
- Next change. Fetch tweets and apply the program. Tweets -> Markov Algorithm -> poem.
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Cloud Computing As A Lean Solution
The I.T industry saw a major shift when we had software offered as a service and platform offered as a service. This brought two major changes in the landscape. One - users did not have to purchase software and install on their computers. Next, they did not have to pay license fee upfront.
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Amused After Reading Mobile Apps Amuse Article
From his office, my CMD (Chairman & Managing Director) Srikanth sends relevant technical / business journals or literature that he comes across, to function heads. Recently what came came to my desk was the January issue of Inc. magazine. On the cover, he had circled an article title, “Mobile Apps That Will Amuse Your Business”.
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My First Implementation Of cruds With JSF2 & PrimeFaces
I got past my implementation of cruds in JSF2 successfully. Just to be clear, I say cruds and not crud. Cruds is for create-read-update-delete-search. I don’t know what can be considered as the best UI layout for crud functionality. As I blogged earlier, I had decided that “my” design is that these actions need to be accommodated in three screens ( Read more... ) -
eCommerce enabled JSF2
It’s always helpful to have a good programming language book on your desk when you are coding so that on the occasions when you are stuck, you will find leads to solve your problems ( Read more... )