January 2004

Struts and EJB

January 30, 2004

Just saw an interesting post on Matt Raible’s blog entitled ‘Want to use Struts with EJB’s‘. Matt’s blog entry points to project hosted at java.net called StrutsEJB. At first glance, StrutsEJB looks like a pretty interesting project. It provides base classes and patterns to build a Web application using Struts, EJB and JSTL. I’m sure [...]

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Microsoft has Google Envy?

January 27, 2004

It’s been interesting watching the whole Google-Microsoft love affair unfold. I’m not sure but I think Microsoft has Google-envy and it’s not the other way around. Google is the best search engine and so Microsoft wants to buy it or beat it at its own game. I read an interview where Bill Gates admitted to [...]

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Commons Collections 3.0 released

January 25, 2004

The Commons Collections team at Apache has just announced the general availbility of the Commons Collections 3.0. The Commons Collections is a library providing implementations, interfaces and utilities enhancing the Java Collections Framework. Links of interest:Website: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/collections/index.htmlCollections 3.0 release API: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/collections/apidocs-COLLECTIONS_3_0/index.htmlCollections – Commons Collections – Users guide: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/collections/userguide.htmlBinary downloads: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgiSource downloads: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

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Sir. Bill Gates?

January 24, 2004

Caught this story on Slashdot – The Slashdot story cites a Telegraph stories that claims that Bill Gates is going to be knighted by the Queen of England for “services to the global enterprise”. As you can imagine, the response from the Slashdot audience is pretty predictable. Whatever you think of Bill Gates and Microsoft, [...]

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Musings about India

January 19, 2004

I just returned from a 2-week trip to India, my first trip back in almost 16 years and it was an amazing experience. With all this talk of outsourcing and India/China taking all of our jobs, it was nice to see what was really happening in person. India is an amazing country with very warm, [...]

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Blogging from 10,000 miles away

January 1, 2004

Just wanted to wish everyone in Blogspace a very happy and safe new year. I’m on vacation in India and blogging from there. It’s already 8:34 AM of January 1, 2004 here.. Blogger will probably still apply a different timestamp. oh well — Happy New Year

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