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Today, Google announced the most awaited mobile strategy backed by the industry’s big wees. The momentum turned into Open Handset Alliance with more than 30 technology and mobile companies which developed the first complete, open and free mobile platform. Developers will have access to the Android SDK on November 12. Google unlocks the opportunity to [...]

Finally, I had a chance to touch and feel the iPhone in an Apple retail store in West Des Moines. [singlepic=10,320,240,,] I was blown away by the technology Apple has brought to its consumers. Watching YouTube videos in a mobile device is just amazing. Facebook on iPhone connects you to people around you. Bringing social [...]

Recently, I was reading a 2-part article series by Eoin Woods on software architecture woos and worries, though he terms as mistakes. Part 1 addresses top-5 and Part 2 addresses the rest. He mostly shares his own experience as a software architect for years. Buckle up, never do these mistakes – It’s The Law in [...]

Joshua Bloch’s JavaOne’06 presentation on Effective Java Reloaded previewed his second edition of the most famous Java best practice guide in the Java developer community. Finally, the book is hitting the market on Nov 9, 2007 and it is available for Pre-Order from Amazon.com. But, you can start using some of these best practices today. [...]

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Synthetic methods are often referred to as bridge methods in Java generics world. These methods are created by the Java compiler as a result of type erasure when the signature of the inherited methods change when a type extends or implements parameterized classes or interfaces. The compiler generates synthetic methods in subtypes of parameterized supertypes [...]

I was reading a recent blog entry from A. Sundararajan which uncovers one of the hidden options used to be available only for debugging Java compiler. This option is an undocumented feature which explains the underpinnings behind some of the various language features introduced in JDK1.5. OpenJDK provides an opportunity to learn the intricacies of [...]

Today, I became the proud owner of Alan Greenspan’s The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World. One of my favorite economist writes about the global capitalist economy post 9/11 era. I will add more to this blog as I start reading this economy bible of the 21st century. Possibly Related Posts: Chrome chemistry [...]

Welcome to my blog! This is my first official blogging on the net. I would like to start my blog by announcing the arrival of our little baby girl Vasundhra on Sep 4. It was awesome to hold her on my hands and welcoming her to this exciting world. Those were miraculous moments. She is [...]

A Google Code project on detecting singletons in Java code has released its code under Apache Software License. This tool is useful for detecting singletons based on their usage pattern and these patterns are classified as {S, H, M, F}+ingleton. The author introduces these new terminologies based on whether the Singleton is implemented in a [...]