Blogging at the speed of thought

I was driving from Des Moines to Chicago on Friday 12/21 to send off my parents from O’HARE the next day. The seasonal affair was in effect as usual in Iowa. We started driving at 8am and we were navigating through the dense fog through I-80 and I-88. It was a black hole experience. The [...]

Today, Google released the Android platform SDK to the developer community. It comes with tools and APIs to develop applications on the open mobile platform using the Java programming language. It comes with an emulator and Eclipse plugin for development. The SDK is already available on Windows, Mac OS X (intel), and Linux (i386) platforms. [...]

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 [...]