Date: 09/14/06     Keywords: java

How else to ruin you day (night for me here; nightmares, here I come) than to see venerable Java Guru James Gosling in the buff? I really didn’t believe it and I thought it was some joke with a point. Unfortunately it appears to be true. It appears someone stalked James (Floyd Marinescu appears to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/james-gosling-nude-my-day-is-ruined/

Date: 09/14/06     Keywords: blogging

I am an INTP. And frankly blogging often makes me tired, very tired. I like thinking, deep thoughts, product ideas, philosophical ideas, and even explaining it to any intelligent person. But I don’t like talking about it all the time. INTP’s need to regenerate after a talking session. Blogging somehow compels you to “talk” more [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-blogging-unproductive-for-intps-and-code-monkeys/

Date: 09/13/06     Keywords: database, java

I have been inundated with emails after my article Java Database Framework (ORM Replacement) in 80 Lines of Code, asking for the source code of the framework or if I could release it as open source. I haven’t been yet able to individually reply to all of them, sorry. I have decided to release it [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/update-on-super-simple-java-orm-replacement-in-80-lines/

Date: 09/13/06     Keywords: no keywords

I have to warn you that the song is not suitable for minors, republicans or prudes. It is NSFW if you use speakerphones to listen at work. But man, is it hilarious. It beautifully summarizes and compares the Presidency of George Bush & Bill Clinton. So now sing along.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/adult-song-on-george-bushs-lies-clintons-you-know-what/

Date: 09/12/06     Keywords: no keywords

Seriously, these Mac ads need to tone down their smugness and this spoof is a good first attempt. Looking forward to see more of these. Hope Apple gets the hint. Ignore the commercial of the company, who created it, at the end. Overall it is a nice message to Mac.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-best-mac-commercial-ever/

Date: 09/12/06     Keywords: google

Lately whenever I am checking my blog stats in PubSub, I am getting “blog.taragana.com” has not been active in the past 30 days.. blog.taragana.com has been very much active during this time. On a hunch I tried to find blog activity of popular blogs like Scobelizer or GoogleBlog. They too haven’t been active in the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pubsub-search-down-pubsub-too/

Date: 09/12/06     Keywords: software, technology

The DTrace trouble-shooting software from Sun Microsystems was chosen as the Gold winner in The Wall Street Journal’s 2006 Technology Innovation Awards contest, the second time in three years that a Sun entry has won the top award. Bryan Cantrill and a team of engineers at Sun Microsystems Inc. created DTrace which allows you to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sun-microsystems-wins-top-technology-innovation-award-2006-for-dtrace-software/

Date: 09/11/06     Keywords: microsoft

Simple Thoughts blog’s viewership is male oriented (63% male) with the majority in the 18-24 age group according to Microsoft adCenter Labs. The interesting thing is that my viewership percentage is significantly larger in under 24 age group. On the other hand my stem cell research blog’s viewership is mostly female (68%) with the majority of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/find-your-blog-viewers-demographic-profile/

Date: 09/11/06     Keywords: web, spam

I am talking about setting up a full featured website for your small business or personal use with your own domain and receiving your emails@your-domain.com address. You can setup emails for yourself and your employees. It comes with high quality spam protection. You have unlimited bandwidth on your website and potentially unlimited disk space. You [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-setup-your-small-business-website-email-for-599-per-year/

Date: 09/06/06     Keywords: microsoft

One of the core architects of Windows Vista is leaving Microsoft weeks after it emerged he would be re-assigned once Vista operating system is launched. Valentine led Windows code engineering for seven years and is joining Amazon as a senior vice president. Former group vice president Jim Allchin is also headed out. Brian Valentine, the vice [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/core-windows-vista-architect-leaving-microsoft/

Date: 09/06/06     Keywords: web

I have a cool web project idea. It may not bring you money but it will be very satisfying to you if you are a fan of Swami Vivekananda. I want to collect all the newpaper mentions of Swami Vivekananda from 1902 and earlier, scan the relevant section(s) and manually (or with high quality ocr [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/web-research-project-idea-on-swami-vivekananda/

Date: 09/04/06     Keywords: software

Last week was an interesting one as hot debate raged over Joel Spolsky’s article on enterprise language, Hani rightly bashed copious logging of open source software and my article on hacking attempts from Caltech topped the list of most read articles. We released Anaconda, a beautiful 3 column WordPress theme and version 3 of Translator [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/last-week-in-perspective-joel-spolsky-hani-ssh-hacking-translator-anaconda/

Date: 09/04/06     Keywords: web

Joel Spolsky was asked four important questions on enterprise development. Joel didn’t offer a clear answer on some of them. Here is my take on all the questions. “I wanted to get your response to some basic questions concerning technologies available for creating an enterprise level application that is built upon a Web Server, Web based [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/answering-joel-spolskys-questions-on-enterprise-development/

Date: 09/04/06     Keywords: browser

It is surprising to see MySpace still allows simple hacks like this. You can view any user’s private videos on MySpace with this simple trick. Type in url in your browser and replace XXXXXXX with any MySpace users id: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.showvids&friendid=XXXXXXX That’s all it takes to view any user’s videos, even private ones. via GrownUpGeek Looking forward to see how [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/myspace-hack-how-to-view-any-users-private-videos/

Date: 09/04/06     Keywords: seo

Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro offers tremendous SEO advantage ethically to your blog by instantly providing 8 times the original number of pages. These pages are indistinguisable to search engines and are treated as any other pages of your blog. ptvguy from WordPress forums has provided a crystal clear explanation of the SEO benefits for your [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/seo-benefits-of-translator-plugin-pro-for-your-wordpress-blog/

Date: 09/04/06     Keywords: no keywords

Steve Irwin, famously known as Crocodile Hunter for his Discovery Channel shows, was killed in a freak accident in Cairns, police sources said. It is understood he was killed by a sting-ray barb that went through his chest. He was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas filming an underwater documentary and that’ is when [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/crocodile-hunter-dead/

Date: 09/03/06     Keywords: no keywords

Now you can talk to me, if I am online*, directly from my blog. On the first sidebar you should see a small chat window which allows you to communicate with me in private. I strongly recommend that you use your real name to communicate with me. *It shows me online if I have logged into [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/chat-with-me-live-from-my-blog/

Date: 09/03/06     Keywords: no keywords

Single quotes are a royal pain when using WordPress to post your code. WordPress, in its infinite wisdom, does some really bad things to it. And anyone who attempts to simply cut-n-paste your code sample is in for a rude surprise and you are in for some really trivial support calls. So here is how [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-add-single-quotes-in-wordpress-posts/

Date: 09/03/06     Keywords: no keywords

This weekend I am in hibernation. Next week too I will be in semi-hibernation. I need some rest. In fact it is long overdue.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/next-week-i-am-resting/

Date: 09/03/06     Keywords: no keywords

A Kolkata girl, Sulagna Ray, was arrested on Friday morning from her Behala home for using stolen credit card details of US residents, whom she served during her work at a call center selling DishTV, to buy goods worth $4, 500. The call centre, where Sulagna worked, does the back-end operations of another e-commerce site in [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/call-center-girl-defrauds-4000-for-fun-using-stolen-credit-cards-of-clients/