Date: 03/23/06     Keywords: java

Nowadays POJO's are everywhere. The name was initially conceived (I forget who it was) to bring back some spotlight to plain everyday used java objects (away from overhyped java beans or ejb). Most of our development is done using POJO's. Yet marketing loves to hear that we use Java Beans or EJB's as it helps them [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-rise-pojos-or-pojos-in-action/

Date: 03/23/06     Keywords: software, java, google, apache

Google is contemplating joining the Eclipse (Java IDE) Foundation in some capacity. Good news for Eclipse and Java all around. Greg Stein, an engineering manager in the open-source group at Google and chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, told eWEEK that Google has considered joining Eclipse and has talked with Eclipse's executive director, Mike Milinkovich, about [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-plans-to-get-eclipsed-like-salesforce/

Date: 03/23/06     Keywords: no keywords

The new T-Mobile MDA, a cellphone powered by Windows Mobile 5.0, has so many features that you may just leave your laptop at home. The 5.6-ounce MDA supports four international cellular frequencies and can connect to newer EDGE networks. It has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for tapping into wireless hot spots, including T-Mobile's international hot spot network. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/its-a-cellphone-its-a-laptop-its-the-new-t-mobile-mda/

Date: 03/23/06     Keywords: no keywords

Sony's president confirmed a November release for the PlayStation 3 and said the company is also committed to a simultaneous worldwide launch of the PS3 in Japan, the rest of Asia, North America, Europe and Australia. SCE President Phil Harrison told an audience at the Game Developers Conference here that Sony will produce about a million [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sony-confirms-playstation-3-worldwide-release-on-november-details-strategy/

Date: 03/23/06     Keywords: yahoo

Yahoo lanuched a service to provide local telephone number for $2.99 per month. The calls will have to be initiated from a PC, but can be made to traditional landline phones and cellphones. Yahoo customers can receive calls from traditional landline phones and cellphones. Yahoo will charge 2 cents a minute for domestic calls, on [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/yahoo-offers-local-phone-no-with-voip-telephony-for-299/

Date: 03/22/06     Keywords: no keywords

Type ipconfig /flushdns on cmd prompt. E:\>ipconfig /flushdns Windows 2000 IP Configuration Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-clear-flush-local-dns-cache-in-windows-2000-xp-2003/

Date: 03/21/06     Keywords: no keywords

Windows users are familiar with the dreaded "blue screen of death", a screen displayed by windows which virtually doesn't provide much useful information. I have recently faced with one. Here are few steps which can help you out of this sticky situation. This is probably not for newbies. First of all it never hurts to have [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-recover-from-blue-screen-of-death/

Date: 03/18/06     Keywords: no keywords

I am tired of reading news everyday along the lines of - x number of chickens were culled at y to prevent (fear of) spread of bird flu. These chicken are being mercilessly killed, mostly by wringing their neck or worse. Why not call it what it is? At the least the millions of chicken being [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-is-chicken-culled-not-killed/

Date: 03/17/06     Keywords: browser, css, html

In order to deal with both old tag soup written to old browser quirks and new standards-compliant pages, Mozilla (and Mozilla-based browsers), Mac IE 5, Windows IE 6, Safari, Opera 7 and Konqueror 3.2 have two main layout modes. In one mode the layout engine attempts to render conforming pages according the CSS and HTML [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/browser-quirks-mode-activation-table/

Date: 03/17/06     Keywords: no keywords

I changed my motherboard recently to Asrock. Soon after my Windows 2000 installation started crashing (read: Blue screen of death). Even Safe mode with Networking failed to boot. I isolated the problem to vsdatant.sys, which turned out to be ZoneAlarm file. Uninstalling ZoneAlarm solved the BSD problem. Next I tried to install a new version of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/zonealarm-crashes-bsd-asrock-motherboard-systems/

Date: 03/17/06     Keywords: java

Javascript doesn't natively support trim on strings. It is however very easy to implement with regular expressions. <script language="javascript"> function trim (str) { str = this != window? this : str; return str.replace(/^\s+/, '').replace(/\s+$/, ''); } [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-trim-in-javascript/

Date: 03/17/06     Keywords: css, html, google

Google appeared with a new look today for Indians (google.co.in). It sports a three column look with flexible center content column. It appears to be a limited trial, displaying only in certain regions. It still uses html table for layout. It appears Google has decided not to join the CSS bandwagon or, as I repeatedly stress, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-sports-a-new-table-based-look/

Date: 03/16/06     Keywords: google

Google AdSense support team wants you to share your story as a publisher. It wants to know about your AdSense experiences - How did you learn about the product? Why was AdSense of interest to you? What features do you use? How satisfied are you with AdSense? How has the way you use AdSense changed [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adsense-wants-your-adsense-feel-good-story-as-publisher/

Date: 03/16/06     Keywords: virus

One of the world's most powerful supercomputers has simulated a moment in the life of a real virus. The simulation is the first to capture a whole biological organism in such intricate molecular detail. "Computational Biology has finally reached the level of sophistication and utility of the 1970’s video game Pong. But it sounds like we should [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/supercomputer-builds-a-virus-simulation/

Date: 03/15/06     Keywords: no keywords

I am now out of the job market for quite sometime. I enjoy leading Taragana. I enjoy everything I do there. However not so long ago I too was in the job market - interviewing and evaluating job offers. And let me tell you it was lots of fun. It is an intellectual game to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/power-interviewing-tips-for-landing-your-dream-job/

Date: 03/11/06     Keywords: web, hosting

I am looking for dedicated web hosting solution. Can you please provide me with some recommendations within manageable cost? I am slowly but surely outgrowing my WestHost VPS. More and more problems are starting to emerge on reliability, bandwidth and services front. Their first level services are great. However they are horribly poor at second level [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/looking-for-dedicated-web-hosting-solutions/

Date: 03/10/06     Keywords: web

Text-Link-Ads provide links on websites. It appears it has been hacked. Someone has logged in as me and placed a recurring ad on my behalf for a site I have never seen nor care about ( american.idolblog.com ) and then directs the landing page to a strange site which isn't even up yet [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/text-link-ads-hacked/

Date: 03/10/06     Keywords: java

I want to propose a simple set of requirements for Java framework authors to help make their framework easily understandable and widely accepted. He also gets all the fame and glory of Java world (wouldn't mind if he mentions my contribution) and in all likelyhood gets free passes to conferences. Create a 1 minute, 5 minute [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-java-framework-developers-needs/

Date: 03/10/06     Keywords: no keywords

I was browsing through Blogads order page (search "Simple Thoughts" to find ours) and was surprised to find the top blogs in terms of page views in BlogAds. Now BlogAds is an independent entity and it is likely that the pageviews they are reporting is pretty accurate and real users (or at least bots who also [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-blogs-of-blogads-face-the-reality-and-get-instant-blog-nirvana/

Date: 03/10/06     Keywords: css, seo

Alex has released his first ever wordpress theme - Alexified. The alexified theme looks beautiful and clean. It is one of the nicest three column wordpress themes I have seen. Moreover it is CSS based. However there is a small problem. The left column appears before the central content which is not very SEO friendly.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/neat-three-column-wordpress-theme-alexified/