Date: 12/18/05     Keywords: java

JRuby is a project to watch for. It implements Ruby on Java virtual machine. In other words now Ruby is truly cross-platform. More importantly it allows strong inter-operability between java classes and ruby scripts. JRuby allows Ruby code to easily call Java classes and vice versa. Invoking a java class from Ruby is as simple as: require [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ruby-on-java-jruby-project-to-watch/

Date: 12/18/05     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft plans to make India a hub for research, product and applications development. It announced plans for investing $1.7 billion over the next four years, and increasing local headcount by 3,000 to 7,000-level. The investment will be in line with the growing importance of India’s role in the global economy, as well as its emerging [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-investing-17-billion-in-4-years-recruiting-3000-professionals-in-india/

Date: 12/18/05     Keywords: java

Tomorrow I am presenting an overview of Java to management students of The Institute of Business Management, Jadavpur University. This is a introductory lecture. I have prepared some Powerpoint slides for the presentation. It contains more material than I can reasonably present in the allotted time. The idea is to be able to focus [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/fundamentals-of-java-for-management-students-powerpoint-presentation/

Date: 12/16/05     Keywords: software, database

Nicu Sebe from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands tested emotion-recognition software on Monalisa's smile. Why am I unhappy about it? His algorithm examines key facial features such as the curvature of the lips and crinkles around the eyes, then scores each face with respect to six basic emotions. Sebe drew on a database of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mona-lisa-was-83-per-cent-happy-and-i-am-2748-per-cent-unhappy/

Date: 12/16/05     Keywords: html, web, apache

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been discovered in the Apache httpd server's mod_imap module which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Referer when using image maps. Input passed to the image map "Referer" directive in "mod_imap" isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cross-site-scripting-vulnerability-in-apache-mod_imap-module/

Date: 12/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

Ramesh Sharda, an information scientist at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, has trained an artificial neural network to recognise successful movies from flops with high degree of accuracy. Let's look at the results. The data consisted of 834 movies released between 1998 and 2002. The system ranked movies in 9 categories ranging from "flop" [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/trained-neural-network-predicts-hollywood-blockbusters-flops/

Date: 12/16/05     Keywords: web, microsoft

GMail is now accessible from your WAP enabled mobile by accessing http://m.gmail.com Your Gmail account stays synched, whether you access it from the web or the mobile interface. It opens the attachments you receive in messages, including photos, Microsoft Word documents and .pdf files GMail now added Auto-Responder for vacation responses. It also enabled emailing to groups. Previously it [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/gmail-goes-mobile-other-goodies/

Date: 12/16/05     Keywords: java

Firefox has its own share of troubles. If I happen to open few sites with Flash advertisements on them and leave it open for some time, Firefox gobbles up most of the memory and becomes dog-slow. And there are more. Like Flash, Java applets also are not a performance star with Firefox; Internet Explorer fares much [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/firefox-woes-memory-leaking-hanging-incorrect-rendering-etc/

Date: 12/16/05     Keywords: java

It has become a fulltime jobs of some morons to reverse hype Java for several years now. First it was "Java is slow" myth which was perpetuated. It has since been debunked several times over. Then it was "applets are slow" myth which unfortunately and erroneously got some hold with "marketing" types. At the same [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/reverse-hyping-java-myth-and-realities/

Date: 12/15/05     Keywords: no keywords

I wish you all a happy year-ending and enjoyable holidays. May the New Year bring to you untold happiness and wisdom.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wish-you-all-happy-holidays/

Date: 12/15/05     Keywords: no keywords

In a significant move IBM decided to shutdown its UDDI business and test registry, one of the earliest available. I would be very interested to know the real reason behind the shutdown. Is it because the registry wasn't being used very much and yet consuming too much resources with dummy/test entries so much so to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ibm-shuts-down-uddi-business-registry/

Date: 12/12/05     Keywords: no keywords

I was surprised (not in a pleasant way) to find MSNBC, which has rented space on my blog through BlogAds is apparently peddling porn on that space. Their ad reads "Welcome to Porn Valley" followed by "MSNBC 12.14.2005″ (look on your right). The reality is that they are peddling their online magazine which apparently no one [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/msnbc-peddling-porn-on-blogs-using-blogads/

Date: 12/11/05     Keywords: technology, java

I want to create a list of Java blogger's in India or of Indian origin. If you are one please state so with your url in the comment below. Also mention if you focus on any particular Java technology. Feel free to forward this post.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-bloggers-in-india/

Date: 12/11/05     Keywords: google

Google, Inc. has been sued by AIT, a "two-time" INC 500 Company, who has advertised with Google for years, as the representative plaintiff in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The suit is based on fraudulent clicks and Google’s refusal to take steps against it even though the company is well [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-facing-class-action-on-click-fraud/

Date: 12/11/05     Keywords: browser

If you use Firefox AdBlock extension and you have upgraded to Firefox 1.5 you may notice that Flash is now disabled on your browser. This micro tutorial will show you how to enable Flash on your Firefox 1.5 browser. 1. Type Ctrl-Shift-P and click on AdBlock Options. 2. Uncheck OBJ-TABS You are done!

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-enable-flash-in-firefox-15/

Date: 12/09/05     Keywords: yahoo, google

InfoWorld published results of a survey which found Google search users were more net savvy and more likely (statistically significant) to have household income above 60, 000 USD, in comparison with competing search engines like Yahoo, MSN etc.. Unfortunately some of us tend to misinterpret results of such survey and infer erroneous causal relationships like [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/statistics-interpretations-how-using-google-search-makes-you-richer-or-does-it/

Date: 12/08/05     Keywords: technology

Apple could be in for a big legal fight with competitor Creative over the navigation technology used in iPod music players. Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo plans to pursue aggressively a US patent it owns on a system used to navigate music on digital players. Mr Sim was speaking at the launch of Creative's latest competitor to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/apple-ipod-patent-lawsuit-on-horizon/

Date: 12/07/05     Keywords: java

I personally used JFreeChart is several projects. I found it to be of very high quality. JFreeChart is a free Java class library for generating charts, including: * pie charts (2D and 3D); * bar charts (regular and stacked, with an optional 3D effect); * line and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/jfreechart-100-free-high-quality-java-charting-software-released/

Date: 12/07/05     Keywords: java, web

Today I see fewer applets on the web. In many cases they are hidden and are used to perform specialized non-visual tasks. Applets are still a good way to incorporate client-side interactivity without overloading the application server. Let's see what would be your reach if you do decide to deploy Java applet based solutions. The web [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-viability-of-applet-based-web-applications/

Date: 12/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

Intel, world's largest chip maker, is likely to make an investment of $500 million for its Indian operations. Craig Barrett, chairman at Intel is expected to make the announcement during his visit to India. According to Business Standard - About half of this investment is expected to flow into Intel's research lab and marketing division, the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/intel-to-announce-500-million-indian-investment/