Jul 8, 2008
Protocol Buffers And JSON, Part – I
Google released Protocol Buffers as an open source project today. It used to be an internal tool used by Google for passing serialized objects between applications. But frankly, reading through the introduction I don’t see what problem it tries to tackle that JSON can’t. I seriously doubt if PB is faster than JSON. Also, JSON is more generic and flexible than PB. Easier too. Perhaps PB as a... read more
Jun 4, 2008
Milestones
I am looking forward to picking up the following during next few months. Languages/VM/Libraries: Erlang/OTP J Platforms: Facebook Application Platform OpenSocial Protocols: XMPP ATOM Pub/Sub Database: Hadoop Mnesia CouchDB memchached (its too simple and powerful.) Deployment: Amazon EC2/S3/SimpleDB. Google AppEngine. (If they support languages other than python by the time I’m done with the... read more
Apr 20, 2008
Email enabling Spring Applications.
Using gmail smtp server, JavaMail and Spring IOC, we can quickly put together a simple mail sending application, without any SMTP server installation. Check this out for a detailed description of using gmail as smtp server. Thanks to Enrico for blogging smtp spring configuration. Assuming you have used Spring before, here is a short tutorial: Add mail.jar from JavaMail project to build path. In spring... read more
Apr 5, 2008
Lets start with this:
I received Vista SP1 update. I have installed Vista on a 13 GB partition, and I had only around 700 MB left. After downloading the update, it said minimum 2GB required. So I set out to explore what is eating so much memory. Turned out Windows folder took a good 10.2 GB of it. And digging deeper the system32 folder took 4.17 GB and there was this other folder named winsxs which took...
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Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.
Apr 3, 2008
Styles for Movable Type 4
Very few themes/styles are available for Movable Type 4 as of now. The nice themes over at The Style Archive do not yet work for MT4. However 3 of those themes have been ported and I’m using the Hemingway theme for my blog over at Gaa Gaa Gubbi. Installing these themes is very easy. This is one of the things I liked in MT4 over WP2.5, although number of themes available for WP far outnumber MT4.... read more
I code. I take pictures. I eat people's head. I observe and appreciate different creative expressions. I like analyzing people interactions. I like teaching and explaining things. More here.
