Nov 30, 2008 Posted by Gubbi

Life in a Metro.

  Maa tells me this when ever she reads a news item about someone getting mugged and beaten to death on lonely Bangalore road at night Avoid going outside late nights and in lonely places. Maa tells me this when ever there is a terrorist attack anywhere: Avoid going to crowded places. When I point this out to her or when she reads about horrowing house theft stories in paper she tells: It’s nowhere... read more

Oct 27, 2008 Posted by Gubbi

It happens only in blogosphere.

Robet Scoble shared a post entitled “8 daily tasks to increase blog traffic“ via his google reader. Funny that the blog is now down since it couldn’t handle the traffic it got. Story turned funny. BTW, be sure to check the blog post when it’s back up. Anybody would love to be overwhelmed with lots of traffic like this. ... read more

Jul 8, 2008 Posted by Gubbi

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 Posted by Gubbi

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 Posted by Gubbi

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