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Sometimes a you come across a tool that just makes you think why you never used it before, I ran across one such tool last month, it’s called soapUI (http://www.soapui.org/ ).

This is an open source tool for testing web services, everything I wanted to do for testing some of the web services that we [...]

Recently I had to work on a Java based rule modeling tool that was built on Java/Eclipse. The tool was pushing both eclipse and the JVM to the limits in terms of memory and I was getting a lot of OutOfMemory exceptions and out of heap space errors, usually these can be fixed by increasing [...]

Recently I was reviewing some code written by a new programmer, this person had demonstrated good knowledge of his domain and was quite well regarded by everyone. However when I looked at his code I saw a familiar pattern that I had seen before which I like to call the “Enlightened Newbie Syndrome” (ENS).

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Just saw Hacking Democracy on HBO, it’s available online as well. I can’t believe the whole electronic voting system is built on Access and a VB frontend!!

A few years ago before the whole weblogs revolution kicked off my daily hangout was “The Lounge” at codeproject.com, it was fun to participate in discussions with peers on a wide variety of topics. When I initially started my blog I thought that I could kick off a discussion by posting a blog and then [...]

A decade ago when I was still in high school I remember our economics teacher going over the economic issues plaguing India, at the top of the list was “population”, it seemed like all economic problems of India stemmed from it’s high population count and that lowering the population would in turn result in a [...]

For the past few days I’ve been investigating some memory leak issues in our desktop application. The problem started showing up when we saw that opening new documents and then closing them didn’t have any negative impact on the memory usage. Initial tests using vadump and process explorer confirmed that there was an issue and [...]

Last week all of us were baffled when suddenly one part of our application that uploads files to a FTP server stopped working. The strange thing was that the same build has been working without any issues for the past one week. We looked at everything that could have gone wrong, server, configuration, code but [...]

I read a very interesting essay today – Hacknot – To Those About to Hackthat talks about why planning upfront always pays in the long run. There is a very nice story that illustrates the value of planning upfront.

I think that when people write essays like this they tend to provide an analogy that suits [...]

MIT students have conducted an experiment in which they were able to transmit power wirelessly and without significant loss.

This is so totally awesome, I hope this technology goes mainstream in the next 5-10 years, we’ll finally be able to get rid of all these wires.

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