IndianGeek

After many failed attempts at building webkit I was finally able to get all the pieces together and build and debug webkit under visual studio. I can now start playing with the live system, rather than browsing through the code.

The big problem I faced was the builds failing because the line endings used in the [...]

When I had first read about CMM I had thought that it was the holy grail that all software companies should be working towards, at that time I was still in school and idealism took precedence over reality.

After having worked in this field for some years now, I feel that CMM is so far removed [...]

I got back to application development using Java after spending the last 4 years developing applications using .Net and C++ and things have really changed!!! I have spent the last one month trying to catch up on all the new stuff in the Java world. Updating myself with the latest changes to the syntax only [...]

The build is the pulse of any software development activity and a good build system facilitates quality software development. My current thoughts on a build process are as follows

Build Machine

The build machine is a dedicated physical or virtual machine whose sole purpose is to build your product. It should not be used for development or [...]

Recently I downloaded Picasa from Google to manage my huge collection of photographs, I was totally blown away by the great experience of using such a great piece of software. Everything was so intuit, and the UI was really slick and well organized. Being a developer the first thing that came to my mind was [...]

Over the last year I’ve downloaded the source for many popular open source tools like Gaim, eMule, Mozilla etc. in order to read the code. One big problem I always faced coming from a Visual Studio background was the lack of a solution or workspace kind of concept that allows for easier code browsing. Today [...]

A few years back when I first started reading about design patterns, refactoring, OO principles etc. I got it into my head that I should “Always program to an interface not an implementation”. So whenever I needed to create a new class/abstraction I used to start of with an interface IThis, IThat etc. over [...]

An uber cool use of web services, Amazon has released the “Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)” web service, it’s in limited beta right now.

Check it out.