Faster Internet Through OpenDNS/Google Public DNS

Another way to make your internet faster, secure and more manageable. Point your domain naming server to either Open DNS or Google Public DNS.

Open DNS
Google Public DNS

Please take a note of current settings so in case is these changes do not work, you can revert back to original ISP settings.

Note : Only try these changes if you are much familiar with computer systems and networks.

ORM - Anti Pattern

An interesting discussion about why ORM may be an overhead for large projects. ORM Anti Pattern Some of the issues are very evident when you integrate with extensive RDBMS or ERP database system with OO applications.

Best of Steve Jobs's Quotes

“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”

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“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.”

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“I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.”

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“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

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“I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.”

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“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Courtesy: [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]

High Performance Websites!

   

• 14 Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites
• Yahoo Rules 
• Google Rules

Great New York Pictures

City of New York Like YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE

50 Best websites by Time!

Time magazine recently published best 50 websites for year 2011. 50 Best Websites 2011 Out of these 50 sites, I find below ones are most interesting for day-2-day life.

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My Top 10 Favorites of Best Websites
Web Site	What For?
8Tracks	Good Mucic collection for streaming. All high quality legal tracks
HowCast	Videos of how to of many things
MyDamnChannel	Lots of interesting short films
BigThink	Experts view on science, future, arts, business and much more
GetHuman	Way to get a real person not a voice menu from Customer Service
Instapaper	A simple tool to save web pages for reading later.
ScienceDaily	Daily Science news
Join Me	share your Windows PC or Mac's desktop with others
ZenHabits	Eye opening life lessons
KhanAcademy	Lots of study materials on all subjects

Browser Test

http://browsershots.org/

Performance Tuning of Large data retrieval in JDBC

OptimizeJava

New website checklist!

http://newsletter.agiliq.com/the-quick-website-launch-checklist
http://newsletter.agiliq.com/the-website-launch-checklist-part-2

Watch creation of Google Maps Live!

http://www.google.com/mapmaker/pulse

Code Katas

David Thomas of Pragmatic Programmer [pragprog] says, "Most of other professional do practice before perform.. Artists, musicians and even physicians.. But programmers do all practice on the job. No wonder how many defects we leave at work"

Practice to become a better programmer.

A set of interesting experiments every programmer should complete to move ahead towards that goal.

Code Kata

First touch of Java 7

Java 7 is here... and there are many improvements. But as a developer, what we can use on day to day use.. 

1. Strings in Switch 

  - Long waited feature. Makes life much simpler in many ways. Till Java 5, the handling was terrible by defining constants integers or characters and we tend to improve with enums on Java 5 and now finally to match with real world identities 

2. Multi catch exceptions

 Another graceful feature. Reduces lot of code duplication.

3. Try with resources.
   Whenever we access resources we do with try catch finally block, where we release the resources [closing the connections etc] at finally block. With this feature, there will be no need of such finally blocks. The resources on try will automatically released after the try block resulting in much cleaner code.

There are much more with collections, file API, and concurrency features. Will update soon. 

package org.nava.java7;


import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import static java.lang.System.out;


/**
 *
 * @author nadhimoolam
 */
public class ProjectCoinTest {


    public static void main(String args[]) {
        String condition = "BLue";
        testSwitch(condition);
        tryWithMulti();
        tryWithResources(new File("source"), new File("target"));
    }


    private static void testSwitch(String condition) {
        switch (condition.toLowerCase()) {
            case "blue":
            case "red":
                out.println("The choice is " + condition);
                break;
            default:
                out.println("Default ");
        }


    }


    private static void tryWithMulti() {
        try {
            File f = new File("Is this file exists ");
            throw new FileNotFoundException();
        } catch (NullPointerException | FileNotFoundException e) {
            out.println("It should be either null pointer or file not found " + e);
        } catch (Throwable t) {
            out.println("Its throwable now  " + t);
        } finally {
            out.println("Finally.");
        }
    }


    private static void tryWithResources(File source, File target) {
        try (InputStream fis = new FileInputStream(source);
                OutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(target)) {


            byte[] buf = new byte[8192];


            int i;
            while ((i = fis.read(buf)) != -1) {
                fos.write(buf, 0, i);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            out.println("Exception on trying the resources..." + e);
        }
    }
}