Feb 3, 2010

(Cross-posted from Blogger Buzz) “ Last May, we discussed a number of challenges facing Blogger users who relied on FTP to publish their blogs. FTP remains a significant drain on our ability to improve Blogger: only .5% of active blogs are published via FTP — yet the percentage of our engineering resources devoted to supporting FTP vastly exceeds that....

Dec 26, 2009

Its always said that Best of the Season to visit Skandagiri is between months of July & September. Thereof logically thinking, December-January will be the worst of the months to visit this place. Having been through the Best & Worst of the months, I can conclude there is nothing such thing as Best & Worst about the Mother Nature. Every part on...

Oct 28, 2009

Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly always clocked in under 160 characters. That became...

Sep 30, 2009

Coorg is proudly located at a distance of about 260Kms from Bangalore in South-West direction ie ahead of Mysore and closer to the Kerala border. Before starting for Coorg, one should be aware of the fact that COORG & MADIKERI are SAME place and names are often interchanged. For people who object this blunt fact, Coorg(Kodagu) is the region/district and...

Skandagiri is a hill, located off Bellary Road (NH-7 Hyderabad-Bangalore Highway), and is very close to Nandi Hills and Chikkaballapura. The peak is every adventurer’s paradise with beautiful night trek, altitude camping, stunning sunrise, and serene and swimming clouds that sometimes limits visibility to just a few meters. The village is called Kandavara...

What’s the toughest question a venture capitalist can ask? Answer: “What will you do if Google enters your market?” The web has been buzzing with speculation that senior Microsoft executives are now asking that question. The truth is that they have been asking it for quite a while. In an intriguing interview he gave several years ago, Bill...

Jul 10, 2009

Serialization is the process of saving an object’s state to a sequence of bytes; deserialization is the process of rebuilding those bytes into a live object. The Java Serialization API provides a standard mechanism for developers to handle object serialization. In this tip, you will see how to serialize an object, and why serialization is sometimes...

Windows world The first version of Microsoft’s Windows was launched in 1985. Today, it runs on over 90 per cent of the world’s billion-plus computers Penguin flop The open source Linux operating system, developed in the early 1990s, has failed to challenge Windows and has a meagre 2 per cent market share SEARCH giant Google on Wednesday unveiled a...