Learn

This is the general learning category of posts.

  • Earlier this year I blogged about The Project 1 I decided to execute for 9 weeks. I am glad to have “done” that. Here is the result: Here are the scores that helped me earn Statement of Accomplishment with Distinction: These are the reasons why I chose to do this: [1] I did this to

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  • My first talk to Siri

    Wish I could talk more but was too much worried that Siri might not understand my thick Indian accent.

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  • Microsoft Mouse

    Microsoft does cool hardware sometimes. This Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 3000 that never stopped working for 6 years and still going is an example of that.

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  • Microsoft Surface

    I haven’t yet heard the ep 75 of NZTech Podcast, my weekly source of happenings in tech world. But it appears to me that Microsoft is doing now what Apple has been doing for decades. And people are talking about it. I’m fine with it. What irks me is the way MS fan boys are

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  • Howdy WordPress!

    I started blogging about 5 years back to improve my writing skills and share my thoughts and ideas with world. I did not write too many posts but always provided just enough oxygen to keep my blog alive. As a Google fanatic, my natural choice was blogger.com but over the years I noticed that blogger.com

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  • The Passionate Programmer

    I picked up this book after reading Swaroop CH’s review. Here is the review. I must say this is the best book I have ever read in the recent times. I recommend and like the above review by Swaroop. All I can say is, if you are passionate about IT and want to achieve more

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  • Getting Amazon Kindle

    With the objective of rekindling my passion to read, I ordered a Kindle (Wi-Fi only version) today. I have about 1.5 GB and growing pdf collection which I am procrastinating to read from quite a few years! This certainly affected my technical and English language skills. I agree that I am lazy at times but

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  • I started using BSNL 3G and here my experience. Probably it is an early review as I just staretd using it since today 🙂 -Background As soon as I bought an iPhone, I realized that I need to have a data connection to fully levarage its power. An iPhone which cant connect to internet is

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  • When working with any of IBM products like Websphere, Thread Dump Analyzer developed by IBM or those n number of other Java tools, if you run into issues despite getting all obvious things correct one worthy check would be to see if the tool works with the JVMs other than the one developed by IBM.

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  • This is what I did recently to generate core dump of Weblogic server running in Solaris box. Had to spend sometime to figure it out where the dump is being generated. Here are the steps I followed: [1] Run ps -ef | grep java command. [2] Identify the process id of the Weblogic process [

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