Introducing Cheatsheets
I have finally started a “Cheat sheet” section on my website. Everyone likes Cheat sheets to deal with myriad of complexities of their tasks at hand, and as quick reminders...
Looking back my transition to an Engineering Manager
It is now three years since I was officially promoted to the ranks of a Manager. The change of responsibilities from coding to managing people, process and delivery was big,...
· ENGINEERING MANAGER TEAM MANAGEMENT Comments · 10 mins read
Discovering MOOC for easier learning
After a very long stretch of busy work schedules, I was off work for the first week of this month and I used it to rejuvenate, introspect, and put myself...
Comments · 7 mins read
Migrating my blog from Blogger
I started blogging since 2007 more as an experiment. Although I have not been good at blogging, it just worked whenever I used it, but not good enough for technologist...
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Don't be a dick technologist
Being a technologist doesn't mean that everything we create is created from scratch. We Google around, find lots of write ups, blogs, articles, and code and we take them all...
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Universal Applications with Universal JavaScript
Universal Applications with Universal JavaScript from ethomasjoseph
JavaScript is going Universal - Why should this matter you?
If you program for the web, and think that you are a "backend developer", and JavaScript isn't my cup of tea, that is not true any more. You can close...
Comments · 11 mins read
Insane sanity (testing)!
You are busy writing your code on a complex piece and suddenly a team wide announcement comes - "The new code has gone in for the build, please do 'sanity'...
· CMS TESTING CONTENT MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT AUTOMATION Comments · 4 mins read
Three great advice
Act on it. Don't think too hard. Be Agile. These are the three great advice that have been my favorite picks from the book - "The Passionate Programmer - Creating...
· CAREER PASSIONATE PROGAMMER Comments · 3 mins read
Nice is just ordinary! You need to be Extra-ordinary - Amazing - Remarkable!
Today I happened to see a TV advertisement which had a beautiful story - "Nice is just ordinary!". This happened to rephrase what Chad Fowler had to say in his...
· CAREER PASSIONATE PROGAMMER Comments · 3 mins read
Tuning your JCR Queries for the AEM & Jackrabbit OAK
Application tuning is an activity which which every developer and architect will encounter sooner or later for any application. AEM based applications are no different. One of the activities that...
· AEM CQ OAK PERFORMANCE TUNING Comments · 12 mins read
Writing method with dynamic return type without type casting
I have often come across this requirement across multiple projects, where we need to write a method, which can potentially return object of any class, and still you would not...
Installing Java Plugin for Ubuntu / Linux for multiple users
If you are a Linux user like me and have encountered websites that require applet, you may be ok installing the default Java that comes with your distro, and most of the...
Know your Geolocation right away with HTML5
Wondered how Google Maps tracks you current location? HTML5! Thats what enables most of the modern-day applications to track down your current location. You can do it too right away!...
Solving eclipse error with SVN 1.6 (loading JavaHL library)
If you are using Eclipse and SVN (Subversion), there are high chances that you are using the Eclipse plugin - Subclipse. And if you recently upgraded to subclipse 1.6, there...
