The obverse of me
Yes, I'm finally here! The place where I wanted to be when the first thoughts of blogging bubbled inside my brain; a place in the technical blogosphere. All it took to get here was some personal blogging exercise, you know, just to get a hang of the habit. With about 7 personal blog posts till date, I'm comfortable enough with blogging.
A quick intro about myself. I'm an engineer working out of India Engineering Centre, Bangalore, since Monday, the 19th of September, 2005 [I joined Sun having around 2.5 years of experience in Java EE technologies like EJBs & Servlets @ Hexaware Technologies, Chennai]. I'm part of a vibrant group of engineers working on a next-generation installation framework that is code-named Purple Haze. With goals like rolling out Java Enterprise System 6 with our installer & open-sourcing the installation framework, we're all set and focussed to make it happen.
Initially, I started off with working on the UI framework of Purple Haze and gained hands-on development experience in a couple of exciting open-source technologies like SwiXML and FreeMarker, besides designing custom UI components. Later, I moved on to work on MI5, a proof of concept for multi-install of Web Infrastructure Suite (Web Server, Application Server, Directory Server & Access Manager), while also working in parallel on bugs-fixing in Purple Haze.
MI5 gave me a wonderful opportunity to work on a cool feature of installation frameworks - Desktop Integration, by means of which shortcuts for desired targets of the installed product could be created in easily accessible areas like the user's desktop or the Start menu or Programs menu. I continue to work on this and believe me, it's been so much fun playing around with this stuff.
So, in this category, you can see me blog on topics related to SwiXML, FreeMarker, GNOME, Netbeans, Solaris, Java & ... err..., well, just anything technical
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