Thursday March 08, 2007
Time to go back to Primary School :o)
I guess it's time for me to go back to Primary School and get my basics refreshed.
I was suppose to travel to Delhi today in noon and had got my tickets booked for same. I did all the packing yesterday night and went to bed thinking about how I am gonna enjoy my time with my family. First thing i did after I woke up was to call up airline authorities to check if my flight was on time. To my horror I discovered that it had already left at 2:45 AM in the morning. And I realized that I had messed up with AM/PM stuff. The first thing that struck me was that almost entire airline industry uses "24 hour clock". Infact we learn this in the initial years of our education.
As the trip is unavoidable, I along with one of my friend rushed to airport to check out all available possibilities and have booked a ticket for tomorrow morning.
I will be finally flying tomorrow morning @9:00 AM, HOPEFULLY... 
Tuesday March 06, 2007
SunTech Days - A Retrospective View
SunTech Days@Hyderabad as anticipated was a huge success and by far so much has been written about it. I was in a retrospection mood today and was browsing through various SunTech pertaining articles.
> For the very first time the conference was held in four cities. Hyderabad being the central hub, it was anchored out via satellite to Pune, Mumbai and Delhi.
> Started in 2000, conference was attended by 126 people. In the last seven years the figure has surged to close to 10,000 this year.
> Last but not the least, I came across an article published in Hindu which got my attention instantly - Where Java means Jai Hind. Looking at Java's contribution to Indian economy, this is destined to happen.
Friday March 02, 2007
B2B Enabled EMPI released.
Sun today introduced the Sun B2B-enabled Electronic Master Patient Index (EMPI) along with iPACS and uPACS(Integrated and Utility Picture Archiving and Communication Systems), at HIMMS conference recently.
Entire story can be read here
Sun Microsystems Expands Healthcare IT Portfolio for Better Patient Data Integration
Sunday February 18, 2007
Here comes Woodstock
And Sun has done it again –
Sun recently open sourced Woodstock Project under very flexible CDDL License.
The effort is devoted to development of web-UI components based on JSF and Ajax. Woodstock essentially provides a rich collection of JSF components for developing enterprise-level web applications. These components are fully localized for 10 languages. It enables users to adhere a uniform set of guidelines while being easy to use and develop at the same time.
Wood stock components as well contain functionality to enable their use in NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5 for easy web application development via dragging and dropping components onto a layout page. This allows developer to visually organize their application as they build it.
Wood stock placeholder on java.net has a repository for technical documentation and detail preview of Woodstock components.
Having used the earlier version and a quick peek on Woodstock, I can say Woodstock will surely help developers to churn out powerful & intuitive web applications quickly.
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Thursday February 15, 2007
Java’s contribution to Economy of India
what is GDP?
GDP (gross domestic product) is the primarily is an indicator used to gauge economy of a country. It is expressed in comparison to the previous quarter/year.
Change in GDP has a significant effect on the stock market. Infact negative GDP growth is one of the factor economists use to identify recession in an economy.
Java’s impact to India’s GDP
India already have over a million IT professionals. IT and ITeS sectors being major contributors to India's GDP. Java alone has an impressive contribution of 2.1% to India’s GDP.
According to a story ran by "Times of India" (one of the leading newspaper in India), Indian Java economy accounts for 10-15% of the world's Java economy.
Thanx to Joe, I managed to get hold of research paper by professors at IIM-Ahemdabad.
The paper seeks to shed light on Java’s impact on India’s economy. As per the research with some relaxations and approximations about the unquantifiable components, Java’s share to Indian economy varies between 2.1% - 2.5% of the Indian GDP.
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