Dream come true

A dream I was carrying for a long time finally came true when the American Airline carrying me landed in Boston Logan airport yesterday 10.30 PM EST. Yes i'm writing this post from Boston. I was over joyed when the first snow fall on my head, its the first time in my life i'm seeing snowing, great experience, though its cold -5C, i dont feel the coldness may be because i'm over joyed. After customs and emigration clearance I came out of the airport EXIT around 11 pm and a somalian cabbie gave me the first shot of 'Hello, how are you doing - welcome to Boston', I remeber of the malayalam actor Jagathy that time - One of his movie in which he acted as a photographer in Ooti used to say to vistors 'welcome to Ooty, nice to meet you' and infact that is the only english he knows. But my cab driver knows english and had a very nice ride in the late night. Thanks to my cabbie again that he doesn't know the place where i want to go. I enjoyed the entire ride around 30-35 minutes - amazed seeing the skyscrapers and the snowing city. Such a nice experience.

Okay the first day in Boston is about to end with the beautiful flavoured Bacardi and me :). I feel like finishing the entire 2L today itself :)

Lesson: JavaBeans Concepts (The Java™ Tutorials > JavaBeans(TM))

Lesson: JavaBeans Concepts (The Java™ Tutorials > JavaBeans(TM)) - A good tutorial from Sun about Java Bean

OpenGrok

I came to see one of my colleague using a source code browser today which is called as OpenGrok. A very good source code browser and its straight away catch my eye because of the name, i see an 'Open'. I did some research behind this app and found some thing interesting, the application is built using java, yes it is, worth take a look back at the source code. Another important thing to note is that this tool can very well exist with most of the source control systems. It use apache Lucen indexing and so on. Lot many exciting features. I'm thinking of installing this in my group as well

Google video chat

Yet another fundoo from google. Yes the simplicity again, video chat in google. Really amazing, but one thing which i didn't like is this So yes i need to wait for some more time :(

Miro - The internet TV software

I was searching for one video library software for my linux box for the past couple of month, and i came to know about Miro from this months Linux4u, the software impressed me a lot in the first look itself. One thing which is really exciting is the way how the software uses the web2.0 features. Webservice is being utilized quiet brilliantly in this desktop application. It will give you huge set of internet tv channels you can add, you search your favorite video from youtube, google video and other n numerous online video search engines. Another feature which i liked a lot is this software does have the ability to aggregate all my hard disk video files. All together this is one of the amazing software and all linux users should have one instance of Miro running in boxes

jvisualvm

jvisualvm - the application which provides the in and out of java apps running in a VM is out with jdk now. It is available with the jdk1.6 update. Really cool graphical interfaces which will show you the running threads, monitor the heap etc, and you can even profile the application using this tool. Nice set of plugins contributed by the community make this app a perfect choice for all folks who drink and eat java.

Internet archives

waybackmachine gives you the opportunity to look back to the web many a years ago and check how the webpages looks in older ages with out flashy css or web2.0. Do check out the web pioneers section at the bottom of this website.