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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

My First Blog Post

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Replace the subject line and body with your first blog post and hit send! Include pictures, an mp3, or anything else you want to share. It's just that simple.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

TechBits was originally started as my technical blog. Later, I found it very difficult to manage multiple blogs and started to post technical articles onto my primary blog Varun's Scratchpad.TechBits is virtually dead and I am using it for testing purposes only.

See you at Varun's Scratchpad!!

-- Varun

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Test Post from Word 2007!

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This is a test post to check the functionalities

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-- Varun

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Test

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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Test entry!

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Trying out SideWiki. I m hoping that I can delete this later.

in reference to: Varun's ScratchPad (view on Google Sidewiki)

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Flex Maven Setup!

VCommentFlex Maven Setup!

Here are some of the reference materials for Flex-Maven integration:

Maven - Eclipse (Nice)
http://www.sonatype.com/books/m2eclipse-book/reference/index.html

Maven Build (Nice)
http://www.sonatype.com/books/maven-book/reference/public-book.html
See : Chapter 20 article regarding flexmojos

Maven - Flex - BlazeDs - Spring
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6040972/Tutorial-setup-Flex-project-with-Maven
http://riadiscuss.jeffmaury.com/2008/09/maven-and-flex-builder-tutorial-part-i.html
http://riadiscuss.jeffmaury.com/2008/09/maven-and-flex-builder-tutorial-part-ii.html
http://riadiscuss.jeffmaury.com/2008/10/maven-and-flex-builder-tutorial-part.html

Flexmojo repo : http://repository.sonatype.org/content/groups/public

Maven Dependency FAQ
http://wiki.community.objectware.no/display/smidigtonull/Maven+Dependencies+and+Build+Stability+FAQ

--Varun

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

James Gosling's talk on Java

VCommentJames Gosling's talk on Java

James Gosling, Father of Java, gave a talk on "Java: Where we're heading" during the first day of Sun Tech Days 2009. He started off the talk mentioning how Java has changed the life of individuals and the various places where java is used. He expressed his joy that Java is moving towards the target of being everywhere.

The road we're on: Ubiquitous computing.

Some stats given by James

6 Million Java deveopers are there world-wide.
15 Million downloads of JRE every week
5 Million downloads of GlassFish App Server every week.
8 Million downloads of NetBeans every week.

He continuously stressed that he is just the architect of the tool but the actual players are the developers who use Java to change the world. He went on to develop a new acronym LOWA (Learn Once Work Anywhere) on the opportunities for the Java developers in the market.

Products

Then, he briefed about Glassfish 1.3 App Server and its features. Then, he moved on to the cool new features available in NetBeans 6.5. He is currently involved in the work on 'Real Time Java'. Mainly focussed on using Java for Real time control systems, robots, etc. When talking about the performance of Java, he explained that myth : Its interpreted and therefore slow, but the truth: Its been highly optimized for better performance. He also stressed on the importance of multithreading as the number of cores in Chips are getting increased. Then, he went on to talk about Java in mobile world -- mainly on Mobile Service Architecture. He gave an overview on JDK 7 and its new features. Finally, he moved on to JavaFx and expressed his satisfaction over that product. He also gave a demonstration on Java Fx application installed in his Windows based mobile.

Shall update the presentation slides and pics asap.

-- Varun