Wednesday, November 9, 2011

My Google Sidewiki entries

Google SideWiki is going to shutdown.
I liked this product and dont know why they are shutting down this feature. No details about the reason from Google. All you can get is 'how to export Google SideWiki content' blogs.

I had few entries created in the SideWiki in the past... they are below.
Noticing my SideWiki entries - I feel, I have quality content in Google SideWiki than in my Blog! :D

Google API Explorer


First of all the UI for this page is neat, that I can select the service first, then the Version, and then the API/Method. This page contains the list of Google APIs exposed along with the versions. The more cool part is to execute them and see the responses in the same page! I suppose the list of Service will expand to many Google products. It would be excellent to have the code.google.com APIs as well listed as here...

Custom 404 page overridden by Google Chrome & Google Toolbar


I had been grappling with the web.xml setting in not getting my custom 404 page in the browsers. Finally found that the issue was not with my web.xml but with the 'Google Chrome' setting. Once disabling the "Use a web service to help resolve navigation error" I could see my custom 404 page. The same issue existed with other browsers... and I found it to be an issue created by Google!!! Its Google Toolbar. Follow this link to fix the same with Google Toolbar...


The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ!


At the very first glance this book's title interested me, intrigued me more to read and know about Christ - A Great Reformer, Teacher and Guardian! From the preface, I understood the content is not something against Christianity, but gives some insight into the unknown period of Jesus - 20s to 30 ages. Once South Africa's president quoted this in a meeting at India (in year 2010): You gave Gandhi to us, we gave you back Mahatma. That is South Africa gave the exposure, experience and situations for changing an individual, Gandhi, to Mahatma. In the same lines I became curious to know how the child become a Christ, and which in turn made a very strong religion Christianity! No offense meant in my above comments - if any one feel so. Its just my thought!

Project Management Tool (Collaborator)


This is a good Project Management Tool I have seen so far. It also has a vast list of extensions to plugin with other components, like Documentation (wiki, twiki etc), Bug trackers (Bugzilla, Trac etc), Calender func for Time tracking, Repositories (Mercurial, GIT, SVN etc), Diff viewer for the code, Code reviewing components etc. Just have this in your env, you dont need to jump around multiple links for collaborating between PM to Dev to QA to Customer Support team.

Snapshot of HTML5-JS universe


Great collection of information with Links to further drill down those. This page is like a single page dictionary for Current-Web-Technologies. TOC: 1. Keeping up with HTML5/JS/CSS 2. JS app framework & UI Toolkits 3. HTML5 Canvas & JS drawing 4. Alternate languages for JS/CSS/HTML 5. Server-side JS 6. JS Game Development, 3D & Physics Engines 7. Browser-based Dev env 8. some related posts/links

Object.create - only GC


A must read for JS developers... I have to go back to my code before and need to see the usage of "hasOwnProperty" and evaluate it... However I noticed the "Object.create" function does not work in IE6, FF3.6.8 and Opera 10.6 browsers... But it works in Google Chrome 5 I did not check with the other versions of IE, FF & Opera... Seems the author has given code exclusively for GC! ;)

Google Follow Finder - find Tweeters


I dint expect Google would release such product - this suggests tweeps (People tweeting) for you or any related person. There are many such products/apps available in net for the same purpose, however Google's product is really fast - proved themselves again. However not sure about the relevancy of recommendation - none of the similar products published it yet. Personally I thought BUZZ is released to take over Twitter - but here Google seems to be supporting Twitter. Sounds like Google is trying to make its presence everywhere - not just to its product or feature. Did anyone find any such app for BUZZ? If so let me know.

JBoss 5 Memory and Thread Info - JBoss 4


Useful MBean - provides good info for analysing the JVM status while its running. I have missed these details, when decided to go for JBoss. Thanks to Thomas Fastia for putting up this wiki. Corrections in this page: 1. The URL for "listThreadCpuUtilization" has a letter 'n' missing at the end. 2. The URL for "listMemoryPools" isnt working in JBoss4, and giving ArrayIndexOutOfBoundExcetion! . The value for "methodIndex" parameter should be "0" and the parameter "arg1" should be renamed as "arg0". Its better to use "http://<server>:8080/jmx-console/HtmlAdaptor?action=inspectMBean&name=jboss.system:type=ServerInfo" directly to worry about copying/correcting these URLs

Spring Roo


Am I not upto date with Java growth?!?! Spring Roo is way ahead on leveraging the power of Java to help the Java developers in building code. IDE were the first to get the Productivity increase; Roo seems to be the next step - It still runs insider (&| outside) IDE. Need to get my hands dirty with this tool... Seems to be interesting...

Mar 5, 2010 - About Spring Roo | SpringSource.org - springsource.org 


Fast new windows - Gmail

Interesting feature... dint know about this till date - huh... I used to do 'save now' then search another email or content, come back to 'draft' and start from where i left... I did that even today couple of hours back... This feature is great! Now I know why I dont like Yahoo! or AOL mail layout - they are more uglier with Ads all over :(


Small things you may not know about Javascript

Interesting collection for JS codes - more intuitive... I liked the hints for 'variable conversion', 'replace()' and 'createDocumentFragment'. However the interesting part was the mechanisms JS version need to be detected... The surprising part is the 'trimLeft' (may be 'trimRight' as well) is introduced in JS 1.8.1 version only! Even more surprising part is only Firefox has browsers to support all the JS versions upto date. Every other browser lags way behind Firefox including GoogleChrome and IE8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Versions - I am a fan of FF! :)

Web Growing into Past

Happened to land on this page, when searching something else. I wanted to check the recency of the content and found the content was created back in "Aug 03 1936"! The period of President Roosevelt. So the web is not just growing into the Future but also into the Past! PS: Will we get such growth for Indian content? It would be wonderful to browse through the past from future.

Movement of employees in this Financial crunch

Interesting Analysis... This graph shows where the employees of banks or financial institutions landed when they went bankrupt or acquired. Should I check the same for Vendio ;) PS: I wonder is the graph created in this blog is manual (using paint etc) or is this a tool... The waves look cool... Cheers

The Man from Earth

Nice movie... The movie is shot in a single room with bunch of ppl conversing about a 'Cave Man'... Watching the movie was like reading a conversation in book. These conversations kindle your thoughts about how life is. . Do you remember what you did same day last year? . How well will you remember your parents at the end of your age or after 100 yrs (if you are alive)? . Who is Jesus Christ? . What is the link between Buddha and Jesus.. - Moreover, the accent used to name Buddha is 'Buda' sadly! - . How many women in one life? . How much can you carry around in your life? Great thoughts... Add this movie to your 'must-watch' list... Cheers...

Google Buzz

Cool... alternative for Twitter or partial Facebook... Lets see whether it takes over twitter! I have already enabled it in my GMail.. However not showing up immd :|

Google Sidewiki for Chrome

Cool... the sidewiki is plugged in into Chrome in a real simple way... no hassle no installation etc... Cheers...

Blue humanoids

== One more implausible ting shown in the movie is the 10-foot high blue humanoids, which would unlikely evolve elsewhere in the universe. == I don't think this is impossible... some of the Gods/Super humans are depicted in Blue color in Greek and Hindu mythology. Lord Shri Krishna is referred as "Neela Vannan" i.e. Blue Colored - though I believe its an exaggeration of Black color, coz he is also called as "Kar Megam" - "Black Cloud"!

Query cache = useless??

Caches are important - just check the usage of memcache utility, its heavy. I would say how to use Query cache should be learned to comment on its usage.

Google Sidewiki

Sidewiki <=> Comment window Looks like no site need to create a comment utility for themselves but just use Sidewiki... What would happen to Blog comments!!

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