I can’t believe I used to be one among the Microsoft-hating sheep sometime ago. Micro-soft has come a long long way since those days of noncompetitive practices. Windows has evolved into a secure and reliable operating system with a consistently improving user interface.

Today is India’s 60th Independence Day celebration. I would like to salute my nation for giving me the kind of global opportunities that the youth of some other countries could only dream of.
Vande Mataram

While JBoss is an enterprise strength application server, it probably has the worst documentation I have ever seen for an open source project. I have spent more hours debugging and troubleshooting simple issues than actually getting my idea to work before the launch. The online forums haven’t been worth talking about, either.
For instance, I just discovered that the truncation errors I was getting on the server launchtime were actually due to JBoss not fully supporting mySQL5. The workaround is actually as follows:
MySQL 5 can run in strict mode, which causes …

Just installed the beta version of Windows Live Writer, the Blog tool from Microsoft. I have one word to use – “Phenomenal”. The software learned the layout of my blog on its own, and I can create posts in a truly WYSIWYG manner. It even displays the same fonts and text colors that I see on my blog!
The best part is the capability to work with images while making a post, rather than resizing and uploading them before making the actual post. The API is also available for free to …

I hate spam. Everyone does. As if email wasn’t good enough, spammers have also been trying to exploit my blog ever since I started blogging. Luckily, I have a very good Bayesian spam filter called Akismet in place, that filters out all comment spam from my blog. The best part is that I don’t have to use annoying “CAPTCHA” tests like images to distinguish valid comments from spam.
Anyway, since I was taking a break, I decided to analyze where all the spam was coming from. I looked up the IP …