http://www.techmasala.com TechMasala is a mixture of everything around information technology world. It is more for audience who want to keep in pace with what is happening in the internet world, for the newbies to the industry and know what foundations they should possess, some tips and tricks, latest in the web world. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:19:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are as crazy as me spending a lot of time on putty terminal windows and like to drum the keyboard than drag the mouse this might interest you. Goosh is an unofficial Google shell that imitates working in a UNIX type shell environment and provides a command line ... http://www.techmasala.com/2008/06/04/goosh-the-unofficial-google-shell/ RescueTime is a site that I came up recently through stumbling. There is a good and a bad side to me finding this site. The bad part first. One year ago this was my idea. But as you might know ideas are to be put into action soon, otherwise either ... http://www.techmasala.com/2008/05/23/better-time-management-with-rescuetime/ I was looking for a script to start and stop JBoss server on the Linux environment, but didn't find anything that useful. I did find one for starting and stopping lighttpd server for our Rails applications and have been using it effectively. Even though I am not a shell script ... http://www.techmasala.com/2008/03/26/shell-script-to-start-and-stop-jboss/ A river when it is a river is never stagnant. It keeps flowing. Until it reaches a pool or a greater river which then flows and reaches the ocean. A river flows until it reaches a point where water is stagnant. The definition of stagnant as I search, gives me, dead(a): ... http://www.techmasala.com/2008/03/26/foundation-stone-46-swim-against-the-current/ One of our projects uses Flex 2 for our presentation layer. We were using Flex builder as the IDE to build the flex components, packaged it with the rest of the J2EE application as war and deployed it. As a practice with rest of the projects we wanted a build ... http://www.techmasala.com/2008/03/17/flex-and-ant-build/ "Walk that extra mile" - often we have heard this phrase to emphasize that it is not enough to do something just enough, but go one step farther. The context is generic, doesn't matter which field, the difference between being good and being great is the extra mile. Better said ... http://www.techmasala.com/2008/02/28/the-extra-mile-an-inspiring-movie/ A typical problem that developers face is handling an event of same type, when the elements are nested and both of them implement the same event. Suppose you have an element (say element 2) inside another element (say element 1). Let's say both element 1 and element 2 implement the ... http://www.techmasala.com/2008/02/19/javascript-event-order/ The Barcamp event at Hyderabad was uneventful, rather should I say very eventful. The sessions focused on technology, product demos, blogging, startup and entrepreneurship. The sessions started happening in single track with topics related to technology. I was second in the list and talked on "Building Low Cost Scalable Web ... http://www.techmasala.com/2008/02/18/barcamp-hyderabad-event-update/ A Barcamp event is scheduled tomorrow, 16th of February 2008 at Hyderabad (the 5th in the series in Hyderabad) focusing on the following - Technologies, Startups- betting on Web2.0, Social web, Semantics Web and beyond! I will be talking on "Building Low Cost Scalable Web Applications". I am looking forward ... http://www.techmasala.com/2008/02/15/barcamp-hyderabad/ I was introspecting myself after reading the article "Code Quality - Why Maintenance And Risk Management Are So Important to Developers" in DZone. It is a very interesting article and the points mentioned by Reiner Eischen are very much valid. As an architect I had been a victim to many ... http://www.techmasala.com/2008/02/08/code-quality/