TechWave 07

My submission entitled “Case-Express: Using Sybase tools and bleeding edge technologies for a feature-rich web application” on “Case-Express” has been accepted for TechWave 07, a Sybase conference that will happen in Las Vegas, Nevada from Aug 6-10.

Cool !

I am waiting for a co-speaker, and should start working on the slides soon. I am looking forward to this. This will be the first time I will be a speaker at a big conference, I have attended JavaOne for 4 years and always wanted to present a session there. I hope this will give me a good start and confidence to achieve that goal. I am not really nervous as I designed and developed the application. But who knows what happens on the D-day ?

Chennai expensive than Bangalore

And is expensive than the moon !

Read this article on IBN

I am pretty darn sure this is a bubble and is going to burst soon. Look what happened to the real estate bubble in US. India follows the trend in US whatever it may be , like dot com boom, bust, stock market crash, real estate bubble. The bubble should burst as it did in the US. Not that I would love for that to happen, but it does need a correction. If a Software engineer working in US for 10 years can’t afford to buy land, then I think something is wrong.

We’ll see !

RichFaces

There were a couple of times RichFaces was mentioned in some JavaOne sessions on JSF, so I decided to take a quick look at it and try it out. The Online demo looked impressive, there are some really cool AJAX components like Drag n Drop, Auto Complete, Ajaxed Tabbed pane, Tree etc. Very quickly I was able to get the demo running in Sybase EAServer 6.0.1

Ofcourse, from my experience before, there are a couple of hacks to make it work in EAServer. The load-on-startup for the Faces Servlet had to be set to 0 in web.xml.

<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

This is because, EAServer calls servlet init() before the ServletContextInitializer. Not an EAServer bug, this is in Servlet 2.3 spec.

In a few minutes, I was able to use these RichFaces components in my web app. Great job Exadel, you rock.

Kavin’s 4th Birthday

Today was Kavin’s 4th birthday. Although I wanted to keep it a low key affair this year(no guests, no decorations/balloons/confetti etc), I wanted to make sure Kavin thoroughly enjoyed his big day. We ordered a “Tres Leche” cake with Cars movie theme (with a Lightning McQueen toy on it). I left from work early and picked up the cake from Safeway. Kavin was totally excited when he looked at the cake. After cutting the cake, and a few snaps later, we went to the Livermore temple and then to Chuck E Cheese. He tried almost every game/ride there. Had dinner at Sugandh in Pleasanton and by the time we came home, he started sleeping in the car. I am sure he had a blast of a day today.

I missed my dad a lot. He was with us last year for Kavin’s 3rd birthday party. I am sure his blessings are always there for the little fella.

Here are some pics from today.

I have my own blog now !

Okay so I decided to enter the world of Blogosphere. I am going to file my random incoherent thoughts here. You may not find it useful (hey I am not one of those techie genius who can invent something new everyday and blog about it), but I hope you will enjoy reading it.