These are our neighbors in Electronics City, one of the largest tech-parks in India. While Bangalore is the Silicon Valley of India, EC is the Silicon Valley of Bangalore. Divided into three phases, EC hosts so many IT, electronics & electrical companies in and around its area. While India’s largest IT companies like Infosys, Wipro (our… Read More Neighbors
TDD (Test Driven Development) is a very interesting topic. I have been following it since my earlier days of Java programming and was one of main ambassador for TDD and Junit in our project. I have prepared my first presentation on TDD years back and have been asked many times to give the presentation to… Read More TDD using Junit
Visited Coorg this long weekend, monday being holiday due to Eid-ul-Fitr. We started from Bangalore on Sunday morning and reached back on monday evening, its about 260KM from Bangalore. We went via Mysoore but didn’t spend time in visiting the famous palaces there, I have seen them many times before. The drive was very good as the… Read More Coorg
Went for the first long trip in my Bullet. Driven till Krishnagiri from Bangalore, about 100km away. I started early morning around 4.30 AM with no plans in mind about the destination. I had the camera and tripod with me but did not stop anywhere to take photos, only because the Bullet riding pleasure didn’t… Read More Trip
Had been for a team outing from my new company to Club Cabana, Bangalore. Its located near the new Bangalore Airport at Devanahalli. We reached there by 11 am and were there till 9 in the night. They have many indoor & outdoor game facilities but the water sports were the best. Everyone enjoyed getting wet… Read More Club Cabana
“Made Like a Gun, Goes like a Bullet” – Got my new Royal Enfield Bullet Electra. RE is the oldest bike manufacture still in existence. Started in England in 1890s & later RE production is completely transferred to India. I have been seeing this Bullet since childhood at my home but didn’t lik it very much- its heaviness, sound… Read More Bullet
Have you ever thought of havinh thread level local variable? Interestingly there is a way to use that. since Java 1.2 and today only I came to know that 😦 ThreadLocal is the class you can use for that. One main advantage I found (in fact my requirement) is that thread itself can carry information… Read More Thread Local Variables
In a Multi-tenant architecture there are three ways of storing tenant information in database. Separate DB for each tenant Separate Schema (tables) for each tenant Shared Schema (tables) for all tenants Following table gives a comparison of this three approaches. Parameter Shared Schema Separate Schema Separate DB Number of end-customers High Medium Low Different… Read More Multi-tenant Architecture
Here I am discussing about how a client-server model can work in a NAT enviornment. Network Address Translation (NAT) It works as your office phone extentions, to the outside world the call is coming from a single number but inside there are many phone lines. NAT works completely on the network level, meaning that NAT… Read More Connectivy in NAT evniorment
Read a lot “Blackberry phones are famous for its message capabilities”, I wanted to experience this and got a chance finally. Yes, its very convenient for messaging, e-mail, phone calls, good clarity sound, battery backup etc. basically everything that is required for a “phone”. However I found the service plans for BIS is very expensive… Read More Blackberry
Anil G Kurian 