Posted in blog city on March 9th 2004  
As per this article Organizations that comply with Sarbanes Oxley should not outsource! In my view this is far from truth.
Outsouring has little to do with documenting and implementing adequate corporate controls and monitoring the controls actively in an organization. If one is already biased against outsourcing, then it [...]

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Posted in blog city on March 12th 2004  
Even if you are remotely connected to IT industry, you would have come across and most likely be affected (either +ve of -ve way) by one of these “source”s — open source or outsource.
In my view, the reason for any one to adopt either open source or outsource is [...]

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Posted in blog city on May 7th 2004 
A recent blog by Sam Pullara details an innovative mechanism of test coverage. Using AOP to get the list of test cases for a given method seems to be a really coool use of latest technology. However, I do believe there must have been products that offer this functionality of [...]

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Posted in blog city on May 7th 2004  
This should be the first time that I have seen Google’s website down.
In fact I always type www.google.com to see if my proxy/ISP is up and running (which I believe should be the case with many people).
Visit this link to see the screen shot.
A rare screenshot indeed!
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Posted in blog city on May 13th 2004  
I got some time to spend on the “meta-data/annotations feature” (JSR-175) that is part of JDK1.5. The whole concept of annotations is in general, good. However, to me, the way Java is implementing the concept seems patchy.
Declaring an annotation itself is ackward. Why should one use “an interface with [...]

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Posted in blog city on May 28th 2004 
In JDK1.5, a new class ProcessBuilder has been added to java.lang package. This class should be used to execute OS specific commands. Prior to JDK1.5, developers use Runtime.exec to execute any OS specific commands.
I looked at the source code of Runtime.exec in JDK1.5, and it internally uses ProcessBuilder. The [...]

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Posted in blog city on June 4th 2004 

This article introduces “apt”, the new tool provided along with JDK1.5 beta2 to process annotations, the new addition to Java5. It walks you through a simple example on declaring an annotation, using it and processing the same. This will help you get started on using annotations in your applications. 

Introduction
Sun [...]

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