India’s top IT companies hire less
Last year something unprecedented happened in the top Indian software companies. As a bunch, they hired less number of people in 2007-08 than they did the previous year. For years, the burden on the recruiters in India’s top six IT companies – TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, Satyam and HCL Tech – has been going only [...]
Interview of Warren Buffet
Warren Buffet There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very interesting aspects of his life: 1. He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late! 2. He bought a [...]
jUDDI and Configuration in jBoss and MySQL database
UDDI is one of the core Web Service standard. It provides access to Web Service Description Language which provides binding information and message formats required to interact with the web services listed in its directory. Enterprises that seek to optimize software or service reuse subscribe to some form of service-oriented architecture (SOA), server programs or [...]
Top 10 Largest Databases in the World
We all collected things as children. Rocks, baseball cards, Barbies, perhaps even bugs — we all tried to gather up as much stuff as possible to compile the biggest most interesting collection possible. Some of you may have even been able to amass a collection of items numbering into the hundreds (or thousands).More>>
New York gets a mini Googleplex
Following a year of speculation, Google has finally opened its new office in the Big Apple at 111 Eighth Ave., in the heart of the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan, New York. Google will occupy about 300,000 square feet on three floors of the building. Built in 1932 for the New York Port Authority, the building [...]
Webaroo – Search Unblugged
Webaroo is a free software program and service that lets you search and browse real web pages without a connection. Webaroo’s advanced technology makes it simple for you to take the web with you — and find what you are looking for anywhere, anytime. It’s easy — Webaroo stores searchable web content on your laptop, [...]
Discover New Sites using Stumble Upon
StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, you’ll get high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended (rated I like it) by friends and other SU members with similar interests. Rating these sites shares them with your friends and peers – you will automatically ‘stumble [...]
Why String class is immutable?
In this blog i am writing about the immutable String class in java. The reason for making it as immutable object. JVM internally maintains the “String Pool”. To achive the memoryefficiency, JVM will refer the String object from pool. It will notcreate the new String objects. So, whenevr you create a new stringliteral, JVM will [...]
The Wired 40
What makes a company wired? We start by looking for the basics: strategic vision, global reach, killer technology. But that’s not enough. To land a spot on our annual Wired 40 list, a business also needs the X-factor – a hunger for new ideas and an impatience to put them into practice. Such companies inevitably [...]
Mustang version of Java racing toward beta release
Web 2.0 and expanded support for scripting languages are expected to be key themes of the planned Mustang version of Java, which is due in a beta release later this month. Officially known as Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 6, this release will later emerge as a foundation for the GlassFish project and Java [...]
