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Struts 2 Gaining momentum March 18, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — ashoknandagopichander @ 1:36 am


Struts 2 is a cool framework. I’ve wanted to check it out for quite a while now and manged to do so last week.

Grabbed me a book by Ian one of the creators of Struts 2.0. Neat stuff man !! I’ve been having hell with JSF 1.2 with it’s lifecycle & all just want to move on and I guess this is where I board the Struts 2.0 train.

I did a trend search and I guess Struts 2 is gaining some serious mindshare

Anyways I guess happy days again, my best wishes to Struts 2.x team and the developer community.

 

Welcome back Andy !!! March 9, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — ashoknandagopichander @ 3:22 am


This past week has been an incredible week of Tennis with the Dubai Open.

Lopez was on a role beating 3 of the top 10 seeds and that’s just the beginning. Yup Andy’s back to his winning ways. It’s a pleasure to watch this man play, some of the best tennis I’ve some seen in a very long time. Watching him play he is one of the strongest contenders for the crown no.1

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Boy this great Federer, Nadal , Djokovic ….. tennis never looked this good

 

SCRIBD Simply Rocks !!!!! February 21, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — ashoknandagopichander @ 4:41 pm

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Read this doc on Scribd: My first stint with MYSQL

var scribd_doc = new scribd.Document(2129311, ‘key-vnpkj0p8cs3btzr1ex9′); scribd_doc.addParam(‘height’, 500); scribd_doc.addParam(‘width’, 450); scribd_doc.addParam(‘page’, 1); scribd_doc.write(‘embedded_flash_2129311_nd53′);

I wanted to check out SCRIBD for a while and finally tried it out yesterday.
It’s awesome, simply incredible. I’m loving it !!!!!!!!!
Check out a sample document uploaded there and viewed on WordPress.

 

Getting Organised February 18, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — ashoknandagopichander @ 4:28 pm

   I’ve been using the internet a lot lately to get myself organized in a lot of ways.

To enhance the process of learning, avoid unnecessary tedious repetitive work I’m using a series of tools to get productive at work and at a personal level.

So I’ve started to use to new tool called Todoist. It’s a neat tool & I’m looking forward to get the best out of this.

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Neat stuff guess I’ll check out Spring note next.

 

Dissertation – Got to finish it this time around February 18, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — ashoknandagopichander @ 3:55 pm

Dissertation’s started and this time around I’ll finish it. Or else i’m gonna get 15K none the less poorer.

The time lines for  me to watch out for:

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Personal Improvement Tools -1 February 17, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — ashoknandagopichander @ 1:59 pm

I was watching NDTV, when I saw this rather interesting show about the HR trends. Another agenda of the talk was also centered around the individual and how teams need to managed.

Don’t remember much about the TEAM biz but there was this unique tool a self introspection kind of technique if I can call it that, was used to help the individual gauge for himself where he stands.

So the technique is to identify the good things we are currently doing, bad things that can be omitted and attributes that need to be look into.

So I went ahead and completed this exercise and here’s what I came up with.

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So the exercise was good guess I’ll have to work on it with greater concentration and focus focus to really identify the problems areas.

Oh yeah !! before I forget there was also this nice quote that I remember from the show trust me this says a lot.

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The People’s Car January 13, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — ashoknandagopichander @ 1:20 pm

        This week has been interesting for a lot of reasons. The test match stand off between India & Australia and Tata’s release of the Nano.

Yeah!! When I heard the name first I thought it was an MP3 player but turns out to be the cheapest car in the world. Looks pretty cool too.

The expected price on road is like 1.3 lakhs and that to me my friend truly is the people’s choice, the people’s car.

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Hopefully the release of this car reduces the congestion due to 2& 3 wheelers in the city.

Tata has broken the trend, indeed this will be a turning point for the automobile industry in India.

 

Google Calendar December 2, 2007

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Trip To Pollachi December 1, 2007

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Java One Convention November 28, 2007

Filed under: Uncategorized — ashoknandagopichander @ 4:54 am

Well I’m posting this message pretty late i guess. Anyways just thought I’ll checkout the PicasaWeb or FlickR.

So here’s the snaps I took at the Java One Convention Center.