The world around me... some wandering thoughts

"Employement agencies only need Java programmers" - Is it unfair? Got the reference from a tweet of Sun, a choir from Finland: But few more to muse about, "Women are still paid less than men", "Jobs go to China".

TV, FM, News Paper, Net... it's OBAMA everywhere. Conversation in a FM program here in Bangalore this morning:         FM      : Who is the president of America?         Caller : Obama               (May not be a write answer as of now)         FM      : Who is the president of India?         Caller : ????....gr####@@@@...

This not about the victory of Barack Hussein Obama ... its about the announcement of the highest civilian award in one of the largest democracies of the world. Bharat Ratna , the highest honor awarded for an Indian, has been trivialized with politicians, demanding the honor to be awarded to the party leaders, was last announced in 2001. In a nation where there were leaders who said NO to top awards for great genuine reasons, Bharath Ratna was not announced for the past 6 years just because of fierce politicking. Lots of names were on row: Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Jyoti Basu, Biju Patnaik, Kanshi Ram, Karpoori Thakur, Chaudhary Charan Singh, Jagjivan Ram, Jyotiba Phule ... a lot more. Atlast on 4th of November 2008, they announced a non-politician: "The Hindustani classical music legend Pandit Bhimsen Joshi is chosen for the Bharat Rathna award ".

As said in the last post, here I'm starting with my first post on Design Pattern implementation in Java. A Small Intro On Core Design Patterns:         Many define Pattern with different statements. The most common one: pattern is a solution for common and reoccurring design issue. The term Pattern was coined by Christopher Alexander in his book, "A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, and Construction" . GoF classified patterns based on Purpose and Scope. Purpose criteria classifies patterns based on what the pattern does:         1)Creational patterns - dealts with object Creation         2)Structural patterns - composition of class and objects,         3)Behavioral patterns - responsibility of class and objects. Scope classifies based on where it applies to : class or object. Let me start my series on Design patterns with one...

I thought of having my technical thoughts out of this and so created one for that long back. Tried to have it as a team blog and it didn't worked out. So back again here for my technical thoughts too. Being in to yet another software servicing company in India, no need to say part of my work is in to AMS and some times in to ADM. As far I've witnessed so far in this AMS/ADM industry, people's curiosity to learn upcoming technology (especially in the open source area) dies day by day until and unless it is needed in their day-to-day work. That triggered me the thought of writing few things about what I know or which I learn or wish to learn. A snap shot of my to-blog list:        1) Core design patterns implementation in Java        2) RMI and CORBA        3) Add-ONs used in basic Java application     ...

Sachin and Sensex used to hit records together. Latest of Sachin: Highest scorer in test cricket and the latest in the Bombay Stock Exchange, sensex plunged below10K, both happened on the same day.Similarly when Sachin crossed 15K mark in his ODI career, Sensex too crossed 15K. On that day, TOI published the milestones in the front page: Most of time, its like when Sachin did well Sensex flattered, when Sachin slumped Sensex rocked.Hope this time, Sensex will catchup with Sachin soon!!

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