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Sep 22, 2023 Fun memorable quotes
Instead of new random ideas, below are some fun memorable quotes from this year.
Sep 16, 2023 Fresh batch of ideas
Yet another batch of ideas that I have been thinking of recently…
Jul 1, 2023 Coding workspace screenshots on Linux
Below are some of my coding workspace screenshots on Linux. Similar to how people share photos of their physical work space setup, I thought it might be cool….
May 3, 2023 Truly random musings
Below is an excerpt from previously private google doc (April2023)
May 18, 2018 Murakami books read and what to order next
I was recently looking at a list of all books published by Haruki Murakami, and I realized that there are some short stories I have not yet read.
Dec 12, 2017 Presentations that I had prepared
Here a few presentations that I had prepared.
Oct 7, 2016 Books read from May 2014 to October 2016
Below is a list of books I had read between May 2014 and October 2016
Oct 7, 2016 More crazy ideas from September
Here comes another batch of earth shattering ideas from September 2016.
Aug 26, 2016 My Favorite Images About Happiness
It is all about perspective… Life is should not be compared to a journey, because there is no final destination. Life is more like a dance or piece of music - inherently playful. I need to breathe more, listen to music, and enjoy the sunshine.
Aug 26, 2016 My Favorite Images About Startups
A picture is worth a thousand words: I’ve been collecting these images for ages, and I had wanted to write down my thoughts for each one.
Aug 23, 2016 Even more ridiculous ideas
Greetings Earthlings
Jul 21, 2016 More various ridiculous ideas
Yesterday I wrote on twitter: “coming up with seemingly ridiculous ideas is the only thing that differentiates us from the machines”
Jun 28, 2016 Some silly app ideas
Isn’t it better to write silly ideas, rather then no ideas at all?
May 13, 2016 Apache Spark and MySQL
BigData and Data Science is all the hype these days. I had played around with Apache Spark before and read a few books. I wanted to see how quickly I could read data from MySQL and try some (highly advanced) operations on the resulting data.
May 13, 2016 Some easy math fun
Several months ago, I saw this book somewhere and later ordered it on Amazon: Professor Stewart’s Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries
Aug 24, 2015 Decompiling Android
I’ve been wanting to try to decompile some Android applications for a while, and I finally got around to experimenting with it. I don’t plan on becoming an expert, and my time was severly limited.
May 13, 2015 Collatz Conjecture
The Collatz Conjecture is defined as follows: Given a positive integer n, if it is odd then calculate 3n+1. If it is even, calculate n/2. Repeat this process with the resulting value. For example, if you begin with 1, then you obtain the sequence 1,4,2,1,4,2,1,4,2,1,… which will repeat forever in this way. If you start with a 5, then you obtain the sequence 5,16,8,4,2,1,…, and now find yourself in the previous case.
May 1, 2015 April 2015 Photography
April 2015 Photography
May 1, 2015 Notes to self in bootstrap
In the last few weeks, somehow I wanted to start writing these summaries or notes, which required nice formatting and table layouts:
Mar 13, 2015 Arvados Database Model
I’ve created a basic database model for Arvados. It’s based entirely on the services/api/db/structure.sql script. I’ve MySQL Workbench to create the model.
Mar 13, 2015 Running Brakeman
Brakeman is a Rails Security Scanner. To be exact, it is a “static analysis security scanner for Ruby on Rails”. Amongst others, it covers the OWASP Ruby on Rails Cheatsheet
Jan 3, 2015 New laptop
After roughly 9 even years of quality usage of my old HP laptop, I have finally decided to get a new one.
Aug 23, 2014 Github contributions between August 2013 and August 2014
Below is a screenshot taken from my github account
May 27, 2014 Books read from May 2011 to May 2014
Below is a list of books I had read between May 2011 and May 2014
May 26, 2014 Prime numbers implementation in Scala
Prime numbers implementation in Scala
Feb 21, 2012 Javascript Closures revisited
High level concepts to remember
Feb 15, 2012 Oracle SQL Subqueries
A commonly encountered problem to query a min/max per group or some other criteria – can be solved with subqueries
Feb 6, 2012 Java Erasure
“When a generic type is instantiated, the compiler translates those types by a technique called type erasure — a process where the compiler removes all information related to type parameters and type arguments within a class or method. Type erasure enables Java applications that use generics to maintain binary compatibility with Java libraries and applications that were created before generics.”
Nov 15, 2011 Agile and Scrum – Chapter 1. Setting the Stage
Like many people, we are excited about the adoption of Agile (adaptive) project management and development in general, and about the adoption of Scrum in particular.
Oct 6, 2011 Steve Jobs quotes

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
Oct 4, 2011 Backbone
Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.
Oct 4, 2011 OSGi - what is OSGi
The OSGi framework defines a dynamic module system for Java. It gives you better control over the structure of your code, the ability to dynamically manage your code’s lifecycle, and a loosely coupled approach for code collaboration. Even better, it’s fully documented in a very elaborate specification. Unfortu-nately, the specification was written for people who are going to implement it rather than use it. In the first part of this book, we’ll remedy this situation by effectively creating a user-oriented companion guide to the OSGi framework specification. We’ll delve into its details by breaking it into three layers: module, lifecycle, and services. We’ll explain what you need to understand from the spec-ification to effectively use OSGi technology.
Sep 26, 2011 jQuery Novice to Ninja
jQuery Novice to Ninja
Sep 25, 2011 Buzzwords and review for JEE Architect Certification
14.2.2.5. JAXR 1.0 The Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) specification defines a standard set of APIs that allow Java clients to access UDDI. Like JAX-RPC, JAXR is the second web service–related specification to be pruned, with its removal proposed in the next version of Java EE. If the pruning is accepted, JAXR will still keep on evolving, but outside Java EE.
Sep 2, 2011 Increasing weblogic ejb transaction timeout
While doing remote debugging with eclipse, I tend to run into annoying EJB transaction timeouts quite a lot. Is there an easy way to increase this timeout in weblogic? I am using the weblogic that came with JAP 5.0 and I am seeing exceptions like this: weblogic.transaction.internal.TimedOutException: Transaction timed out after 30 seconds
Sep 29, 2010 Early Thoughts on Outsourcing Development
I’ve been thinking about how to answer the question on outsourcing development. Instead of pointing to research or reports on this, I am going to speak purely from personal experience. Both Deltavista and SuccessFactors have been outsourcing development with mixed results. My general preference is to avoid outsourcing, unless absolutely necessary, because I have seen it deliver poor results. I have also seen it deliver good results. If I were to make a short list of key ingredients for successful outsourcing effort, I would list
Aug 24, 2009 Domain Specific Languages
Domain-specific language (noun): a computer programming language of limited expressiveness focused on a particular domain.
Jul 12, 2009 Presenting Ideas
Presenting Ideas (Chapter 4 of Instant MBA – Safari Books)
Feb 16, 2009 Setting up GWT
Steps I followed to set up GWT
Nov 27, 2007 SFSF IPO, Beowulf, risk and confidence
SuccessFactors just completed their IPO at the top of the range – $10 and the stock went up to $13 on the first day of trading. The IPO celebrations made me realize that I party way too hard sometimes – I need to find other better ways of relieving my stress and enjoying myself.
Nov 18, 2007 Small companies are different
Small companies are more hectic. In a single day:
Nov 13, 2007 Risks
Consider how (potential) income/reward increases with risk:
Nov 12, 2007 Internal Diary
It’s amazing that I thought of this too:
Nov 12, 2007 vitriolic
vitriolic – [adjective]
Nov 12, 2007 Talent Management 2017 by Erik Berggren (Successfactors)
I just finished reading this very interesting article titled “Talent Management 2017” by Erik Berggren (Successfactors), and my takeaways are:
Nov 2, 2007 Work smarter, not harder
Almost finished reading Seth Godin Small is the new Big. It’s one of the best books that I have read thus far. I love the section on working smarter (not harder). You are not a coal miner – working longer hours does not mean that you are more productive