I was very excited to receive my copy of Spring Roo in Action. This is a fairly recent MEAP offering from Manning and is scheduled to be ready by the end of this year (2011). A 500-page quick-start guide, and IMHO, the missing manual for anyone interested in learning agile and rapid prototyping using Spring [...]
I was very excited to get my hands on a copy of Mahout in Action. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are my most favourite subjects in Computer Science. Back during my school days, AI and ML were primarily used in research, and sometimes banks use them for fraud detection. I am glad that it is [...]
There are many compelling reasons to get a copy of Powershell in Action (2nd Edition) but I will cover the important few. This is a great book currently in the MEAP process at Manning, and I believe, is pretty much near completion. Before I talk about the book, a brief technical background about my interest [...]
More like a “note to self”, but I’m sure others might find useful. Here’s a list of excludes to include that will prevent Eclipse artifacts from synchronizing on your Subversion server. .project .classpath .settings (added on 17-Jan-11) .springBeans (added on 14-Dec-10) target (and/or bin)
This is the third and final part of my review of Location Aware Applications by Richard Ferraro and Murat Aktihanoglu. Please read parts 1 and 2 first if you haven’t already done so. The last segment of this book focuses a lot on the business and ethics related to building your first LBS application. I [...]
Image via Wikipedia This post follows my earlier review of the first six chapters of “Location Aware Applications”. I recently received an update containing two new chapters covering topics on connectivity issues and how to monetize your LBS applications. Chapter 7 briefly looks at issues affecting mobile devices that affect connectivity, e.g. acquisition rate of [...]
Image via CrunchBase The iPhone App for WordPress was recently updated to version 2.6 (see announcement). It has got quite a few interesting new features and was made compatible with WordPress 3.x. Strangely though, it had always worked on my previous installation, but connection broke after this update. What an irony! If you recently updated [...]
The Manning Early Access Program, or MEAP, is a program that allows you to purchase an electronic copy of a book even before it is published. This allows readers to participate in the development of the book’s content. You will of course receive the final version of the book when it goes gold. I recently [...]
Recently, I started to put up more photos on Flickr. Before publishing my photos, I usually watermark them. For a small number of uploads, it was sanely possible to add watermarks using photo editors manually. However, it gets a bit tedious when attempting to watermark, catalogue, upload, tag etc. tens of photos at one go. [...]
Last weekend, I purchased an Acer Aspire Revo R3610 from FutureShop. I would like to think that I got a pretty good deal, but more importantly, I was glad that my family members were enjoying the use of this nettop. The initial experience for me was not too pleasant thought. Perhaps a mistmatch of expectations. [...]
After weeks of deliberation, I finally decided to abandon the Drupal platform and go with a framework that is more niche and simpler to maintain. Drupal is an excellent platform for managing content, no doubt about that. However, it had more features than I needed, more time needed to maintain. Here’s a big plus with [...]