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Fatwire “Rescues” Interwoven and Vignette

Forrester recently named Fatwire a Leader in their WCM for external Sites Quadrant. And the folks at Fatwire have already called two of their fellow-quads (for the lack of a better term), Interwoven and Vignette as legacy WCM products! Incidentally, Interwoven sits nicely in the Leader quadrant in the same report and was also named the fastest growing [...]


List of user’s group in bangalore

Bangalore being the Silicon Valley of India has a host of user’s group where techies meet and mingle with some of the best minds of the industry. Below is the list of the user’s group which I am aware of


The Pragmatic Programmer: from journeyman to master

Wow what a book!! For those who are looking for enligthment here is the book. A must read book for all the programmers. This book discusses the practical aspects that need to be taken care, what to do and what not to do, and finally how to become Pragmatic Programmer. Here are some snippets from [...]


Quotes on programmers

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. ~Doug Linder
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. ~Author Unknown
Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you are [...]


Few tips/lessons for a software engineer

I am working as a software engineer for more than 3 years now. In my limited experience I had worked on 4 projects, started with System Testing, contributed to maintenance of a project and finally did proper development work. In these years I came across numerous ’so-called’ software engineers and bloody managers. Here are some [...]


Building GlassFish v3 using SVN

Steps for building Glassfish v3 using SVN
• First things first!! You need internet connectivity for building it at least first time as maven will download lots of jars. Also uninstall Java 6 from your system. Java 6 won’t create any problem during building but you will get exception when you try to run glassfish server.


NetBeans sucks!!

Being a java developer I am big fan of Eclipse. Its really simple to use, there are lot of pluggins available though it hogs bit more memory. Last year Sun made lot of fuss about NetBeans as the “Best IDE of world”, “The only IDE you need” and all crap marketing techniques. Hence I thought [...]


Simple? Network Management Protocol

Some six months back I started working on SNMP. I need to implement RFC 3165 i.e. the Disman Script MIB. I went through the RFC and gosh it all went over my head. It says something about SNMP, OID and all crap things which I had never heard off (truly speaking I did heard abt [...]


Oracle migrates its blogs to MT

So even after acquiring Stellent, BEA (including AquaLogic) and having multiple portal type applications of its own, Oracle decided to migrate their blogs to Movable Type from UserLand.
If a product stack seems to have everything, it still might not have specific functionality that you might require. Read more here


Fatwire announces Content Integration Platform

When I read about this here, I initially thought that it’s yet another incarnation of what Fatwire used to call Integration Centre. But then I noticed that as part of this platform, they have included an EMC Documentum connector with plans of more such connectors.
I recently heard about an Alfreco Drupal case study  and from my [...]



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