Journey of an Engineering Leader
Leadership insights from lived experiences and reading
I like free online tools as I use Mac, Ubunutu, Windows, iPhone and iPad at different times from different locations for same or different purposes, both office work or chess or other interests. I use http://www.onlinehtmleditor.net/ as Online HTML Editor. I use http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/ as online JSON Editor. Now I wanted to come out of Visio… Continue reading Trying Out Gliffy as Online Diagramming Tool
My friend Paul from East Coast, forwarded this article to me in the morning. While I was reading it, I became, happy, sad was laughing around loudly in the BART train to office and also got thinking. Too many things in it from the experience of an engineer. Here is the article - The care… Continue reading Why Software Engineers are Grumpy?
One of my colleague who works on performance tracking and tuning of applications asked for some helped around how to find the union and intersection of large lists. He works mostly on Python and Perl. Being a Java guy, I prepared a sample program for him to do this allowing to determine the size of… Continue reading Finding Union and Intersection of 2 Large Lists
A few days back my Google Reader RSS Feed took me to http://www.noteslate.com and from then onwards NoteSlate is roaming around my mind. I believe Kindle solved my problem of reading books, iPad solved the problem of a personal organizer cum web surfing but none of them really addressed the issue properly of writing or… Continue reading Waiting for NoteSlate
I thought it's funny but I believe all the major O/S vendors are already capable of creating something this now.
My colleague John asked for a tool from me last week so that he can finish the translations / localization works that he was doing. To solve it in a lazy way, I did some google around a bit but couldn’t figure out any easy tool that will convert Unicode characters \uxxxx to native locales.… Continue reading Small Java Program To Convert Unicode Character Filled Sentences To Native or UTF-8 Character Filled Sentences
I just installed Salesforce Chatter Desktop and Salesforce Mobile. Interesting. If you want to download or know more, follow the link below. http://www.salesforce.com/chatter/desktop-mobile-collaboration/
I was writing an Html unescape algorithm in Java today. What I came out with is the one below. There is a problem in the algorithm below that eats up some space or characters for some corner cases. Can you figure out what the problem is? I wrote the class in a way so that… Continue reading How To Unescape HTML in Java
Recently I have been thinking about the industry standard technology certifications, particularly around Java/JEE technologies. I am not exactly sure how valuable the technology certifications are when you are already an experienced veteran in the industry. But I can guess that it will give an impression to your upper management to accommodate you for the… Continue reading My Thoughts On SCJP Java 6 Exam
Recently I got a title revision in Salesforce.com as a Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) although without any salary hike. When I joined Salesforce at November 5, 2007 I was assigned the title of Software Engineer. My grade was already high within the Software Engineer title holders at that time falling a little short… Continue reading Title Revision from Software Engineer to Senior Member of Technical Staff
Quillpad is a free online typing tool for 10 south asial languages. Yesterday I was having time free time in office so thought of searching for an API that helps writing bengali. And I landed in http://www.quillpad.in/bengali which is more than what I was looking for. It's very easy to type in Bengali in Quillpad.… Continue reading Quillpad Made Bangla Typing Easier
Journey of an Engineering Leader 