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JUGBD Webinar: Salesforce booming from a startup to the highly used cloud development platform
A few days back one of my ex-Colleague from Bangladesh Nazrul contacted me to have a meetup session with Java User Group Bangladesh to share some of my experience with Bangladeshi Programmers and Technologists. I was very happy to see that as I started the first Java Users Group in Bangladesh in 2002 and was… Continue reading JUGBD Webinar: Salesforce booming from a startup to the highly used cloud development platform
Please Let Us Get Some Work Done In Office
What I have been talking about for so many years has now come out as a TED talk! This is why I work twice a week late in the office till midnight when there is no one around just to actually get some work done. Please pay special attention to the 3 recommendations that Jason… Continue reading Please Let Us Get Some Work Done In Office
Emerging Technologies
Removing an element from a Collection while iterating over it
Can you remove an element from a collection while iterating over it? Answer: No, you can't. What kind of error will you get in Java if you make an attempt? Compile time or Runtime? Answer: Runtime. The details of the exception will be as below. Check this along with a sample program that I wrote.… Continue reading Removing an element from a Collection while iterating over it
Behind The Cloud by CEO Marc Benioff
Morning today when I walked into my cube in office, I found a copy of our CEO Marc Beniof's new book Behind The Cloud at my desk. I liked the chapter headings and the forward by Michael Dell. Just 2 days earlier a friend of mine forwarded me the article on some top paying fortune… Continue reading Behind The Cloud by CEO Marc Benioff
Amazon Kindle: A Great Gadget
This June 2009 is a special month for gadget lovers. Yesterday Amazon's Kindle DX was released and 18th of this month Apple's iPhone 3G S will be released. While I and my wife Shusmita already have our iPhone 3G, I am particularly in favor of Kindle to consider as the best gadget I can ever… Continue reading Amazon Kindle: A Great Gadget
Spectrum and 5 Other Bangladeshi IT Companies are now CMMI Level 3 Certified
I got an email morning today that Spectrum Engineering Consortium Ltd. (SECL) has been awarded CMMI Level 3 certification recently. I was so happy to read it because I was part of the initial team in SECL that started this effort. It took long, hard 8 years but now they are here. It's a great… Continue reading Spectrum and 5 Other Bangladeshi IT Companies are now CMMI Level 3 Certified
Google’s Web Browser Chrome
I started using Google's new Web Browser Chrome since morning. It looks so good to me so far although I am not going to move away from Firefox pretty soon. First 2 things I noticed are that it doesn't have a toolbar other than the address bar (nothing like File, Edit etc) and the tabs look very good/clearly… Continue reading Google’s Web Browser Chrome
JMS
Background I, Nitol and Paul are 3 developers who worked at the early times of our career as java developers in a project named SPRINTRE in Bangladesh almost 6 years back. Coincidentally, we all 3 are now in USA. I and Nitol in California and are now neighbours and Paul just came to USA few… Continue reading JMS
Salesforce Google Apps Integration
One of the reason I like working in cutting edge technologies as "On-Demand" CRM in Salesforce.com... Last week, Tony Ruscoe found an interesting reference to Salesforce in a CSS file used by Google Apps. According to the company, "Salesforce.com is the worldwide leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) services. More companies trust their vital… Continue reading Salesforce Google Apps Integration
GTD: Getting Things Done
I have read some articles on it on and off last few months and tried a firefox extension of GTD for GMail without success. Today while thinking I have so many works in hand to do both personally and in office, I gave myself an hour's break to study a little more on GTD. Getting… Continue reading GTD: Getting Things Done
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