I played the first round of the four round chess tournament in Salesforce.com. I won with White, although I felt I am out of touch by a good margin due to the lack of practice. My opponent was Didier Prophete who is PMTS and sits in 3rd floor in the same building as I do.… Continue reading I won the first round of the Chess Tournament in Salesforce.com
Computers With Attitude
I thought it's funny but I believe all the major O/S vendors are already capable of creating something this now.
Small Java Program To Convert Unicode Character Filled Sentences To Native or UTF-8 Character Filled Sentences
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
Salesforce Chatter Desktop and Salesforce Mobile
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/
Convert Http URL to Https URL – A Short Sample Code
Here is an example of how you convert an Http URL to a secured URL (Https). Here I am assuming the URL will be fully standard i.e. even the default port 80 will be written after colon as :80 and same for default https port :443. package com.google.test; /** * To compiple: javac -d .… Continue reading Convert Http URL to Https URL – A Short Sample Code
Replacing $ in a String in Java
I faced an issue in my project where we read a password for an admin user first from a file which has a dummy or wrong password written in it. Then I read the password from database and replace the dummy password with the real password that I get from Database. So the code was… Continue reading Replacing $ in a String in Java
How To Unescape HTML in Java
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
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
My Thoughts On SCJP Java 6 Exam
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
Title Revision from Software Engineer to Senior Member of Technical Staff
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 Made Bangla Typing Easier
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
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
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