Last week I went to bowling with my friends in Fremont and we enjoyed it a lot. I paid on behalf of them for the game so that everyone else pay me back later. Despite their repeated query to know how much they should pay me, I was too busy the whole last week to… Continue reading Bowling with Friends
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
Attended DreamForce 2008
As a Salesforce.com employee I got free pass to attend DreamForce 2008 which started today. I rushed into the BART to reach San Francisco Moscone Center early in the morning so that I don't miss Marc Benioff's keynote speech. Indeed he did an amazing speech in front of approx 10000 attendees in the huge Moscone… Continue reading Attended DreamForce 2008
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
Today iPhone3G came out in the market
When I checked after lunch in San Francisco near my office in Embarcadero, all their iPhone3G were already sold out. I am not surprised because I know the stories when iPhone came out first time last year. As I will buy 2 iPhone3Gs this coming 1st August when my Verizon contract will finish, I took… Continue reading Today iPhone3G came out in the market
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
Rounding problem in Java for float, double types
Here is a sample java program that I wrote. It shows that for all of Double, double, Float, float you can't rely on default rounding operation of java/jvm. I think even JVM to JVM implementation (sun windows jvm vs ibm linux jvm for example) the output may vary. Can someone confirm it? public class DoubleAndFloatIssue… Continue reading Rounding problem in Java for float, double types
GMail 2.0 and Windows Live Hotmail
I have been using the newer version of GMail for the last few days and I like it very much. The first thing I noticed is that it's faster than the older version. But the feature that I liked most is the Filter Messages like these action. Its wonderful and is saving me so many… Continue reading GMail 2.0 and Windows Live Hotmail
I joined SalesForce.com as a Software Engineer
I joined Salesforce in San Francisco yesterday as a Software Engineer. So far it has been a wonderful and competitive corporate environment. My manager took me to a Thai Cuisine for lunch and explained me how Salesforce is growing so fast! I will be probably assigned to AppStore and Phoenix projects soon after I finish… Continue reading I joined SalesForce.com as a Software Engineer
Wikistics
I have been thinking about a statistical data service similar to Wikipedia on the way for a while. We need lot of statistics on different topics and conventional search engines are not good enough to find out statistical data related articles easily. So why not Wikipedia develops a new product Wikistics which is Wikipedia +… Continue reading Wikistics
Leader's Whiteboard 