I am deeply saddened by the passing of Stephen R. Covey. His book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" is one of the most influential and motivating book that has transformed my personal and work life into a breeze. I picked up this book when my work life was …

During developement... compiling or testing a maven project might lead to

error: generics are not supported in -source 1.3

Maven uses the 1.3 source setting as default, however it can be solved by explicitly mentioning the source level in project's pom.xml file.

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My first ever wordpress plugin my-script-style. After migrating my blog to wordpress, I wanted to include my own stylesheet and script files to do customization. There were many references online to put the files into the theme folder and edit the header.php to include them. However, I found that …

Ever tried to increase the VirtualBox hard disk space?

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 as my guest OS on Windows 7 host with VirtualBox 4.1.16. To start with, I created a 8GB VDI as a dynamically allocated storage, so that I consume space only for what I …

I've started hosting my personal source code repository onto GitHub, and could be found at https://github.com/arundhaj. Those programs worth sharing to public would definitely find place in GitHub. However, I continue maintaining my private repository in BitBucket (https://bitbucket.org/arundhaj).Happy coding and sharing.

Google is now hosting the public mirror of kernel source code (https://kernel.googlesource.com). This would facilitate more developers from reaching out to http://git.kernel.org. Thanks Google for your support to open source community.

I have read an article which was contradicting the myth against fact.

It is generally believed that; Productivity of a developer is said to increase by reducing the development time using all possible tools and techniques. The clarifies that it is bound to fail at some situations.

• Sometimes spending less …

I've created a SMS based game named FLAMES on txtWeb platform. txtWeb is an innovative product which brings the internet on SMS. For all the feature phones or the other kind of phones which doesn't have internet connection can still use this txtWeb to browse most of the commonly used …

I’m sure everyone would remember their full-night studies in college for the exams next day. Whats more more surprising is to see the results come out with flying colors by clearing the papers and even getting good scores. This would make us feel heroic on achieving a target with …

I used to wonder how the term boiler-plate penetrated into software industries. Wikipedia explains it as the part of the code duplicated multiple times within the project. Well, what I perceive is bit different; It is not called as boiler-plate because the code is duplicated, however it might be the …