Java programmers, interested in learning about Scala ? If you have missed our earlier posts on scala

Twitter has been written in which programming language

Why did twitter dumped Ruby on Rails

For new England residents a chance to learn Scala with Venkat Subramaniam who will be presenting on Programming Scala on Aug 12 2010  at  NEJUG.

Venue : Sun Microsystems, Burlington , MA

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects, and speaks frequently at international conferences and user groups. He is author of “.NET Gotchas,” coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning “Practices of an Agile Developer,” author of “Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer” and “Programming Scala: Tackle Multi-Core Complexity on the Java Virtual Machine” (Pragmatic Bookshelf).

Wordpress is yet to release version 3.0 and there are some major enhancements coming up. Some important changes

Merge of WordPress MU + WordPress.org

Header Panel in WordPress 3.0

WordPress 3.0 Background Customization

Link Shortener

One of the new features which I really like is the ability to customize header using header cpanel. For the reader of Skill-Guru , you might have noticed that although we are using iNove them , we had to change header and footer in lines with our site. These new features would definitely help us out in customization of your blog

More details here at sixrevisions.

Networking giant Cisco estimates that India is facing a shortage of 70,000 professionals in networking alone, as datacenters increase in number and the internet expands to help businesses and homes alike .

Check out the complete news here.  Not many young students will agree with this Cisco statement as incidents have been reported where in students had completed certification and yet were not able to land up good jobs(Read low pay).

Check out the our free CCNA Certification Mock Test

Google today launched much its much awaited phone Nexus One. Although it is very less on memory 4GB vs iPhone 16B, the TCO (total cost of ownership) is less than for 2 years.  One should also not over look the fact that this is 3rd generation iPhone which has improved a lot over its predecessor and this is Google’s first attempt into handset.

Apple has a huge community and fan base which are not going to give on it so it is to be seen who controls the market

Mashable has a very good comparison and difference between Nexus One , Droid and iPhone

Nexus One vs Droid vs iPhone

For those who live in New England or in and around Boston , here is a chance to learn about Spring 3.0 and its Spring Tc Server. There is a presentation on Thursday Jan 14 organized by NEJUG (New engalnd Java Group) at Sun Microsystem in Burlington.

The presentation would be done by Tom McCuch who is a Sr. Sales Engineer at SpringSource

Presentation Overview

Spring Framework is the core of the Spring group of projects, the popular and ubiquitous open-source platform used by more than half of the organizations building and deploying Java applications. Spring adds value at development and runtime by providing a platform which allows programs to be coded using a “Plain-Java” programming model, with much increased portability, testability, and agility (ability to evolve) compared to traditional approaches. Read more…

Are you aware of this scam going on social networks and various other sites where in they ask you to take a quiz to compare your IQ with Miley Cirus or take a personality test . The user take the quiz  and at the end is asked to enter his/her phone number to see the results.

Most of the unsuspecting users just give their phone numbers without reading the fine print.In the fine print is the clause that you are agreeing to a charge of $9.99 being applied to your phone account on recurring basis.  Once you enter the phone number and say yes, you get to see the results of quiz and an additional charge of $9.99 in your bill which you might miss.  The parents of the teen age kid might dismiss this is some extra charge on kids phone and continue to pay unsuspectingly. Read more…

Skill-Guru was started with the intent to create and share your knowledge with the community.  Most of the time we take help from forums , sites and blogs when we are stuck in problem so I thought let there be a site where users can create tests based on their learning and share with others.  I had taken my first certification in year 2000 and next one on year 2004 and had to run around  to look for mock tests.

At that time never heard of brain dump . But these days this is one of the most serached term. “Brain dump for Java certifcation” , “brain  dump for microsoft ” , “brain dump for CCNA” etc.

So what exactly is the brain dump ? Read more…

Google Analytic is the default freeware tool for monitoring the website traffic . It has also been used effectively to measure the traffic of blog. I have been wondering if there are any tools to monitor the twitter statistics. With twitter comes a typical problem that those users may or may not come to your site. So how do you monitor the effectiveness of twitter. Some tools for twitter are

• Twitter Analyzer – Did not find much usage except that it gives a graph of how much tweets you have done
• twitalyzer – Provides Influence,  Signal , Generosity, Trend , Velocity of your twitter account
• Klout -  I am not going to write much about clout because Avinash Kauushik has given a very detailed explanation on Klout in this post twitter quantitative qualitative analysis.