Twitter has been written in which programming language

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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).

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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

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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

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

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.

This session focuses primarily on enhancements coming with Spring 3.0, which is slated for final release in less than a month. Areas covered include:
- Comprehensive REST support, allowing easy and lightweight implementation of service oriented architectures
- The new Spring Expression language (SpEL)
- Core dependency injection container enhancements including extended support for annotation based components, and support for standardized (JSR-330) dependency injection annotations.
- Plus other features, including declarative model validation support (JSR-303), next gen scheduling capabilities, and object/xml mapping capabilities, among others.

The session will finish with a demo of the PetClinic sample application included with the full Spring 3 distribution. The demo will include deploying and running the application within tc Developer Edition — which enhances Apache Tomcat to provide Java developers unparalleled insight into the performance and behavior of their Spring applications. tc Developer Edition is free to download and use and is also bundled within SpringSource Tool Suite, which is also a free download.

Click on the link below to register your seat

New England Java Group

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.

One of the name involved in this is Gamer Data.

A friend of mine saw these two new charges in his monthly bill. Look at the two records below.

GamerData Scam

These are charges by same company , Gamer Data but under different names. In the lengthy bill they appear at the end and he might have missed it but since his monthly bill increased by $20 and since he does engage in any fancy stuff, he decided to dive in details.

He was wondering as to when did he subscribed this premium service and talked to me about this. After I explained home about the various scams are taking place on internet , he gave a call to T-Mobile , his carrier and explained the situation. T-Mobile acknowledged that there are scams similar to Gamer data are going on and have received numerous complaints and credited the amount.

I did not understand one thing in this whole episode. If mobile carrier companies are aware that is a scam , why do they allow it to be billed in first place ?

Anyways this is a waring to all of you that do not give out your phone nos to any unknown sites or social network  else you might be next victim.

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 ? Literal meaning -What ever is inside your brain , dump it out ? So what is inside your brain ? The learning which you have from book or your notes ? Nope.

Some one takes the test and after taking test , dumps everything from his brain into a site or blog.  This could be done to help others or the test is taken with sole intent of creating a dump.

There has been a good post by Robert Williams  The cheating industry that is devaluing IT certification. He makes a valid point that to get a certification by use of brain dump is nothing less than cheating and should be discouraged.

There was also a recent news that Microsoft has sued testking for allegedly having the questions exactly same as in original test.

Certification is meant to test your knowledge of what you have learned, to give a seal of approval to your learning. A person who has knowledge and experience , for him certification may not matter much. But just having a certification does not mean that you know your job well.

We at Skill-guru stand behind this principal and discourage brain dumps. Since this is a platform where gurus can come and create test, we do not evaluate each and every questions and do not have means to validate  if it is brain dump or not. If you find anything which is in violation of copyright or illegal , please mail us at support@skill-guru.com and we will take immediate steps.

• 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.

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To start with we had some issues on our linux hosted webserver and had to do some sanity checks by duping it, on somewhat a similar kernel. The usual system resource crunch and the nagging system admins put me on a no mans land.

Left with no options, I decided to do some checks using ubuntu kernel. Remember I still have my notebook (windows XP) to try stuff on, I could have easily partitioned and installed ubuntu with windows and done my job. But probably I was more inclined to virtualization and thought of trying it out. I did some groundwork and came up with options like Sun Microsystems Virtual Box, VMware, virtual pc etc to name a few.

Suns Virtual box is a x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product and that helps me so I decided to move ahead with it.You can get more details from the virtual box website

Now I was ready for the download, the download was pretty straight forward and the product picked up all the notebook attached devices.Now I had to create a virtual hard disc on my parent OS and the steps were easy and well documented. But be sure to know the memory& HD size,space specifications for the OS you would need to install (I gave a 8 GB size for my ubuntu virtual partition).The virtual machine was created on click of the finish button, it was that simple.

I got a latest version of ubuntu and cut a CD for it, started the virtual box program ..selected the mounted CD disc drive and now it was like a clean machine which is ready to take any brutality . I kick started the ubuntu installation likewise I would do in any normal installation and went for some coffee, by the time I was back the installation was compelete and I was running an OS on a virtual machine !!!

The keyboard was a bit nasty initially to control the virtual OS, but setting some special key combinations solved the issue. I did my sanity checks which was the whole purpose of the karma and it turned out to be a good karma and was able to solve the problem.

Also later I came to know of the tool Disk2vhd by microsoft which is a utility for creating VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) which can be imported as an image/snapshot on our virtual box program. So in case you need to image your existing windows PC on another machine you can create a virtual hard disc out of it and import it. Making it possible to run the image as a virtual machine. Again the steps again are simple and its just clicks away.

Now am able to break the barriers of one OS/ machine and am able to test across platforms. Thanks to virtualization !! and hope this is of much help!