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Scrum Master Certifications

Are you a new or an experienced scrum master looking to either have your knowledge formally recognized or simply have a certification to improve your chances with your next job? You then have the following 3 choices to choose from Certified ScrumMaster® … Continue reading

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Godavari Maha Pushkaram 2159 – How would it be?

Godavari Maha Pushakaram 2015 is on right now and going by the number of pilgrims taking the holy dip one can easily and safely say that this year’s Maha Pushakaram must be the largest ever (consider the size of our … Continue reading

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A really little book that could help you beat the Market

I was visiting a friend a couple of weeks ago and we were having our usual discussions about investing and stock picking and he mentioned about a blog that rates the stocks in the Sensex and Nifty based on a … Continue reading

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Warren Buffet’s funny and sensible quote

Warren Buffet is supposed to have quoted the following during an interview on US economic recovery “You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” http://thedumbinvestor.blogspot.com

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Whats new in EJB 3.1

Few interesting new features are being added in EJB 3.1, the main ones are listed below. Asynchronous invocation is definitely a BIG plus. 1. no-interface session beans 2. Singleton session beans 3. Asynchronous invocation of Session beans 4. Global jndi … Continue reading

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Did you know? New things I learned about Servlets

I learnt few new things about Servlets recently 1. SingleThreadModel has been deprecated since 2.4 specification 2. Servlet’s init method should throw UnavailableException if it cannot complete its initialization Smart and funny ways to save money during recession

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Loading Files using Java in a location independent way

Location independent access to Java Resources is a nice tutorial if you would like to know how to load files in java without specifying absolute paths. In a nutshell its done by using methods getResource and getResourceAsStream method in class … Continue reading

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Import test and static data using Hibernate’s hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto

Hibernate comes with a nifty feature that makes it unnecessary to use DBUnit or any tool for initializing your test database with data before the unit and integration tests are run. Ofcourse you need to be using Hibernate Core or … Continue reading

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Investing in Index funds – So boring but I will still do it

I came across the book “The bogleheads guide to investing” in the public library recently. I took it since the name Bogle sounded familiar and I had only 15 mins to choose a book before the library closes down for … Continue reading

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An update on the Tata Nano!

This is a follow up to my last post where I was wondering about the status of Nano and the lack of media attention on it esp since there are no problems attached to it anymore. I just came across … Continue reading

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