I was watching Tim Bray’s interview on InfoQ. One of  Tim’s point was – while the heavy-weights were creating protocols like CORBA and DCOM, what they were trying to do was already happening on a massive scale on the Web – millions of disparate computers talking to each other irrespective of all the other niggly [...]

One of my client projects really needs Dependency Injection to untangle the code. But before anything I need to get the team comfortable with IoC. Essentially need to a good sales job . There are a lot of skeptics who don’t believe in it and with an offshore team in the picture anything complicated [...]

If you look at the apis on programmableweb.com, most newer apis do not support SOAP.  Is that a harbinger of the future ? I think so. The reason for the explosion of HTTP was its simplicity.  Think of why Java applets failed over Javascript – because it is simple to put together stuff in Javascript [...]

Most experts seem to be heading towards relegating java to the past when it comes to web development. And in someways I do agree. Anybody who has done any development in J2EE vs Rails or PHP will tell you how much faster it is to get an app up and running in Rails or PHP [...]

Let us say you went into Hertz and rented a car. Except as soon as you started trying to drive it you realized the brake and gas pedals are reversed. Would you be able to drive the car ? But the bigger issue is – would you trust that car anymore ? The location [...]

My starting this blog has been long long overdue. I have been thinking about writing this blog for the past couple of years. Just never got around to it. Hopefully I will stick to it – not that I have finally started.
So what would you find here !
My thoughts on Web Development, Java, my experiances [...]