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1. Minorities in India – Dalits by Palak Mathur and Jessica Singh

2. India of My Dreams by Palak Mathur

Book Review - Java EE Development with Eclipse by Deepak Vohra February 4, 2013
Java EE Development with Eclipse by Deepak Vohra is the book that one would like to buy and follow if one wants Tutorial/Workshop kind of environment to learn developing Java EE applications using Eclipse IDE and Oracle Weblogic Server. If you want to gain in-depth theoretical knowledge about any of the Java EE technologies, then certainly this is not the bo […]
Transitioning myself from a Forgotten Electronics Engineer to a Known Software Engineer. December 30, 2012
I first had my hands on Computers when I was in Class IV back in 1991 and the language of instruction was Logo, a fantastic beginner language as everything is taught in terms of movement of turtle with commands like FD (forward), RT (right), LT (left), ?? (backward), the combination of which eventually makes a figure - rectangle, triangle, square, rhombus - […]
Domain Registration - One Week Headache December 17, 2012
Early this week, after I returned from Mumbai, the first thing that I did was to create my site using Github Pages. I soon became excited enough to register a domain and use that for my site. I have been doing some research on the domains but still many things were unclear to me and I had marked them as doubts and placed them safely in a text file saved in a […]
As Touch is to UNIX, New-Item is to Windows PowerShell December 16, 2012
Unix has a command called Touch that creates an empty file $ touch touch_test.txt touch_test.txt This command is not available in Windows PowerShell. However, there is a command in Powershell which also does the same - New-Item PS C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Workspace>New-item new_file.txt This will ask you to enter a Type Type: file The outpu […]
Unix-like Command Line Experience in Windows - PowerShell December 15, 2012
Recently, I was going through some course on Internet when I came across PowerShell. We used to work with a program called cmd.exe, but always wanted to have the usability and power that Unix command line offers. If you are using Windows 7 or later, then you just need to follow following steps:- Click Start. In “Search programs and files”, type: powershell a […]
Checking out Github pages December 12, 2012
Ever since I have come across the phrase Static Blog Generators, Jekyll has been the name that has been repeated several times. On searching more, I found that Github Pages uses Jekyll in the background to generate beautiful pages/sites. So, here I am checking out Github Pages.
Book Review - Banquets on the Dead by Sharath Komarraju December 6, 2012
Banquet on the Dead is fantastically thought and written thriller which will keep you engrossed in the story all the time. It was certainly a joy to read the book. Hamid Pasha, the lead detective, in the novel will give you the rusty feeling. The one that I had experienced earlier. I kept thinking about this experience that I had previously and was having wh […]
Epistle - A Simple Notes Taking App for Android December 5, 2012
For quiet sometime now, I was searching for an app which is lightweight, has clean interface, is functional and the one that could support markdown. That search came to the conclusion with Epistle. Epistle has all the features that I listed above. It is light, has a great interface, which is clean and functional. It helps me sync my notes with Dropbox, which […]
Static Blog Generators November 26, 2012
I was eager to learn what static blog really means. I came across few open source softwares like Pelican, Jekyll, Hyde, etc. and thought to give a try to hosted Pelican in the form of Calepin. Till now have not been able to post a single thing except the sample post that got created when I created my Calepin account. Trying to figure that out.
Book Review - Oracle Certified Associate Java Se 7 Programmer Study Guide by Richard M. Reese November 14, 2012
My rating: 4 of 5 stars (on GoodReads) Oracle has now introduced a new certification named Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE7 Programmer, which is mandatory if you want to become Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE7 Programmer (given to understand that you already are not OCP in some other version of Java). So, Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE7 Progr […]

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