Apple Event October 2012

Been watching the live streaming of the Oct 23rd apple event. This is the event where the iPad mini was rumored to be announced along with a refreshed ipad with retina display and a 13 inch macbook pro with retina display. For some mysterious reason, apple keeps releasing new…

Bootcamping Windows 8

Finally installed Windows 8 to Bootcamp(to non-mac users, this means that the windows now runs on native apple hardware rather than a virtual machine, Apple lets you install windows for dual boot like that and they even providethe drivers for their hardware, which can be downloaded when we…

Spring Batch

Wow. Its been a long time since I posted anything. Anyways, today is the day I pretty much finished building a project from scratch using Spring Batch. The last time I worked on a Batch Processing framework was while I was working and it was a custom made…

Hello Android !!!

  Well, its been a while and I finally got my hands on the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet a couple of weeks ago. Its a nice tablet running Honeycomb and comes with quite a handful of preloaded apps. The best part of this tablet is the availability of N-trig…

Interesting Dates

Yesterday was 1-11-11 or 11-1-11(depending on your timezone settings). We have had similar interesting dates since 2001(01-01-01). Now in just a few days, we’l have 11-11-11(irrespective of timezone) and next year, we’l have 12-12-12… After this however, the next one will be in the next century, when we’l…

Back to C :(

I am not too happy about it, but I have to work with C again at least for the next 2 years. It’s been 5 years since I wrote a C program, which was while I was in 2nd year of college. The reason for this switch(I do…

Oracle in Fedora 15

 I have successfully finished installing Oracle 11g on the new Fedora 15 with GNOME 3. The method described in my previous blog post about installing the same in Fedora 14 : anoopkam.livejournal.com/5847.html has worked perfectly.