Java: Patterns

Found the following excellent book on Patterns:
http://www.patterndepot.com/put/8/JavaPatterns.htm

Chat: Long time No blog!!!

Howdy visitor!!! I could recover my password. Thanks to my cousin who woke me up to return to the blog my chat. Will keep you posted with my next blog. Let me see.. WHat do I write about? I do not'know?!!!

Tech: Web Service interoperability part:2

Well, I thought the creation of Web service was simple. But creating a Web service to authenticate an user is not that simple. It involves encryption. So why to invent the wheel again. So I GOOGLED and voila I found a C# Web service on the internet that exactly what I had in mind.

So down load the code,install it and pose as if you developed. Simple!! Right? So I thought. First of all it is in C#. I am not familiar with C# ( is it C hash or sharp by the way?). So had to get a book from the library and got familiarized with C#. Convinced everybody that I would need .NET development environment. Failed to get IIS installed on my machine due to the BIG security concerns my company has. So used VS.net to connect to another server where IIS was there and deployed the Web service. Had to tweak the code to work with our AD set up. Got the Web service working.

Well!!! The application which is supposed to authenticate the user was written JSP/JAVA. So the plan is to make this JSP client to call ASP.net client which in turn would validate the users. Hmmmm... Clumsy . Don't you think?

Again.. I need to meet the dead line. What the heck as long as it is working. So went ahead and implemented the above method. Still at the back of my head I am still thinking there should be JSP interface for this. Let me see what I can come up with.

Tech: Webservice interoperablity

Ain't it cool.. If one has a webservice that validates the users against active directory? Even better,if I have a java client and .net webservice to validate the users. I have googled like a fanatic and could not find a clean way to do this. My idea is simple.

.NET is a buddy to active directory. So to make it communicate with Active directory for user validation should be a piece of cake. Right?? Now add Java client/PHP client/xyz client.. voila you have got yourself an enterprise solution.

Enough of sweet talk. I have a 50% solution. WIll post once I have a working Java front end ready.

Keep your fingers crossed.....

Rant: How come some companies hate Internet-1

Sorry!!! I am no longer having access to my blog from my office. The big brother is bit paranoid and cut access to all Web sites. Well !!! that is the reason for this rant. How come some copanies hate Internet?
My company pays me to do work. They have every right to deny the Internet. While they say how "not browsing the internet" improves the company productivity, I have my own reasons to say how it helps me.
1.Internet helps me to do my work easily. For example, I copy my code from google groups half the time. Am I not saving bunch of money for my employer, since he/she need not pay for the training?
2. Can you be really secure by not connecting to the outside world? If that is the case we should all live in the islands all by ourseleves. Even the concept of family/ society have to be redefined. Ain't it?
3. Do we really save time by not allowing the internet? Well I spend time in chatting with the team mates.. my coffee breaks have become longer..

Hey all the above reasons are null and void. Since at the end of the month my company pays for my bills. So..

Tech: dotnetnuke

Last month I was invited by one of my friends to attend a .NET user group where a user presented very good things about the dotnetnuke. It seems to be quite appealing. I ate the pizza and enjoyed the presentation.
Came back to home and decided to try the "dnn" thingy.
Down loaded it and tried configuring. First time it took five hours to configure. Because the documentation is not that helpful and user forums had more questions than the answers. SO what the heck. Tried it anyway.

Now I want to do this:
1. Have a portal with xyz.com
2. Have another portal with abc.com
3. Both would use one dnn configuration. I do not want to consume the the hosting space by installing another configuration
4. Use the same SQL server database. My hosting provides me only one database.

Any ideas how this can be achieved??????????

$$$: Fidelity Four-in-one index fund

I am at dilemma. It seems I am going to owe awful lot of money to uncle Sam. Ok... It's awful lot from my standards. May be peanuts for you...
I was suggested...
1. Have dependents ( Hey!!! I am working diligently)
2. Buy a house ( Do you listen to the NPR news.. The bubble is going to burst... I am waiting for it)
3. Increase my 401K retirement contribution

S0, I was suggested by Fidelity advisor to look for Fidelity Four-in-One ticker symbol : FFNOX

Will it be another fiasco for me or will it be a fortune?

Tech: FileNET to be or Not to be

We are going to make a transition from COM based FileNET interface to Java based API called ISRA. Its more of a managerial decision than a technical one. How stongly FilNET supports Java. Two days back they were ALL Microsoft , Today they are all Java . Will post you the updates
:)

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Tech: Unix utilities for Windows32

Hi all,

Recently I had to do file comparison on Windows. Its quite simple. Take a text file pick each line( record) and check in the other file if it is there. My friends suggested touse winmerge(??) to do thisUnfortunately I needed a standalone script to do this. I could write a brute-force program to pick each record and search on the other file. My COBOL wayof doing this. But I was lazy and wanted a ready to use script.Ultimately I had to write a Korn script on unix to do this. So I had to FTP my files from windows and do this on my unix box. What a pain!!!
During my search I thought how would it be, if we got all our unix utilities on Windows?After a day's googling ( Now this is considered as verb in the junkies world) Voila.... I found this interesting link.
GNU utilities for Win32
Cool.. Ain't it?
Caveat: Do not ask me how to use it. I just found it and wanted to share with y'all