I have been using few UML modeling tools like argoUML and starUML for quite some time. I have already blogged about my first impressions on argoUML.In that blog post, one user replied that I should have a look at starUML which is also free/open source and is lot better than the argoUML modeling tool. So, I tried starUML also. After using both UML modeling tools, here are my observations on them.

When Wikia search engine was launched, the hype it generated mainly because of it’s ability to consider user feedbacks also for the search results. That is, the user can promote/demote, add comments to any search results to improve it’s placement in the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). Prior to this, all of the search engines were doing some kind of ranking algorithms (like Google’s Page Ranking algorithm) to list the search pages, but none of them were considering one most important metric - User feedback. Wikipedia got this point exactly …

International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) is an annual event held at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Organized by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, this year IFFK is going to be held between 12th - 19th December 2008. With the screening of nearly 130 films from around the world film lovers are waiting for a visual treat.

Web has evolved from the static interlinked pages to what we are seeing today - dynamic, interactive, very much alive. Thanks to those web programming languages, with out which this evolution of web would not be possible. When I say web programming languages, I am referring those languages which are run at the server side. These programs generate the content dynamically and sends it back to the web browser. There are so many programming languages out there to program the web, but which one is alive and kicking? Let’s compare …

Google has finally decided to give some makeover to Gmail. It’s added a new feature called “Themes” to Gmail. This themes tab has multiple theme options that you can use with your plain Gmail interface. Access the “Themes” tab from the “Settings” section. Below is the screen shot of the “themes” section and check out my latest Gmail theme too in the backdrop.

Yeah! You read it right. Please somebody stop me! Otherwise I’ll keep on changing the theme of this blog again and again.
Okay. From today, my blog wears yet another new outfit from WP Remix. In fact I was very satisfied with my last time theme change, but somehow I messed up the design after I started tweaking it. Finally I decided enough is enough and here’s the new theme.
I hope (yeah! that’s the only thing I can do before messing up this design too!) I’ll be using this theme for …

Recently I’ve started learning the Struts 2 framework. Though I’ve been using Struts 1.3 for quite some time, understanding Struts 2 was little tricky as the ‘Hello World sample application’ provided by Struts 2 site is little confusing. So, I was searching for a simple ‘Hello world example for Struts 2′ and after going through many different sites, finally I was able to run my first Struts 2 application. Here are the steps that I did to start with Struts 2. I am using Eclipse IDE and all the steps …

I’ve been using Google Chrome from the day it’s got released. I am really impressed with this new web 2.0 browser, but it still lacks few features which I am really missing in Google Chrome. As the new browser still is in it’s early ages, I hope these features will be introduced in future versions.