Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) is an annual event for software developers, started on 2008 with the first summit held at Bangalore - Indian Silicon Valley. I attended the Java track in that event, where the other two tracks were Dot Net and Web. That was a useful session for me as I happened to hear the geeks talking about Java technology and able to meet like minded people.

Implementing Ajax features in a Java web application is considerably easy if we are using JQuery JavaScript library. JQuery provides built-in methods that we can use to enable Ajax in our Java web application.
In this post, I am going to demonstrate the Jquery’s Ajax capability using a small weather reporting web application. I’m not going to give the entire source code here. Instead I am going to explain the important pieces of the application.

Recently I was reading a blog post Personal development environment, in which the author was asking the readers to share what are the software they use for their personal projects. We all use advanced,enterprise development applications at office, because the company pays for it. But when it comes to home/personal projects, we can not afford for a commercial IDE just to develop Hello World application. So, most of us would go for a open source / free development applications. I am too not an exception for this rule. So, here …

After the Gmail make over, now it’s time for the Google Reader to get some face lift. Google has made some look-and-feel changes and feature changes today to Reader. If you are using Reader as your feed reader, then you would have noticed this change already.
Here are the things that are changed in the Google Reader interface:

First and foremost Reader gets a slick UI which makes me to feel that Reader’s lost it weight. Rounded corners are gone now, so does the drop shadows and dark colors. Now Reader has …

Recently one of my colleague asked me the question
“I am a Java resource. Is it necessary for me to learn and understand the web design?”
I’ve seen many newcomers to Java language has been discussing this topic with themselves when they are given training in HTML and web design. For many of those folks, JavaScript is the another name for a nightmare. They just don’t understand the necessity for a Java developer to learn HTML. This happens mainly for the people who are switching from a AS400/Mainframe or any other …