
Day one of [JSFoo][1] is just got over. Went to the event with lot of expectations and came back with some new ideas/topics to explore. Here's a summary of what I learnt from today's sessions.

[1]: http://jsfoo.in

Except the keynote, rest of the sessions simultaneously happened in [two tracks][2]. So, I had to opt for one session while missing the other one. Anyway, the organizers seems to be recording the whole event. So, I hope I can catch up with the sessions I missed later in video format.

[2]: http://jsfoo.in/2012/#schedule

The first session I chose was '**Scaling node at Errorception**' by [Errorception][3] founder, [Rakesh Pai][4]. As I'm exploring node for my own web app, its very obvious for me to go for this. The speaker talked about how he's running Errorception on Node Mongodb stack. The highlights from his speech was:

[3]: http://errorception.com/ "Errorception"
[4]: http://blog.rakeshpai.me/ "Rakesh Pai"

1.  Don't write monolithic app. Instead break them into several micro apps (front end, queue processor, etc). This helps you to maintain it without much pain and deploy/take down the apps without affecting each other.
2.  Build a Queue layer for inter-app communication. That way, even if you take down a app, the messages won't be lost and they'll just be there in the queue until your app pick them up. He seems to be using **redis **for this purpose at Errorception.
3.  CPU bound app? Run away from node.

Then there was a 30 minutes of Q/A session about '**Web Storage**'. The presenter talked about different options for storing data locally at browser. It was new information to me that developers (ab)used the **window.name **property in order to persist data. This hack is totally an insecure way to preserve data and should never be considered for anything secure.

After a delicious lunch (I always complain about food in Bangalore, so when I say delicious, it is DELICIOUS!), I sit there in the '**Create JS**' session by [Harish Sivaramakrishnan][5].\*\* \*\*He totally inspired the audience by building a game from scratch in 45 minutes using [CreateJS][6] library. This library lets you to draw objects on Canvas instead of directly manipulating pixels by hand. A totally cool JS lib and if you are into game/visual programming using Canvas, you shouldn't miss this one.

[5]: http://hsivaram.com/
[6]: http://www.createjs.com/#!/CreateJS

The final sessions I attended were about using JQuery Deferred instead of inner-nesting callbacks and I18N Wikimedia libraries. Both provided some good information which I'll be using in my next projects.

Final session of the day was from Rakesh Pai who demoed his project of Controlling a toy car using Node server. He'd integrated the toy car with the Raspberry pi computer and ran the node server in it. A cool hardware hack, received great appreciation from the crowd.

With that the first day got over.


Day one of JSFoo


Well, well, well, I completely forgot that I started this blog on this same month, three years ago. Yes! Now this blog completes **3 years **and steps into the fourth year.

Of course, without your support and feedback, this wouldn't have happened. So, **thank you one and all **for reading my blog and encouraging me through comments.

Its time for some retrospection. Let's see  how this blog performed till now (thanks to WordPress Stats and Google Analytics for tracking the data)

## Number of visitors:

![visitor data for my blog][1]

[1]: https://veerasundar.com/img/2011/06/stats-2011.png "stats-2011"

The total number of page views is now stands at **587,916** a healthy number for a blog like mine. Now, on an average, my blog gets close to 30K page views per month (twice it crossed 30K recently). Not bad!

## Traffic sources:

![traffic sources for the year of 2011][2]

[2]: https://veerasundar.com/img/2011/06/traffic-sources-2011.png "traffic-sources-2011"

## Other Metrics:

- Alexa Rank: **248, 372** [[check ][3]]
- Page Rank: **2**
- Subscribers: **351 **[ [subscribe ][4]]
- Google Connect: **95 members **[ join below ? ]
- Affiliate Ads: **~Rs 20K** [ [interested?][5] ]

[3]: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/veerasundar.com# "Alexa ranking for veerasundar.com"
[4]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/veerasundar/dreamz "subscribe to this blog feed"
[5]: https://veerasundar.com/contact "Contact me for any offers"

## Thank you:

Thank you once again for keeping this blog alive. I know I have considerably reduced my posting frequency. But, I'm trying to improve that now (5 posts in 6 days now! ![:)][6] ).

[6]: https://veerasundar.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif

Do let me know your comments which will definitely help me to improve on.


Thank you friends! This blog is now 3 years old.


![firefoworks][1]First of all, let me wish you a **happy holidays** and advanced wishes for the **wonderful new year**!

[1]: https://veerasundar.com/img/2010/12/fireworks.jpg "fireworks"

While we are so busy with our work and other stuff, the clock never stopped ticking and yet another year has passed away in-front of our eyes. To compensate this, the Time (not that _[Time][2]_!) has gifted us a brand new year - **2011**. So, lets start live in the present than worry about the past.

[2]: http://www.time.com/time/ "Time magazine"

Enough of philosophies and preaching. Lets come to the point of this post. That is, sharing my stats, as I did on [last year][3].

[3]: https://veerasundar.com/blog/so-long-2009-welcome-2010 "so long 2009, welcome 2010"

## Last year resolutions:

Last year I had [three resolutions][4].

[4]: https://veerasundar.com/blog/happy-birthday-2010 "Happy Birthday, 2010!"

- Build a better blog - Which, I think, is accomplished by looking at the [stats below][5]. But, the mission does not end here. ![:)][6]
- Learn a new language (Scala, Python) - unfortunately, this one is still open. But, I did learn new (markup) languages after joining PayPal. But still, Scala is in my mind always.
- Learn photography and buy a DSLR - Done. Bought one DSLR and learnt some basics of photography. But a long way to go. Here are some clicks for you: [Photos 1][7] , [Photos 2][8] and [Flickr][9].

[5]: #stats
[6]: https://veerasundar.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif
[7]: https://veerasundar.com/blog/few-photos-from-my-nikon-d3000 "Photos collection 1"
[8]: https://veerasundar.com/blog/when-the-shutter-opened-photos "Photo collection 2"
[9]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/veerasundar/ "Flickr photo stream of me"

## New year resolutions for 2011:

Time to set some new goals.

- To release the new website that I'm currently working on.
- To learn a new language (Rails and Scala are in, as of now).
- To network with more and more people in my field.

I think three is enough. So, what are your resolutions? Do share it in comments and leave a link to your blog post.

## Important events for veerasundar.com/blog:

- Last year, this blog fetched some good advertisement offers. I spent that money again for improving this blog itself: [Bought the Thesis theme][10] and setup an [additional monitor][11] (and btw,  If you like to advertise here, do [contact me][12] ![:)][6] )
- The total number of page views crossed **4,00,000** and as of today it is 4,24,140. That's some number! (source: wordpress.com stats)
- A total of **61** posts have been published in this year (238 posts overall).
- Google Friend connect members count is grown to **69** while feed subscribers count is at **314 **now.

[10]: https://veerasundar.com/blog/switching-to-thesis-wordpress-theme "Switching to Thesis wordpress theme"
[11]: https://veerasundar.com/blog/dual-monitors "Dual monitor"
[12]: https://veerasundar.com/contact/ "contact me"

## Visitor trend for the year 2010:

[![visitor trend][14]][14]

[]: https://veerasundar.com/img/2010/12/stats-visits.png

## Traffic source stats for the year 2010:

[![traffic source][15]][15]

[]: https://veerasundar.com/img/2010/12/stats-source.png

## Thank you my blog readers!

Of course, with out you, nothing above was possible. So, I **thank you very much** for the continued support and wish you all a wonderful and happy new year.

See you all in new year with more and more posts about Java and Web development!

And, please share your thought about my blog in the comments. That'll help me to improve. ![:)][6]


So long 2010, Welcome 2011


2009 is one of those unforgettable years in my life, both at personal and professional levels. Some success, some failures, some struggles and some achievements - overall, 2009 had been a well balanced in terms of events. Well, I'm not going to discuss all of those here because if I do, you might click on the 'ËœX' on the top-right of your screen. Instead, I'll just record some of my thoughts that are related to this blog alone. Let's start:

## I was more active in blog than the previous year:

Yes, I was. You can see that yourself by looking at the **post count** in the Sidebar _Archives_ section. Out of the **175 posts** that I published till now, **121 posts** were published this year. [July 2009][1] tops the ranking with 18 posts!

[1]: https://veerasundar.com/blog/

## My Blog performed very well in 2009:

My active blogging was reflected by the good amount of traffic that my blog recieved. Here's a snapshot of my blog's traffic stats from WordPress.

[![Blog Traffic Stats][3]][3]

[]: https://veerasundar.com/img/2009/12/blog-stats.png

And my post '[Closing the last tab in Firefox 3.5][3]' was one of the popular post with more than 8000 views this year, while my other article '[15 creative Java applications based on Netbeans platform][4]' was [featured][5] in Netbeans.org home page.

[3]: https://veerasundar.com/blog/closing-the-last-tab-in-firefox-35
[4]: https://veerasundar.com/blog/15-creative-java-applications-based-on-netbeans-platform
[5]: http://twitter.com/vraa/status/5863043226

## 'ËœUnited' stats for veerasundar.com/blog:

Well, I meant the 'Ëœcombined' stats, not USA! anyway, here's the comparision between my [last year's stats][6] and the current year's.

[6]: https://veerasundar.com/blog/a-very-happy-new-year-to-all-the-readers-of-dreamz

stats for what?

2009

_2008_

**Views**

172,932

_21,000_

**Number of Posts**

175

_54_

**Comments**

780

_180_

**RSS Subscribers **- **[Subscribe!][7]**

200

_28_

**Google Friend Connect Members**

16

_N/A_

**Spam comments!** ![:)][8]

4032

_854_

That's some good stats, isn't it?

[7]: https://veerasundar.com/feed.xml
[8]: https://veerasundar.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif

## On the Dev side, I released 3 apps:

While I was working/blogging hard, I was also spending some time to realize my ideas. I released three applications, well each of them were developed using different technology. Here are they for you:

**[CSS Sorter][9]** is a Java application that sorts the CSS rules alphabetically.
[![][11]][11] **[Timelinr][11]** is a PHP based web application to create timelines online.
[![][13]][13] **[Stockr][13]** is a Firefox extension for tracking share prices online.
[![][15]][15]

## Thank you, my Readers! YOU made this possible:

Yeah, all these numbers were came true, only because of **you, my readers**. I thank you for supporting me through out this year and I **wish you a happy and prosperous new year 2010**. lets welcome the new year together! ![:)][8]

[9]: http://csssorter.appspot.com

[]: http://csssorter.appspot.com
[11]: https://veerasundar.com/timelinr
[]: https://veerasundar.com/timelinr
[13]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/52363/
[]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/52363/


So long 2009, Welcome 2010!


![How do you use logging in your application?][1]This time, I feel like conducting a poll and hear from you, instead of writing lengthy content. Similar to my other post, [What does it take to make a 'Ëœgood' developer resume?][2], this is also going to be a discussion post. Feel free to cast your vote and leave your comment at the end of this post.

[1]: http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x201/talktoveera/2999130055_8697986e51.jpg "How do you use logging in your application?"
[2]: https://veerasundar.com/blog/what-does-it-take-to-make-a-good-developer-resume "How to create a good developer resume"

I don't think there is a need to emphasize on the importance of logging in software. Logging helps to maintain a track record of what happened in the application. A good logging framework helps the developer to use logging effectively without affecting the application's performance. For Java applications, [Log4j][3] is always considered as one of the popular logging framework.

[3]: https://veerasundar.com/blog/log4j-tutorial-adding-log4j-logging-to-your-project "Log4j tutorial"

That said about logging, here is the poll for you to vote.

## Logging Framework or No Logging at all?

[poll id="3"]


How do you use logging in your application?


Are you a programmer? If yes, then I need to hear from you.

![Photobucket][1]

[1]: http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x201/talktoveera/dilbert-resume.png

You heard what Dilbert has to say about the process of resume making. Now it's time for you voice your thoughts.

According to you, **what does it take to make a good developer resume?** I'm not talking about the skills and experience part. Assume that you have enough skills to fill up an entire page and some experience too. My question is about how you present this data in your resume. To summarize, **I need your thoughts** on the below questions about a developer's resume:

## Questions for YOU!

1.  Do you prefer a single page resume or multi-page? If multi, then how many pages of resume you think is good enough to sell you?
2.  Do you elaborate on your work experience (like, job description, responsibilities, etc.) or you want to keep it short?
3.  Do you have more than one resume - like a master one with all details and one page resume targeted to a particular position?
4.  In what order you present information in the resume: Objective, Experience, Skills, Education, Summary?
5.  Do you really think the resume layout matters more than the content itself?
6.  Which font do you use for your resume? Arial?  Verdana?  Webdings?
7.  Do you prefer to maintain an online version of your resume?

This is an open thread for all. You are most welcomed to pour in your thoughts about any of the above questions. If you have any other opinion, you are welcomed to leave a comment for that also. I hope that this thread will bring some insights about the developer resumes and will help the newbies.


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