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"Miles to go ..." 3 years old

3 years and 4 days ago Hello Blogsphere! was the first entry on "Miles to go ..." (this blog). 657 entries & 1939 comments later, here are some stats after...

3 years and 4 days ago Hello Blogsphere! was the first entry on "Miles to go ..." (this blog). 657 entries & 1939 comments later, here are some stats after Google Analytics was enabled on Jan 4, 2007. A steady growth of visitors in past 18 months ... A World map overlay showing visitors country ... And a different perspective of countries ... Here is some data generated by Clustrmap from Jun 2007 - Jun 2007 ... And then for Jun 2007 - Jun 2008 ... And now the top rated...

"IRU Account Lookup Error" - iPhone 3G

Finally took the plunge and bought an iPhone 3G for my wife! Yeah, I still have a Motorola Razr which sometimes wonder how it survived for  more than 2 years...

Finally took the plunge and bought an iPhone 3G for my wife! Yeah, I still have a Motorola Razr which sometimes wonder how it survived for  more than 2 years now. I'm ready for a change but that's a different story! Anyway, the process of buying an iPhone was relatively simple - although long wait times (upto 1.5 hrs) were painful. The long wait times are mostly because of limited number of Specialists in the Apple store. Here is my bulleted story: After a 1.5 hour long wait...

Vote for Obama - at least my son wants me to!

This is not a political endorsement of any sort because I'm notaffiliated with Democracticor Republicanparty, yet! However I had an interesting conversation...

This is not a political endorsement of any sort because I'm notaffiliated with Democracticor Republicanparty, yet! However I had an interesting conversation with my 5-yearoldson about upcoming presidentialelections. He'd like me to vote for Barack Obama becauseof the following 3 reasons:Likes his face (and does not like McCain's)Likes his name (and not McCain's)Thinks he'll do the right thing for the country (because helooks like that)Guess "Change We Can Believe In"...

Spotlight - GlassFish Resources for Education Community

Are you a student interested in demonstrating the diverse and powerfulfeatures of GlassFish?Are you a professor who would like to teach GlassFish in...

Are you a student interested in demonstrating the diverse and powerfulfeatures of GlassFish?Are you a professor who would like to teach GlassFish in yourcurriculum ?Do you train other people in enterprise technology ?Are you involved in education community in any manner ?If the answer to any of the above questions is Yes, then spotlight.dev.java.netis onestop that provides a list of GlassFishresources for you. It provides a comprehensive list of resources aboutvideo...

600 StarBucks closing down - list available

StarBucksannouncedfew days ago that they'll close 600 stores in the US. It's more realnow as they announced thecomplete list. Luckily none of my stores are...

StarBucksannouncedfew days ago that they'll close 600 stores in the US. It's more realnow as they announced thecomplete list. Luckily none of my stores are affected - atleast this round :)Technorati: starbuckseconomy

GlassFish @ Utah JUG Summer 2008 - Trip Report

I presented on GlassFish at UtahJUG yesterday, slidesare available. The topic provided insight into GlassFish v2,the current production version, and GlassFish...

I presented on GlassFish at UtahJUG yesterday, slidesare available. The topic provided insight into GlassFish v2,the current production version, and GlassFish v3- the upcoming modular, embeddable & extensibleversion. The slides have data on leading adoption indicators on howGlassFish momentum. There were close to 100 attendees and the list ofsponsors is certainly impressive ;-)Here are the list of demos:GlassFish v2GlassFishv2 Web services Development & DeploymentGlassFishon...

Blogging from San Jose Airport - Free Wi-Fi

San JoseAirport now has freeWi-Fi. The service has been available since May 30 but thisis the first time I'm traveling since then. It is so cool and prettyfast...

San JoseAirport now has freeWi-Fi. The service has been available since May 30 but thisis the first time I'm traveling since then. It is so cool and prettyfast too. "sjcfreewifi" is the network name and sits along withcommercial offerings from T-Mobile and Wayport. I wonder what are theadditional benefits ;)Free Wi-Fi by the numbers:Bandwidth: 15MBHardware cost: $90,000Annual cost for broadband: $41,000Estimated passengers to use Wi-Fi: 1000More details here.A list of...

GlassFish @ Utah Java Users Group

Will you be in Salt Lake City this Thursday evening andwould like to hear the latest about GlassFish ? I'll be presenting at Utah JUG. Here aresome of the...

Will you be in Salt Lake City this Thursday evening andwould like to hear the latest about GlassFish ? I'll be presenting at Utah JUG. Here aresome of the topics I plan to discuss:GlassFish v2 powerful feature set that makes it thepreferred deployment platformNetBeans,Eclipse& IntelliJin action using GlassFishGlassFish v3 Modularization, Embedability &ExtensibilyAdoption & Success StoriesOr anything GlassFish you like!And there will be goodies too :) Make sure to RSVPfor...

FREE GlassFish Refcardz @ DZone

DZone released GlassFishreference card which is a great summary of features includinginstallation, common administration tasks, clustering and loadbalancing and...

DZone released GlassFishreference card which is a great summary of features includinginstallation, common administration tasks, clustering and loadbalancing and much more.The card was originally proposed and worked upon by Masoud Kalali-an active GlassFish community member. You can always find moreup-to-date information at glassfish.org.Truly a community effort, thanks Masoud!Technorati: glassfishdzone refcardz