http://www.anandsekar.com ரெங்கசாமி ஆனந்த் சேகர் ராஜசேகர் Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:30:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The main theme of the book is to how to identify goals and stay committed to them. The author asserts that decisions are to be made based on the long term and once decided one should stay committed to them and constantly take actions to reach ones goals. Again an ... http://www.anandsekar.com/2010/06/03/awaken-the-giant-within/ I was listening to the audio book “How to Raise Happy, Healthy, Self-Confident Children” by Brian Tracy, and the primary theme in the first chapter is to raise your child with high sense of self esteem. It got me thinking about my childhood where Ayya and Amma at every instance ... http://www.anandsekar.com/2010/06/03/self-esteem/ I have started using Timemachine to backup my computer. It was very simple to setup. One nice feature is that internally the incremental backups use links to refer to unchanged old files so opening the backup in finder shows the complete view. For my secondary backup snapshot I use pync which ... http://www.anandsekar.com/2010/02/09/timemachine-and-psync/ I have been using Microsoft's synctoy a lot. After moving all my computing to a Mac, I still have been running synctoy on parallels to get my backups done. When moving from Vista to Windows 7 I found so many quirks in synctoy that I have finally settled with SyncBack. ... http://www.anandsekar.com/2009/11/14/syncback-vs-synctoy/ I have finally moved all my computing to my MacBook. I used Parallels to run Windows Vista in Mac mostly to run Quicken. It was painfully slow. To speed up Windows Vista open up the display performance settings and set it to "Adjust for Best Performance". With this setting Windows ... http://www.anandsekar.com/2009/11/02/optimizing-windows-vista-for-parallels/ Untitled from Anand Rajasekar on Vimeo. http://www.anandsekar.com/2009/06/08/time-lapse-of-sunset-from-milpitas-hills/ A web application is configured using tomcat's server.xml and the context.xml. There some configurations that cause web applications to initialize twice like Duplicate definition of context in context.xml and server.xml Bugs in tomcat launchers for eclipse that create duplicate context definitions Duplicate definition of contexts when defining multiple hosts In my case I had ... http://www.anandsekar.com/2009/05/28/tomcat-initializing-servlet-twice/ Sometimes creating a collage of similar photographs adds a stunning effect. Here are three photographs of Aradhana stacking blocks. http://www.anandsekar.com/2009/05/18/three-makes-it-perfect/ Capturing a sharp photograph of a running child can be quite a challenge. Canon has a focusing mode called AI Servo that makes focusing moving objects very easy. This mode uses the auto focus motor to continuously focus on the object in the center of the view finder. This photograph ... http://www.anandsekar.com/2009/05/18/photographing-running-children/ Java Serialization is a easy way to persist the state of Java Objects. However if the structure of the class changes the serialized bytes is invalidated by the changes. This article suggest how one could implement serialization with Externalizable with support for versions. Consider a simple java class [code lang="java"] public class SimpleObject ... http://www.anandsekar.com/2008/10/22/java-serialization-versioning-with-externalizable/