Sunday, February 17, 2008

Head First Java

I never had the enthu to master any language. Thou I was like the jack of all trades and sinbad of all seas, I never mastered any damn language but I knew most of them. I knew to survive. But, doing my masters I wanted to master atleast one language. A friend of mine suggested "Head First Java" by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates before I came to the US. I never touched the book since I bought it.

My first big assignment was to create a Secure chat system in unix. I started working in C since I always felt, sockets in C were cool. But looking at the complexity of implementing DES in CBC mode, SHA-1, modified kerberos and what not in security concepts :P, we(me and Vishy) decided to work in java. But then I was blank in java, so caught hold of the book I mentioned in the above para. It changed my coding life and my view about java, thats all i would say.

Even now I cherish reading that lovely book. Go get a copy of that.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Hello World!

Hello World!

The first sample program one will get to learn on any book or online resource is the Hello World program. Being a techie all through out my life (till date I should add) let me begin my first post with those 2 lovely words. :P

Okay, this blog is gonna host loads of techie news, codes, reviews, views and some other junk that one wouldn't bother to read. But then I am just creating this to digitize the stuff that I get to know.

As I type this post
at 2:40 AM, I see lightning and hear thunders. Before I could realize the current went off. Some would call it "A dark beginning". Being an optimist I am gonna say, someone turned off the lights to turn the spot lights on.

Oops! The wifi thingi doesn't work as well. Grrr. Alright I'll wait till morning.

9 AM,

Lights, Action, Camera...... here we go!

Agnel codes....



Tadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!