Les Aventures de Techiemaque…

Singleton Classes are based on the Singleton Design Pattern and have a single instance of the class throughout the application. When would one need a singleton class ? A simple example would be a database manager class which would instantiate a connection to the database at the application initialization and have methods for data manipulation […]

I use StatPress on my Blog for statistics management. According to the Plugin’s page on WordPress Statpress is “The real-time plugin dedicated to the management of statistics about blog visits. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers etc.” It also has a nifty view called Spy which lets you view who visited […]

A couple of days back I had blogged about ESME – The Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment, about how it was initiated, who all are involved and what we are trying to build. As Dennis Howlett mentions in his Blog on SDN, we are a group of individuals from the community who share a dream of […]

Introduction Friday is Chinposin Day. If the previous line did not make any sense to you, then it’s time you read my good friend Blag‘s blog on Chinposin. What started off as an one off experiment is growing into a full fledged avatar management platform with more and more functionality being added every day. With […]

There has been a lot of blogs on whether Twitter like functionality fits the scope of today’s enterprise. And if so where exactly and how… But this blog is not about any of that… This started as a seemlessly harmless question from Yojibee on Plurk on the availability of the Plurk API. The thread grew […]

The registrations for SAP TechEd 2008 are already open and when I think about what an awesome event it was last year that I have still not got over, I read the TechEd blogs on SDN and check out the TechEd pics on Flickr. That is when the bulb lit up in my head and […]

Microsoft Error Messages have always brought a smile on my face, not because they help, no ! But because of the sheer content of the messages. I got the following error message in MS Outlook 2003 because Firefox was set as my default browser. (more…)

WordPress Mobile Edition is a nifty wordpress plugin which mobile-enables your wordpress blog. No configuration involved, just install the plugin and it automatically detects majority of the mobile browsers. Below is a screenshot of my Blog viewed from my Nokia N72 mobile phone. (more…)

Introduction I had blogged about how one can use the SAP Widget Foundation with Adobe Flex/Air in this Blog : Enterprise Widget Foundation & Adobe Flex : Awesome Twosome ? (Video) . That was just an example or a Proof of Concept. What I have here is something that makes the whole deal a lot […]