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Java vulnerable to remote compromise

ZDNet Asia reports that Google Security team has discovered as “Dangerous Java Flaw that threaten’s Virtually Everything“. The interesting part of this news is that, apart from a few scary statements, it doesn’t inform you anything else.
The Sun advisory page on this flaw, however, informs you about two flaws which are nothing but Buffer Overflows. [...]

Dreams… and (huh!) Reality.

Disclaimer: The post may give you a notion that the author has surpassed all the heights of patheticism; which actually is sort of true
Have I ever posted that I am a *crazy* person?Probably a number of times.This post is another proof; which I am shamelessly sharing with a hope that my *unconscious* realizes [...]

An insight into Sun’s *crazy* strategy.

I have been reading a lot of discussion on Sun’s current market position/revenue versus their *mad* strategy. I have simultaneously been working on Java’s history for my book. I thought it might be interesting to post my views on the topic and see what others are thinking. To justify/criticize Sun’s current modus operandi, I will [...]

A 13 Year Old CEO!

Yes, you read it correctly. A 13 year old CEO and an 11 year old VP, Sales.
My grandmother is no businesswoman, but I always cite two of her sayings pertaining to business:

Doctors can earn even in a jungle,
People will never stop learning/studying (formal education), at least not in India.

I personally believe very strongly that Education [...]

Open JavaFX, an alternative to AJAX?

Strange things happen to me all the time.When I came to the office a few hours ago, I came across JavaFX scripting language while reading random blogs.
I found it pretty interesting and decided to check it out.So I added the module in my NetBeans IDE and started playing with it. Though I could not fiddle [...]