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Life without Apache : Meritocracy in Action.

Friday, September 26th, 2008

I am obsessed with Apache. Yes! I am and I am proud that I am!

I was just wondering how life would be WITHOUT Apache!

We would still be doing ASP. Many of us would have gone into ASPX and C#
CGI and PHP wouldn’t have come out..
Total no. of websites in the world would be less. I don’t know how much % but yes, it would surely be less.
There would all be Windows Hosting Services everywhere and the prices would be higher and higher…
Who can forget the popular Tomcat. Java wasn’t open source before, other app servers were not that comfortable interms of price, simplicity and ease of use. Every newbie in JSP/Servlet starts with Tomcat. People crib that Tomcat doesn’t have EJB, who needs EJB these days?
No Java projects would compile using Make, so Ant came it. Imagine how difficult life would be without ANT scripts.
MVC the most popular design pattern: Struts is the name you think of. If it weren’t there, you’d still be writing your own servlets and JSP and controller logic.
Almost 80-90% of GOOD Java EE developers would use Apache Commons. I mean who doesn’t use it?
Logging your application for debug and support, What would you do without Apache Logging Sevices
Forget all programming, there is still no comparision with Xerces for XML. I challenge.
Make your code as Webservice? No words about Axis, yet again apache product!
You want a middleware java messaging framework for your JMS? Use ActiveMQ
Object relation model: Try iBatis, you wont leave it again.

All in all, If there was no Apache, Life wouldn’t have stopped but would have been SO SO damn difficult. My many many thanks to Apache…

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Barcamp Kolkata : Why Kolkata still doesn’t have a Barcamp

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Why Kolkata still doesn’t have a Barcamp

October 2007, I went to Kolkata for a conference called WebOSS ‘07 and I can probably make out why there’s no way Kolkata can have a barcamp in near future. I tried to carry out a Barcamp in Kolkata. My sympathies to the wonderful city where I grew up.

1. What is BarCamp? A ‘Drinking Bar’ may be…I’m not interested.
2. People don’t know what a WIKI is. They don’t know how to edit it despite the instructions.
3. No one willing to take the effort. They have all the time to sleep.
4. The so called ‘open source’ community sucks big time. The so called HEAD of LUG group look out for publicity more than helping to get a job done. I am not afraid to take the name of Krishnendu Paul who promised and suddenly disappeared.
5. The student community is suppressed by the colleges.
6. The colleges are more interested in Placements rather than knowledge sharing.
7. College professors are trying to get some freelance projects all the time.
8. Big shots like IBM, TCS etc. are least bothered to even have a look.
9. Free T-shirts = Bring in all your friends and leave in next 1 hour.
10. Free food = hog as much as you want.
11. The IT dept of the government want to just hold on conferences and publicity stunts to make their place in the newspaper. I am again not afraid to blame the minister for not checking his Mailbox which is always full. And also to be not available to common people without a PROTOCOL!
11. What is sponsorship? What will I gain. How many people are going to come? This is the question which all news/publicity media ask!
12. Lastly, Who’s wanting to spoil their weekend!

Way to go Kolkata, I don’t see a Barcamp Kolkata until some revolutionary thing happen!
Dear City of Joy, I left you some time back and I don’t feel like returning!

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