Monday, November 18, 2013

Twitter bootstrap has come a long way !

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The latest version of bootstrap (version 3) really rocks ! I was mighty impressed with the default JavaScript controls available and the ea...

Aah! It's Lorem ipsum

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It's interesting to learn something new everyday. Today I learned about ' Lorem ipsum '. I had seen such text so many times a...

Ruminating on Agile and Fixed Price Contracts

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Fixed Price Contracts have become a necessary evil for all agile practitioners to deal with. Over the last few years, I am seeing more and ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Beautiful REST API documentation

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InfoQ has published a list of tools that can be used for creating some cool documentation for our Web APIs. I was particularly impresse...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Ruminating on HIE (Health Information Exchange)

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The healthit.gov site gives a very understanding on HIE. This is not to be confused with HIX (Health Insurance Exchange). Snippet from th...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Ruminating on ACO (Accountable Care Organizations)

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The below article on national journal gives an excellent overview of ACO and what were the reasons it was formed. http://www.nationaljour...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

What is HIMSS?

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The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society ( HIMSS ) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving healthcare thro...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

What is a Digital Enterprise?

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In my previous blog post , I had ruminated on some of the business drivers that are pressing organizations towards a digital transformation...
Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Social Tools in the Enterprise

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Microsoft has conducted an interesting survey on the demand for social tools in the enterprise. The results of the survey are available he...
Monday, October 07, 2013

MongoDB caveats

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The following blog posts are worth a perusal, as they share some of the failure-stories of MongoDB. http://snmaynard.com/2012/10/17/thing...

Types of NoSQL data stores

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There are essentially 4 types of NoSQL databases that are getting popular. As architects, when we consider polyglot persistence  it's ...

Ruminating on Bloom Filters

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Of late, I have been trying to understand " Bloom Filters " and the reason why they are used in many popular NoSQL datastores suc...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Comparison of Java APIs for Excel

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The Aspose folks have put up a comparison of their Java Excel API vs popular open source APIs such as JExcelAPI and Apache POI . The comp...

Using Spring MVC to create REST style services

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We have been always using Apache CXF or Axis 2 to build web services, but recently I was pretty impressed with the simplicity with which we...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Maths Formula Evaluators

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A team mate today introduced me to a couple of open-source libraries that can be used for evaluating mathametical functions as strings. One...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Are you a "chicken" or "pig" in a project?

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Loved the below classic story of the Chicken and Pig. In any project you would have committed people and folks who only get involved :) h...

Ruminating on MongoDB concurrency

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In my previous post , I had discussed about the transaction support in MongoDB. Since MongoDB implements a ReadersWriter lock at the databa...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Cloud Computing Guidance for Data Protection Act complaince

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ico.org.uk  has compiled a good list of questions that any organization should consider before it decides to leverage cloud computing solut...

Ruminating on EDI

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Despite being very old,  EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is still a dominant force in many industries; especially in healthcare. Organiza...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Good links to understand Health Insurance Domain

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Was quite impressed with the simple and lucid language used on about.com to explain the basic of Health Insurance in US. The following arti...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Transactions in MongoDB

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In my previous blog post , we had gone through some of the advantages of MongoDB in terms of schema flexibility and performance. The Metlif...

Log4javascript - Logging on the client side

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Being an ardent fan of Log4J and Log4Net frameworks, I was pleased to see a port of the framework on Javascript for client side logging - l...
Thursday, September 05, 2013

Ruminating on multicore CPUs and hyperthreading

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My laptop has an i3 processor and I knew that i3 processors have 2 physical cores. But when I open Task Manager, I can see 4 CPUs. Even ope...
Wednesday, September 04, 2013

NoSQL for Customer Hub MDM

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The following article on informationweek  is an interesting read on the use of MongoDB NoSQL for building a customer MDM solution. http:/...

Gender Diversity in the Architecture Field

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Being passionate about gender diversity, I have always been concerned about the under-representation of women in the software architecture ...
Friday, August 23, 2013

Agile Survey

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VersionOne has released the results of the survey it conducted on Agile practices in the industry. The report is available at:  http://www....
Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Ruminating on Single Page Applications

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In the past, I had blogged about the categorization of UI frameworks and the design philosophy behind them. Of late, the open source marke...

Amazon S3 for websites

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I was always under the impression that the Amazon AWS S3 service could be used only for storing any type of media content on the cloud. For...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Financial Advisors and Social Media

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A lot of financial advisors are using Social Media to interact with their customers and engage them. But as pointed out on this link , ther...
Sunday, July 14, 2013

How to get geographical location from IP address?

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There are a lot of free services available that would enable you to roughly get the geographical address of your ISP provider from your IP...