Sunday, October 31, 2010

Continuous Integration

"It's (having a crack at Continuous Integration) not a question of failure because failures are going to happen. The more transparent failure is, the easier it is to diagnose what failed"
The above comment was made by Meciej Zawadzki, President and Founder of Urbancode. Source: Software Development Times, October 15, 2010.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Testing posts through Windows Live Writer

I was using BlogSpot for my blogging for last two years. As time goes, my interests are being redefined more and more. Now, I feel I need specific blog for my different types of interest.

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Hi There :)
How are you?
How is life?
Everything going ok?

Googling with Bing - CollegeHumor video

Googling with Bing - CollegeHumor video

InfoQ: Concurrency and Immutability

InfoQ: Concurrency and Immutability

Monday, December 08, 2008

define: duress - Google Search

define: duress - Google Search: "When a person is forced to enter into an agreement or to perform some other act against his will."

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Health care insurance

COBRA Insurance
COBRA Insurance (enforced through an act called COBRA) offers temporary insurance (usually 18-36 months max., you can discontinue any time) for people
  1. Who had jobs and had employer-assisted insurance. Through employer's group (other employees where lost jobs) and COBRA provider, they can get insurance.
  2. Who has a job, but employer doesn't pay insurance.
  3. Family members (spouse, children, ...) can be covered.
Coverage:
  1. You can take full coverage you were having before you lost job. For this, you have to 102% of all payments (your premium + premiums paid by your ex-employer + 2% administrative charge).
  2. Or, you can take a lower coverage, resulting lower premium. (I've seen offers like $225/month for a family of four members)

Medicaid & Medicare
Medicare is for mostly for elderly persons. It's a health insurance program by federal government. Pays most of the claims, some copay may be required.

Medicaid is assist program. Can help to pay almost full health care costs. Eligible: pregnant woman or US children or disabled or blind, has low income. You could try even if you don't belong on of the mentioned group.

Proxool 0.9.1

Proxool 0.9.1

Proxool is a JDBC connection-pool provider. Works near-seamlessly with standard way of JDBC. Here is how it works:

Change this
    Class.forName("org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver");
    connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:hsqldb:test");
to this
    Class.forName("org.logicalcobwebs.proxool.ProxoolDriver");
    connection = DriverManager.getConnection("proxool.example:org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver:jdbc:hsqldb:test");

Thats it.... or, it you want to configure stuff at startup (there are several options), you can do this:
    connection = DriverManager.getConnection("proxool.example");

Not bad... you might find a proper use this someday...

The providers say it's open-source, maintained. I am still not sure who uses it, though.
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