Writing by Anandhan Subbiah on Thursday, 29 of March , 2007 at 1:27 pm
Comcast is the largest cable company in the United States . I work as a Engineering Manager in Comcast and I honestly believe that if you understand how the web works then Comcast is the best company to work for in Philly (and in the United States !) . Anyone intrested in working on cutting edge technologies related to the web should really be padding up ( I use cricket terms without any shame since I am from India) to interview with Comcast.
There are lots of interesting products
1. http://www.comcast.net/
2. http://gameinvasion.comcast.net/
3. http://playgames.comcast.net/
4. http://finance.comcast.net/
5. http://www.ziddio.com/
The broadband portal Comcast.net has multiple channels like news , sports , movies , music , entertainment , tv , finance etc . Each channel is unique in its own way . A perfect example would be the NHL Hockey channel http://www.comcast.net/sports/nhl/hockeylive/.
Game Invasion is THE portal for hardcore gamers . This site has awesome graphics and videos of all your favorite games. You will have to see it to belive it.
Playgames is for casual gamers . There are a wide variety of games to choose from and you can play with other players in the net as well.
The Finance channel will help you manage your online portfolios.
Ziddio is the very latest in user-generated video sharing. People like you create videos and upload them to Ziddio.com for the world to see, laugh, question, mock, and even enjoy.
Due to the diverse nature of the diffrent products in comcast there are plenty of options to express your talent. Comcast needs people who understand the web and those who want to work in cutting-edge technologies. If you are an expert in HTML/Flash/JSP, Js/AJAX , Java/J2EE (Spring , Hibernate , Struts ,mysql )or have a good domain knowledge of the Web , Content Management Systems , Search etc then please visit
http://www.comcast.com/Corporate/About/Careers/careers.html for more information
Disclaimer : I have discussed only 5 portals here but it may increase to 10 or 15 very soon 
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Writing by Anandhan Subbiah on Thursday, 29 of March , 2007 at 12:45 pm
I hope i am not alone when i had issues copying .classpath and .project files on the windows environment. I was trying to import my old non-eclipse java projects into eclipse. Eclipse did not allow me to create the project since it did not have these files in the project. So i sent an email from work to my personal account with some sample .classpath and .project files . Windows did not let me copy the .classpth no matter what i tried . I finally created a new project and copied the .classpath and .project files . Then i dowloaded the original files from my mail server and overwrote the sample files.It is weird that i had to do this much work but I am sure i am not alone here.
I am tired of .classpath and .project files. Everytime someone checked in .classpath and .project files into SVN it messed up my local environment. I know the developers can use .svnignore or .cvsignore but as we all know humans can make mistakes under stress. If .classpath and .project files are not checked in then the whole project has to be recreated by every developer who has to work on the project so it really made sense for me to check in the files.
I really don’t have a perfect solution to this problem as this was the way eclipse was built. The only option seem to teach every developer to be more organized and not check in the files.
Category: Java, Technical Articles
Writing by Anandhan Subbiah on Thursday, 29 of March , 2007 at 12:01 pm
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Writing by Anandhan Subbiah on Thursday, 29 of March , 2007 at 11:56 am
MySql has two awesome tools which make life a lot more easier for people who don’t like to work with command prompts . MySql Query Browser and MySql Admininstrator are bundled together and available for download at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html .You can use the Query Browser to execute all DML operations and the Adminstrator for all DDL operations. The Adminstrator tool can do a complete backup of the database really fast depending on the size of your database. It creates a single file with the sql staments to create the db , table and constraints and also insert statements to populate them . This is really useful when debugging production issues . Data from the production environment can be easily exported to the dev environment . There is no support for masking private data which is a major drawback for this backup tool .
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Writing by Anandhan Subbiah on Saturday, 17 of March , 2007 at 11:41 am
I was not able to use Norton Internet Security 2006 with Vista to begin with so i had to lose my 360 day subscription (presinstalled when i got my PC so i did not have the key) . I ended up downloading Norton Anti Virus 2007 . Now there is one more issue the security center always reports that the norton anti virus is out of date even after i run LiveUpdate. There is some obvious incompatibility between MS and Symantec but it really reflects as a issue on the MS front.
Category: Technical Articles
Writing by Anandhan Subbiah on Friday, 16 of March , 2007 at 9:53 pm
I had Windows XP media center prior to upgrading to Vista Home Premium Edition . I have HP Media Vault , which is a network drive and i also have external drives connected to it via USB . I had Micrsoft desktop search (WDS) installed in XP and i was able find files really fast in my desktop and in my network drive(s). But the new Vista search does not allow me to index network drives and i could not find an WDS installable for Vista either. I am surprised that the MS design engineers missed this but either way it looks like i have to wait for sp1 now to have this essential feature back as part of the operating system.
Category: Technical Articles
Writing by Anandhan Subbiah on Wednesday, 7 of March , 2007 at 1:41 pm
I installed PartitionMagic as I had a 100 GB drive and just a single partition. I have a HP media center desktop with a recovery partition (FAT32) . I decided to partition the single drive into multiple drives so i can group data. All was well till I installed BootMagic which came with the installation package.
The fun started after that . BootMagic for some reason installed only in FAT32 drives and my recovery parition was FAT32 . I did not realize it. The side effect of this problem is BootMagic hides the parition in which it is installed. So i could not see my recovery partition anymore and worse everytime I use PartitionMagic to unhide the partition BootMagic would hide it after a restart . I could not delete BootMagic as my OS could not find it . The only solution was to manually delete bootmagic.
1. From the operating system where BootMagic is installed, go to C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information and remove the directory {B838AD63-FD0C-482C-B124-7116748BAC45}.
2. Go to the Temp directory (for example, C:\Windows\Temp if you are using Windows 98, or C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Temp if you are using Windows XP) and remove the directory {B838AD63-FD0C-482C-B124-7116748BAC45}.
3. Remove the directory where BootMagic was installed . I had to use PartitionMagic to see the parition and remove the files.
4. Run Regedit, do a global search for the product GUID {B838AD63-FD0C-482C-B124-7116748BAC45}, and remove all matching key entries.
I started getting an error “Error finding BootMagic” after this . So I created another FAT32 partition and then installed Bootmagic and uninstalled it without a reboot and it finally WORKED.
Category: Technical Articles
Writing by Anandhan Subbiah on Wednesday, 7 of March , 2007 at 1:17 pm
Unlike Microsoft.net java has a wide variety of tools to support development . I think personally this works both as an advantage and a disadvantage. The challenge is to pick the right tools . I have been in the industry long enough so here is my list of tools
Clip Path : http://personal.vsnl.com/sureshms/ClipPath.zip . This program installs in the windows context menu. It will retrive the path of the file in use and stores it in the clipboard . This is very useful during development.
Jcreator : http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm . I always use this to write test programs . This is fast and has a rich interface and light weight when compared to eclipse.
Msconfig : Type this in run user prompt and it should display a panel. This will help you configure services and have complete control over what programs load during startup . Most java applications consume a lot of space so this is a great tool to prevent unwanted applications from loading during startup.
Category: Cool Products, Technical Articles
Writing by Anandhan Subbiah on Wednesday, 7 of March , 2007 at 9:58 am
Putty stores session information in the registry.
To export the session data.
1. Click on Run
2. Type in regedit
3. Search for putty
4. You should be able to get to this key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions
5. right click on sessions and you should to export the info to a .reg file
6. copy the file to any machine you want the information to be shared and backup the registry
7. Double Click on this file and you should be able to import the data.
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