Just Spring Integration is now published!

by madhusudhan Posted on April 16, 2012

I am thrilled to say that my second book in the Spring space – titled Just Spring Integration is now out. It is available in print and ebook format. It covers Spring Integration technology – anyone who’s working in this area or interested in learning the technology – I would recommend this book. I’ve tried hard to keep my simple yet powerful philosophy of Just Books series in this title too. I have thoroughly enjoyed writing this book and am sure Continue reading →

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Just Spring in Top 20 on Amazon!

by admin Posted on November 18, 2011


Just Spring (Core) has achieved unforgettable place – rising to 17th Rank in Java Books category on Amazon.com! It is at #15,000 in overall books category at the time of writing this item. I know ranks are deceiving as they rise or fall every now and then. My only happiness is that the book is being helpful to many. I can’t thank enough to my readers for Continue reading →

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Indians – Fat..Fatter..Fattest..

by admin Posted on November 1, 2011

Indians are growing fast – well in building up body fat. The increase in waistlines are due to long hours and erratic eating with no general exercise. Type 2 Diabetes (“Sugar” as they call in India) is on increasing scale. Definitely not everyone falls in this category, but recent reports suggest that rising incomes are related to rising waistlines! Working at the desks for long hours does not help at all – not only from family point but from health point too. We have to get rid of the mis-perception that paunch is a sign of prosperity. Infact it is a sign of  Continue reading →

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Free Soft Copy of What’s New in Java 7 ?

by admin Posted on October 27, 2011

My recent article A look at Java 7′s new features on the new features on Java 7 is available as a soft copy from O’Reilly. It is a FREE download! It is available in ePub, Mobi and Pdf formats. Check out this link to download the copy fro O’Reilly. You can also check out the soft copy from Amazon too. It’s a Kindle version.

Java 7 has a number of features that will please developers. Madhusudhan Konda provides an overview of these, including strings in switch statements, multi-catch exception handling, try-with-resource statements, Continue reading →

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Watch India England ODI Online

by admin Posted on October 17, 2011

The excitement and hopes raised by winning first ODI in the series at Hyderabad made to forget all my anger during the recent debackle of India in England tour. The bbci is live streaming the match all over the world over the internet. I must say the quality is pretty good. However, if you are in India, you would be running with a 5 minute delay. Follow this link to Continue reading →

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Goodbye, Dennis!

by admin Posted on October 14, 2011

It was a sad day to find out Dennis Ritchie is no more. The creator of famous C programming language Dennis Ritchie is a great icon as he also co-invented Unix operating system. Both of his inventions have changed the application development landscape dramatically over the last two decades.

My first ever book on C programming language was the book written by Dennis Ritche. And of course the first program was “Hello, World”. I am sad to see program that prints “Goodbye, World!”.  Tributes were flowing on Twittter and Continue reading →

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When do we realise Organic Software?

by admin Posted on October 12, 2011

I recently came across this report that talks about the Java Productivity in Indian Developer community comparing against rest of the World. From my personal opinion, although there are star developers in the country, most of them are let down by their employers. I see many of of my friends slogging from 9 till 11pm (some working even weekends), sacrificing their social and family life. The greed of these employers push the intelligent flock into dumbness.

One huge problem with Indians is not knowing to say Continue reading →

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Just Spring – A Lightweight Book For Learning Spring

by admin Posted on September 8, 2011

After long months of burning myself (and some part of the family), I have now successfully completed and published the book on Spring Framework – titled Just Spring from O’Reilly. It is challenging to write on a subject that has already been inundated with so many books and articles and tutorials including video material. The framework is really mature too.

However, I have come in contact with many programmers/developers who sometimes stumble on basics. They tend to feel shy to ask a fellow colleagues for understanding. I have also seen and met programmers being pushed into Spring projects who have had no prior Spring experience. They were given no training, no guidance but expected overnight results. Continue reading →

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