Suresh Krishna Madhuvarsu

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Review of 2008: A Developer's Perspective

Suresh Krishna's Blog The year that's just ended was a terrific one for the proliferation of new technologies and frameworks. I have been hearing a lot about the following technologies in the year 2008: mashups, cloud computing, domain modeling, Eclipse - especially Equinox, Single Sourcing, and EclipseLink. Mashups : JackBe is an Enterprise Mashup software company and has the series of products like Presto Server, Presto Composer and Presto Connectors. They also have a great Eclipse Plugin to support the advanced developer. This gives Java programmers complete control to design, ... (more)

Commercial and OpenSource OCR Softwares

Open Source Journal After testing the FineReader, OmniPage, ReadIRIS, and SimpleOCR, Aspire, Tesseract….it is evident that ABBYY FineReader 9 is the best overall value, while ReadIRIS is the best OCR software for under $150. The main features that differentiate OCR software are: Character recognition accuracy Page layout reconstruction accuracy Support for languages Support for searchable PDF output Speed User interface API / SDK Support / Consulting Stability of the engine when processing large documents Following are some of the Softwares that I played with and compared. Simpl... (more)

Process hell in Vista

There are numerous processes that recide in my Vista machine and it’s unfortunate that sometimes i could not kill the process from the services window. Very often i get a message that i can not kill the process and i should ask administrator.  Recently i have seen a hit on the performance on my system and i explored a bit to see how i can stop the unwanted process and found a way to do it. Go to the control panel -> administrative tools -> system configuration. Once you are in the System Configuration, select or deselect the process that you don’t need at the start up. Be sure t... (more)

2008 Year Roundup

The year 2008 has come to an end and i am excited to look into the New Year with a review of the year 2008. This has been a mixed bag starting with loosing my back pack in New York, moving to Oracle in February, very nice technical sessions at EclipseCon 2008, happiness of becoming a father in May 2009 and finally with preparations to attend the  EclipseCon 2009 again. This year has been terrific with the proliferation of new technologies and frameworks. I have been hearing a lot about the following technologies in the year 2008. Mashups : JackBe is an Enterprise Mashup software ... (more)