Suresh Krishna Madhuvarsu

Presentations can be very easy or very challenging based on the speaker, audience and the topic. Though there is no math formula to make a presentation to stand out, there are few tips that would surely help you. Introduce the topic. Why should audience pay attention to this presentation ? Provide the facts, context. Whenever [...] ... (more)

RIP Mr.Jobs

My family remembers Steve Jobs in many ways… Connecting the dots. Highly inspirational (and philosophical) beyond religions and beliefs : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA When rest of the world is still on Sony walkman, Apple/Steve introduced iPod. Touch sensitivity, cool factor, utility, usability in one device – iPhone. Unfortunately even after 5 years, no one could introduce a [...] ... (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)

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)

Plugin Release : XPath Workbook (beta)

Last couple of months have been quite hectic with my job and also in my personal life. Effectively this is my first blog entry this year on Eclipse. In the last one year i have been deeply involved creating XML manipulations and Eclipse plugins. XML and XPath development usually involves lot of experimentation with the XPath expressions and in the real time situations different functions and namespaces can get real creepy. I could not afford licensing costs for the professional XPath and XML IDE integrations, i wrote one small “XPath Workbook” utility by my self. Even if would h... (more)