Programming fun at startup

When I first came to USA 4 years back no one told me about 401K plans and IRA and others. So I was paying uncle Sam a bucket loads of money. Like USA in India there is no formal education about money in Schools and colleges. If it were not my curiosity about the latest stock market bust I wouldn't have read books about Money and wouldnt have known the basic Rule about Pay yourself first. I guess know I know the basic rules. I wonder what I wish I had known when I was young. Get Rich slowly puts it in a nice post http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/07/31/what-we-wish-we-knew-when-we-were-younger/

Frugal Dad's wisdom on thinking about the purpose before making a big ticket purchase. http://frugaldad.com/2009/07/29/six-words-that-saved-me-17893-and-can-save-you-even-more/

Interesting post about how programmers think v/s managers think about meetings http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html I myself feel like if there is a meeting scheduled at 11 AM than between 8:00 - 11:00 AM I should not pick a task that takes more than 2-3 hours. The reason is that context switch is so expensive that if I leave a task in between than coming back and picking it up again will again require additional 15-20 mins to reestablish the context. Hats off to Paul for writing such a good post.

Recommended viewing for anyone wanting to know the history of Bonds, Stock market, Insurance and how banking system works. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ascentofmoney/featured/watch-the-two-hour-the-ascent-of-money/24/

Was trying to find a Javascript client for REST api. Seems like there isnt a one available. The idea is simple if you have a Java class annotated using JSR 311 annotations than one can write a tool like DWR that can at compile time or at runtime introspect Java classes and generate a stub. If there is a class like 1 // The Java class will be hosted at the URI path "/helloworld" 2 @Path("/helloworld") 3 public class HelloWorldResource { 4 5 // The Java method will process HTTP GET requests 6 @GET 7 // The Java method will produce content identified by the MIME Media 8 // type "text/plain" 9 @Produces("text/plain") 10 public String getClichedMessage() { 11 // Return some cliched textual content 12 return "Hello World"; 13 } 14 } than requesting a script like /Jersey/RESTClient/HelloWorldResource.js should generate a javascript class that takes primitives...