Wednesday, April 3, 2013
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Friday, May 25, 2012
Importance of a Mentor
We almost ignore the importance of a good mentor. We hop jobs seeking higher salary, bigger responsibilities, even when it sometimes means parting with great mentor. I have done such things. I do realize how much important a good mentor is in shaping one's career. I wish I can find one similar that I lost with my old job.
Monday, April 23, 2012
The Six Rules Jack Welch Lives By
The six rules are:
- Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
- Be candid with everyone.
- Don’t manage, lead.
- Change before you have to.
- If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.
- Control your own destiny, or someone else will.
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
Technical ladder vs Management ladder
Never have I been so restless (maybe leaving apart the UK higher education days), one thought that keeps me awake all night -- whether to choose technical ladder or management ladder.
Coming from a technical background, I still enjoy programming, doing technical things. However, there is a small part of me which craves for management work, power to influence critical decisions. I enjoy leading and guiding a small team. I love to have bigger picture of work.
Hope I find some answer in coming years.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Java Nuggets
class Example implements Iterable<Integer>
{
List<Integer> data = new LinkedList<Integer>();
public Iterator<Integer> iterator()
{
return this.data.iterator();
}
}
public class Main
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Example ex = new Example();
// Enhanced for loop for class that implements Iterable interface
for (Integer i : ex)
{
System.out.println("Element " + i);
}
}
}
Sunday, February 26, 2012
SCJP
public class Main
{
/**
Thread.sleep() sends the current thread into the "Not Runnable" state for some
amount of time. The thread keeps the monitors it has aquired -- i.e. if the thread
is currently in a synchronized block or method no other thread can enter this block
or method. If another thread calls t.interrupt() it will wake up the sleeping thread.
Note that sleep is a static method, which means that it always affects the current
thread (the one that is executing the sleep method). A common mistake is to call
t.sleep() where t is a different thread; even then, it is the current thread that
will sleep, not the t thread.
t.suspend() is deprecated. Using it is possible to halt a thread other than the
current thread. A suspended thread keeps all its monitors and since this state is
not interruptable it is deadlock prone.
object.wait() sends the current thread into the "Not Runnable" state, like sleep(),
but with a twist. Wait is called on a object, not a thread; we call this object the
"lock object." Before lock.wait() is called, the current thread must synchronize on
the lock object; wait() then releases this lock, and adds the thread to the "wait list"
associated with the lock. Later, another thread can synchronize on the same lock object
and call lock.notify(). This wakes up the original, waiting thread. Basically,
wait()/notify() is like sleep()/interrupt(), only the active thread does not need a
direct pointer to the sleeping thread, but only to the shared lock object.
*/
/**
A thread state. A thread can be in one of the following states:
NEW
A thread that has not yet started is in this state.
RUNNABLE
A thread executing in the Java virtual machine is in this state.
BLOCKED
A thread that is blocked waiting for a monitor lock is in this state.
WAITING
A thread that is waiting indefinitely for another thread to perform a particular action is
in this state.
TIMED_WAITING
A thread that is waiting for another thread to perform an action for up to a specified waiting
time is in this state.
TERMINATED
A thread that has exited is in this state.
A thread can be in only one state at a given point in time. These states are virtual machine
states which do not reflect any operating system thread states.
*/
/**
* @param args
* @throws IOException
* @throws InterruptedException
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException
{
Main main = new Main();
main.createProcess();
main.createThread();
}
// To prevent memory consistency issue
// Due to thread (local) cache, a write from one thread may not reflect in other
// Read of volatile variable that was modified by other thread reflects the changes
private volatile int sharedResource;
// Immutable objects (shared resource donot require synchronization)
// 1. Don't provide "setter" methods — methods that modify fields or objects
// referred to by fields.
// 2. Make all fields final and private.
// 3. Don't allow subclasses to override methods. The simplest way to do this is to
// declare the class as final. A more sophisticated approach is to make the constructor
// private and construct instances in factory methods.
// 4. If the instance fields include references to mutable objects, don't allow those objects
// to be changed:
// 4.1. Don't provide methods that modify the mutable objects.
// 4.2. Don't share references to the mutable objects. Never store references to external,
// mutable objects passed to the constructor; if necessary, create copies, and store
// references to the copies. Similarly, create copies of your internal mutable objects
// when necessary to avoid returning the originals in your methods.
private void createProcess() throws IOException
{
ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("mspaint");
//set the process builder's working directory by passing the File to the directory() method
pb.directory(new File("."));
//add and remove environment variables
Map<String,String> env = pb.environment();
env.put("var1", "value");
env.remove("var3");
//start the sub process
Process p = pb.start();
//gets the output stream of sub process as input stream.
p.getInputStream();
//kill the process
p.destroy();
//older way before java 1.5
Runtime r = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process p1 = r.exec("mspaint");
}
private void createThread() throws InterruptedException
{
//start threadA
Thread th1 = new ThreadA();
th1.start();
//start threadB
Thread th2 = new Thread(new ThreadB());
th2.start();
// current thread (Thread.currentThread())waits until th2 thread is finished executing
// never say (eternal wait)-- Thread.currentThread().join();
// throws interrupted exception if interrupted while waiting
th2.join();
// Sleep so that Thread A and Thread B may run
Thread.sleep(2000);
//interrupt thread A which is sleeping for 10 seconds
th1.interrupt();
}
}
// Note that constructors cannot be synchronized — using the synchronized keyword
// with a constructor is a syntax error. Synchronizing constructors doesn't make sense,
// because only the thread that creates an object should have access to it while it is
// being constructed.
class ThreadA extends Thread
{
public void run()
{
System.out.println("ThreadA running");
this.sleepMethod();
}
private void sleepMethod()
{
// sleep does not releases lock (if inside synchronized method/block -- i.e has acquired monitor)
// Sleep can be interrupted, t.interrupt()
try
{
// sleep for 10 seconds
Thread.sleep(10000);
}
catch (InterruptedException e)
{
System.out.println("Sleep was interrupted");
}
// If the thread has started, and was not in a sleep() or wait() method,
// then calling interrupt() on it does not throw an exception. Instead it
// sets the thread's interrupted flag. This flag can then be used as the
// thread's stop flag.
// clears interrupted flag
//if (Thread.interrupted())
//{
// System.out.println("I was interrupted!");
// e.printStackTrace();
//}
// Does not clear interrupted flag
// if(Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted())
// {
// System.out.println("I was interrupted!");
// e.printStackTrace();
// }
}
}
class ThreadB implements Runnable
{
// synchronizes on class object i.e. this.getClass()
// Static and object synchronized methods can run concurrent.
private synchronized static void staticSynchronizedMethod()
{
}
// The resource itself can be used as locking object to lock on
// private List sharedList = new LinkedList();
// The lock/monitor used for synchronization
private Object lock = new Object();
private synchronized void blockSynchronization() throws InterruptedException
{
// block synchronization.
// Can have synchronization inside synchronization
synchronized (this.lock)
{
while (true)// some contion
{
// wait can be called outside from outside synchronized block
// however throws IllegalMonitorStateException
// No way to find if its because of notify or timed out
this.wait(1000);
}
}
}
// synchronizes on 'this' object itself
private synchronized void methodSynchronization() throws InterruptedException
{
// wait can be interrupted, wait releases acquired lock
// wrong way of doing - lock acquired for this object and waiting on lock object
// Will throw IllegalMonitorStateException as it has not acquired lock
this.lock.wait();
}
private void notifyMethod()
{
// acquire lock and then notify
synchronized (this.lock)
{
// set some condition to true to inform waiting thread
this.lock.notifyAll();
//this.lock.notify();
}
}
public void run()
{
System.out.println("ThreadB running");
}
}
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/index.html http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/memory.doc.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp05236/index.html http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/index.html http://forward.com.au/javaProgramming/HowToStopAThread.html http://jeremymanson.blogspot.in/2008/11/what-volatile-means-in-java.html http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue056.html
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