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Book Review: Make Your Bed – William H McRaven
Admiral William H. McRaven served as a Navy SEAL for 37 years. As a Four-Star Admiral, his final assignment was as Commander of all U.S Special Operations Forces. Make Your Bed is Admiral William’s...
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Book Review: 11 Rules For Life – Chetan Bhagat
Chetan Bhagat is an internationally acclaimed Indian writer known for his work in fiction. Some of his books have been adopted into Bollywood films which have gone on to become some of the highest...
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Book Review: The Little Book of Good Things
There is no dearth of self-help, personality development books in the market. I have read many and reviewed a few out of them on my blog. Lot of times the actual message gets lost amidst the examples...
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Book Review: Make Epic Money
In this book “Make Epic Money”, the author Ankur Warikoo talks about: importance of earning money spending it wisely saving it investing it so that it can grow Ankur also talks about some of the...
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Book Review: Outlive – The science and art of longevity
As we age we are all plagued by famous diseases like hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular problems, arthritis, cognitive disabilities and to some extreme cases cancer. Surprisingly these diseases...
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Book Review: The Dairy of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life
I stumbled upon the book “The Dairy of a CEO written by Steven Bartlett” but I didn’t pick it to read thinking it was more for the CEOs or managers. It sounded kind of a business book. But I was...
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Book Review: The 5 Resets
We all have experienced and been experiencing stress in life. We are all fighting at multiple fronts: jobs, parenting, health, finances, pollution, politics to name a few. These are affecting our...
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Book Review: Digital Minimalism
Digital Minimalism is about how to de-addict yourself from social media and other digital services that hijack your precious time. In the first of the book Digital Minimalism the author Cal Newport...
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Book Review: Superlife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit,...
In the first part of the book Superlife the author Darin Olien explains the 5 life forces which are the driving factors to lead a healthy and fit life. The 5 life forces he talks about are: Nutrition...
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Book Review: Deep Work
The author, Cal Newport, in the book Deep Work throws light on two types of work anyone can do: Highly attentive work which requires a high level of attention which he calls as “Deep Work”. Examples...
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Unveiling the Magic of Java ServiceLoader API: Building Modular and...
In the vast realm of Java programming, developers are often faced with the challenge of creating modular, extensible, and maintainable applications. As software systems grow in complexity, the need to...
View ArticleGotcha: Using Apache Commons StringUtils.isNumeric
StringUtils java class in Apache commons library provides a method isNumeric to check if given sequence of characters contains digits only. But this is not a sure shot way to check for numbers because...
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The correct way to do @Async in Java Spring based applications
Spring provides an annotation @Async to run tasks in a separate thread. In Spring boot applications we can enable asynchronous tasks by adding the annotation @EnableAsync to any of the Spring...
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Setting value of XSL parameter xsl:param in Saxon Java API
In one of my previous posts I showed you how to generate HTML from XML data using XSLT. At times you would need to pass certain parameters to the XSLT and use the value of that parameter in generating...
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Convert XML to HTML using XSLT in Java
In this post I will show you how to convert XML to HTML using XSLT in Java using Saxon HE version 11 library We will add the dependency to our pom: <dependency>...
View ArticleIntegrate with OpenAI(ChatGPT) Chat Completion API in Java using Webclient
In my previous post I showed how you can integrate with Completion API. The completion API doesnt support the ChatpGPT model. The ChatGPT model is supported in the Chat completion API. In this post we...
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Integrate with OpenAI(ChatGPT) Completion API in Java using WebClient
By now you all would have heard about OpenAI and played with its famous product ChatGPT. OpenAI also provides APIs which can be used to integrate features like text completion, code generation, image...
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Book Review: Rework
Rework, authored by David Heinemeier Hansson(DHH) and Jason Fried, is a collection of business principles providing guidance at the individual as well as at the organizational level. The book has lots...
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Book Review: Make Time
Make Time is a collection of tactics for getting the most important work done daily. It’s not about making your schedule super busy. It’s not about tactics for getting a lot of work done in a day....
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Book Review: Steal Like an Artist
The author Austin Kleon shares 10 ideas for a content creator creating content in his book Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative. The author’s advice is relevant to all...
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