Dani Pedrosa, the Repsol Honda rider took his first consecutive premier class victories with success in the Gran Premio Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini. Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi completed the podium. Pedrosa set a stunning pace from the start and was almost 1.5s clear of Lorenzo by only the third lap, as he set a lap record early on in the 28-lap contest. With Pedrosa pulling away and Lorenzo riding a relatively lonely race in second position the real battle was for the final podium …

Fernando Alonso lost the lead at the start of the Italian Grand Prix but recovered to win from Jenson Button. Button finished second ahead of Felipe Massa. But team mate Lewis Hamilton’s title hopes suffered a blow when he crashed out on the first lap. Button made the best start and even though Fernando Alonso squeezed him the McLaren driver emerged from the first turn in the lead. Button’s good start was due to the high-downforce setting he had opted to use, which enabled him to get the power down much …

          Aim of the article is to explain how to parse a Microsoft Excel file. The utility used for this purpose is POI utility, an open source utility by apache. In apache mission statement they say-
” The Apache POI Project’s mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft’s OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2). In short,you can read and write MS Excel files using Java.”
HSSF is used in here for the excel reading and writing, …

Cloud Computing is the next big thing in the Computer Industry since the web. Cloud Computing would allow users to accesss applications installed on another machine and work on it. So instead of installing,say a Microsoft Visual Studio on your local machine, You could actually log on to a web based service and use the software installed in some other machines. The advantage of this would be a great reduction in operational costs. In today’s scenario, you would need the application to be installed in your machine, which would mean …

Lakshadweep (Laccadive Islands) is now one of the best tourist destinations in India. Lakshadweep is a group of islands (many of them uninhabited) in the Arabian Sea. It is around 400 Kms away from the Indian Mainland and is India’s smallest union territory, with a total area spanning of only round 32 square kilometers.
Almost everything that you would expect in the hottest tourism spots of the world like Seychelles or Maldives are there in Lakshadweep also. The Crystal clear water and the marine flora and fauna are a treat to …