About Me
I am Joseph Kulandai, living in Chennai India with my wife and a cute kid. I got fascinated with computers when I was 14. My neighboring friend had a computer with a black and grey display monitor. It was on some DOS 2.x OS I remember. He used to play a game which had flying helicopters dropping tiny guys in parachute. It had a mounted gun to shoot the helicopters and the jumping parachute guys. It was a DOS based graphical game played with arrow keys. I use to watch him play, through their home window.
When I even didn’t have a television at my home, a computer was a real envy. Then came the summer and I had just completed 10th grade in school. There were advertisements floating around about summer computer courses from different private coaching centers. I chose DBASE from BDPS. I was not worried about whether it was a package or a language or whatever. I just wanted to access a computer. I want to touch it! My dad happily took me to the centre and paid the fee of Rs 4000 (in two installments). Now, I realize how costly it should have been for my father then. He worked in a factory for very little. Cool. He loves me than anything in the world.
During that time, Windows 3.1 was released. The paint program is still fresh in my memories. Next summer it was Unix and C. Then CPP. Then I studied Mathematics in college for three years. Maths is my another love. I occasionally read some graph theory even now. D.E.Knuth’s TAOCP which I am reading for a quite some period now, helps me to refresh my maths. Then I did post graduation in computer applications. Then I bought my own computer. A Pentium MMX with 200 MHz speed and 64 MB RAM. During this time, I had my hands on Basic, Fortran, Pascal, Cobol, Lisp, Prolog. Then finally Java.
Then I went on to complete MS in Software Systems. Then I joined a startup as a java programmer. I am pretty comfortable with programming using Java, JSP, Servlets, Spring and Hibernate with nine years of full time java experience in my kitty. Its nostalgic, writing java from JDK 1.1. I recently learned some PHP and JQuery with help from my wife to create this worpress theme and to build this website. Thanks to wordpress engine. In computers, apart from java I love Linux and Mario. This is all about me.
I started this blog with a personal reason. Just to keep log of my questions in java. Later on, I started ambitiously writing every article by giving more and more depth and coverage to the subject. One can find many websites providing tutorials for java. My intention is not to compete with any of them. This is just a passion for me and I am living my dream. I work full time in a company, and I do this in my free time.
You can always email me, lets discuss java. If you have something in general regarding software development, ask Joel ;-) Thanks to the helicopter-parachute-gun game for introducing me the computer. I bought an iPOD classic 30GB sometimes back. It was an accident I found the same game in it. Nowadays I passionately play that game in iPOD, whenever I travel.
