Hard Drive Recovery Process

A Walk Through the Hard Drive Recovery Process

"It's well known that failed hard drives can be recovered, but few people actually use a recovery service because they're expensive and not always successful. Even fewer people ever get any insights into the process, as recovery companies are secretive about their methods and rarely reveal any more information that is necessary for billing. Geek.com has an article walking through a drive recovery handled by DriveSavers. The recovery team did not give away many secrets, but they did reveal a number of insights into the process. From the article, "'[M]y drive failed in about every way you can imagine. It had electro-mechanical failure resulting in severe media damage. Seagate considered it dead, but I didn't give up. It's actually pretty amazing that they were able to recover nearly all of the data. Of course, they had to do some rebuilding, but that's what you expect when you send it to the ER for hard drives.'" Be sure to visit the Museum of Disk-asters, too.

Java One

I went to two of the java one session on thursday 8th May 2008 afternoon. One was TS-6457 Choosing Your Java™ Technology-Based Web Framework: A Comparison and other was TS-5186 Design Patterns Reconsidered. I liked both of these session, specially the former one. I didn't know that there are 101 java frameworks out in the market, Richard Pack picked 5 out of them which appeals to him, they were GWT, Widget, Struts2, Tapestry and Groovy/grails. One can find the presentation here. The author also recommend to see the comparison of java web frameworks here .
I have personally liked struts so far, but after listening to Rick, Widget looks really cool.

And then the presentation by Alex Miller on Design Patters Reconsidered. The way he have explained the flaws of the existing design pattern and how to overcome was really impressive. You can find the presentation on his blog which is also a great source of resource for any java developer.