About Manish

Manish Hatwalne is the founder of Orisys Software. He has over 9 years of programming experience and has worked on diverse technologies. He specializes in Java/J2EE technologies and is a Sun Certified Java Programmer. He has also been involved as a beta tester for SCJP 1.4 examination for Sun Microsystems. He has co-authored commercial mock examination for SCJP 1.4. He has extensively worked with American clients. He enjoys exploring new technologies and writes regularly for various blogs and on-line technical journals.

Manish Hatwalne holds Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing from esteemed C-DAC, Pune and Diploma In Business Management (DBM) from prestigious Welingkar Institute, Mumbai.

Software Development Experience

In the last 9+ years, Manish Hatwalne has worked with many organizations with focus on service as well as products. Working with service oriented organizations has given him exposure to diverse technologies and variety of projects. Whereas long tenor with product based organizations has given him thorough exposure to enterprise applications, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and vision to transform an idea from inception to a real-life product..

He has had an opportunity to work on all 3 flavors of Java; viz - J2SE or core Java, J2EE for enterprise applications and J2ME for Java enabled mobile devices. In the past, he has been involved in the development of lot of games (ASP, Java Applets, Midlets and WAP), e-commerce, server components, web technologies and desktop applications using C++, Java and Swing.

His recent projects involve J2EE, Struts, Servlets, MySQL, Ajax, Apache Velocity, Google Maps, JQuery for a large enterprise level B2B product. This product is highly scalable and customizable with omnipresent web based interface. He is handling design & development of this product. He has been associated with this product since its inception and has been instrumental in shaping it up from a small Swing prototype to a full-fledged J2EE, B2B application.

Contributions/Achievements

• Co-author of the leading Java certification products including J@Whiz 1.4, nominated for the best Java training products by JDJ.
• Contributed to Java-GUI FAQs.
• Contributed a patch to open source project FCK editor.
• Involved as a technical reviewer for the book J2EE 1.4: The Big Picture.
• Involved as a technical reviewer for Kathy Sierra's books Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 and Head First Java.
• Participated as a Beta Tester for Sun's SCJP 1.4 beta exam.
• Hosts and maintains website technofundo.com since 2001. He is also the list owner and moderator of XML-Pune group.

Published Articles

• Java Ranch : Equals and Hashcode - A Java article discussing correct implementation of two important methods of java.lang.Object class. This article has been referred by quite a few blogs/sites including Hibernate and likes.
• DevelopersDex : Autocomplete Feature of Internet Explorer - This is an old article written in 2002 that discusses autocomplete feature of Internet Explorer, which was rather new at that time.
• Code Project : Internet Explorer Skin Manager - This is another old article that deals with VC++ registry APIs. It is a tool for changing skins of Internet Explorer.
• Other articles at Code Project - Few other technical articles published on Code Project.
• Other articles at Code Project - Few other technical articles published on Code Project.
• Other articles at DevelopersDex - Some other technical articles listed on DevelopersDex.
• Other articles at Technofundo.com - Miscellaneous technical articles at Technofundo.com.

Blog

Manish Hatwalne maintains a technical blog programmer.write(), where he writes about his experiments with various technologies and his views on the software.