I am baffled by the comments that this older weblog entry is receiving. As you can see, I am simply announcing that I moved some of my projects over to java.net. Since then, it appears that a group of Indian students have not only misunderstood the point of that post, but are also maintaining the delusion that I am offering to provide ideas for Java projects that they could do for their final year exam (on what major or studies? I have no idea).
The phrasing of the request is also quite rude, and even though English is obviously not their native language, they are most likely able to express themselves fluently in this language. At any rate, it doesn’t give a very good impression.
Also, none of them seem to have noticed that I haven’t offered a single idea, but the presence of the comments seems to maintain this illusion. Maybe I should just delete the comments once and for all.
Or can a fellow Indian reader shed some light on what’s happening?
#1 by Jonathan Ellis on November 29, 2004 - 10:13 am
The only thing I can come up with is if you google for “projects on java” with the quotes you’re the second hit.
Doesn’t explain why nobody bothers reading your actual post, though.
#2 by Emmanuel Pirsch on November 29, 2004 - 10:21 am
One of the funny thing is that one dude named “karthick” actually copy pasted, and just changed the name, the previous post by “sridhar” who posted his entry twice.
They also seem to share a lack of creativity in making such requests.
#3 by Anonymous on November 29, 2004 - 10:22 am
This is either a joke or those students are really really stupid. As an engineer with Indian roots (BS in India, MS in US), I can’t imagine many CS students this stupid. I say just ignore them and delete their posts.
#4 by Anonymous on November 29, 2004 - 10:52 am
*shocked*
I hope this is a group of people pulling a joke on you, else I’m getting scared of what will happen once they get out of school and projects get outsourced to them.
Talking about an extreme nightmare, explaining architectures and designs to them…..
Okay, you just ruined my good nightsleep cedric.
Thanks 🙂
#5 by Anonymous on November 29, 2004 - 10:52 am
You left too many jealous indian (WL Workshop) friends at BEA 😉 …sounds a bad joke for me !
Hope those stupid guys won’t polluate you Blog now !
#6 by coward on November 29, 2004 - 11:57 am
Looks like somebody wanting to give bad image to indian IT students. Maybe not a joke, but something more nasty.
I would consider it as a spam, and delete that crap.
#7 by Shrikar Vantaraseeramanabatamnospam on November 29, 2004 - 12:06 pm
Maybe Rick Ross could hire them to help NASA ?
#8 by Sam AA on November 29, 2004 - 1:25 pm
I Request you to please send me some java project title 🙂
#9 by Scott McKinney on November 29, 2004 - 1:49 pm
It would be easy to dismiss this as a joke if it weren’t for the real life experiences of working with Indians. Communication (in english) is horrible.
Care to test your theory? Just go to javaranch.com and read some of the posts there.
That wasn’t a joke.
#10 by Anonymous on November 29, 2004 - 2:01 pm
Word of mouth. Someone in class googles for “java project title” and end up in your blog and the next thing you know, he’s giving out your url to his friends.
#11 by Anonymous on November 29, 2004 - 2:48 pm
i read them and at least half appeared to be an elaborate joke on the part of someone, latterly followed through by others. it’s funny. laugh.
#12 by Robert Watkins on November 29, 2004 - 3:38 pm
While some of the later ones are obviously a joke, I wouldn’t be at all surprised that some of the earlier ones were serious.
On blogs and email lists, the most inane questions are nearly always asked by Indian developers these days; they’re even worse than the university freshmen asking for help with their homework.
Case in point on my own blog: an Indian poster asked me questions on what comes with WebLogic when you download it. Why on Earth ask me? Just because I was blogging about how WLS8.1sp3 had just come out doesn’t make me BEA support staff.
#13 by boness on November 29, 2004 - 4:49 pm
AMAZING!!!
#14 by gaurav on November 29, 2004 - 4:55 pm
You seem to have got quite famous in India. Expect to get mobbed at the airport with students asking you for the project titles whenever you decide to visit India.
I think some of the post may be serious as this is the time in India when the final projects are decided. So some of the students might be genuinely looking for some project ideas and came across your blog.
#15 by Senthil Chandrasekharanshekhawat Vupputuri on November 29, 2004 - 4:56 pm
Robert,
What comes with Jboss when you download it ?
Thanks.
Senthil Chandrasekharanshekhawat Vupputuri
#16 by Robert Watkins on November 29, 2004 - 7:03 pm
Senthil, in my experience, all that comes with JBoss when you download it is pain and suffering.
#17 by anand raman on November 30, 2004 - 1:30 am
Someone is playing a trick on you man. After reading your blog I am sure there are going to be atleast a million more people trying to enter such insane comments
#18 by Michael Prescott on November 30, 2004 - 7:30 am
I wonder if a professor mentioned you or the site, and the class came away with a mistaken impression that they were to ask you for ideas.
#19 by ChipH on November 30, 2004 - 8:35 am
Google has its dark side. Sometimes after you get spidered, you can’t shake a particular subject — now you’re the “expert” on whatever ends up on the first page of results, whether it’s Java project ideas, or backup software (like Joel seems to have become).
Regarding the Indian students — I’m of the opinion that their IT people are now where the US market was in 1998. Anyone who can spell Java (or .NET or HTML) is being sucked up by giants like Tata Consultancy, and are being promoted as subject matter experts to work on outsourced projects. Once there, because they aren’t as qualified as they were promised, they need a lot of hand-holding, and tend to emphasize process over the creation of working software.
YMMV.
Part of what makes their posts seem so rude is their word choice and sentence length. They often say “please provide”, thinking they’re being polite (they did use “please”, after all), when really they come off as being very demanding because the sentences are so short. Plus, they’re just being lazy. They obviously regard the Internet as some sort of Cliff’s Notes.
#20 by Abu Denerfs-Chandravasataram on November 30, 2004 - 9:04 am
mister beust, please send all ur java projects to Abu.
mister rick ross say you expert. you must proof now.
— abu
#21 by Senthil Chandrasekharanshekhawat Vupputuri on November 30, 2004 - 10:35 am
Robert,
Could not find ‘Pain’ and ‘Suffering’ framework?!
Is it free Opensource project ?
maybe mister Bust can help me ?
Thx
Chandrasekharanshekhawat
#22 by Prabu on November 30, 2004 - 1:18 pm
mister bust,
i am abu father. pls provide ur java projects to my sun abu.
— prabu
#23 by Pranavanmohamnchandrabandravishnu on November 30, 2004 - 7:39 pm
H3LLO!!! PLS PROVIDE ALL UR JAVA PROJECTS.
THX,
Saeed Pranavanmohamnchandrabandravishnu.
#24 by Anonymous on November 30, 2004 - 9:06 pm
All yur Java projects belong to us.
#25 by Jan Wessely's Blog on December 1, 2004 - 4:01 am
All your java projects r belong to us
Otaku Cedric hat seine liebe Müh mit (kA. ob echten oder vorgetäuschten) indischen Studenten. Dabei hat alles so harmlos begonnen. 😀
— jan
#26 by Stepan on December 1, 2004 - 7:34 am
Well, I can say that I agree with Scott McKinney. Sometimes it’s really difficult to work with people from India. It’s not fair to say that all of them are bad, but when you have quantity, you lose quality.
#27 by cupOfJava on December 1, 2004 - 8:10 am
pls post more java project titles and koffi mugs on your web site.
#28 by Frances Corain on December 1, 2004 - 9:59 am
i like name seppuku, can i put it in title? sorry
this language is not so native as your
contribution to bea server and this and that oh otaku cedric.
forever your borin’ friends at BEA.
#29 by Nicolai Bonaparte on December 1, 2004 - 10:09 am
moi asso want mug—and I want big one and for free—asso where did you go diving thaksgiving?? thank you cedrix.
#30 by Texan Desi on December 2, 2004 - 10:31 am
LOL.
I am from India. My first thought was that some students from India with horrible English are trying to mooch some free ideas out of you. Looking closely at this blog’s comments, it is more likely that someone is playing pranks on you. Either that person is from India or knows Indians well. “Senthil Chandrasekharanshekhawat Vupputuri” is clearly a joke Id.
BTW, assuming these names are real, ALL of them would be from the Southern part of India. Case in point, the name “Saeed Pranavanmohamnchandrabandravishnu” is almost certainly impossible to come across in any part of India but if it had, it would be from the state of Andhra Pradesh.
#31 by ChandrasekharanshekhawatchintalapatiDharmarajanKrishnan karupaiya on December 2, 2004 - 11:43 am
sorry sir,
my name is real. I’m from Jammu $ Kashmir, north part of india.
Chandrasekharanshekhawat is my nickname , easier for people to pronouce it correctly!
ChandrasekharanshekhawatchintalapatiDharmarajanKrishnan karupaiya is what I have on my passport 🙁
#32 by Dan Moore on December 2, 2004 - 9:47 pm
Yeah, it’s pretty funny how blog entries can get hijacked. I posted a year ago about some issues a client was having with outsourced Yahoo! mail (http://www.mooreds.com/weblog/archives/000024.html). It somehow got out there and now has over 100 comments, some useful, some incoherent, and is the top result for google for ‘Yahoo mail problems’. Random.
Kind of raises the issue–I have no trouble with folks using my blog as a forum to solve their problems, but at what point are comments unrelated enough to warrent deleting them?
#33 by Anonymous on December 8, 2004 - 11:27 pm
Cedric:
You do realize that ALL the entries from “Indian” students are spam ? Even places like the bileblog (which would be the last place to give advice of this nature) are full of this spam.
You also do realize that the names are made up and not really Indian ? (Aryan names are typicaly more like ‘sweta’, ‘suvarna’, ‘arjen’, ‘kiran’, ‘rahul’ etc).
By even considering this as real, you are really showing your ignorance. It’s kinda shocking — this is on the same level as someone posting “me chibky, eat flied lice” and you actually thinking that it was a real person.
Lastly, you do realize that English itself is descended from the language tree whose canonical example is PIA (proto-indo-aryan) also known as Sanskrit/Hindi ?
#34 by jaihind on December 15, 2004 - 4:28 am
what is going on here. Some students are asking just about project ideas or titles but you people are joking. India is super power in IT and it has a great brain asset.
do not remark any country.
Thanks
#35 by AidanRajapraiwaniSrinigathagatha on December 22, 2004 - 6:52 am
ah, Cedric, with these comments I have a doubt.
#36 by dinesh on January 3, 2005 - 3:38 pm
sir,
please specify project titles on java for project.
#37 by shrushti on January 5, 2005 - 5:31 am
Please help me to select a good project in core java.
#38 by abhishek on January 8, 2005 - 5:32 am
RESPECTD SIR,
i just wanna say “i m 1 of them who posted u for the projects but now i m feelin i had done sumthing wrong
BECAUSE…
ITS NOT THE INDIAN STUDENTS FAULTS BUT ITS U….
REASONS:-
1.WHEN V SEARCH IN GOOGLE FOR “PROJECTS IN JAVA”
URS URL COMES ON TOP.THEN ITS NOT STUDENTS FAULT.
2.U DOES`NT HAV A CHECK ON U R MAILS{REGARDING THE TYPE OF QURIES}.
#39 by yogesh suryawanshi on January 29, 2005 - 2:51 am
Resp.Sir
I am studying MSc.Computer Science at
pravaranagar ,I have to develope a mini project in core java .
So I kindly request you send me some titles with specific information that I can develope my Educational projects effectively.
yours sincerly
Yogesh V Suryawanshi
#40 by yogesh suryawanshi on January 29, 2005 - 2:51 am
Resp.Sir
I am studying MSc.Computer Science at
pravaranagar ,I have to develope a mini project in core java .
So I kindly request you send me some titles with specific information that I can develope my Educational projects effectively.
yours sincerly
Yogesh V Suryawanshi
#41 by SIVAKUMAR.R on February 14, 2005 - 5:04 am
Dear Sir,
I want to start a small software comapnay ,for that how to get new projects from non-computer industry based on JAVA,J2EE Concepts.what is link to search ? or what is the keyword to search ?
#42 by saurabh vig on March 15, 2005 - 10:22 pm
sir
i m in six sem of my mca
suggest some projects to make in jsp/servlets
i have to show in my college
#43 by madhuraj yadav on April 9, 2005 - 12:59 am
respected sir
i am student of B.E. final year computer engg.
i would like to develop major project in Java,jsp.
plz help me and kindly give me information about java,jsp projects.
thank you
#44 by casio on April 19, 2005 - 6:05 am
LOL, I was wondering about the same thing. The one from the widow was the funniest I thought. Good read! But am still baffled!
#45 by Pankaj Chawda on May 1, 2005 - 9:59 pm
I am stident of B.E. 8th sam Comp.Science Branch. I need a Project on java to be submitted to the college. pls provide the same.
#46 by indian on May 5, 2005 - 9:48 pm
u crazy fools ….cant u just see the comments above u b4 posting 1 …how cud u guys do this…
u guys r giving a bad impression about a gr8 country rich in traditions ,heritage,culture and knowledge after all we indians r the guys who invented zero,and our vedic maths has everything these foreigners wud not hav even thought of …how cud u guys play with the reputation of such a gr8 country…
#47 by Matrika on June 26, 2005 - 3:58 am
fine but need some labour.
#48 by Sivakarthick Rajan on July 21, 2005 - 10:22 am
I need some project titles on J2ee.I’m final info-tech student
#49 by priyanka on July 23, 2005 - 10:51 pm
I am a final year computer science & engg. student.I need some project titles in Java,J2EE,Datamining etc.
#50 by NANDHINI on July 26, 2005 - 7:59 am
I need some project titles in J2EE along with some explanation for few projects immediately.
#51 by Anonymous on July 26, 2005 - 12:14 pm
I have a bridge over river Kwai (recently from Brooklyn, Nigeria). I require is that you open Suisse account for untraceable millions of dollars (from my dead uncle, you shall know). Please hastily open account and fly to Istanbul; we shall meet and discuss you Java project title before the bridge is destroyed by Axis. Your patience is of the essence.
#52 by R.J. on July 26, 2005 - 2:31 pm
All your project titles are belong to us.
Someone set us up the testng.
Man, sorry Cedric, very funny stuff though.
#53 by effjay on July 26, 2005 - 5:56 pm
lmao! very funny 🙂
let’s hope they were kidding
btw. I request some project titles 😀
cheers
effjay
#54 by Mohan Radhakrishnan on July 28, 2005 - 1:32 am
Cedric,
I am a regular reader of your blog. I started laughing two days back and still have not stopped 🙂
The funniest are those mails from somebody claiming to be your former colleagues.
Mohan
#55 by arun sastry on August 12, 2005 - 6:57 am
respected sir,
i’m a 3rd year student in
comp sc engg. i would kindly request you to give me a project in java, considering my knowledge lavel is upto core java including jdbc.
#56 by Anonymous on August 20, 2005 - 1:06 am
Dear Sir,
I am from South America. I wonder if I may contract the work for suggesting Java Projects to India. 🙂 I would be glad to contract that work from you.
Sincerely,
Soccer Head
#57 by shiva on August 23, 2005 - 10:50 am
Hello friends,
I am B-Tech III year student. I want Project file report. If you have submitted any Project file
report. please send me on my E-mail address.
I will very thankful of your kind help.
Please send me as soon as possible.
#58 by shiva on August 23, 2005 - 11:05 am
I am B-Tech III year student. I need a java project with File report. Please send me as soon as possible.
#59 by silpa on September 2, 2005 - 10:18 am
I am a final year student of IT.So,please suggest me a project based on JAVA
#60 by aalok on September 3, 2005 - 1:54 am
hello sir
i like to know some project titles with some information about it, in java,java.net
i am a final year student form cs branch
sir plz consider soon as i have to submit first, project title
#61 by aman agarwal on September 20, 2005 - 2:31 pm
hello sir
i want to do my final project in java
wants to develop a messenger that connect yahoo,msn…
can u help me
plz
send me more ideas 4 projects
waiting 4 a positive reply
[email protected]
#62 by neha on September 22, 2005 - 3:04 am
sir, i m a student of MCA Sem 5.
i need to submit a project in java for my minor project work.
please send me some ideas.