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Beanpicks - Techno, me and my boxBeanpicks - Techno, me and my boxWhat's happening in the circles of Java, Open source and Linux ? Articles
Why finalize method is protected?
2007-03-29 06:04:00 I used to wonder why all methods in the java.lang.Object is public and only finalize is protected. Fina l ize is just a callback method which is supposed to be called by the JVM. So, ideally, it should be private. Here is a mind-blowing explanation of why finalize is protected? More About: Prot , Method
RequestURI URL Pattern Matching
2007-03-28 20:55:00 Back when i was preparing for the Web Component Developer exam, i had an idea of the requestURI and pattern mapping against the exact servlet. In simple words, the logic behind how the server maps the “<url-pattern>” tag and the <servlet-class> tag. I know that it is really a monstrous job, but then ... More About: Pattern , Match , Quest
Apache Commons Lang - Find number of String occurences
2007-03-27 22:48:00 The Apache Common s Lang page says ” The Lang Component provides a host of helper utilities for the java.lang API, notably String manipulation methods, basic numerical methods, object reflection, creation and serialization, and System properties. Additionally it contains an inheritable enum type, an exception structure that supports multiple types of nested-Exceptions, basic enhancements to java.util.Date ... More About: Find , Numb , Ring
Adobe Flex Tutorial
2007-03-27 21:49:00 This site has a HUGGEEEEE number of video tutorials on Adobe Flex . All videos are in FLV. If you want to download them in a different format, then use this. Good luck. More About: Tutorial , Tori , Rial
Compare two Objects using Comparator
2007-03-26 23:25:00 Old story but will be useful for sure. Say you have an ArrayList of Beans (eg. ArrayList of Employee objects) that need to be sorted based on an attribute inside the Bean (eg. EmployeeName) before displaying to your GUI. You have two options before you.. 1) If you are among the lucky lot who gets access to ... More About: Comp , Compare , Para , Sing , Object
Turn your laptops touchscreens
2007-03-26 22:49:00 Crazy about touchscreens? And you can’t afford to buy one? If you’ve got a laptop and just crazy about touchscreens, then you have this wonderful gizmo called the Laptop Tablet from NAVIsis. source : scifi More About: Screen , Laptops , Tops , Your
?Save Image As? without Right Click using Javascript
2007-03-25 21:49:00 <script> function saveImageAs (imgOrURL) { if (typeof imgOrURL == ‘object’) imgOrURL = imgOrURL.src; window.win = open (imgOrURL); setTimeout(’win.document.execComman d(”SaveAs”)’, 500); } </script> <A href=”#” ONCLICK=”saveImageAs(document.getEl ementById(’embedImage’)); return false” >save image</A> <img id=”embedImage” src=”impossible.jpg” > I am not the author of this code and i am really not sure where i picked up this script. But it works too good… only on IE More About: Java , Click , With , Script , Javascript
Zimbra ? It?s just not an open source email program
2007-03-25 00:35:00 Zimbra is another wonderful example of community supported software development. Started by three friends and widely supported and contributed by the community, Zimbra is growing up as a serious challenge for Microsoft’s Exchange server. The exciting thing is that it offers features that are unimaginable otherwise in an Outlook client. Zimbra can work both inside ... More About: Mail , Open Source , Email , Open , Just
Is Adobe Flex really the future of the Web?
2007-03-21 21:31:00 This year and the last saw a lot of the so-called proprietary companies open sourcing a huge chunk of code, either as GPL, BSD or their own EULA. Sun had the most impressive stats on this. Fine. I have been developing J2EE web applications for quite a number of years now and last year, like everybody, ... More About: Adobe , Future , The Future , The Web , Flex
Touchless touchscreens are too much !!!
2007-03-21 19:43:00 The last video i saw on touchscreens is the one demo of Beryl+Ubuntu. They just drove me crazy. But when i saw this video, i just had one thought “What on earth is this guy playing with?” More About: Screen , Much , Touch , Less , Ouch
Crashing IE is that easy. ;-)
2007-03-19 20:12:00 Just download this simple HTML page and open with IE. You will get that infamous “Send Error Report”. I am one nasty sadist source : codedump.com More About: Hat , Crash , That , Easy , Shin
Adobe releases Apollo Alpha !!!
2007-03-19 19:32:00 Adobe Apollo , the cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop, is OUT for its Alpha . “Apollo is the combination of the advantages of web applications (network and user connectivity, rich media content, ease of development, and broad reach) and that of the ... More About: Adobe , Poll , Release
Is Piracy illegal?
2007-03-19 10:32:00 Just tell me whether pirated editions of Windows are illegal More About: Piracy , Legal , Illegal
Linux - Truths, Myths and Lies
2007-03-19 08:36:00 More support for processors and devices than any other “major operating system” We are least bothered about how strange your hardware is. We still support them. Just have a look at the entire presentation. More About: Linux , Truth , Myths , Lies , Myth
Linux needs Windows to run ;-) (What is this guy talking?)
2007-03-16 21:10:00 “I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.” “Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound ... More About: Windows , Linux , Wind , What , Hat
Google talk gadget for Wordpress and Blogger
2007-03-16 19:00:00 1) Hit the following link Google widget link 2) Customize the height and the width according to your need/mood 3) Copy the script that it generates. 4) Paste the script in your sidebar.php just above the last sidecontent div tag ( I use BlixKreig theme) For Blogger .com Just create a new HTML/Javascript Widget and paste the script in ... More About: Wordpress , Word , Press
AllPeers crashes Firefox
2007-03-16 18:18:00 After installing AllPeer s and using it for a few days, I had my firefox crashed giving me a core dump. When i tried to open my firefox from my terminal, i got this. arun@arun-desktop:~$ firefox ”””””” ;”””””̶ 1;”””””R 21;””””” 221;”””””&# 8221;” AllPeers initiated successfully ”””””” ;”””””̶ 1;”””””R 21;””””” 221;”””””&# 8221;” Segmentation fault (core dumped) Now, will tell you how i solved this issue.. Type arun@arun-desktop:~$ firefox -safe-mode You will have a dialog giving a few ... More About: Firefox , Ashes , Fire , Crash
Ubuntu on tap .. hehehe
2007-03-15 20:58:00 Imagine having a network port you could plug into to install Ubuntu ! Well, its not so hard, apparently to serve Ubuntu on tap! Interested in looking at more photos? source : Ubuntu blog
Duplicate entry xxx for key xxx ? MySQL and Hibernate
2007-03-14 21:52:00 This is one problem which ate around 2 hours of last night. Here are the possible solutions 1) There is a genuine case of duplication of the id column. Try querying the max (IDCOLUMN) from the table. 2) If the message says Duplicate entry ‘127′ or ‘32767′ or any of the max values in the following table Type Bytes Minimum ... More About: Cat , Hibernate , Mysql , Cate , Nate
HTTP Methods - DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST ? Too good
2007-03-13 21:48:00 Here is a very good activity diagram of how your request is processed. Passing through all the status codes that you know and never knew. More About: Post , Head , Good , Http , Methods
Windows Vista didnt steal ideas from Mac OS X ? Too funny
2007-03-13 21:16:00 Video speaks for itself More About: Windows , Ideas , Funny , Fun , Mac
Adobe Flex and Java
2007-03-13 21:09:00 Adobe Flex is out and is already making ripples across the RIA world. Recently, the book Adobe Flex & Java is also ready and is already available online. Will grab a copy of the book and will let you know how it is. As of now, I am using Adobe Flex 2 : Training from the ... More About: Adobe
NetBeans supports Ruby and JRuby
2007-03-13 21:01:00 When it comes to early adoption of technologies, Eclipse stands behind NetBean s . Sun and the NetBeans Community, last week, announced an early access release of the NetBeans Ruby Pack which provides support for the Ruby programming language. As you already know that JVM will now allow scripting languages to be run on it. The NetBeans plug-in ... More About: Port , Support
JSON Introduction and Tutorial
2007-03-13 20:52:00 Now that AJAX is more of JSON than XML, there arises an imminent need to learn JSON. Interchange of XML between serverside and clientside is heavy. XML is still a String but it needs to be parsed to give some meaning to the client. Javascript Object Notation (JSON), on the other hand ... More About: Tutorial , Introduction , Tori , Intro , Rial
Identify a programmer?s language by his keyboard ;-)
2007-03-12 22:17:00 C Prog rammer: Their ‘*’ and ‘;’ keys are worn out. C++ Program mer: Their ‘>’ and ‘<’ keys are worn out. Java Programmer: Their ‘p’, ‘u’, ‘b’, ‘l’, ‘i’, and ‘c’ keys are worn out. Ruby Programmer: Their ‘e’, ‘n’ and ‘d’ keys are worn out. Python Programmer: Their tab key is worn out. PHP Programmer: The key mapped to ‘$’ ... More About: Board , Language , Keyboard
French Parliament switches to Ubuntu
2007-03-12 21:37:00 The French Parliament looks to be the next big Ubuntu switcher according to reports. Recently the Parliament produced an official government report that recommended the use of free software over proprietary software. This will amount to 1,154 new computers running Ubuntu prior to the start of the next session which occurs in June 2007. source : http://fridge.ubuntu.com More About: Men , Switch , Liam
Red Hat Developer Studio ? Next Eclipse distro
More articles from this author:2007-03-11 20:58:00 Red Hat Developer Studio is an Eclipse-based development environment that is available entirely in open source. It provies visual and source-oriented development tools for developing JSF, Struts, Hibernate, Seam, MyFaces, Oracle ADF, Shale, and Spring. Adding on, JBoss Ajax4jsf and JBoss RichFaces will also be built in to to add AJAX to their JSF applications without ... More About: Clip , Red Hat , Clips 1, 2, 3 |
