In Java, you might have come across with a class that has a ton of constructors, each of the constructor with a different number and arrangement of parameters. This usually happens because some of the parameters are optional or when there are different flavors of accepted parameter types. One way to clean up [...]
When working with the Java Collections API, you often need to sort, shuffle, or reserve a list. For these and other tasks you can use a class aptly named Collections made available in the java.util package. The Collections class is like the Math class in that it provides a large number of static [...]
I just received an advanced copy of JavaOne 2007 conference guide. The guide is by no means final. I still have not received my pass, I am actually finalizing approval from the old corporate ball and chain, my boss. In trying to present my case for going to JavaOne, I spent some time [...]
The one development tool that I use every single day, aside from Eclipse, is Maven. Maven is a software project management tool developed by the Jakarta peeps at the Apache Software Foundation. Maven allows me to build, test, and package our entire Java application in one command. Our application is a proprietary [...]
There comes a time in a developer’s life that the he needs to scan his own ports. I recently had to do this because some process, other than my JBoss Application Server was hogging the port 1099. I kept getting a JVM_Bind error when I started the application server because the port was [...]
Recently I attended that February 2007 Silicon Valley Ruby on Rails meetup at the offices of Insider Pages. At this month’s meeting, Scott Persinger gave a presentation of vod:pod and Matt Whittaker talked about his solo efforts with My Free Copyright.
According to Scott of vod:pod, vod:pod is another video space social network user generated [...]
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