How to Sanitize Blog Title, to use as Permalink, in Java

March 11th, 2005 This tip covers configuration in Options/Permalinks [Edit Permalink Structure] for WordPress users. My version is WordPress 1.5.

March 28th, 2006 Previously I had provided the gist of how to access MS Access database from JDBC using JDBC-ODBC bridge. Today I will elaborate on that and provide you with two sample classes.

March 18th, 2005 A technical analysis of the duplicate post problem in JavaBlogs.

September 28th, 2009 CentOS comes with OpenJava JRE installed. However that doesn't provide the required libraries to run Java from browsers (read: applets).

February 16th, 2004 Few Gripes on Java.blogs: After few days with java.blogs I realized I don't want a few things. For example I am not interested in knowing anything about IDEA releases.

March 6th, 2006 Here are the top ten Java lies I have heard over the years. Feel free to add yours in the comments.

March 15th, 2005 J2SE stands for Java 2 Standard Edition. The 2 stands for version 2 of the platform.

August 23rd, 2008 First tell me what is the best way to concatenate large number of String objects? Is it a + b? Most Java developers know not to use a + b (+ operator) because of huge performance problems, they use StringBuffer instead. In fact I did some tests in the past which confirms this folklore.

December 11th, 2005 I want to create a list of Java blogger's in India or of Indian origin. If you are one please state so with your url in the comment below.

December 19th, 2005 Update: Google engineer, Matt Cutts agrees with me in recommending not including date information in the url. In his guidance for SEO optimization for blogs he notes: I wouldn't bother with year/month/day in blog urls; I'd just use the first few words from the title of the post in the url.

March 10th, 2006 To my delight today I discovered the best java blog on the net. Check for yourself - Google I'm lucky search for best java blog :)

February 17th, 2006 Java SE 6 Beta offers the first feature complete version of next major release of the Java SE platform. Sun expects to ship the final release of Java SE 6 in the fall of 2006.

September 8th, 2005 GMail API for Java GMailer API for Java (g4j) is set of API that allows Java programmer to communicate to GMail. With G4J programmers can made Java based application that based on huge storage of GMail.

July 29th, 2008 I am on to create a cool (really really cool) application with Java back-end, distributed processing and all. Expect to see lots of Java tech tips and articles in the coming days.

May 7th, 2008 Sun revealed the following statistics about Java at JavaOne 2008: 1. 90% of Personal Computers on Internet have Java 2.