Liquor laced with methanol kills 8 on Indonesia’s main island of Java

December 28th, 2008 JAKARTA - At least 10 people were killed, 17 rescued and an unspecified number reported missing after a small boat capsized on the sea off Indonesia's main island of Java Monday morning, officials said. The accident took place at about 10 a.m.

August 8th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Indonesian police sources have said that one of two men killed in a central Java shoot-out with police is Indonesia's most wanted terrorist, Noordin Mohammed Top. Malaysian-born Top is a prime suspect in last month's near simultaneous suicide attacks on Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, which killed nine people and wounded 53.

July 12th, 2007 All these three languages are generating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. It appears Java is currently having an upswing while Ruby is having a downward trend.

July 3rd, 2009 MELBOURNE - Ben Southhall had a rather wayward first day of his 'Best job in the World', when he misspelt the name of the island he was on while writing on his blog. The 34-year-old Briton renamed the tropical island Hayman as 'Hayward' in his Twitter post.

November 3rd, 2004 I was recently pulled into Groovy, a new Java based scripting language. You can read a good article highlighting groovy in onjava.com.

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.

August 26th, 2007 Java is used either for long running server side applications / application servers or for running short scripts. Let's look at how you can speed-up both these type of applications.

June 18th, 2005 Java is a language of choice for millions of developers worldwide. In a series of articles I will show simple tips and techniques which make Java extremely powerful and yet simple to use.

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.

April 15th, 2006 In my experience much of the complexities a newcomer faces in the Java world is understanding extraneous stuff like handling exceptions or formatting data etc. Today I was requested for the nth time (n -> infinity) how to write a simple socket client and server (actually debug one).

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

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.

May 6th, 2008 The key features of Java EE 6 (Java Enterprise Edition version 6) are: Modular Platform - Java EE 6 introduces profiles targeted for particular segment of users like web developers or mobile developers. Java Profiles allows you to select Java EE 6 features to be included in a profile.