How to Program intelligent (AI) Lego Mindstorms robots with Java

December 2nd, 2004 Addiction is the only name I can give to the love for this intellectual challenge targeted for Java developers. You may remember from your school days about cRobots, a program which allows robots written in c language to compete with each other.

July 24th, 2006 Many online blogging software and other products require some type of cron and / or asynchronous execution functionality. Spammers and web robots are an essential part of any website today.

March 26th, 2009 This small trick will tell you how you can compile a java source file from another java file on the go. You do not need to run it on a different page and compile it there and then get back to this program.

June 21st, 2006 Microsoft Robotics Studio aims to create common technological underpinnings for relatively fragmented robotics industry. It is intended for use with a wide range of robots, from those in factories to the growing number of consumer oriented robots.

April 12th, 2005 Site Owners often detest the fact that google caches an old copy of their site and displays it on searches which brings up the site pages. A simple way to prevent robots (including Google, Yahoo etc.) from caching your site contents is to include the following within the head section of your web page.

April 14th, 2009 You can either specify it on command line or within program code by setting three system properties as below: proxyHost=proxy_host_name proxyPort=proxy_port proxySet=true For example if a proxy is running on localhost at port 8080 then we can use: java -DproxyHost=localhost -DproxyPort=8080 -DproxySet=true YourProgram The same properties can be set within your Java program by System.getProperties().put(key, value); That's it folks!

July 11th, 2005 I have found Java Studio Creator to be very useful and worthwhile for JSF based development. Join the Java Studio Creator 2 Early Access program and download the new IDE for FREE through October 2005.

July 18th, 2005 You can use assertions to detect errors that may otherwise go unnoticed. Assertions contain Boolean expressions that define the correct state of your program at specific points in the program source code.

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.

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.

September 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Experts from the University of Washington and SRI International have jointly developed a new software protocol, to standardize the way biomedical robots are managed over the Internet. Nine research teams from universities and research institutes around the world recently made a successful demonstration of biomedical robots operated from different locations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia with the help of the 'Interoperable Telesurgical Protocol'.

April 20th, 2006 I talked about JRobots, an extremely addictive Java game where you develop robots in java to fight against other JRobots in a monthly battle royale. Today I will present you with a simple sample JRobot to encourage you to participate in this contest.

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

November 1st, 2004 Copy to and paste from clipboard on command line using these nifty java utlities.

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.