Back to the drawing board on category feedsMarch 18th, 2005 Few days back I moved to providing categorized feed for JavaBlogs and Artima. However I realized two big problems with this approach which questions the viability as of now.
My analysis of the actual problem with JavaBlogs AggregatorMarch 18th, 2005 A technical analysis of the duplicate post problem in JavaBlogs.
JavaBlogs and WordPress loves to repost old blog entriesMarch 12th, 2005 I have been playing with my blog to find the optimum number of messages to make available from the main page. Somehow that triggered JavaBlogs to think that all of these entries are new and publish them!
Let me say it again.
Javablogs appears to be brokenFebruary 15th, 2004 Often the popular listings of javablogs appeared suspect to me as many times I could see the same listings on top for days, whereas newer listings with higher view count didn't make the list. However it was just a feeling from reading entries from both start page and most popular page.
What's up with Republican Java Geeks?March 17th, 2005 An anti-tirade against few republican java geeks.
Blogs I Read - Russell Beattie NotebookMarch 7th, 2006 I have started covering some of the blogs I love to read, bloggers who resonate with me at some level. In the first article I covered Guy Kawasaki's blog.
How Will Sun Profit from Java?May 6th, 2008 All throughout the JavaOne 2008 keynote presentation, I had the same nagging question, how is Sun going to profit from all these diverse technologies? In the end I don't have an answer. Purely from business standpoint it doesn't make sense.
Last Week In Perspective: Joel Spolsky, Hani, SSH Hacking, Translator Plugin & Anaconda ThemeSeptember 4th, 2006 Last week was an interesting one as hot debate raged over Joel Spolsky's article on enterprise language, Hani rightly bashed copious logging of open source software and my article on hacking attempts from Caltech topped the list of most read articles. We released Anaconda, a beautiful 3 column WordPress theme and version 3 of Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress.
.NET versus Java - A Philosophical interludeFebruary 13th, 2004 To day while going through javablogs, I came across an interesting article on .NET side of story from an ex-java (?) junkie - I miss Java already.. :: http://www.vibhu.info :: Be different...
How To Split Java String By NewlinesJuly 19th, 2007 Splitting a String by newline is a common requirement. When processing textual data from files or from web we need to split the data by newline boundaries.
My Simple Goals for Simple ThoughtsJune 6th, 2006 What is my agenda for Simple Thoughts blog? What are my goals?
My goal is to provide accurate and quality information on java and web technologies. It includes providing code samples, software, wordpress plugins, software reviews, news and views, architectural discussions and much more.
Java, JSP, Servlet, JDBC - Back To The Basics Part 2January 9th, 2006 I informed in my previous post that I have decided to shun all java frameworks for my current project and develop with basic Java / J2SE components instead. Here is a synopsis of my journey as it is unfolding.
JRobots: An Addictive Challenge for Java Programmers...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.
How to Resize Applets Dynamically within Browser FramesJanuary 24th, 2004 The problem I was trying to solve was to resize applets when the browser changes size,
so as to always fill the total displayed area of the browser. Googling I found an article from javaworld - Resize applets within browser frames.
Java EE 6 HighlightsMay 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.
March 14th, 2005 at 4:24 am
Comments being ignored
[fake trackback] All comments are being discarded, even if I’m logged in. Feel free to delete this fake trackback - I couldn’t find any other way to let you know. –
March 16th, 2005 at 11:28 am
Targetted feeds
The ability to produce targeted feeds in Wordpress (see Simple Thoughts � Blog Archive � Welcome to targeted feed for JavaBlogs from today) looks like…
March 17th, 2005 at 6:03 pm
@Creative Karma
Actually the comments were not getting discarded. They were erroneously being marked as spam, including my comments (and trackbacks)
The problem is with the blacklist option of WordPress 1.5. The option to block open proxies blocks everything!
Anyway today I manually enabled all the old comments, after deleting thousands of spams along the way
Sorry for the snafu.
March 18th, 2005 at 4:19 am
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