Understanding Linkie Winkie

April 24th, 2005 ThreadLocal allows you to have copy of variable per thread, which are subject to garbage collection when the thread goes away. IBM has an excellent article on understanding and using ThreadLocal.

June 3rd, 2005 Without much ado, I present the script. It handles http and https URL's and should work across platforms and configurations (like using htaccess for clean url's etc.).

May 31st, 2007 Doug Karr, product manager for a "permission-based email service provider" (permission spam?) lays down three interesting rules for understanding differences of race, religion, politics, sex and bigotry: 1. He will never understand others; so he tries to respect things that he doesn't understand.

September 22nd, 2006 A lot of my emails are not reaching for some strange reason which is delaying my effort to provide you with free upgrades. Please bear with me.

February 9th, 2006 I have been interviewing several freshers who were taught Java in engineering schools under computer science curriculum. Interviewing them highlighted serious problems with their education as well as with the system.

September 28th, 2007 I faced a vexing problem with the otherwise excellent Mozilla Thunderbird email client. I was unable to forward emails to another account using the rules in Message Filters.

April 18th, 2005 We often talk about understanding an application from code and unit tests with catch phrases like - "code is the documentation". In my experience I haven't found a better and more concise documentation then reading the SQL schema for any application, assuming it has one.

September 28th, 2007 I solve this problem in a different way. Normally we write rules to send messages to a particular folder.

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).

September 5th, 2007 I noticed something funny with this site's statistics. On average people are spending 4 minute 8 seconds on the site.

February 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.

July 13th, 2007 Poromenos, a greek student, has written a nice tutorial on Python, a rapidly growing and ever popular Web 2.0 language. I think it will take you somewhat longer than 10 minutes to go through all the examples.

October 28th, 2005 Or any non-English language in which you are not proficient...

May 30th, 2006 I made a small change in commenting policy. I am experimentally blocking comments from "open and insecure proxies".

April 30th, 2006 Varargs allows variable number of arguments in methods and constructors. Let's start with a simple example.