Extendable (by plugins, …) Static Analysis tools like FindBugs can enhance the security of your Java applications (web as well as standalone or client-servers applications) in several significant ways.

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Any PHP based software like WordPress, Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, MODx etc. will serve pages both from http://your-site.com as well as http://your-site.com/index.php. This creates duplicate content for search engines, which may then decide to penalize your site for duplicate content. You can safely prevent duplicate content with the following apache code / directive added to your .htaccess file (or in httpd.conf):

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Twitter seems to be having serious scalability issues, a malaise which plagued the otherwise popular service since its early days.

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We extensively use Tadalist to manage our daily tasks. Previously I wrote about the 5 missing features in tadalist. However I am over the days come to the undeniable conclusion that the most important missing feature of Tadalist is speed.

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Leased Lines historically have been used as reliable, resilient internet and site-to-site data connections. The main benefits have been security, reliability, SLAs, private network and flexible speeds. Leased Lines were also known for high installation charges, long installation times, hefty monthly fees and unreasonable contracts. With the advent of cheap ADSL connections, Leased Lines have become as relevant as dinosaurs except for the most demanding businesses, especially when you can bond multiple ADSL lines to get reliable broadband at a fraction of the cost.

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Would you believe if I said that GMail does not provide an email address to report spam? After some investigation I found how you can report GMail spam to Google.

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Tadalist is a popular free online todo list manager with sharing capability but without fine grained permission control. Here is a list of 5 must-have features missing from Tadalist (add yours below):

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Gadging.com is a new (free) service which allows you to share your Google Analytics statistics with the world of just for your tools or application, get it as RSS feed for displaying on your blog, compare how your site ranks with others and more. And it takes less than a minute to configure.

Benefits of joining Gadging.com

1. Gadging allows you to selectively share your Google Analytics data to the entire world. You can use the provided RSS feeds of your data on your own sites and blogs.

2. Each Google Analytics profile is displayed on its own page which shows the most popular pages, geographic distribution of your visitors and other stats.

3. Your popular articles may be featured on the front page too under the Most Popular section. Your less popular pages may also be featured in the least popular section on the front page. That is not all.

4. Random pages from all the sites are also highlighted on front page too, thereby allowing pages from any sites to be featured.

We created Gadging.com to allow us to display Google Analytics data on our front page (Hot Topics). In the process we decided to share it to all. You can use any RSS displayer plugin to display the data from Gadging on your own site.

Currently we support Google Analytics only. We have plans to support other analytics software soon.

How to use Gadging.com

In less than a minute you can get your RSS feed for your Google Analytics data, share them with the world and more. Here are the steps:
1. Login to Google Analytics
2. Click on View Reports for the profile you want to share
3. Click on Email button (at the top, just under Dashboard) and beside Export.
4. Click on Schedule tab
5. In Send to others type ga@gadging.com
6. Uncheck Send to me
7. In Subjecttype in the exact URL of your site. For example for this blog I typed http://blog.taragana.com
8. Select Format as XML
9. Choose Daily for Date Range/Schedule
10. Click on Schedule and you are done!

You are done!

Every morning Google will sent a copy of your daily stats to gadging.com which we will use to update the site. You will also get an email (after Google sends us the first report) providing you with your personal url for your blog where you can see your site’s statistics. For example, this blog’s stats are available here. It will also be featured in the Recently Added Sites section on the front pages.

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Recovering Google AdSense password is now relatively easy because of its recent integration with Google Account. I have provided a step-by-step guide to recover your AdSense password for every situation. Save this page for emergency.

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What happens when too many social networking sites are taking you away from real life? The first video has a hilarious take on the issue. Kind of explains why people flock to MySpace, when their real life sucks in comparison.

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