Archive for April, 2009

How to write a Web Crawler in Java. Part-1

How to write a Web Crawler in Java. Part-1
The task of the crawler is to keep on getting information from the internet into the database of the search engine. It literally crawls over the internet from page to page, link by link and downloads all the information to the database.A search engine is made up of basically four parts:Web Crawler Database Search Algorithm Search system that binds ...

Android 1.5 released: Preview SDK & feature list

Android 1.5 released: Preview SDK & feature list
Android Developers Blog annouced today the availability of Android 1.5 SDK. Although this version seems to be complete and finish, Google warns it might change few APIs.The Android 1.5 platform will include many improvements and new features for users and developers. Additionally, the SDK itself introduces several new capabilities that enable you to ...

Breaking News: Twitter hit by StalkDaily Virus

Breaking News: Twitter hit by StalkDaily Virus
Yesterday the popular micro blogging site Twitter got attacked by a worm called StalkDaily. What it does is that virus will auto-tweet this message: "Hey everyone, join StalkDaily.com. It's a site like Twitter but with pictures, videos and so much more." At worst, it may lock you out of your Twitter account....

jQuery AJAX Tutorial, Example: Simplify Ajax development with jQuery

jQuery, the JavaScript library provides some powerful set of jQuery AJAX API's to handle AJAX requests. The normal way of making AJAX calls using JavaScript is a bit odd as you have to first create an XMLHttpRequest object that depends on the browser and then make an AJAX call. Also sending a form data using AJAX ...

Tutorial: Handle browser events using jQuery JavaScript framework

Tutorial: Handle browser events using jQuery JavaScript framework
Handling events in today web browser is a bit difficult part as different browser handles events in a different way. Hence to overcome these cross browser problems, one can leverage the Event handling APIs of jQuery.jQuery is a small JavaScript library that provides a vast number of APIs to handle different browser events and effects ...

Creating Customized Search Plug-ins for Firefox or IE7+

Creating Customized Search Plug-ins for Firefox or IE7+
Some folks may need to search some of their "special-interest" sites. Me being a World of Warcraft fanatic, I’m talking about sites like Thottbot, Wow-armoury etc.Till now, the options for that special search were thus: 1. Visit the site you want to look-up and then search 2. Google and then rifle thru the results looking for that one site 3. For the more geeky ones, ...

Generate Pie, Bar, Line Charts using Google Chart API

Generate Pie, Bar, Line Charts using Google Chart API
Reporting tools have became so pervasive today that a lot of applications around today's IT world has these types of tools that reports a lot of complex data in a simple and understandable way. Pie charts, Bar graph, Line charts have became a standard way of representing data in a good and understandable way.There are lots of Reporting tools available that can be leverage to ...

PDF Generation in Java using iText JAR

PDF Generation in Java using iText JAR
Generating PDF files in today's enterprise applications is quite common. Doing this with Java is not an easy task as Java does not gives default api's to handle PDF files. No worries, iText jar is for you.iText is a free Java-PDF library that allows you to generate PDF files on the fly (dynamically). iText is an ...
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