Archive for February, 2010

Eclipse Tip: Hide Closed Projects in Eclipse Project Explorer View

Eclipse Tip: Hide Closed Projects in Eclipse Project Explorer View
Ever wanted to hide all those closed projects in eclipse? Well, here is a simple trick that you may not know already.Imagine your Eclipse workspace is filled with many projects that you created in past just to test some small functionality. Now you are done with these projects and hence you have closed it. Eclipse by default show all the closed projects in Project ...

Writing a URL Shortner in Java Struts2 & Hibernate

Writing a URL Shortner in Java Struts2 & Hibernate
This is an attempt to create a simple URL shortner service in pure JEE with Struts2 and Hibernate.Creating Base Framework I always have Basic framework ready which gives a kick start to the web app development. You don't have to hassle about different configuration issues/jar file issues etc. Let us start with creating sample base framework ...

Understanding Primary Key(PK) Constraint in Oracle

Understanding Primary Key(PK) Constraint in Oracle
The Primary Key(PK) constraint is the most basic concept of any RDBMS (I am particularly interested in Oracle). Yet, I have noticed people getting confused when it comes to the practical usage and asking questions like:- I have disabled PK and now oracle is doing full table scan. - How PK constraints and indexes are related/different? - How ...

Generate Pie Chart/Bar Graph in PDF using iText & JFreeChart

Generate Pie Chart/Bar Graph in PDF using iText & JFreeChart
iText is a wonderful library if you want to generate PDFs in Java. It comes with a huge set of API to create/manage a PDF file. We already saw in our previous tutorial how to generate a pdf file in itext and also how to merge ...

10 Most Useful Java Best Practice Quotes for Java Developers

10 Most Useful Java Best Practice Quotes for Java Developers
Quote 1: Avoid creating unnecessary objects and always prefer to do Lazy Initialization Object creation in Java is one of the most expensive operation in terms of memory utilization and performance impact. It is thus advisable to create or initialize an object only when it is required in the code.public class Countries {private List countries; public ...

Some Useful Unix File Finding Commands

Some Useful Unix File Finding Commands
Following are some bunch of commands that might be useful if you want to find files in unix/linux.Large Files Find files larger than 10MB in the current directory downwards...find . -size +10000000c -lsFind files larger than 100MB...find . -size +100000000c -lsOld Files Find files last modified over 30days ago...find . -type f -mtime 30 -lsFind files last ...

Step by step Guide to Crack WinRAR

Step by step Guide to Crack WinRAR
Hi folks, its been a long time since I have posted some thing technical, so I will be writing about the challenge I got at NIT KU, where I cracked WinRAR 3.80 using a disassembler and will tell you the same here. You can crack any version of WinRAR using this method and need not to pay for ...

Did Twitter Forget to Update its Copyright Year?

Did Twitter Forget to Update its Copyright Year?
I noticed a strange thing today on Twitter's homepage. Its already end of the first month of 2010 and Twitter's homepage is still showing Copyright year 2009!! I don't know if they have done this purposefully or just forgot to update the year. See the below screenshot....
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