Gravatar: Manage your user avatars for free
While working on one of the application, I had to manage users who logged in to the application and manage their details. In order to manage user’s avatar, I had to create a form...
HTML 5: The new HTML kid on the block!
Hope you all have heard that behind-the-scene progress of the new version of HTML, is cruising through. There are some good news for those preachers of web standards who give importance to the semantically...
How to execute a command prompt command & view output in Java
The basic part is very easy. To do this, we will use the Runtime’s exec method. The code would be like: The command (I’ve used “ping localhost” ) can be anything that your command...
Web 3.0 is around the corner !
Web 2.0 – It was a huge step forward for the www, where we saw and continue to experience various ways of information sharing which in turn has resulted to a proliferation of content...
GMail launched automatic message translation feature in GMail Labs
GMail has released today another cool feature under GMail labs. Now you can automatically translate any of your email written in different language into language of your choice. Not only this, if all the...
Inspect your code in Eclipse using Eclipse Scrapbook feature
The java IDEs (eclipse, IRAD etc) contribute a scrapbook facility that can be used to try and evaluate Java expressions (such as code snippets). Java scrapbook errors are shown in the editor. Snippets are...
Getting JVM heap size, used memory, total memory using Java Runtime
Reading runtime information about Java is useful sometime when your application is struggling in getting resources. System Memory is one of the main resource that an application developer has to consider while managing the...
Fetch Random rows from Database (MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL)
Ever thought why would one need to fetch random rows from a database table? You may want to display some random information (like articles/pages/links) to your user. I had a requirement wherein I had...
Varargs in Java: Variable argument method in Java 5
I think I am late for writing about varargs. The feature of variable argument has been added in Java 5 since its launch. Still I will write something about varargs. varargs has been implemented...
20 very useful Java code snippets for Java Developers
Following are few very useful Java code snippets for Java developers. Few of them are written by me and few are taken from other code reference. Feel free to comment about the code and...