Switching to Thesis wordpress theme

February 4, 2010

Hello there! If you are reading this entry from a feed reader, please take a moment to visit my blog. Because the news is I changed my blog theme to Thesis 1.6 and want you to have a look at it.
For the folks who were following my blog in the last one year, the theme [...]

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5 Ways of effectively using Firebug to edit HTML, CSS

February 3, 2010

Firebug is an inseperable tool in any Web developer’s toolbox. It’s one of the best things that happened to JavaScript and Web Development. I have been using Firebug for a long time and have been wondering how my web development would be if there is no Firebug. So, in this article, I’m sharing few of [...]

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Building a desktop PC for RS 20K

February 2, 2010

I’m planning to build a desktop PC for myself. I do not want to go for a branded systems, like Dell or Compaq, for two reasons – one: they come with the bundled Windows; two: there is no AMD powred system. There is one more important reason – that the cost should come around RS [...]

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What does Oracle plan for Netbeans IDE?

January 28, 2010

This might interest any Java developer who uses Netbeans IDE from Sun. The Oracle + Sun merger does not raise the question of ‘what will happen to MySQL?’ alone. Because, along with the flagship database product, Oracle also has JDeveloper which conflicts with Netbeans IDE. Both software are used for Java development, but it seems [...]

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Firefox 3.6 released – First impressions.

January 22, 2010

Today Mozilla has released a major update to the most popular browser around here – Firefox 3.6. This release does not contain any major features that makes the users WOW! But, still it is worth mentioning the few features that this release brings with it. Btw, if you have not downloaded the latest release here’s [...]

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Best Linux platform for Web and Java development?

January 21, 2010

I have been a Windows user ever since I started using computers. Be it my school, college or work – I have never used Unix / Linux for actual development work. Even though I have coded few lines of Perl in Unix, I don’t consider that as actual programming. Linux – sorry I just installed [...]

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java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal group reference in String.replaceAll

January 20, 2010

I was working on an internal project that is used for archiving user’s blog posts. I released this application to an internal community and it was recieved quite well by the users. I made sure that the code was bug free, as far as I tested it and the code was working as expected with [...]

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Adsense and my Blog

January 15, 2010

I have been using Adsense for monetizing my blog content, ever since I started this blog. Even though I’m not making a BIG money out of it, for every 3 or 4 months, I’m hitting the threshold amount set by Adsense. So, I feel it’s kinda OK for a small blog like mine.
In this post, [...]

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Use cases of Aspect Oriented Programming

January 13, 2010

In my last article about Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP), I explained how to use Spring AOP for profiling method execution time. When the article was posted in DZone, it got a comment from an user saying that
Profiling and logging seem to be to only imaginable AOP use cases.
But, I think it is not. Because AOP [...]

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Spring AOP Example: Profiling method execution time tutorial

January 12, 2010

I have already written about the Spring Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) with the use of simple logging example. But, somehow I felt that the example code was little confusing for the newcomers. So, I decided to write a new Spring AOP example code that explains how to use Spring AOP for profiling method execution time.
Using [...]

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