I can't operate effectively without some kind of goal. Let me clarify that. Without some kind of goal I am directionless. I'm easily distracted from any focus I might have started with by other things that crop up. I end up flitting from one thing to another, multitasking. I become anxious and frustrated. I lose my sense of priority. I end up...

A link compilation of some Hackernews and Stackoverflow posts and a longish personal investigation. A book on algorithmic graph theory Graph Theory with Applications, J.A. Bondy and U.S.R. Murty Graph Theory, Reinhard Diestel Graph Theory Tutorials Digraphs: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, 1st Edition Algorithms and Complexity, Herbert S...

LinkedList and ArrayList both implement List Interface but how they work internally is where the differences lies. Main difference between ArrayList and LinkedList is that ArrayList is implemented using re sizable array while LinkedList is implemented using doubly LinkedList. ArrayList is more popular among Java programmer than LinkedList as...

The challenge when dealing with people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, qualifications, roles and domain knowledge is speaking the same language. When we face together a problem or opportunity, or given a certain need, we talk about what and how - what is the solution? How will we meet this need? We each think we see the...

Introduction A common question from students who are new to Scala is: What is the difference between using the map function on lists, using for expressions and foreach loops? One of the major sources...

Hello, how are you? Let us talk today about a very useful tool named “Coberturaâ€. This framework has the same functions of the Emma framework that we saw in another post. The major difference...

Cross Skilling is starting to happen and already there are fewer bottlenecks. John is starting to have more time to step back from the day to day and look at the big picture. He’s heard that most Scrum teams become more productive over time and he wonders how is team is doing. He pulls up [...]

JavaFX 2.0 and Scala are both great technologies individually, but work even better when used together. JavaFX 2.0 is a powerful rich client technology with advanced graphics, animation, and media...

We now return to our regular weekly schedule of publishing EAP builds. This week, we bring you: a new Groovy console (Tools | Groovy Console…) for quickly evaluating snippets of code in the context of your project; a number of important fixes for the new Flex project configuration; continued work on Gradle project synchronization; an...

Encoding and Decoding of String in Java using base64 is extremely easy if you are using apache commons code opensource library. it provides convenient static utility method Base64.encodeBase64(byte[]) and Base64.decodeBase64(byte []) for converting binary data into base64 encoded binary Stream and than decoding back from encoded data in base64...

Java 7 Update 3 has been released and is available to download from Oracle's download page. If you look at the release notes you'll see this is mainly a security fix release. The Oracle Java SE Risk Matrix lists 14 security fixes in the security update advisory. Java 7 Update 3 Released originally appeared on About.com Focus on Java on Friday,...

The Chrome dev team is working toward a vision of Web apps that offers a clean break from traditional websites.

Have you ever cursed an API which uses magic integer constants instead of the proper enumeration? What should I pass as the titleJustification parameter here? 0 or 1? Can I pass “42″ for the titlePosition parameter? Even Javadoc won’t know. Actually, you must use one of the constants in the TitledBorder class to make the code...

The JDK for Java 6 Update 31 is available to download from Oracle's Java download page. The release notes show this to be a security fix release. Check the security update advisory to see the security fixes listed. They match the fixes in the Java 7 Update 3 release.Java 6 Update 31 Released originally appeared on About.com Focus on Java on...

Hierarchy is a meta-compiler that extends the Java language to add support for XML-like hierarchical data. The video provides us with code examples and demos the use of three new file types that Hierarchy adds to Java (.matrix, .schema, & .mjava). Hierarchy seems like the natural evolution of working with data: JavaScript has had JSON for...