XMPP web chat with ejabberd, Converse.js and Spring MVC
Converse.js is a fine little XMPP web chat client that can easily be used in web applications. It can integrate with various online XMPP services, like Google Talk, MSN…
Organizing Media files on Linux
Recently I was doing some cleanup on my Dropbox account, and I found that some folders (especially “Camera Uploads”) had like a million unorganized images and video files…
Clustering and Load balancing Tomcat servers
Tomcat is by far the most popular open source Java servlet container that can easily be scaled to ensure high availability. In this post I will show how…
Demise of J2ME
Since the arrival of iOS and Android smartphones, J2ME has really faded into the background. And it is not because iOS and Android are better platforms, it is…
Sharing VPN connection on Linux
Most VPN servers allow a single remote session per user, which is all you need most of the times. But sometimes it is necessary to connect multiple devices to the…
Near Field Communication (NFC)
Near Field Communication (NFC) is a wireless/radio-frequency technology that works over short-range. This involves communicating data between devices(“initiator” and “target”) in close proximty normally requiring less than 10…
A free software license
There are many free software licenses available these days, from viral and stringent licenses like GPL, with some grey and confusing like LGPL to business friendly licenses like…
Why is git better than svn
Well I am not going to start debating over this question, as most people on the web are doing so. I am not going to list pros and…
Crawl, index and search
Sometimes you need to search for files or pages on content-rich websites or browser-based information software/encyclopedias that don’t really have a search functionality. And it could be a…
Project migration from Sourceforge to Googlecode
I have been using googlecode for some of my recent open source development work, and I was surprised how googlecode speeds up development. The SCM is very fast and gave me…