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 that were auto uploaded from my mobile phone and other devices. Unfortunately Dropbox doesn’t automatically organize these files in date folders or even gives you an option […]
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 easy it is to distribute and scale java web applications using tomcat clusters. In this example we will also use Apache web server to load balance the […]
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 because J2ME didn’t evolve with the rapid technological growth of mobile devices. J2ME was originally intended for low-end devices, as a lightweight Java runtime and was very […]
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 VPN server; but using a single user account it is impossible if the server doesn’t allow it. There is a way around this problem by sharing 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 centimeters. In the realm of mobile phones, the “initiator” is the mobile handset and the target is typically a RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) Tag for passive communication. To […]
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 ASL and X11. All of these licenses are “open source”, which means the software source is also available to public along with its binaries. Which is great […]
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 cons of both svn and git and make a vague conclusion in the end. I being a user of both svn and git, found git better for […]
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 pain to find what you are looking for. I wrote a little crawler once in python that works well to search for stuff, on websites, on the […]
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 no troubles, it is easy to create wiki pages and documentation for projects etc. etc. Although it offers limited features, compared to sourceforge for example, but the real […]
Oracle-IBM pact and Android
IBM-Oracle pact is a good news for Java developers and for the open source community in general. OpenJDK is a more natural open alternative to Oracle J2SE and is well backed by the Java community, so IBM’s move to shift “its development effort from the Apache project Harmony to OpenJDK” makes sense. And remember IBM also wanted […]
