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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
