Deepak has finally started blogging at Deep into Java. He has been sharing some neat tricks like Bootstrapping static fields within enums. Thanks for the tips buddy ... look forward to more of them.

I booted my laptop early this morning to get my daily dose of Google alerts. Navigating through the alerts I ended up at: The Museum of Modern Betas and browsing through its entries I chanced upon Google's firefox extension for detecting phishing: Safe Browsing. While I was going through their site, I noticed the yahoo notification window...

I booted my laptop early this morning to get my daily dose of Google alerts. Navigating through the alerts I ended up at: The Museum of Modern Betas and browsing through its entries I chanced upon Google's firefox extension for detecting phishing: Safe Browsing. While I was going through their site, I noticed the yahoo notification window...

Rakesh sent me a mail the other day asking why the finalize method is protected. Well, here's what I think: The finalize method is invoked by the JVM/GarbageCollector on Objects which are no longer referenced. So, if I were the guy who designed the finalize method, ideally I would want it to be private. Just like why the...

Rakesh sent me a mail the other day asking why the finalize method is protected. Well, here's what I think: The finalize method is invoked by the JVM/GarbageCollector on Objects which are no longer referenced. So, if I were the guy who designed the finalize method, ideally I would want it to be private. Just like why the...

[or JavaScript chorma-coding] While posting Java sources on this blog, I used to wish that the browsers could take care of chroma-coding Java sources just the way they take care of chroma-coding XML files. It would eliminate the hassle of exporting the sources in HTML format. All one would have to do is paste the Java source...

[or JavaScript chorma-coding] While posting Java sources on this blog, I used to wish that the browsers could take care of chroma-coding Java sources just the way they take care of chroma-coding XML files. It would eliminate the hassle of exporting the sources in HTML format. All one would have to do is paste the Java source...

There is significant difference between doing what is asked of you and doing what is needed. Srini, our system administrator, is one of those who understands that. It is very interesting to see him go about solving problems users face. Installing what people want is not the end for him. He goes that extra mile to make sure the solution suits...

There is significant difference between doing what is asked of you and doing what is needed. Srini, our system administrator, is one of those who understands that. It is very interesting to see him go about solving problems users face. Installing what people want is not the end for him. He goes that extra mile to make sure the solution suits...

I have always had this fascination for CSS. Moving from hard-coding-style-in-HTML-sources to defining-it-in-CSS is like moving from Procedural Programming to Object Oriented Programming. Defining style classes gives a very consistent feel to the whole site [assuming you have defined your style classes properly!] And if you want to change how...

I have always had this fascination for CSS. Moving from hard-coding-style-in-HTML-sources to defining-it-in-CSS is like moving from Procedural Programming to Object Oriented Programming. Defining style classes gives a very consistent feel to the whole site [assuming you have defined your style classes properly!] And if you want to change how...

Rejeev made some interesting comments on my perivous post at javalobby. The memory leak we had faced was with JDK 1.3_02. The java bug database has couple of bugs reported for the same Bug: 4414045 and Bug: 4455134. As per JDK 1.4 beta release notes they are now fixed. Looking at JDK 1.4 ThreadLocal sources it appears that they have made the...

Rejeev made some interesting comments on my perivous post at javalobby. The memory leak we had faced was with JDK 1.3_02. The java bug database has couple of bugs reported for the same Bug: 4414045 and Bug: 4455134. As per JDK 1.4 beta release notes they are now fixed. Looking at JDK 1.4 ThreadLocal sources it appears that they have made the...

My recent experience has made me realize that the ThreadLocal class was never really designed to be used as a non-static field. However, the implications of making it non-static are not highlighted enough in JDK API and the many ThreadLocal tutorials you find on the net. If you want to know more about ThreadLocals I would recommend reading...

My recent experience has made me realize that the ThreadLocal class was never really designed to be used as a non-static field. However, the implications of making it non-static are not highlighted enough in JDK API and the many ThreadLocal tutorials you find on the net. If you want to know more about ThreadLocals I would recommend reading...