While it silently indexes my emails and documents in the background, I figured I'd take the time to say "Thank you!" to the Google team for this excellent contraption. I love it!

While it silently indexes my emails and documents in the background, I figured I'd take the time to say "Thank you!" to the Google team for this excellent contraption. I love it!

I once tried a dirty hack that involved parsing the stack trace of an exception instance, but this would return the calling class name much efficiently: String callingClassName = sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass(2).getName(); The getCallerClass method takes an int...

I once tried a dirty hack that involved parsing the stack trace of an exception instance, but this would return the calling class name much efficiently: String callingClassName = sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass(2).getName(); The getCallerClass method takes an int...

From Financial Cryptography: "...a world of Internet wire-tapping is a reality. The real conflict of interest here is in a seller of certs also being a prime contractor for easy breachings of certs." I came across this insightful article (via Ross's Random Bytes) that talks about VeriSign's uncomfortable position as provider of SSL,...

From Financial Cryptography: "...a world of Internet wire-tapping is a reality. The real conflict of interest here is in a seller of certs also being a prime contractor for easy breachings of certs." I came across this insightful article (via Ross's Random Bytes) that talks about VeriSign's uncomfortable position as provider of SSL,...

The ubiquity of the Properties class is testament to its utility. It is a rare application that does not use an instance. I notice from the J2SE 5 javadocs that the java.util.Properties now supports an XML file -based backing store, leading to the addition of new methods: public void storeToXML(OutputStream os,...

The ubiquity of the Properties class is testament to its utility. It is a rare application that does not use an instance. I notice from the J2SE 5 javadocs that the java.util.Properties now supports an XML file -based backing store, leading to the addition of new methods: public void storeToXML(OutputStream os,...

If you have worked with iterators and collections in a multi-threaded environment, then you have probably dealt with the ConcurrentModificationException. If not, then you really need to read this! [<--customary Saturday morning boast] When you iterate over a collection which is being modified in another thread, the Iterator throws...

If you have worked with iterators and collections in a multi-threaded environment, then you have probably dealt with the ConcurrentModificationException. If not, then you really need to read this! [<--customary Saturday morning boast] When you iterate over a collection which is being modified in another thread, the Iterator throws...

... than Linux users, says a Forrester report. Hmm, really?

... than Linux users, says a Forrester report. Hmm, really?