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Java provides no robust way to obtain the id of the OS process in which the application is running. That does not mean, however, that there is no way. There are actually a couple of ways, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. I will describe three possible ways in
Is Twitter exploring some subtle form of flattery, or do their likeness algorithms need some brushing up?
While the infrastructure for Appjangle and Nextweb has been humming along without any major problems, I have been thinking about ways to improve the long-time stability of the servers. Being lazy in the sense that I dread any tasks, which I believe could be automated, I have created a few
Problem You would like to become an esteemed member of Apple's Developer Program but you dare to do so from a machine running Microsoft Windows using Internet Explorer or Google Chrome. After you click on either [Individual] or [Company] as shown below … … you are greeted with an broken
jenkins
The Continuous Integration server Jenkins can easily be deployed to any Servlet container or run in standalone mode (see Starting Jenkins). However, sometimes it can be handy to be able to start Jenkins from within another Java application. I like this option since this 'manager' Java app can
jenkins
Problem The build of a Maven job in Jenkins fails due to a StackOverflowException or a OutOfMemoryException during a JUnit test. Analysis Most likely, there is a bug in your application, which leads to infinite recursion or an infinite allocation in resources. So first try to run your test in
Mobile applications are undoubtedly different than traditional desktop applications in many ways. Mostly, we would think of the technical and/or UI limitations that mobile environments impose on application developers. In the following weeks, I will portray three high-level principles for building successful mobile applications, not only considering their limitations
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Great tutorial to set up a modern Maven site to document Java projects.
google-web-toolkit
I love the Google Web Toolkit, a powerful and mature open source library to automatically translate Java Source Code into JavaScript code. While I doubt the merit of using Java to write user interfaces for JavaScript (unfortunately, this is often what the Google Web Toolkit has been advocated for), I
Videos on youtube usually have a URI such as the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0 These URIs cannot be used to embed the video in an iframe such as the following: In order to work as part of an embedded iframe, youtube video links must be in
