What is the architecture of Facebook?

We use Facebook a lot. At least me. I just come up with an interesting presentation of Director of Engineering of Facebook on its architecture. I am excited to see…

Struts 2 Spring integration: a kickstart on using dependency injection

In this post you will find how we can integrate Spring with Struts2 through struts2-spring-plugin. And we will also see how we can use dependency injection. I assume that you…

Do you think to be an open source committer?

We widely use open source developer tools and libraries in our daily dev life. These open source things are driven by community. I am an open source fan. And I…

Div based UIs. Heaven or Hell for a developer?

At my work I have a large application that has all web pages in table based layout. The use of Div is just limited to hide and show some content…

How the mind of a web developer works?

Do you think your mind has similar type of characteristics. 🙂 Ref: Mingle2

New topics added in SCJP 6 Certification (CX-310-065)

Following are the points that are highlighted in Kathi Sierra and Bert Bates book on SCJP6. 1-    Console class. 2-    NavigableSet and NavigableMap. 3-    Lower(int) and higher(int) function are added…

Fetch Twitter friends or followers through REST API in Java

I was playing around with fetching Twitter followers and friends with Twitter4J. But it was taking time to do that. So I code it with using REST urls given by…

Computer science is an attitude

While discussion with one of my friends this term has been coined out. That people who are programmers or they solve computer problems, associated with different computer professions (but programming…

Java certification voucher in $40 till 31st March 2010 for students

From a recent announcement from Oracle under Sun Academic Initiative program (SAI). Now students can get Java certification voucher in $40 till 31st March 2010. This is an excellent opportunity…

How to use and retain Twitter4J OAuth access token

I  was stuck in a problem that how to re use access token, once user has authenticated by Twitter (on call back URL). I got it working. There was problem…