Null PointerA brilliant (sic) coalesce of Technology (where the emphasis is on Java), Internet, Blogging, Indic-blogging, current-affairs, politics, entertainment industry and topics that concern India.Make your own Java newsreader- January 6, 2006 XML feeds are the way today to keep a tab on whats happening in the blogosphere as well as to know about site updates and new additions. I had heard about two popular open source feature-rich Java APIs to deal with the feeds, Rome and Informa but could never really savor them. For one of my own sites where I, sort of hand-built the aggregator as Myjavaserevr does not allow deploying external JARs or Taglibs I did not get any chance to play with these APIs. So when I got some opportunity it was..http://www.jroller.com/debashish/entry/make_your_own_java_newsreader Piping problem- January 6, 2006 I recently had a task wherein I was required to call few Perl routines from inside my Java class. You must be saying, waht's the big deal Runtime.exec is what one needs. You are dead right, this comes to rescue when ones needs to call a non-Java process or an executable. With this, I was able to call most of the said routines, except a few that were using "Piping". Now, a pipe is a one-way IO channel which can transfer a stream of bytes from one process to another, meaning that one processes's..http://www.jroller.com/debashish/entry/piping_problem Blogger block- January 4, 2006 Charu refers to an article on how to deal with the blogger burnout, a term I came to terms with when Jivha quit blogging. For me it has been more the case of Blogger block rather than burnout. I have never been a zealous blogger anyway but few months back I at least would right twicethrice a week, it is still twice or thrice but the weeks have turned into months. A blog-friend, who just would not have Null Pointer on his blogroll ;), tauntingly observed recently, "I like your blog but it would..http://www.jroller.com/debashish/entry/blogger_block Happy 2006- January 1, 2006 Null Pointer wishes all it's readers a very happy and prosperous new year!http://www.jroller.com/debashish/entry/happy_2006 |