Author: softwareeveryday

Here’s a brief overview of Http Basic Authentication which is a (trivial) way of providing authentication in your application. Every-time you send a http...

It seems like on an NTFS partition there is something called 8.3 Name Creation. Its basically a short file name with a tilde ~....

XML Namespaces also carry typical advantages of using namespaces, i.e. all variables related to a particular category can go under that namespace. Here is...

ASCII uses 7 bits, extended ASCII allows you to use the 8th bit, but that’s NOT a standard. Problems started when bits in ASCII...

Dining Philosophers is one of those classical problems to understand (and resolve) deadlocks in software. Lets look at examples were we cause deadlocks, come...

Java 5 has a ReentrantLock implementation of the Lock interface. Meaning if the same thread tries to acquire the lock again, it will allow...

Ok, lets start with seeing a simple example of how deadlocks can be created in java. Simple way to achieve this is to try...

Objective is to make a counter using Quartz. Step by step we’ll do the following Create a custom context listener to initialize a counter,...

I recently created a wordpress installer using IzPack and uploaded the source code on Google Code. It will 1.) Download wordpress source code, 2.)...

Apache Derby has two modes, Embedded Derby and Derby Network Server.’ Lets look at some code using both these modes. Let’s work on creating...