I was the other day trying to parse a date string into a date object using SimpleDateFormat to check for the validity of the date string. I had the SimpleDateFormat defined as: […]
Installing Elasticsearch on Linux
Download the Elasticsearch distribution, note the version you want to use Make sure you have Java 7. Verify by java -version. If not find out the value of $JAVA_HOME by using echo […]
Book Review: Murach’s HTML5 and CSS3, 3rd Edition
Murach’s HTML5 and CSS3, 3rd Edition is a one stop solution to solve all your learning requirements for developing the front end of your applications. The books starts with introduction to HTML […]
Setting up sharded mongodb cluster in localhost
I have been playing around with MongoDb, thanks to the M101J Course offered by Mongodb University. These NoSQL datastores are gaining popularity due to a number of reasons and one among them […]
Getting rid of Getters and Setters in your POJO
We all have read in Java books about encapsulation of fields in Java class and also when ever you code you are asked to take special care in encapsulating the fields and […]
Using Google Guava Cache for local caching
Lot of times we would have to fetch the data from a database or another webservice or load it from file system. In cases where it involves a network call there would […]
Very useful Console Window for windows
ConEmu (http://www.fosshub.com/ConEmu.html) is a very useful and much much better Console window for Windows. It acts as a facade over the cmd.exe. There are loads of good things in it and highly […]
Book Review: Murach’s Java Servlets And JSP 3rd Edition
Murach’s Java Servlets and JSP is the ONLY book you need to learn Web App Development in Java using JSP and Servlets. The book covers all the concepts required you to build […]
Book Review: RESTful Web Services with Dropwizard by Alexandros Dallas
RESTful Web Services with Dropwizard` by Alexandros Dallas is a good guide to get started with dropwizard. The author covers most of the features of dropwizard which includes creating RESTful End points, […]
Book Review: RabbitMQ Essentials by David Dossot
I have been working on integrating with RabbitMQ to implement the messaging architecture. All the time I made use of the basic tutorials available on RabbitMQ site to wade through understanding different […]
