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Twitter provides an excellent platform to bloggers to promote their blogs. Because of its popularity several third-party tools and services were created to help Twitter users. Following is a list of the tools and services that I think make Twitter lot more easier and fun to use. //

To me the key to productivity lies in simplicity and avoiding distraction. I am glad that last month I found out about Dark Room at DoshDosh.com. Dark Room is a no-frill, minimalistic full-screen text editor. Its main purpose is to let you focus on your writing and kill all distractions Continue Reading »

Yesterday I was pleasantly surprised to see my Alexa rank became145,792. The night before it was some where in 233,00 range. My first thought was something is not right. So I went to Alexa.com and found out that they have changed their ranking system. And that new system is the Continue Reading »

Regular expressions provide a powerful and flexible way to search for phrases or characters but they are also confusing and many developers find them quite daunting. If you have been reluctant to learn regular expressions because of their apparent complexity, fear no more. //

In Java you can find maximum or minimum value in a numeric array by looping through the array. Here is the code to do that. public static int getMaxValue(int[] numbers){ int maxValue = numbers[0]; for(int i=1;i < numbers.length;i++){ if(numbers[i] > maxValue){ maxValue = numbers[i]; } } return maxValue; } public Continue Reading »

Reading properties file in Java is much easier than you might have thought. Following example illustrates one simple way of reading properties from a properties file. Let’s say we need to read from myConfig.properties file. The properties file has following entries. Directory = C:/prodFiles/ NumberOfFiles = 25 Extension = java Continue Reading »

Want to find out how much does your blog worth? Just go to DNScoop.com and get your answer. DNScoop.com estimates the dollar value of an established domain name. Its estimation is based on several factors including Links pointing to the domain Popularity of the domain Age of the domain Pagerank Continue Reading »