Strings are a critical part of the Java language and especially so in a web application. Here are a variety of pointers for dealing with Strings.
Use StringUtils
A lot of the common String operations that aren’t in the JDK library are available in Commons Lang StringUtils. Check out those methods and you’ll find your code looking [...]
This is a stupid gotcha that took me WAAAAY too long to figure out.
If you’re using the Facebook API with the new profile pages and attempting to set the FBML for a box on the wall and info pages it won’t work out of the box. You need to take whichever client library you’re using [...]
The Collections Framework is an awesome way to represent may common types of data using the mathematical basis for sets. Sun has a great tutorial that explains what the framework is and how to use it. This is meant to be a simple guide (in the traditions of Effective Java) on how to use the [...]
This is a brief guide to getting up and running against S3 in Python.
You will need the following things:
AWS Developer account (you can sign up for it on http://aws.amazon.com)
Make sure you sign up for S3 (select Amazon Simple Storage Service in the sidebar on the left of the AWS page and then click ‘Sign Up [...]