Blogtal Trackback is a wordpress plugin that sends trackback to www.blogtal.com. It is enhanced version of my old Default Trackback. Unlike Default Trackback, Blogtal Trackback will send trackback to www.blogtal.com only. [Updates 19-04-09: Release 1.1] … [Read more...]
System Architecture Analysis – Google Chrome vs Internet Explore 8
If you have read about the technology behind Google Chrome, you will know that each tab in Google Chrome is running on a separate process and why the Google Chrome programmers do it that way. If you are a software developer and don't know anything about Google Chrome, you may find interesting in reading the story behind Google Chrome. … [Read more...]
Iconfinder.net – New Logo New Features
I used to use icons from iconfinder.net for my software projects. It is good to see that iconfinder now comes with new features and more icon in their database. Thanks and keep up good work! iconfinder.net now has launched a new logo for its website and the new icon is designed by Turbomilk. … [Read more...]
Java: Format integer into number of decimal places and performance
For certain reasons (e.g. precision issue), some programmer may store a float value (e.g. money) in integer variable. For example -12345678.90 is stored as -1234567890. To convert the integer value to number with number of decimal places is a problem. There are several way to do it. You can simply use the Java's String.format(), DecimalFormat or Float.toString(). Most of … [Read more...]
Java Static Constructor
Recently I wrote a Java class that maps ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 country code to country name and encountered a static constructor initialization problem. My code is as following: … [Read more...]