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Do you have hard time to track time spent on various projects and work activities? There is an option to use open source tool Inspectime. Implented as an Java server application can be deployed on server like Tomcat, Glassfish, etc, also … Continue reading →

Sometimes is very difficult to express or to share ideas on your mind. There are many software mind mapping tools, which could help with that. Good to start is FreeMind, written in Java, so it can run (almost) everywhere. Maps can … Continue reading →

There are many situations, when java client needs to respond to the server. One can use advantage of the Apache HttpComponents, download binary, and start to use it. Here is simple example HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(“http://localhost/”); … Continue reading →

Tim Berners-Lee invented in 1989 the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: Unlock our data and reframe the … Continue reading →

In 1956 IBM decided to come to Rochester MN. IBM looked at nearly 80 mid-size cities in a dozen Midwest states for the plant site, and Rochester and Madison, Wis., were the two finalists. The day of the announcement, IBM … Continue reading →

Jarfinder provides a huge searchable database of classes and jars from a wide variety of java projects. This makes it easy to resolve ClassNotFoundExceptions or NoClassDefFoundErrors.

FIRST – For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology – is project founded by Dean Kamen, inventor and entrepreneur. It’s mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, … Continue reading →

Do you line nice URLs? Let’s say example.com/hello/ instead of example.com/hello.jsp ? The first one is without doubts better, does not reveal underneaths technology, and you are free to change it to another technology in the future without changing URLs. Well, there is URLRewriteFilter … Continue reading →

Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research. Foldit allows to find protein structure. For protein structure prediction, the eventual goal is to have human folders work on proteins that do not have a … Continue reading →

SyncDir is one way synchronization tool for directories or files. It is java based, simple command-line utility. Synchronize a specified target directory or file to match a specified source directory or file. Only the target is modified. Flexible file-matching: combinations … Continue reading →