Have you ever wanted to quickly send a POST request to a HTTP server? It's pretty easy to do using curl. For example to send XML via a POST request, you coul…

I've been playing with IE 7 Beta 2 preview for a few minutes. I does a terrific job with feeds. Wow! Regardless of how good it really is, I suspect people ar…

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I submitted a small documentation error report to the PMD project, and got a very nice response from Tom. As I mentioned in my response, the linkblog would n…

IDEA can export Java source code to HTML, which I find quite useless. I really like the way Java2Html works but there is no integration with IDEA. You can ea…

I've been playing with TestNG for a few days now. I really like it. It makes me want to write more tests. I was wondering if there was a way to create a test…

The following was just forwarded to us by one of Vik' sister… What happens when you: have nothing to do own a sharp knife have a large lime own a patient c…