Okay, so what's the deal with Free downloads? When was the last time you paid to download anything? Does it mean it's free to download but you'll have to pay…

In the last few days, I've been slowly converting from CVS to SVN as my primary repository. Creating the repository was easy. Importing my existing projects,…

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…

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…

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