Ok so you have played around with Java for awhile, written some functions, created a class or two and now you want to get into connecting Java to an example database. How do you start? Well most enterprise applications typically use Java with a more robust and powerful relational database than MS Access. But if you are just learning, and want something simple to play with, MS Access can be ...
A lot of people on the board right now are making their own little text editors. It is a great little project to start when you are breaking into a language like Java. They are not exactly original with the names though like "nText" and "pText" and "zText" and "wtfText". Usually their main focus is on highlighting or trying to mimic the functionality of some of the great text editors ...
Ever wanted to dig through a text file and see how many times a particular word appears? Are you afraid the file is going to jump up and bite you and bite you hard?!? Don't sweat it. That crazy file isn't going to be too much trouble if you know some useful classes for dealing with the situation. In this entry we talk about opening a file using a BufferedReader, ...
In a long standing tradition here on the Programming Underground we are going to add another entry to the definitive series. For those of you who are still relatively new to my blog, the definitive series is a series of blog entries where we take an algorithm and run it through the paces of five different languages: C++/C#/Java/VB.NET/PHP. With the code side by side we can see the similarities as ...
So you may have wondered "How do I get a nifty little icon in the system tray for my Java App?" and after 20 minutes of banging your head against the wall you got dizzy, fell down, and probably passed out to only wake up and forget what you were doing. Then you go on your merry way to play some Nintendo Wii Fit. Yeah right! We all know you ...
Once in a great while I stumble across a supposedly "professional" article that makes little to no sense. This is usually due to some over evangelical developer who just loves a language. I think it is part of our job as developers to hold back the love and always approach language comparisons with an open mind. In this entry I will talk about an article that gives 10 reasons why ...