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A blog where I write anything that comes to mind.Saint Paraskevi’s Feast
On July 26th is Saint Paraskevi's feast. She is the protecting saint of Chalkis. Every year there is a celebrating letourgy organized on the church and alot of people, all over Greece, come to show their respect. It is considered a big blessing. Also Saint Paraskevi...
Java crash course #6: Classpath, classloader and packages
We have come this far. It was an easy ride till now. I think it's time to go a bit deeper. We need to clear out how java works exactly. So let's start scratching the surface a little bit. First thing we need to see is what happens when we start our program. When we...
How to access bindings from Java code in ADF
Maybe it's me stupid, but I was looking for this for quite long and finally figured out how to. So I thought it could save someone's time too. Say we have a JSPX page bound to a ViewObject. Also there's a backing bean for this page. What we want is to access from the...
Women as C structs!
Before you go on i would like to tell you that this is funny only to those of you that you know some stuff about programming and C. So, i recently stumbled on a very funny blog post. I thought i'd repost it here as i found it hillarious! A programmer sat down and...
Find MAC address using Java
Recently i wanted to get the MAC addresses of the computer i was working from within my Java program. I started a small quest and all over there was this tip "this is system dependent so you need to make system calls". Somewhere around there i found a "but". Someone...
A relaxing day…
Well, as you all know, Sunday was my birthday so the whole weekend was a relaxing one. We went to the beach for a meal, we came back home and sat outside on the garden talking just about anything. The night was relaxing enough. The moon was almost a full moon so it...
Java XOR Encryption
A few months ago (see related posts) i released a small package for a XOR encryption in C. Now, here i am with an even smaller program for XOR encryption in Java. As expected, in Java it was way easier to implement it than C. No pointer loses, no "segmentation faults"...
Downtime Reasons
It seems that since i purchased the domain i've been having some issues. Sometimes the blog is down and inaccessible. Do you get this too or is it just me? I called Godaddy's(my hoster) customer support, they were very friendly indeed (their customer support has...
Java crash course #5: Overloading vs Overriding
On the previous articles we mentioned both overloading and overriding but we didn't pay sufficient attention to them. Those two meanings are among the most important ones in Object Oriented programming and design. It's not a matter of usage it's a matter of design and...
Migrating a wordpress installation
In this area there are alot of tutorials and howto's but here is a small step by step on how i did it. Copy all the files from the old blog to your new folder. Open your database with a manager like phpMyAdmin or in a console. You need to edit the table wp-options and...