I am opening my blog to advertisements. I have had Google AdSense ad units for some time on my website, and now I think is the appropriate time to solicit ads directly from advertisers. While I am working on getting my marketing arm in place, I thought it will be a good idea to let […]
Have you ever wondered how when you “follow” certain Twitter users, you get an immediate thank you email from them? Some of them may even start following you immediately. After I received about half a dozen such quick emails thanking me for following some users, I started thinking that there must be a service that […]
My post about Java regular expression gets a lot of hits daily. Someone commented that the regular expression I included in that post does not block certain invalid email addresses. So I updated the Java regular expression to validate email address. I am pretty sure that the following Java regular expression will validate any email […]
One of the changes in WordPress 2.7 release is the disappearance of page id column from the admin console. As far as I know, currently there is no way to display the page id column. Page ids can be used to exclude or arrange links to the pages in the navigation menu. I use page […]
If you need to read the properties file in your Spring application all you need is to configure a PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer bean in your application context.The following example shows how to read property values from a properties file named config.properties. This file needs to be in your classpath so Spring can find it. Let’s begin by […]
Image credit:Kyle Wegner OK, admit this. You have a nice-looking website. The color and the graphics look pleasing to visiting eyes. But you do not get a lot of loyal visitors. The problem may not be your design, it may be the static content that is turning the visitors off. If you do not update […]
Your blog or personal website can be a source of revenue. Some people are more successful than others in generating revenue off their websites. The reason is they know how to market their websites and attract more visitors and advertisers to their websites. Sure you can search the Internet and find zillions of tutorials and […]
Starting a web site development project using an existing template is much more efficient than starting the project from scratch. You may use your existing web sites as the starting point and make changes to meet your new project’s requirements or get the templates from one of the following web sites that provide thousands of […]