http://www.adarshr.com/ Home page of Adarsh Ramamurthy. Contains various kinds of artifacts. You may browse the links on the left menu, specifically, the "Warehouse" at http://www.adarshr.com/pages/warehouse. For Contact Information, visit http://www.adarshr.com/pages/contact. en-us Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:30:00 GMT Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:30:00 GMT http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Eclipse Platform v3.3.0 http://www.adarshr.com/papers/indexer I recently saw that a colleague of mine had written a Java program to generate a simple HTML index of all the sub-directories of a given directory. I felt that the task could be accomplished with even more control if we just had a Windows batch script which does the same, eliminating the need for any JVM. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:30:00 GMT http://www.adarshr.com/papers/indexer http://www.adarshr.com/papers/classfinder After all the wait, here I finally proudly release CF - A fast Java Class Finder. It comes with a host of new features and a great performance boost compared to contemporary peers. Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:30:00 GMT http://www.adarshr.com/papers/classfinder http://www.adarshr.com/papers/static A strange situation with static initializers and blank final variables in the Java programming language. Read on to understand the situation and an explanation of the behaviour. Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:30:00 GMT http://www.adarshr.com/papers/static http://www.adarshr.com/papers/wildcard A simple algorithm and implementation of wildcard text matching using Java. The article contains detailed explanation with sample code. Tue, 13 May 2008 21:20:00 GMT http://www.adarshr.com/papers/wildcard http://www.adarshr.com/papers/args Args Engine is a simple command line parsing engine for Java. The library has a single class and can be imported into any project of your choice easily. Read on to know more. Tue, 13 May 2008 20:20:00 GMT http://www.adarshr.com/papers/args http://www.adarshr.com/papers/raroscope Ever faced the challenge to be able to scan RAR archives using Java? Wished the API was as simple and easy to use as the ones provided for ZIP and JAR handling in Java? Don't want the hassles of including expensive native code into your Java application? RARoScope is here to solve all these woes. Tue, 17 Mar 2008 18:55:00 GMT http://www.adarshr.com/papers/raroscope http://www.adarshr.com/papers/npe An interesting behaviour discovered in Java. Visit http://www.adarshr.com/papers/npe to know more. Tue, 17 Mar 2008 18:55:00 GMT http://www.adarshr.com/papers/npe http://www.adarshr.com/ Do you see the new "Chat!" badge on the right hand side of the website? Yes! You can now chat with me in guest mode on Google Talk. Go ahead and try it out for yourself! You'll be able to click on the "Chat!" link, provided I'm available (green). We can chat once I accept the invitation. Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:55:00 GMT http://www.adarshr.com/ http://www.adarshr.com/finds/gsearch Learn how to set up a handy Google search using the browser address bar in Firefox. Just type `g' followed by your search query and hit enter. That's it! Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:20:00 GMT http://www.adarshr.com/finds/gsearch http://www.adarshr.com/papers/xmpp2 Ever wondered if you could control your Google Talk programmatically? How about a scrolling status message? How does Google Talk actually work? Find out all about this and more in "Fun with XMPP and Google Talk, Part 2" at http://www.adarshr.com/papers/xmpp2. Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.adarshr.com/papers/xmpp2 http://www.adarshr.com/feeds Now that www.adarshr.com has syndication enabled, you will never miss any update I make or any new work that I publish. Subscribe using your favourite RSS Feed reader and stay up to date. Sat, 3 Nov 2007 20:00:00 GMT http://www.adarshr.com/feeds http://www.adarshr.com/papers/renamex A practical problem that resulted in a small utility. This is a Windows batch script that renames just the file extensions of multiple files at once. Includes multiple options. Tested on Windows XP and Vista. Sat, 3 Nov 2007 00:30:00 GMT http://www.adarshr.com/papers/renamex http://www.adarshr.com/papers/xmpp "Fun with XMPP and Google Talk" is a technical research article I have come up with, to discuss some of the amazingly exciting features and intricacies of XMPP with a parallel insight of Google Talk. This is the first of a two part series on the subject. Have a look and let me know what you think. Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.adarshr.com/papers/xmpp http://www.adarshr.com/papers/recursive#c1 This weekend, I redesigned comments section of pages which support posting the same. The usual boring boxes are gone. Enter callouts. Have a look at it yourself, at http://www.adarshr.com/papers/recursive#c1. Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:00:00 GMT http://www.adarshr.com/papers/recursive#c1