I always feel bad when people arrive at this site and do not find what they where looking for. That is why I implemented this little series called “Questions and Answers” or “Answering Questions nobody asked me since 1777”. Most of these Questions are based on search terms over which users arrived at this site (a little creepy or nice and helpful? Who is to say) and some I got via email (if you too have a programming questions feel free to send me an email via the contact button above). So lets get right to it:

“does declaring a static variable in java kill the performance?”

Book Overview The Book Effective Java by Joshua Bloch is about the Java programming language for people who are already familiar with Java in general but are not yet proficient. If you can write java code but want to start becoming a java expert, this book might be for you! Summary of Effective Java The book is structured in 11 Chapters containing 78 items. An item is a concept, hint or rule that can be read on its own thus allowing the reader to browse through the book in no particular order.

This post will list all my book recommendations / reviews. Books on Java Programming Language Effective Java The Book Effective Java by Joshua Bloch is about the Java programming language for people who are already familiar with it in general but are not yet proficient. If you can write java code but want to start becoming an expert, this book might be for you! Read the Book Review of Effective Java.

Play the game Breakout. Destroy bricks, bounce balls, have fun with this awesome clone of the classic arcade game.

It is written in Java with the libgdx library, so it can be played on the PC, Android as well as online. The java source code of this game is open and can be downloaded as well.

• Breakout Game Description
• Breakout Game Controlls
• ToDos and known issues
• Breakout Screenshots
• Download Breakout Game and Java Source Code

This is the forth part of the series Symfony2 Tutorial for Beginners which will describe the process of creating an interactive contact page. This part of the Symfony2 tutorial has the goal to deepen the understanding of controllers and Twig templates. Furthermore forms will be introduced so that at the end of this tutorial the reader will be able to create an interactive page with the symfony2 framework. Creating the Contact Entity Creating the Form Class Twig template to render a form Adding the Controller Action Flash-Messages: Feedback across requests Replacing hard-coded strings / Using configurable settings Creating the Contact Entity First of all, create a directory Entity   in which all entities will reside from now on.

This is the third part of the series Symfony2 Tutorial for Beginners which will describe the process of creating a static page. We will create a controller that will define a route as well as the action for this route. Furthermore we will create a basic template in twig and the impressum page itself. Creating the Route and the Controller Creating the View (Twig) Creating the Route and the Controller The first thing one has to do when adding a new page to a website is to define how the user can reach it and what part of the code should be executed in order to show it.

This is the second part of the series Symfony2 Tutorial for Beginners which will describe the process of configuring Netbeans to work with the php framework Symfony2. Prerequisites Enabling Php in Netbeans Creating Symfony2 Project in Netbeans A short note on Symfony2 directory structure Configuring your Webserver Configure Symfony2 Working with Netbeans and Symfony2 Prerequisites Things that should already be up-and-running: Webserver (e.g. Apache) DBMS (e.

This is the first part of the series Symfony2 Tutorial for Beginners. It will give a short overview over the functionality of the website we are going to build.

For the purpose of this tutorial, I will keep the functionality that will need to be planned at a minimum.

We will develop a Website which will have an Impressum (static page), a contact page (interactive page), and a page which lists news posted by a site admin (persistence). The news may be in one or more categories.

• The Model
• The View
• Use Cases

The series Symfony2 Tutorial for Beginners will describe the development of a website with Symfony2 step by step. At the end of this tutorial the reader should be able to set up a Symfony2 project and design a basic interactive website with multiple pages, forms, logins and persistable data. Symfony2 Tutorial Part 1: The Planning Stage of Website Development Part 2: Netbeans and Symfony2: Setting everything up Part 3: The first static Page: Routing, Templates, Twig Part 4: User Submissions: Controller, Forms, E-Mail Part 5: Storing Data: Entities, Doctrine, Sql Further Reading Symfony2 – The Book: Information on the basics of Symfony2 Symfony2 – The Cookbook: In depth description of specific aspects of Symfony2 Creating a blog in Symfony2: Also a great tutorial for Symfony2 A fast introduction to Symfony2: Compact overview of Symfony2 functionality with examples

LogEval parses and analyses server log files such as Apache or Nginx logs. LogEval can be used instead of web-analysis tools such as Google Analytics or Piwik to save resources or in addition to those tools to get a broader picture of the webserver traffic.

• Comments on the Code
• Functionality of LogEval
• Usage
• Example Charts from log file analysis
• Download LogEval – the free Server Log Analyzer