Hello everyone,

In case you haven't noticed, I have not been very active for the last 6-7 weeks. It's not because I don't like you all - it's because I am a member of my high school's FIRST Robotics Team (4265). I was asked to take the role of senior programmer and hopefully program this robot.

For those of you who do not...

Recently, I've been having to do a lot more work in just plain 'ol Unix at work. No X-server or anything. This literally means that on my Windows system, I have a Unix emulator (cygwin) where I SSH into the server on which I do some work. I recently wrote a Java program on my windows machine, FTP'ed it over and ran it. The problem was...

Because data is the foundation of computing, it is very important to understand how they work. Some of the most notorious hacks through hacker history have occurred because the programmer made an invalid assumption of the data. Take C's scanf() function. What happens when a user inputs a set of characters that is too large for the buffer?...

One of the most common beginner questions that I hear from Java beginners is "How to make Java executable file". Well, there are several interpretations of this:

How do I make an executable Java program?
How do I make a native...

Have you ever wondered how to make a draw interface like the one you see in OpenOffice Draw? Today, I am going to show you not just how to draw with the mouse, but also how to make the panel that you draw on appear in the center of a screen (so that it looks like a sheet of paper). The only thing that I will not show you how to do today is to zoom...