Javascript is an interesting language. Its partly a functional programming language and part object oriented. It uses a C style syntax but borrows its naming conventions from Java (mostly). Personally I find Javascript language to be one of the most interesting languages that I have played with. The complaints I hear most often regarding Javascript [...]
When making an xmlhttprequest from a website the browser will restrict you to the site from which the script came. This is a security precaution. If sites were able to tell the browser to make requests from other domains then they would be able to DDOS a site with a users browser. There are legitimate [...]
What is a Daemon?
A daemon is a program that runs in the background. A daemon will usually be started at system startup and end at system shutdown. The exceptions to this rule are programs like the Bluetooth SDP daemon, which is activated when a new Bluetooth HCI is found,, and ends when it is removed. [...]
One of the biggest features of Java 1.5 was generics. In particular all the collection classes had been extended to use parametrized classes. Normally the collection classes accepted and returned Objects which is the class all other Java classes descend from. Unfortunately this meant that you had to cast everything you got back out of [...]
The Random Class
Most people wanting to generate random numbers in Java do something similar to the following:
public static void main(String[] args) {
Random generator = new Random();
int randomnumber = generator.nextInt(5) + 1;
System.out.println("Dice rolled: " + randomnumber);
}
This is perfectly fine for a simple dice rolling application where there isn’t going to [...]