Archive for February, 2008

Accessing Private Methods in Java

Monday, February 18th, 2008

In every introductory Java programming class (and probably every tutorial or book), students are taught that private fields and methods can only be accessed by methods of the same class. Though this would seem to be a security control, using private visibility can be easily overridden, as shown below: [sourcecode language="php"] import ...

Web 2.0 Roundup

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

E-Mail G-Mail: Google as started offering its popular e-mail client for use on hosted networks. Webmail.us: Sproutit: Word Processing Writely: Probably the best online word processor available. Writeboard: Another quite good online word processor. Ralleypoint: Jotspot Live: Zoho Writer: Spreadsheet Numsum: The best online spreadsheet. EditGrid: Nice-looking spreadsheet -- check it out! iRows: Another excellent online spreadsheet. Jotspot Tracker: Combines a spreadsheet with a ...