NadeauSoftware.com articles from April, 2008

Java tip: How to list and find threads and thread groups

Dave_Nadeau — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:38:14 -0700

Java's threads are essential for building complex applications, but thread control is split across several classes in different packages added at different times in the JDK's history. This tip shows how to connect these classes together to find threads and thread groups, and get thread information.

PHP tip: How to extract keywords from a web page

Dave_Nadeau — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:12:00 -0700

Web page keywords characterize the page's topic for a search engine. Extracting keywords requires that you recognize the page's character encoding, strip away HTML tags, scripts, and styles, decode HTML entities, and remove unwanted punctuation, symbols, numbers, and stop words. This article shows how.