These days it is very important to be informed, mobile and connected with the other parts of the world. The future of development is in the applications for mobile devices. One very useful feature of these devices is their GPS module, which provides your current location. In this post I will show you how to use the coordinates from the GPS in a Google Android application running in the background.

Load time optimization is important not only to maximize your site’s user-friendliness, but also to optimize your web site’s search rankings. These nine tips are intended to help webmasters improve efficiency and rank better in order to get the most out of their web presence.

There are a lot of tutorials and posts explaining how to display a chart in a web application and which libraries to use. I am going to show the process from receiving the http request from the client to sending the response back from the server. I will share my real experience with JFreeChart and the servlet technology for creating and displaying dynamic charts in Java based web application.

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a set of rules for encoding documents electronically. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C. XML’s design goals emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability over the Internet. Although XML’s design focuses on documents, it is widely used for the representation of arbitrary data structures, for example in web services. A variety of APIs for accessing XML have been developed and used, and some have been standardized.