Blogger App on iPhone

Blogger.com launch an iPhone application for updating our blogs.
This is my first article written using the app.
I've installed the app since 9/9/2011, but having problem logging in until right now, 14/9/2011 20:30.

It is nice app, but for me it is still difficult to write long articles using iPhone.

Restart Java

After several years trying new things with .NET programming, especially C#, and many times back and forth with C and C++, now I think it might be good to go back and see where I came from...JAVA.

It's not easy to find my way back to Java, it has been about 4 years and now it's Oracle. I felt lost on my first sight at Java-Oracle site, but I think it's still very well organized. So...it's nice, but there's still much to do...I guess.

First things first...let's see what kind of technologies we can find in Java:

• Java SE
• Java Platform, Standard Edition. This is mainly used for desktop application programming. It has all components needed to build a windowed application. You can also use it for an embedded system, because many of such systems are now supported with sufficient hardware specifications.
• Java EE
• Java Platform, Enterprise Edition. You can use this technology to build an enterprise application, which is normally distributed over a network and uses a lot of resources. The most wellknown usage is to build web applications.
• Java ME
• Java Platform, Micro Edition. You use this technology to develop mobile applications, including those run in embedded devices.
• Java FX
• Java Platform, JavaFX. I think you will need this to build "beautiful" application with good performance...nice GUI...rich interaction...and so on.

We will see those technologies one by one as I come to build applications on them. But like I said earlier, I will start from the beginning and get my hands dirty, and for that I will need the JDK (you can find the latest version here) and the IDEs (ofcourse you can always use simple text editor for that, but I am too lazy to do terminal/console writing). For the IDEs, I use both Netbeans and JDeveloper. You can also use Eclipse, but personally I find it too complicated configuring it right now.

So, if you get all things set up...let's wait for the upcoming posts on Programming - Java.

Problem Viewing Your Google Adsense?

Recently, I have a problem vieweing my Google Adsense on my websites with one of my notebooks. Using my other notebook and my desktop PC, there is no problem viewing those adsenses. I have tried installing other browsers, but there was no sign of enlightenment, and I could not see adsenses.

The first suspect was the installed antivirus program. I compared the settings because for all my machines I use the same antivirus program, but there was no clue at all. All my machines use Windows Platform (Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7 Ultimate).

After searching in Google, I have found posts on some forums mentioning about hosts-file in Windows which is used to translate human-friendly address into IP address. Usually we use hosts-file to create loopback addresses so that several requests to some addresses will be redirected automatically into our computer.

In my hosts-file found in C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\ on my troubled notebook I see an entry look like this:

127.0.0.1        pagead2.googlesyndication.com

This is must be the cause of the problem. So after I delete that line....VOILLA!!! I can see those adsenses again using any browser. Who has addes that line into that file remains unknown...but it doesn't matter right now as long I can view the adsenses.