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Notes on programming, software design, and the occasional unexpected discovery.
When using RegEx in Java you might need to treat one or more metacharacters as ordinary characters. As a reminder, the metacharacters in a Java RegEx are: ([{^$|)?+. If you want to treat…
Read articleNowadays, AJAX is a ubiquitous technology in the IT world. When you need to create the object used to send asynchronous requests to a server, you might encounter differences between…
Read articleWhen you develop an application you might want to protect your code. A good way to accomplish this is to use obfuscation. ProGuard is a good open-source tool you can use for this purpose.…
Read articleMost programmers know how to define and use a function in JavaScript. For example, the following function displays an alert containing the string passed in as a parameter: How many…
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