After a prolonged break forced on by my busy schedule am back with my series of stones on the basics of socket programming in Java. In my previous post I told you about the bare bones of socket programming. Questions such as, “what are sockets?”, “what protocols will we be using” was dealt with in my previous post, if you haven’t gone through that I suggest you do before reading further on in this article. [...]

What would be your Dream Job ? Almost all of us long for a multinational company that makes billions and rakes in huge profit every year. What if the company is something like Facebook ? With no doubts, Facebook is the biggest online craze at the present state and given a chance, anybody wouldn’t have second thoughts about joining the Facebook team. But hiring at Facebook is intense. Facebook recruits from top level universities after [...]

Many of us have spent hours playing games like Farmville, Sims, taking quiz like ‘When are you going to marry’, ‘Who will kill you’ etc in Facebook. Ever wondered how they are built? Ever wanted to built something like that? Ever felt like making your own app to amaze your friends? Don’t worry, it isn’t that difficult. In this series, I will talk about building a Facebook Application from scratch and by the end of [...]