Jul/090
Universal Translator for your Tweets
I thought this was going to be easy… SO much for preconceptions. Today, I’m going to give you the code to create a twitter translation App using, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Java, the Twitter API and the Google Translate API. In a future tutorial I will demonstrate cross domain Ajax to get this Application to work totally on the client side but in the mean time you will need to have a Java enabled server to execute the server-side JSP that requests the API for twitter.
As you type your tweet the the JavaScript will analyze your keystrokes and check for when a space is entered assuming you are done typing a word, at this point the text is passed to Google for translation. When your done typing hit tweet and it’s off to twitter with your tweet.
This is what your app will look like when it’s finished:
Jul/090
Java Web ‘Hello World’
As a Web Developer I naturally enjoy web development and writing a blog has always been on my mind. I start and stop and start and well. You get the message. I’ve even tried my hand at podcasting. With this post I want to introduce people to the NetBeans IDE and to get us started I want to show how to get a hello world running in java through a JSP page. In the future I’ll talk about Servlets and session handling but for now it’s get up and running time.
I love java for some reason. Maybe because it’s the first language I really sunk my teeth into. Anyhow, first off any aspiring developer should download install and familiarize themselves with an IDE. IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment. Some people swear by Eclipse because of its extensibility and it has its uses but for me NetBeans has it made. It’s released by Sun, the JAVA people so it’s got some neat features like auto formatting that make a developers life easier.
So, first you need to travel to NetBeans.org and download the latest version of NetBeans. You should be looking for the Java version or the all version. Really you just want a version that ticks the Java Web and EE box. Oh, and make sure you’ve got JavaScript enabled or you won’t see anything.
