Master of science in Web Services development

I have just finished my last exam for the master. Right now is the last sprint to the end, I have to make a paper and an application on Web services for a modern educational system.

I have decided to make a challenge out of this paper and write the application in C#. I’m a Java developer mostly and making it in JSP would render in me learning almost nothing out of it. So as the paper will start to progress I will try to post all my findings, all that I learn in this blog or maybe writing longer articles in the article section of this site.

JSP/Java – strip_tags() PHP like function

Another PHP function that is very used is strip_tags.
This function tries to return a string with all HTML tags stripped from a given string.

   1:      public static String strip_tags(String text, String allowedTags) {

   2:          String[] tag_list = allowedTags.split(",");

   3:          Arrays.sort(tag_list);

   4:   

   5:          final Pattern p = Pattern.compile("<[/!]?([^\\\\s>]*)\\\\s*[^>]*>",

   6:                  Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);

   7:          Matcher m = p.matcher(text);

   8:   

   9:          StringBuffer out = new StringBuffer();

  10:          int lastPos = 0;

  11:          while (m.find()) {

  12:              String tag = m.group(1);

  13:              // if tag not allowed: skip it

  14:              if (Arrays.binarySearch(tag_list, tag) < 0) {

  15:                  out.append(text.substring(lastPos, m.start())).append(" ");

  16:   

  17:              } else {

  18:                  out.append(text.substring(lastPos, m.end()));

  19:              }

  20:              lastPos = m.end();

  21:          }

  22:          if (lastPos > 0) {

  23:              out.append(text.substring(lastPos));

  24:              return out.toString().trim();

  25:          } else {

  26:              return text;

  27:          }

  28:      }

How smart a book character can be.

I was watching the other day a movie. It’s not important what movie it was, what is important is the movie pictured a smart and cool character. Well… the problem was that I did not consider him to be quite so smart. There were certain situations where I thought he could have behaved better. Now I’m just bragging.

OK. But now let’s be serious about it. How smart a book character can be. Well, I guess, not smarter then the author who portray him. But a good book is not required to have a smart character. There are books written to be funny, to inspect the human mind or soul or whatever. But there are books in which the action revolves around a character, a strong character, a smart character. He defines the book.

I’m a S.F. fan and one of the characters that have impressed me is was Hari Sheldon from the Foundation series written by the Isaac Asimov. But hey, he was a university professor with a PhD in chemistry and with over 500 volumes written. So, I may say, quite a smart man. No wander his characters are very well written. And the list can continue.

Copyright

Today I have searched for a license for a product I’m doing at work. This product is free but in the same time it is not open source so I can not assign any of the GPL licenses type.

So in search for a proper license I have found (in fact a colleague of mine told me about it) a site that is proposing licenses for the work you are doing. This site is http://creativecommons.org/ and I’ve decided to add one of their licenses to this blog.

Nice..