Dummy’s guide for converting character set of a web application

When developing a web application, one has to be careful about the “character encoding”. There are many options such as latin1, utf8, etc, and the best character encoding depends on the language that your targeted audience use for writing. Since most  web applications are required to handle all types of languages and, thus, are required to handle all different types [...]

Think twice before publishing your blog

Today, without putting much thought, I published one of my blog post that I should have never made publicly available. Luckily, one of my colleaque realized the mistake I made and conveyed it to me. In less than two hours of posting my blog, I made the blog private again. I verified that no one is able to access that particular post. Not only, [...]

Google Scholar Webservice (Beta)

Google Scholar is a valuable resource for all students and academic professionals. However, its potential usage is seriously limited by the lack of an API. Since Google never bothered to create one, I tried to create one myself. I have created a REST service which can take a query string and returns back first 10 [...]