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A few months ago (see related posts) i released a small package for a XOR encryption in C. Now, here i am with an even smaller program for XOR encryption in Java. As expected, in Java it was way easier to implement it than C. No pointer loses, no "segmentation faults" no nothing. Nice and sweet. But let's take things one at a time.

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It seems that since i purchased the domain i've been having some issues. Sometimes the blog is down and inaccessible.  Do you get this too or is it just me? I called Godaddy's(my hoster) customer support, they were very friendly indeed (their customer support has always been there for me even though i am from the 'cheap' customers). But, at the time i called the site was resolving correctly so they couldn't see any problems. I will be monitoring the situation and i apologise for any inconvinience. If you have the same problem at any time, come back a bit later and please report the problem to me. I realy need to iron this out

Thanks again and sorry for any problems!

On the previous articles we mentioned both overloading and overriding but we didn't pay sufficient attention to them. Those two meanings are among the most important ones in Object Oriented programming and design. It's not a matter of usage it's a matter of design and elegant programming. Let's take a closer look on both of them.

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In this area there are alot of tutorials and howto's but here is a small step by step on how i did it.

1. Copy all the files from the old blog to your new folder.
2. Open your database with a manager like phpMyAdmin or in a console. You need to edit the table wp-options and change the values for two variables "home" and "siteurl". In there you will see there is the old address of your site. Just change them to reflect the new ones. If you want to change a DB server then you can get a dump from the database and edit the values in a simple notepad editor.
3. Optionaly, make sure that if you change a db server, wp_config.php is reflecting the new values.
4. You should be set up by now. Wordpress will take care of the rest. When i say the rest i mean two big things. Internal links, which will be updated automaticaly and the .htaccess file which will also be recreated by the platform (i love wp did i tell you that? ).

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Just a quickie here to inform you guys i had a small problem with my comments. There was a plugin actiavted that i did not notice with the new theme. All comments submited never vent through so if you commented after the theme change, comment again Sorry for the inconvinience and thanks for comming back

PS: If you see any more glitches please use the contact form to mail me. I'd appreciate it!

Yes i bet you noticed! First of all today is my birthday so let us all sing:

Happy birthday to you,
you belong to the zoo,
with the donkeys and monkeys,
and the others like you!

Yes i officially turn 24 today. Now to the point. This blog started a year or so ago, based on Jasmine CMS. It was something i did just for fun and it started as something that i would rarely write to with some big tutorial or something i wanted to share. Moreover, back then, i didn't feel the need to open a blog since i had (and actually still have) stratosector.net. But then i felt like i wanted to go a step ahead and Jasmine was not the way to go. I always had wordpress as the best blogging platform out there so i installed it on the old link on February 2008. I did it thinking "let's see how it goes". I didn't think of purchasing a new domain for it cause blogging could easily be something that will fade out a few weeks later.

Now after almost six months, i see that it is a constant thing i do, i went over my 100th post and i realy thought of getting a domain for it and make it look more like something mine, something it's here to stay. So here i am. What a better domain than stratos.me! Yup, it's me! So, i hope you like the new domain and stick around for the more to come.

By the way, i will surely post a small tutorial on how to migrate wordpress installation. See you all around!

The previous three courses were just the beggining. In the last one we started getting somewhere since we could see what is a constructor and what overloading is. A fundamental thing on object oriented programming is called "inheritance". On real life it is what a parent (on most cases) leaves to a child. In programming it is a bit similar but different.

When creating a class we can define a series of class relationships where one class subclasses, as we call it, another one. This way it can use all the modeling that the mother class has adding it's own functionality that it will make it unique.

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Today a wave of upgrades is going on all over the world. Wordpress released the new 2.6 release called Tyner. I was thinking on upgrading or not. At first i thought i'd pass on the upgrade and let all the problems come out and then after a couple of weeks upgrade. One more thing that kept me was that i had to go through a big process on upgrading (getting backups, uploading, deactivating plugins, upgrading, activating plugins, make sure everything went fine etc). And what if something went wrong? This would mean alot of work on reuploading, setting up etc. But reading blogs here and there everybody sai they used the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin that did all the dirty job for them. It does everything automaticaly so, this eliminated the whole process thing. After this i couldn't help it. I had to upgrade and check out all the new features that the wordpress team announced. So here we are. Upgraded and ready on to version 2.6. I wish all the best to the wordpress team and their great work!

On the previous 2 articles of the series we started our first steps towards Java programming. I hope i made clear on how Java works in general and what a scope is. In the previous tutorial we issued a "new" and created an instance but we had no clue what was going on there. It is time to take a closer look in there.

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Yes people! After 5 months of work i am finaly reaching my 100th post! MyBlog is something that started as "a good idea" that "i could contribute" or "vent off" or whatever. Now it has over 20 tutorials, almost 30 quick guides and many funny and personal entries.

This period, i must admit, it was a test of wether i will last on blogging or it is something that crossed my mind. As it shows up after 5 months i am here to stay One noticable stat is that i have 20 posts per month which means 2 posts every three days. I am well satisfied with this and i will try to keep up this rythm. So Thanks to all my readers and commenters fro keep coming back and making me feel i am doing something here.

I would like to take a moment here and thank my most loyal commenters Siddharth, Rockstar Sid and #FN$# for keep coming back and commenting. They make me see that something is happening and probably are one more reason i am still here. So, i hope i get more people coming back and have more to thank on my 200th post!