Note: This tip has been updated, please see Tab Completion for Vim (Updated) instead.

As much as I like vim, Netbeans trumps it when we talk about automatic syntax completion.

It is not well known fact that Java can actually handle variable length arguments passed to its method calls.

ctags is a great tool for programmers. It creates an index to your source code to allow you to trawl through them for cross referencing.

It isn’t too uncommon to find these images of captchas on websites we visit anymore these days, where it is frequently used to identify humans from computer bot spammers.

Ant is a great tool for compiling large projects with a large number of Java files.

Normally I’ve only used the 'netstat' command to find out what are the sockets opened in the operating system by using '-a' flag, but the new thing I’ve discovered recently is that netstat even allows me to track the processes that are opening them, via the '-p' flag.

java.lang.Object is the mother of all objects in the Java world.