Suppose you have a large application running in production. A production issue has been reported to you. You are not sure what the problem is. You want to add some log statements to the code. Perhaps you want to try out a small fix too – a 3 line change in the code of a [...]

Google Webmaster Tools allows website owners to prove to Google that they are the owner of a particular website. To do this, a Webmaster needs to register on Google Webmaster Tools. He is then given a code that he needs to place at a certain location on his website. Google will then send a crawler [...]

FTP has two basic transmission channels – A control channel (for FTP commands) A data channel In an Active mode FTP session the data channel is established by the server initiating a connection to the client. This quite often turns out to be a problem for a client that is behind a corporate Firewall / [...]

Recently, I was writing code to transfer data to third party servers. In some cases my interface to them was SFTP (Secure FTP) and in others FTPS (FTP-SSL). And existing coding for one of these really didn’t take care of the other. I evaluated and tested a few different libraries to see which would work [...]