Reading and writing to a URL connection, thanks to Java.

If you only want to compare yyyy-mm-dd you can use the java.sql.Date class, the valueOf method does the trick. It's perfectly safe as the sql Date class is a subclass of the Date class.

Check out the docs here for more detail.

enjoy

Based on "Random Password Generation"

This code illustrates using ruby REXML package. It converts J2EE web application deployment descriptor web.xml into Freemind mindmap document.

Strip HTML Tags From a String

Gets a regular expression that'll search for any regexp pattern specified in the parameters.

I like to have these two methods in my toolbelt, even though it's syntactic sugar, I think it aids clarity.

Read a eight bytes in little endian order from the given InputStream and create a long out of them.

Truncate String

Convert a password returned by JPasswordField::getPassword() into a String.