Online Java IDE

     If you are a programmer, or even if you just code as a hobby, you will know how important having a well equipped IDE is for the creation and debugging of code.

     While web development can be handled easily using the built-in tools that come with popular browsers such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, certain other languages such as C++ or Java requires an IDE hundreds of megabytes in size. While it is strongly recommended that you go for a full IDE (Especially considering how most of them are free) if you are working on something serious, having to download and install a large file just for the execution of a few lines of code you picked up on the way can be a tedious process.

    In such cases, online IDE's are the way to go. These are websites that allow you to write, compile, debug, and execute code while using minimal data as the IDE is located in the website's server.

     I made a post about an online C++ shell a while ago, and now it's time to look at a Java IDE.

http://www.compilejava.net/ does the job beautifully well, no questions asked. 

It claims to be a Java compiler created in PHP, and allows you to key in code or paste source and see the compiler as well as the program output as the program runs. You can even enter command line arguments if necessary, and the whole thing comes with a number of delightful markup formats.

     Oh, the compiler is fully online, completely free to use, and no annoying registrations are required. Truly a great service!

Grab your free copy of The Byzantium now!

     The Byzantium, the novel published by Aswin G, the author of this blog, is FREE on Amazon on October 25, 2015. Make sure you grab it!

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Original post describing the book : http://agzuniverse.blogspot.in/2015/09/the-byzantium-aswin-gs-debut-novel.html

Want to count words in an article?

     The first and foremost thing we look for when we start off writing an essay or article is the word limit. Whether it is an official limit set by others or just a personal limit to control the size of your work, knowing how much words are in your document is always a pain to find out.

     While it's not difficult to know exactly how much words are there in a text, thanks to Microsoft Word's handy feature that displays the word count on the status bar, knowing how much words that actually count towards the word limit is the real trouble, as a usual word count excludes all common words such as 'the', 'and', 'is' etc. 

     The website www.wordcounttools.com is a perfect solution to this, giving you a complete analysis of any piece of text. You can upload text in a wide variety of file formats or paste it into the given box, and you get quite a bit of details regarding the text. These include, word and character count, unique words count, difficult words count, readability level and much more.

A particularly useful feature is the keyword density indicator, which shows how often you use unique words. This becomes really useful in removing excessive repetitions of the same word in an essay, article or story, instantly making it better.

Timezone conversion

We've all been at that point of frustration because we just cannot find out the timing of that football match in our own timezone. Sure, the official site says CET 7pm, but that means nothing to me. In the end we've always had to hunt down timezone conversion sites to do the work for us.

Thankfully, there are quite a few, like:

5) EveryTimeZone
www.everytimezone.com
What I love about this site is it's simple description: "Never warp your brain with timezone math again"

Unfortunately, it just allows you to see your local time and the equivalent times in 14 evenly spread timezones across 3 days. Still, pretty handy, and dead easy to understand.

4) WorldTimeBuddy

http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
World Time Buddy is a tool that allows you to calculate the time on any day, across any amount of time zones of your choice from all the timezones in the world.

Really useful, but reading time zones will take more than just a glance, as the interface is not exactly simplified.

3) TimeZoneConverter

http://www.timezoneconverter.com/
Time Zone Converter is much tidier and simple to use: You set the date, key in the time, and choose the from and to conversion options for timezones.

Quite a step forward from the previous two, and really nice to use.

2) TheTimeZoneConverter
http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/

This website's URL may have only a 'The' extra, but it is massively different from all usual timezone converters. This one follows a simple and stripped-down design. Like, really, really, stripped-down design.

That's pretty much all it has.

The flip side to this simplicity is, you can't convert timezones for days other than the current one. But really, it's all you need.

1) TimeAndDate

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Time and Date is perhaps the best of the bunch. An elegant user interface easily allows you to convert between every relevant timezone including compensation for things like daylight saving, and also has a catalog of national time zones and other extras.

So next time you decide to find out whether you would have to stay up all night to watch your fav band's live show on TV, you know which site to hop on!