I have released another Google gadget. This one is similar to the Java Search gadget but has options to search the documentation for languages other then Java.

So far the languages/technologies that have search options are:
Java, PHP, Ruby, CSS, HTML, Linux command line, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Javascript.

Bellow the gadget is embedded into the page so you can give it a try.

If you would like to add the gadget to your iGoogle click the following button.

If anyone finds a bug or would like me to add an API please leave a comment.

When you have a lot of jar files that need to be loaded into the CLASSPATH especially if the jar’s are upgraded and change there name often, updating the Manifest file or the command line arguments is a pain.

This script will load all of the jars from a lib dir before starting up your application. That way when you have a new jar you can just drop it in your lib directory (and remove the old one).

#/bin/bash

for i in /MYAPP/lib/*; do
	echo adding $i to CLASSPATH
	CLASSPATH=$i:$CLASSPATH
	export CLASSPATH
done;

/usr/local/java/bin/java com.kumkee.application.Main

str = '6b 75 6d 6b 65 65 65 2e 63 6f 6d'
str.split(' ').each { |val|
  print val.hex.chr
}

or you could just use centricle.com ASCII - HEX Converter

The MySQL slow query log parser converts your slow query logs in to a more usable format.
It also adds some interesting information like median and average times.

For more information on it and a link to download the script go to the MySQL Slow Query Log Page

UPDATE: A new version of this gadget has been released. It is called the Developer Search Gadget and can be found here.
This version has support for languages other then Java like Ruby, PHP, CSS, and JavaScript etc.

The Java search Google Gadget searches the JavaDocs and Other API documentation for common API’s that I use.

So far you can use it to search:

• 1.6 JavaDoc
• 1.5.0 JavaDoc
• 1.4.2 JavaDoc
• Java Developers Almanac 1.4
• Servlet API 2.2
• Apache Axis
• Hibernate 3
• JConfig
• JDOM
• Jetty
• JGroups
• JUnit
• Log4j
• Memcached Java API
• Spring Framework

In the future I plan on adding:

• Ability to add API’s
• Feeling lucky search that goes to the first search result (DONE)

If anyone finds a bug or would like me to add an API please comment bellow.
If you want me to add an API for a project a link to the current JavaDocs would be good thanks.

** UPDATE 1st April 2007
Today I added a “I’m feeling lucky” search box that will go straight to the first search result page.
It also automatically selects the contents of the search box when it gets focus.

Probably the most interesting talk that I have heard in a long time. Han Rosling talk about some of the misconceptions that we have about the developing world. He has some interesting data comparing the differences between income, population and life expectancy over the last 50 years and shows them with some pretty amazing graphs.