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A very important warning: When you drag your folder over to the PLACES section of the Finder, make sure your image looks like the image shown above, where the folder is clearly going to be placed between two existing folders. If you drag your folder over to the left side, and you're highlighting another folder in the PLACES section, you're going to end up moving your folder to that other folder. That's a great technique for moving your folder from one place to another, but it's not what I'm trying to describe here.

I've been doing a lot of work with Java and images on Mac OS X lately, and I thought I'd share a Java method I use to get an image off the clipboard. I won't get into the details of working with an Image or a BufferedImage in this tutorial, but I will show you how to get the Image off the clipboard.

A lot of times I'm asked about software best practices, but sometimes it's easier to show a best practice by showing its opposite -- a "worst practice". With that, today I introduce you to a worst practice I call "The Pigpen Developer".

A lot of times when you're working on a Java web application you only need to deploy your JSP files. This happens, for instance, when you're just editing the JSP files to modify the look and feel of your web application. In cases like this there's no need to rebuild your entire application, deploy it, then restart your application server (Tomcat, Glassfish, JBoss, whatever).

If you've ever needed some template/boilerplate code for creating your own Perl module, here's some sample code intended to give you just what you wanted. Feel free to copy and paste the Perl code shown below and use it as a template for creating your own modules.

How to use this sample Perl module

If you've never created your own Perl module I recommend first seeing how this sample code works. Here's all you have to do to get it running: