I strongly support the Naramada Bachao Andolan spearheaded by Ms. Medha Patekar. She is on a indefinite fast to promote the cause of several thousands of people in the valley and for protecting the ecosystem.
This is for WordPress Plugin and Theme developers. Don't read further if you are not one of them.
To get an extra argument in your filter (say for a 'bloginfo' filter) you have to specify not 2 but actually 4 as number of arguments in add_filter (read below for details). The returned data are: first argument, filter name, first argument, second argument
Java / J2EE (Java EE) API development should now focus on adding ease of use methods to the API. Often such methods will be redundant. However such redundancy is welcome as de-normalization for faster data access. Java is lagging behind PHP in ease of use.
In my experience much of the complexities a newcomer faces in the Java world is understanding extraneous stuff like handling exceptions or formatting data etc.
Today I was requested for the nth time (n -> infinity) how to write a simple socket client and server (actually debug one). Java tutorial is good but it is not simple. This is a very simple example of a Echo server and client. It minimally handles extraneous stuff to give simplicity to the procedure.