Archive for July, 2008
Improving the home page with JQuery effects
I have been using very simple home page for myself for quite some time. It did not have any flashy stuffs, just plain HTML. So, wanted to improve it and used JQuery for the same. JQuery is a JavaScript library that helps the developers to easily traverse DOM elements. JQuery also comes with some pre-built, [...]
Thoughts on Java IDEs
Today I happened to see a blog post on BlueJ java IDE. That article reminded me the good old days of mine, when I used that IDE. In my 1 year professional experience and 4 years of academic experience in Java language, I have used several IDE’s for Java development. This blog post will be [...]
Is Firefox 3 a buggy browser?
I am using the Firefox version 3, which I downloaded during the Download day. I was impressed with the features that were promised by the Firefox team and decided to upgrade from version 2 to 3. Initially everything going fine, but now I am facing some issues with Firefox 3.
Firefox teaches me how to be [...]
Becoming a Java Architect!?
I have been programming in Java for close to 1 year now. All this time I was a developer who does coding and testing. I used to get the design from some of my senior and my job would be converting the design to reality. But, I feel its the time that I should start [...]
ArgoUML - a free Visio counterpart
Recently, I have been asked to evaluate a UML modeling tool, ArgoUML and below are my initial impressions on this tool:
More standards compliant (have to be familiar with all UML terms, in order to efficiently use this application!)
Generation of source code from the model (which is not supported in Visio)
Supports Java, C#, C++ and PHP [...]
Goal!
Yesterday, I watched this movie Goal - The Dream begins! It was wonderful with good story and some good football action! There is a scene in that movie, which I liked the most where Santiago was trying to play the ball without passing to anyone and finally lost the ball to a defender! The Boss [...]
Changing root password in Ubuntu
Four months back, I had installed Ubuntu on my laptop and completely forgot about that after the installation. Yesterday, when I tried to install Java and Netbeans IDE on Ubuntu, I had to do some admin works, but I dont remember what password I gave for the ‘root’ user during the installation. So, I thought [...]
Displaying the user name in SharePoint 2003
I was searching for a web part/method, which would allow me to display the currently logged in user name on SharePoint 2003 portal’s front page. Because, SharePoint 2003 does not have an inbuilt feature to show the current user name. I had to look for some work around. After googling for some time, I got [...]
TIOBE - Programming Community Index
Today, I came to know about a new website TIOBE - Programming community index, which keeps track of the popular programming languages in the world. It does so, by using search engines results and the number of programmers available for that languages and it updates the popularity index once in a month.
As on June, ‘08 [...]
Indexable Flash content!
Good news for the flash developers. Adobe has announced a project that will enable the the Yahoo! and Google search bots to index the flash contents. This means that the sites that are developed entirely on Flash technology are now searchable by the search engines. This will improve the search engine rankings for the flash [...]