Archive for August, 2008
Athapookkalam photos from last year’s Onam
As Onam festival is approaching fast in Kerala, here are the few snaps I took on last year’s Onam Athapookkalam competition at my work place.
Art at its best..
Athapookkalam - a close shot
In a different view
It’s a team game - the goal of festival - bringing people together
I hope, this year also I wil be [...]
How to create a horizontal navigation website using JQuery.
Horizontal based navigation websites are the ones in which the user has to scroll horizontally rather than scrolling vertically to see the contents. Basically the website flow is organized in a horizontal fashion. In this blog post, I am sharing a JQuery script to create a horizontal layout website with some interesting JQuery effects.
Demo/Download the [...]
Code snippet for including content based on post length in Wordpress
If you are using Wordpress publishing platform for your blog, you will find this code snippet useful. In some situations, you may want to add some content (advertisements, images,etc) to your blog post, only if your post length reaches certain number of words. In my case, I wanted to include Ads after my blog posts, [...]
Mozilla concept series : Future of Web browser
Mozilla, the organization behind Firefox, has recently announced a concept series to discuss about the future directions for Firefox browser. This announcement has stimulated few discussions on blogosphere. Many people are already giving their views/ideas on what the coming versions of Firefox should have. Adaptive Path, a product experience strategy and design company, has [...]
Back to AS400
Again I am back to AS400 work. For the past one year I was working in Java project. As the Java project got over, Now I am put into an AS400 project. Here after, I will be coding in RPG/CL in a not-so-good-user-interface screen.
Working in a multiple technology platform is always a challenging task. [...]
Tip to avoid typing password every time you open VSS
I have VSS (Visual Source Safe) installed on my windows XP system and every time I open VSS, it was asking me to enter user name and password. It was really irritating and I was looking for some workaround to avoid this. Below is a tip, that worked.
In Windows XP, right click on ‘My Computer’ [...]
Tools that are replaced my Windows counterparts
Windows has plenty of tools in its base. Most of them are critical to day-day-activities and few of them are not up to the market standard or they lost their share to competitor applications. Below are my list of applications that I use everyday instead of Windows apps.
Google desktop search (GDS) is more efficient and [...]