Veera Sundar – Java, Web and Design |

Design changes

November 8, 2011

Just a quick note to let you know that the design of this blog has been changed a bit. If you are using a wide screen monitor (> 1100 pixels), you would notice that the blog title has been moved towards the left, leaving more space for the post content. Floating the title left caused [...]

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Sorting an array of custom objects in JavaScript

November 2, 2011

Currently I’m rewriting my Timelinr application entirely using JavaScript, thus replacing PHP which is now generating the timeline. In my code, I have an Event object which looks like this: function Event(d1, d2, name) { this.start = d1; this.end = d2; this.name = name; } When the user adds an event to the timeline, I [...]

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Rock Paper Scissors and Bombs

October 30, 2011

Last Saturday, I was bored. So, thought of writing a game in JavaScript using HTML5 and CSS3 techniques. And thats how Rock Paper Scissors and Bombs came to life. It’s a simple game that is played in many parts of the world (though with different names). To play, you and the other player should choose a [...]

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Easy way for setting up the LAMP stack in Ubuntu Linux command line

October 27, 2011

Recently I got hold of an empty Rackspace server in which we have installed Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal version. My next step was to setup the LAMP stack in that server to run our PHP site. First I tried to install XAMPP for Linux. But unfortunately, it failed because XAMPP only supports 32 bit operating system [...]

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Takeaways from x.commerce conference

October 19, 2011

Last week, I attended the x.commerce conference - Innovate - where eBay launched its new platform for merchants and developers. I have already covered(or tried to cover) the event as it happens. In this post, I’m summarizing my key learning from the conference. Remove the e from e-commerce First of all, the whole point of the new x.commerce [...]

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