The problem with the ATM Menus

August 6, 2011

Now, lets do a small exercise. Have a look at the below photo and tell me which button will you press to see the balance in your account? second one…or the third one? No, 2.5 isn’t the right answer. I figured it out that the third button will do the balance checking while the second [...]

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5 tips that you might not know about Notepad++

August 2, 2011

Notepad++ is the lightest yet powerful text editor I’ve ever came across. It’s fast, slick and has been my default text editor for years. In the past, I’ve learned/discovered few tips that helped me a lot while using Notepad++. In this post, I’m sharing those tips in the hope that it might help someone else [...]

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Wall paintings at Chennai

July 17, 2011

Days back, I visited the Theevu Thidal area for a photo shoot. Theevu thidal is located right next to the infamous Marina Beach and is one of the few places in Chennai where several exhibitions took place. It’s a huge ground surrounded by walls and long walking platforms. Years back, the localities were using that [...]

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Git tutorial – branching and merging

June 28, 2011

Lets say that you have pushed your code live and now want to code for a new feature. And, suddenly a bug found in your live code (it happens! a LOT!) which needs an immediate fix from you. Now, you have two different coding tasks in your hand. Code for your feature – which you [...]

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Thank you friends! This blog is now 3 years old.

June 21, 2011

Well, well, well, I completely forgot that I started this blog on this same month, three years ago. Yes! Now this blog completes 3 years and steps into the fourth year. Of course, without your support and feedback, this wouldn’t have happened. So, thank you one and all for reading my blog and encouraging me [...]

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Choosing a date time picker UI – jQuery

June 19, 2011

I had a requirement to add an input control for users to select date time range. User will be selecting two values – start time and end time. For both the values, the date is same. Only the time differs. For example, the values could be 6/19/2011 10:30 to 6/19/2011 11:30. I am using jQuery [...]

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Git tutorial – comparing files with diff

June 17, 2011

Continuing from my last post, which explained my Git workflow, in this post I’m sharing how to compare different versions of files. Before that, you might want to read the Getting started with Git post too if you haven’t done already. The main objective of version controlling is to enable you to work with different [...]

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Git Tutorial – My Git work flow

June 16, 2011

As I promised on my previous article on Getting started with Git, here is how I use Git in my day to day activities. Rather than explaining with a real project that I’m working (which I can’t share!), I’m taking the ‘Hello World’ approach. What I’m going to do is to create a text file [...]

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Git Tutorial – Getting Started

June 15, 2011

I was a long time Subversion user then. So, when I got introduced to Git few months back, I was *really* confused. First of all, I couldn’t visualize some of the concepts that Git talked about. But then, as I started using Git in my day-to-day work, it got much easy to use and understand. [...]

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Log4j Tutorial – Writing different log levels in different log files

May 4, 2011

Hi there! I have created a small eBook explaining about Log4j. Its completely free! But if you feel this blog/eBook helped you in someway, you could consider donating a small amount.Download the Log4j PDF (200 KB) Recently one of my blog reader Surisetty send me a question, asking me if it is possible to write [...]

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