Image credit:lloydi Have you been typing HTML entities by hand to include special characters in your blog post. For example to include < sign you will have to write "<" in your post. It is fine if you have only few special characters in a post. But it quickly becomes cumbersome if your post is […]
Today I stumbled upon a rather useful website. CSS Color Chart contains a neutral colors code chart and a general-purpose color code chart. You can easily toggle between Hex and RGB codes for the colors. In addition to the color code this site has the English name of every color. I’ve bookmarked the website and […]
In Spring MVC, DispatcherServlet relies on handler mapping to determine which controller the request should be sent to. All handler mapping classes in Spring implement org.springframework.web.servlet.HandlerMapping interface. Spring distribution contains following four implementation of HandlerMapping interface. BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping SimpleUrlHandlerMapping ControllerClassNameHandlerMappign CommonsPathMapHandlerMapping BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping is the simplest of all and DispatcherServlet looks for this mapping by default. You […]
One of the most popular file-sharing applications DropBox has a new and improved web interface. It now offers a new and improved navigation. They have also transformed their FAQ section into a comprehensive help center. I think the most important feature is the ability to drag and drop files and folders on the web interface. […]
If you do a lot of repetitive typing, you may want to consider using PhraseExpress. This recently updated text-replacement application can save you a lot of key strokes. PhraseExpress saves you countless keystrokes and expands custom abbreviations into frequently used text snippets. Typing ‘btw’ expands into ‘by the way’ or typing ‘excel’ can open your […]
Sometimes when you upload or FTP files from a Windows system to a UNIX box you will see ^M at the end of each line. ^M is the UNIX equivalent of DOS line break. Not only does it not look pretty, this extra character may break all sorts of scripts that you try to run […]
Ever wanted to use a shade of color you found on a website or an image on your own website? You can find out the text color, background color etc. by looking at the source code of the web page (most often going through the stylesheet documents). In case of images you will need to […]
Today I’ll show you how to extract last few characters (a substring) from a string in Java. Here is the code to do this.