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.
Maven has made compiling Java projects almost an effortless job. You no longer need to worry about placing all the required class files in your classpath. All you have to do is to include dependencies in your POM file and Maven takes care of the rest. It automatically downloads the jar file that your project […]
Yesterday the WordPress team released WordPress version 2.6 ahead of schedule. While you will not notice any major visual changes in this release from WordPress 2.5 but there are some significant security enhancements and bug fixes. Other features that many bloggers will like include Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web Post […]
Today Entrecard announced a partnership with SezWho. SezWho is a universal profile service for the social web that improves community engagement and enables content discovery to be added to blogs, forums, message boards and other social sites. By partnering with SezWho, Entrecard team is providing yet another incentive for bloggers to leave meaningful comments on […]
Last week I got a project to create a slideshow for a website. My first choice was to go with famous and somewhat ubiquitous LightBox. I actually started creating the slideshow using LightBox but then I thought there must be some other alternative. I am not saying LightBox is not good it’s just too common. […]
Last week I started compiling a list of useful resources containing tips, tricks and tutorials for web developers. During my research for the post I came across this wonderful post at BlogWell. After reading the post I abandoned my own post because I think this post provides a comprehensive list of resources from online code […]
For PL/SQL developers put_line is a quite useful method. I use it for logging purposes. Recently I found out that the method has an annoying limitation. You cannot print more than 255 characters per line! Now that is a strange feature. I don’t know what is the reasoning behind this restriction but it does make […]