Roll out your own Tab UI using HTML and JQuery
WHY RECREATE THE WHEEL? There are lot of tab controls out there, both using plain javascript and others using Jquery, so why the need to create our own. There are two reasons More »
ATOS SIPS Payment Gateway implementation in .NET
France based ATOS Worldline SIPS is the leading secure payment solution in Europe. They process over 250 million transactions a year for about 30,000 merchants. Though they provide comprehensive technical docs and More »
What I got for being a DZone contributor
DZone informed me in late 2012,that I was one of the top contributors in 2012, and as a mark of appreciation, they were sending me some free gifts. I got the parcel More »
Dynamically resizing IFRAME as per the inner content
An IFRAME is the best way to embed a page into another page . The main problem sometimes faced is if the content within the iframe is going to change in length More »
Installing latest PEAR and PHPUnit on Windows 7
For my recent project based on YII framework, I have to use PHPUnit for doing unit test. My Local development environment is Windows 7 64 bit system. I have installed php 5.3.10, More »
How to prevent a user leaving a page with unsaved data
A lot of good websites provide a failsafe check that a user might accidentally leave a page with unsaved data. This is a good thing to have, specially in forms which are More »
Dummy’s Guide to Multitasking and Multithreading
Its quite easy to get confused between multitasking and multithreading specially for application level developers who have never worked with low-level languages like C, C++ or have never worked on applications which More »
Get dimensions of an image and change it in javascript
If you are ever faced with the problem of finding the true size of an image in a web page and you want to resize it dynamically then the code below is More »
The Love Triangle which every developer should know
For all of us who have to do projects for others – either customers or even internal projects for your company, its very important to realize the feasibility or non-feasibility of a More »
Amazing visualization models for your web apps using Arbor JS
Arbor.js is a jQuery based library which lets you depict information in the form of nodes and trees which move dynamically responding to mouse movements. It works in browsers which support the More »
List of Sensors in an Android Phone
A small utility to display the list of Sensors present in an Android phone. For those who are not interested in the code, the installable apk file is provided as a downloadable link at the end of this article. The
The Complete Pinterest.com
5 Part Video series on using Pinterest.com 1.Intro Video 2.Video 1 – Signup 3.Video 2 – Adding a Pin 4.Video 3 – Boards & Followers 5.Video 4 – Final Tips
How to retrieve content from a WordPress database directly
WordPress is the world’s most popular blogging platform and is used by millions of websites. It has been converted and customized to almost any kind of website imaginable. This article is if you want to retrieve content from a WP
Roll out your own Tab UI using HTML and JQuery
WHY RECREATE THE WHEEL? There are lot of tab controls out there, both using plain javascript and others using Jquery, so why the need to create our own. There are two reasons for doing this: Sometimes changing an existing control
Scheduling a Task to run repeatedly in Android
There are times when an app needs to run at specific times without user intervention. Something very similar to cronjobs in Linux and Scheduled Tasks in Windows. Android has a built-in AlarmManager class which makes scheduling tasks very easy. What
How to Fetch Data from a Website using AsyncTask
One good built-in check in Android development is the fact if any network operation is done, the compiler flags an error if it is being executed in the main thread. So any code which is trying to access something outside
Reading/Writing user preferences file in Android internal memory
Often an app needs to save user preferences or related information. This can be easily saved in the device internal memory as a persistent file. This file can be used to read and write as required. In the sample code,
How To Copy Supporting Files During apk Installation
For certain apps which require some supporting files to be part of the installation eg.data files or images, there needs to be a way of transferring the files from the apk installer to the device. The transfer does not happen
