Archive for March, 2009

Facebook starts rolling out new Home page

Facebook starts rolling out new Home page
The much awaited Homepage that Facebook promised early this month, got finally released today. This refresh brings a revamped page with an improved share box (called the Publisher), new filtering controls, a real-time stream, and a highlights area that shows important items from the stream. ...

Google Voice: A new avatar of GrandCentral

Google Voice: A new avatar of GrandCentral
Goggle today finally released Google Voice, a service that allows you to manage your SMS, Calls, manage your voice mail etc. Google Voice is the new avatar of GrandCentral, the telephony service company that Google acquired in July 2007. This will include all the service that GrandCentral was providing and in addition, Google Voice will ...

Tutorial: Creating DynaActionForm example in Struts

Tutorial: Creating DynaActionForm example in Struts
We learned in this tutorial about creating a basic web application in Struts, We had used Struts Frameworks ActionForm to manage the form data. Let us see how to use DynaActionForm to manage the form data.DynaActionForm is also called as Dynamic Form Bean. These are extensions of Form Beans that allow you to specify their ...

Directory listing in htaccess. Allow, Deny, Disable, Enable Directory Listing in .htaccess

Directory listing in htaccess. Allow, Deny, Disable, Enable Directory Listing in .htaccess
When a web browser is pointed to a directory on your web site which does not have an index.html file (or any other index file) in it, the files in that directory can be listed on a web page. Let us see few snippets that can be added in htaccess file to allow or avoid directory listing in apache server. Enable / Disable directory Listing To allow a ...

How to apply HTML User Interface Effects using jQuery.

jQuery is a small and wonderful JavaScript library that I use extensively in my work. I thought to write a tutorial about achieving UI Effects through jQuery. In this post, I explained how to do fade in/fade out effect using jQuery. This time let us see all the tricks that we can do to manipulate ...

Google Code Labs launched. Developers have a great time.

Google Code Labs launched. Developers have a great time.
Google announced today the launch of a new site, Google Code Labs, where developers can find links to all the major code projects that Google staff is working on. You can find a lot of API's that Google has not yet released. Google Maps API, AJAX Search API, Account Authentication API etc are ...

Performance Monitoring using Glassbox

Performance Monitoring using Glassbox
Industry is recognizing the fact that Performance testing & engineering should be part of the project execution road map starting from Requirement gathering phase. At many times during project executions, performance engineering related activities are executed based on customer need or slow response time of application after development phase gets completed. Glassbox can be leveraged (by developers/testers/business users) ...
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