Archive for June, 2009

Facebook Vanity URLs Landrush to starts on June 13 Midnight

Facebook Vanity URLs Landrush to starts on June 13 Midnight
This weekend I hope you are not planning to do late night party!! Because you may miss your chance to get your much awaited facebook vanity url. Yes, now you can get yourself a url http://facebook.com/yourusername. Facebook has just announced on its blog that it users can starts registering for their facebook url from June ...

WebSphere Application Server: Implement different Logout technique

WebSphere Application Server: Implement different Logout technique
Implementing Logout functionality in a form based authentication in J2EE website is straight forward. The session needs to be invalidated by calling request.getSession().invalidate() method. Thus in a simple servlet following code will be the code for logout:public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { request.getSession().invalidate(); response.sendRedirect("/sampleapplication/index.jsp"); }This is simple way for implementing logout. There is also another, ...

Struts displaytag tutorial: Sort / Pagination data using displaytag in Struts

Struts displaytag tutorial: Sort / Pagination data using displaytag in Struts
Struts display tag library is an open source suite of custom tags that provide high-level web presentation patterns which will work in an MVC model. The library provides a significant amount of functionality while still being easy to use. Displaytag can handle column display, sorting, paging, cropping, grouping, exporting, smart linking and decoration of a table in a customizable XHTML style.In the following example ...

Tutorial: Create Autocomplete feature with Java – JSP / jQuery

Tutorial: Create Autocomplete feature with Java - JSP / jQuery
Autocomplete is a common feature available in lot of web tools and services. You will find lots of implementation of autocomplete features. Let us see how can we implement a simple Autocomplete feature for Country names in Java-JSP and jQuery.We will use jQuery's autocomplete plugin for our example. I have used Eclipse for the development of this demo.Create a dymanic web project ...

Sun announced Java App Store at JavaOne 2009

Sun announced Java App Store at JavaOne 2009
Sun Microsystems has announced its own version of Apple's App store, The Java Store. As a part of the opening general session of JavaOne on Tuesday, Scott McNealy and James Gosling unveiled the Java Store, at store.java.com. The Java Store is launched in public beta. If you are having the Sun Developer ...

Create 3D tag cloud using jsTagCloud jQuery plugin

Create 3D tag cloud using jsTagCloud jQuery plugin
Tagging the content has increased the searchability of content in todays Web 2.0 world. Also similar content can be grouped together by assigning them same tags.Tag Cloud has became a good way of displaying the weighted tags in a manner easy to understand and search. You can find a lot of code written in all ...

Smarty templates: Creating smarty custom functions

Smarty templates: Creating smarty custom functions
Yesterday I wrote an article about a php method that can convert normal timestamp into "x Min Ago" like timestamps. I will call these type of timestamps an "agots". Although the PHP method is straight forward in converting unix timestamps to agotimestamps, I thought of implementing a custom function in smarty that can be used ...

Bingo! Microsoft quitely opened its search engine Bing.

Bingo! Microsoft quitely opened its search engine Bing.
Microsoft quietly launched its search engine Bing this sunday after presenting it in public last week. Following are few notable features.The Beta tag -- Bing has been launched earlier than expected datesBeautiful nature pics at the back ground load after a slight delay.Suppose you type Java on the search engine. On the left nav you ...

Twitter like N min/sec ago timestamp in PHP/MySQL

Twitter like N min/sec ago timestamp in PHP/MySQL
While working on one of the forum project, I had to print the timestamp of a topic in format "N Seconds ago" or "X minutes ago".! The Web 2.0 world have changed the way these dates are displayed. The days are gone when the timestamps were displayed like "12 Jan 2003 10:50 pm"!!! A paradigm shift ...
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