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...
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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...
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...
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...
Gravatar: Manage your user avatars for free
While working on one of the application, I had to manage users who logged in to the application and manage their details. In order to manage user’s avatar, I had to create a form...
HTML 5: The new HTML kid on the block!
Hope you all have heard that behind-the-scene progress of the new version of HTML, is cruising through. There are some good news for those preachers of web standards who give importance to the semantically...
Web 3.0 is around the corner !
Web 2.0 – It was a huge step forward for the www, where we saw and continue to experience various ways of information sharing which in turn has resulted to a proliferation of content...
GMail launched automatic message translation feature in GMail Labs
GMail has released today another cool feature under GMail labs. Now you can automatically translate any of your email written in different language into language of your choice. Not only this, if all the...
Getting JVM heap size, used memory, total memory using Java Runtime
Reading runtime information about Java is useful sometime when your application is struggling in getting resources. System Memory is one of the main resource that an application developer has to consider while managing the...
Fetch Random rows from Database (MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL)
Ever thought why would one need to fetch random rows from a database table? You may want to display some random information (like articles/pages/links) to your user. I had a requirement wherein I had...