Published by Zaheer
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 [...]
. Jul 19, 2008
Filed under: Java
Tags: external jar, maven
Published by Zaheer
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 Revisions: Wiki-like tracking [...]
. Jul 16, 2008
Filed under: Blogging
Tags: WordPress
Published by Zaheer
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 [...]
. Jul 15, 2008
Filed under: Blogging
Tags: Comments, Entrecard, SezWho
Published by Zaheer
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. [...]
. Jul 12, 2008
Filed under: Best Sites
Tags: Javascript
Published by Zaheer
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 [...]
. Jul 06, 2008
Filed under: Best Sites
Published by Zaheer
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 this [...]
. Jul 01, 2008
Filed under: Programming