Tag: featured
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Wifi STB Remote+ (JAVA) for laptop and desktops
My Android App Wifi STB Remote+, which works as a remote for TataSky+ HD Settop boxes, now has a laptop/desktop counterpart. This application is built over Java and packaged as a Jar file. (Download link below.) So, Java (JRE 8 or JDK 8) needs to be installed on the computer where you want to run […]
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Lessons learned from PhoneGap (Cordova) and jQueryMobile on Android
I recently created my first Android app – JustTodo. This is a simple app but took considerable time to finish due many unexpected problems. Google wasn’t too helpful either. Here is a list of issues I faced and their solutions I discovered. General tips Zooming and Scaling I presume that you have already encountered suggestions […]
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The Emperor’s Old Clothes
This is a republication from ACM’s archive of Prof. C. A. R. Hoare‘s lecture at 1980 ACM Turning Award. Prof. Hoare is popularly known for inventing QuickSort. The original piece can be found as PDF here. The primary reason for republishing this is the source PDF’s fonts. The PDF fonts are too horrible to read. […]
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Django-Select2: Select2 for Django
Select2 Select2 is an excellent Javascript framework which transforms mundane <select> fields to cool looking and searchable. This is a very handy when there are quite a number of options to select from. Select2 also allows dynamic fetching of options from server via Ajax. Select2’s webpage has a neat demo of this. Django-Select2 Django includes […]
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ADF Super Code Snippets
Oracle’s ADF (Application Developer Framework) is J2EE technology stack to rapidly develop enterprise applications. As with all enterprise applications, ADF focuses on data handling and makes it quite easy to present the data to the users in variety of ways. As you will already know that ADF is a blanket term which encompasses many layers […]
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Digit Math: Introduction
The person in the above image is Bertrand Russell. Famous Mathematician and Logician. An excellent graphic novel, Logicomix, is based around his life. That is a must read. First thing first. Even if you are not a Math demi-god, it is fine, Digit Math is still for you. In fact my academic track record shows that I […]