This post explores new trends that seem to be in use these days about web usability.
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Good UI Design: Make It Easy, Show Me You Care
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How to ruin your website in 10 easy steps
A lot of people give suggestions on how to improve your website or blog. Whether it is via SEO or design suggestions. Not many tell you what is going to destroy your website. I may be a little extreme but there are several pet peeves (as do many in the web design world) have that can truly turn your site from great to lame. There may be a couple of these that are straight forward but when dealing with clients it can become very obvious that some of their ideas on how a website should function are modeled after MySpace and the ilk.
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SearchStatus: A Search Extension for Firefox and Mozilla
For every site you visit using, SearchStatus lets you view its Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Compete.com ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo!
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Run Windows in Linux
Yes you heard it right , I meant windows on linux and not the opposite with sharing the filesystem. Found this interesting article on lifehacker.com. Give it a try
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Grade Your Website
Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.
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How to get the Temp Directory Path in Java?
Posted April 1st, 2008 by administrator
The path to the temp directory in Java can be retreived via the sytem property as mentioned below:
System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir");
Find the Calling Class
Posted March 28th, 2008 by administrator
Here is a simple snippet to find out the calling Java Class.
Class.forName(new Throwable().getStackTrace()[2].getClassName()));
Compute size of Mysql database with it's tables
Posted February 5th, 2008 by administratorSo the size of the database is sum total of size of its individual tables.
Size of database = Sum of {Individual Table Size}
How to list all the sequence in schema with size?
Posted February 1st, 2008 by administrator
All the oracle sequences are stored in a table called "dba_sequences".
The following query selects the min, max ,current value along with the length current value and orders it by the length in desc.
select SEQUENCE_NAME,MIN_VALUE,MAX_value,LAST_NUMBER,length(LAST_NUMBER)
from dba_sequences
How to do view all the triggers in a schema?
Posted January 31st, 2008 by administrator
Yes, you can view triggers using the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TRIGGERS table. The following sql list all the triggers in a given schema.
select
SEQUENCE_NAME,MIN_VALUE,MAX_value,LAST_NUMBER,length(LAST_NUMBER)
from dba_sequences
where SEQUENCE_OWNER='schema owner'
order by length(LAST_NUMBER) desc
How to view all Stored Procedures in a schema?
Posted January 31st, 2008 by administrator
The following sql list the name of all the routines in a given database.
SELECT ROUTINE_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
WHERE ROUTINE_TYPE="PROCEDURE" AND ROUTINE_SCHEMA="dbname";
How to convert ISAM table to MYISAM?
Posted January 31st, 2008 by administrator
The table types have changed from ISAM to MYISAM from Mysql version 4.x to 5.x.
In order to convert a table from ISAM to MyISAM, simply issue a statement like
ALTER TABLE tblname ENGINE=MYISAM.
How do I import a MySQL dumpfile into my database?
Posted January 1st, 2008 by administrator
Data can be dumped into the database using the following command. mysql -p -h DBSERVER dbname < dbname.sql