Archive for October, 2008
Javascript jQuery Hotkeys (keyboard shortcut Keys) Plugin
I find it really interesting and useful when i navigate on Gmail and Google reader without touching my mouse. It is also very fast to use Hotkeys than using your mouse. You can check these shortcuts for Gmail and Google Reader if you still use mouse while using these applications. Try it out! It is [...]
Best Practices for Form Design – HTML form (website)
Taking input from user is crucial specially when you want people to register on your website, complete his profile, participate in actions etc. It is very important to understand user and his requirements so that you present him simple and easy form to understand and provide his input without confusion. Below is a presentation of [...]
Online Regular Expression testing tool (Free) – RegExr
Few days ago I tried to put some of the useful regular expressions for validations in a post which can be used for form input validations in javascript. You can also write non-regular expression to check matching patterns in Stings in your project. Here is a tool which will let you test and help you [...]
File related basic Unix/linux commands
ls — lists your files ls -l — lists your files in ‘long format’, which contains lots of useful information, e.g. the exact size of the file, who owns the file and who has the right to look at it, and when it was last modified. ls -a — lists all files, including the ones [...]
Introduction to REST – Representational State Transfer
Representational state transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. As such, it is not strictly a method for building what are sometimes called “web services.” The terms “representational state transfer” and “REST” were introduced in 2000 in the doctoral dissertation of Roy Fielding, one [...]