Archive for November, 2008

GWT Extreme!

In this session, see Google Web Toolkit used in exotic and creative ways to solve interesting engineering problems, from authoring OpenSocial apps that run as both Web gadgets and native Android applications, to developing Adobe AIR applications using GWT, compiling CSS selectors to Javascript at compile time, running multithreaded code with GWT and Gears workers, [...]


php – Encryption & Decryption

I used php while developing an alumni website of my college. It is not the official alumni website but a non-official nostalgic effort by some of us (6 friends of college days). I needed some encryption technique in php for encrypting some of the data provided by user and then get it back by them [...]


Creating MySql connection – php

Quite elementary but very useful piece of information for new web developers. Connecting to Mysql from php is quite easy because of number of functions provided by php. It uses mysql_connect function to connect to MySql, which returns connection object handle and that can be used for rest of the read/write operations with MySql DB. [...]


Faster HTML and CSS: Layout Engine Internals for Web Developers

ABSTRACT How fast Web pages load and how fast they change dynamically depends on both the Web page and the browser it’s running in. Browser makers put significant effort into making their browsers faster, but there are also things that Web page authors can do to make their pages more responsive. I plan to talk [...]


Schema Cleanup script – Oracle

Working in Oracle, many a times a complete schema cleanup is required due to certain reasons e.g. applying imports from other databases etc. Normally, it is simplest to drop and add the user. This is the preferred method if you have system or sysdba access to the database. But if one doesn’t have these accesses, [...]