When it comes to advanced design, finding the right stuff can be even harder. Advanced effects require a much more in-depth tutorial, and often writers aren’t willing to go into the detail needed.

Previously I’ve talked about reversing text with CSS by simply setting a few CSS attributes. Today we will try another trick: turning text upside down. It’s actually possible using a simple CSS property and works cross-browser today.

How to retrieve the value of key that is added using autoincrement value in MySQL.

Over the next number of posts I am going to be exploring the world of design patterns. We’ll look at some of the most commonly used patterns and how they look in C#.

Method overloading (a feature of object-oriented programing which allows having several class methods with the same name but different signatures) is not implemented in PHP, which is a drawback compared to Java. However, PHP 5 provides a way to imitate overloading by catching calls to "inaccessible methods" with magic method __call.

How to write Java programs to do things like: * Remove redeye from a photographic image. * Distort the human voice. * Display one image inside another image. * Do edge detection, blurring, and other filtering operations on images. * Insert animated cartoon characters in videos of live humans. If you have ever wondered how to do these things, you've come to the right place.

Groovy is a script language which is based on the Java Virtual machine. This article gives a short overview of its functionality. The usage of Eclipse for developing Groovy will also be explained. I use this article as a kind a scatch book to make note to myself. I try to structure this article in a way that I hope it can be useful to others but I do not claim that this is a complete and all including description of Groovy.

This tutorial is an extension of the paperclip tutorial I put up last week. This time we are going to take advantage of polymorphic paperclip. Polymorphic paperclip utilizes separate tables (an assets table and an attachings table) to track your attachments. This allows for an unlimited number of attachments per item per model. In the first tutorial I showed you how to attach just one item, although you could add more columns to your table to handle additional attachments this way is a lot more flexible. While this plugin is not perfect, there is a lot of room for improvement, its a great starting point. Perhaps a fork is on its way from me…

REST is an architectural style, or set of conventions, for web applications and services that centers itself around resource manipulation and the HTTP spec. REST is an architectural style, or set of conventions, for web applications and services that centers itself around resource manipulation and the HTTP spec.

Download and Install Python, Your First Python Program, Variables,Loop and Conditional Statements, Functions Tuples, Lists, and Dictionaries in Python. Classes, Modules, File I/O, Exception Handling and so on.

How do development shops balance agility with governance? This post shares some best practices and invites people to a free webinar with a guest analyst from Forrester research to discuss in more detail.

Learn how to debug JavaScript in Internet Explorer, almost like using Firebug.

This is a very simple and easy article, which gives an idea for track the IP address and for getting the number of cliks from a particular system.

As this took a bit of searching around, thought I may as well share how we create thumbnails at a consistent size.. This requires a recent version of imagemagick.. (we’re using 6.4.6) as the ^ trigger is a recent addition..

A short how to on implementing a REST service with WCF.

Memory leak is a time consuming bug often created by C++ developers. Detection of memory leaks is often tedious. Things get worst if the code is not written by you, or if the code base is quite huge. Though there are tools available in the market that will help you in memory leak detection, most of these tools are not free. I found Windbg as a freeware powerful tool to solve memory leak bugs. At least, we get an idea about the code location which might be suspected to cause memory leaks. COM Interface leaks are out of the scope of this article. Windbg is a powerful user/kernel space debugger from Microsoft, which can be downloaded and installed from here.

In this post let us discuss how we can configure a web application using JBoss-Seam framework in Tomcat. Maven is used for build management and Netbeans 6.1 or 6.5 is the IDE used [with Maven plugin installed]. The web application under consideration is a simple HelloWorld application.

Eclipse has a Plug-in Registry view, which shows the state of all plug-ins in the running instance of Eclipse. But what if you need to analyze a crashed application to see what was deployed on it? Or, like in my case, need to understand a certain bundle dependency in RCP-application that has no Plug-in Registry view?

One of the biggest mistakes of today's fledgling MySQL programmers is their field type definitions, also known as data type or column type. Many are too quick to set up their tables, flying through the different options without giving it much thought. The time you spend setting up your tables will save you from many headaches later on down the road.

In this post I'm presenting when you should use synchronized keyword in your Java code and how you can easily exchange it with Java 5 concurrency features (locks and conditions).

Full source code to get Flight Information from Kayak.com through their API

When creating navigational tabs that use real web text, some positioning issues may arise when that text is resized. The natural flow of a web page when text is resized is to push down. This can push your main content area down and/or force the tabs into that area. Using some smart CSS, we can fix this issue by creating tabs that grow upward when text is resized.

Out of the box, groovy gives you a number of powerful methods to iterate over lists and maps. What if you have a class that doesn’t extend list or map? How hard is it to empower that class with the groovy iteration methods? Since it’s groovy you know it’s easy!

I have been experimenting with this technology and the main inspiration came from SpringSource's dm Server. Like other OSGi evangelist,I am beginning to see OSGi technology as technology that will transform Java development. I would like it to be more on the enterprise side. In this session, we will see how to build a simple service and consume it.

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