Programmers guide to weight loss
I lost 44 pounds in the last 6 months. I did it without a diet or going hungry. I used basic methods that are known to most programmers for optimizing my behavior. Here is a...
Category: Software development
How to: Use Slack API to Get Notification When Something Happens in your App/Site
Most Startups use Slack these days to communicate. They also integrate Jira, Asana and other tools into Slack to improve the communication and integration between the team members. But what if you want to get...
Gracefully Detect Old Browsers and Fallback from HTML5
HTML5 rocks! It even says so in this (highly recommended) great web tutorial, but there are still a lot of browsers out there, that still do not support HTML5, or some of it’s features....
Voice Recognition API in Android Apps Using RecognizerIntent
Voice interface is not a common application user interface, we do not usually interact with application using voice. But when it comes to mobile it makes more sense. We are used to talk to a phone all...
How to Make Web Pages Fit and Scale Nicely on Android Web Browser
I just released an Android version of my Cats Idol pet project – it lets you browse through photos of cats submitted by other people, rate the cats, and set the photos as your Android wallpaper....
Cloud Services and Application Performance Monitoring
In his interesting article, Cloud Automation: problem & solution, Dor Juravski talks about Performance and SLA as key challenges to cloud based applications and services. Dor also suggests Application Performance Monitoring (APM) as a...
PHP foreach is by default by value and not by reference
It is a little wired for Java and .NET developer, but PHP by default returns a copy of the iterated array item when running a foreach statement. From the official PHP site – Note:...
CakePHP Ajax/JSON calls fail? Try turning debug output off
CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. CakePHP provides several Ajax features, but if cakephp debug is not turned off, most Ajax...
When to Stop Support for old Browsers such as FireFox 2 and Internet Explorer 6
Let’s face it- old browsers are a pain in the rear. Browsers like FireFox 2 and Internet Explorer 6 do not behave like modern browsers. They do not render HTML in the same way...
Useful JQuery Plugin to Display Errors, Messages, and Alerts: Gritter
Real estate on your web page could be as important as real estate in real life. You got very little space on your client screen and need to use every inch (or pixels). Errors and messages take up valuable space that could be better used for more important things.
That is why Gritter is a great JQuery plugin – it saves real estate on your page by showing alerts, messages and errors in a floating bubble way, that is both informative and (because you can configure Gritter to fade away after a few seconds) non intrusive:
This image was taken from one of our new site’s design, we decided to use Gritter instead of putting the errors and notification inline.
