As someone who creates designs for the Internet, one of the most challenging job is to create design elements aligned. In that case MeasureIt comes in handy and allows you to overlay a ruler on a browser page so you can verify width, height and alignment of page elements. With this beautiful extension you can …
November 2010 archive
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Nov 30
ColorZilla
ColorZilla add-on features an online eyedropper, which makes it quite simple to get the exact value of a specific color. With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. In addition to color picker, ColorZilla offers a DOM color analyzer …
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Nov 30
Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. Firebug gives you full control over the CSS, HTML and JavaScript of any page that you choose. Inspect and edit HTML, Tweak CSS …
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Nov 29
Make 3D buttons view in CSS
3D CSS buttons are easy to create. The trick is to give your elements borders with different colors. Lighter where the light source shines and darker where it doesn’t. div#button {background: #888; border: 1px solid; border-color: #999 #777 #777 #999 } The CSS above will create a button with the light source at the upper …
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Nov 29
Accessing parent documents in Flex
It will achieved by Application and Doccument object Application object has the following characteristics: * Application objects are MXML files with an <mx:Application> tag. * Most Flex applications have a single Application object. * The Application file is the first file loaded. * An Application object is also a Document object. * You can refer …
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Nov 29
SAP BI
What is SAP BI? SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI) solutions can empower your users to make effective, informed decisions based on solid data and analysis. All users, from the high-end analyst to the casual business user, can leverage business intelligence solutions to access to the information they need – with minimal dependence on IT resources …
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Nov 28
Make use of toString() in Java
Every Java beginners must know about toString() method of java.lang.Object class. As you know java.lang.Object is the super most class in Java. Every pre-defined and user-defined class can override the methods available in the class java.lang.Object. Of these, toString() method plays a vital role. See the following example: int x = 100; System.out.println(x); This will …
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Nov 28
Ruby Symbols Description
Matter related to the old and new Ruby programmer, and Ruby’s symbols are confusing sometimes or always. Smoothly before this, can not get used is pretty. People learn about the Ruby language is often Rubionreiruzu learn from the project. The Rubionreiruzu symbol is everywhere. There really is everywhere. So, pay attention to the concept of …
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Nov 28
Debugging Rails
You can always debug your application and get it back on the rails if ever it something goes wrong. You have to check the application log files. See to it that “tail –f” commands are running on the server.log and development.log. Rails will then show debugging and runtime information to these files and debugging information …
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Nov 28
Finders are great but be careful
Finders are very pleasant to use, enable you to write readable code and they don’t require in-depth SQL knowledge. But the nice high level abstraction come with a computational cost. Follow these rules of thumb: Retrieve only the information that you need. A lot of execution time can be wasted by running selects for data …
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