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Reverting the theme to Bosco

April 25th, 2007 / No Comments »

Recently I had applied my own designed theme BlueWhirl to TechTracer but I am reverting it back to the earlier theme Bosco due a lot of bugs in the underlying theme layout Andreas 04-10. The problems faced in using the Andreas theme are:

No RSS link in the header (resolved)
No favicon plugin support (not resolved)
No submit […]

Inversion of Control - for easy integration

April 23rd, 2007 / 2 Comments »

You may have witnessed some of the J2EE frameworks provide a technique to get dynamically bound plain objects by making them bind to some features of the framework outside of the plain objects. This technique is called as the IoC or Inversion of Control. If we have to know about the meaning of this term […]

BlueWhirl - new wordpress theme for TechTracer

April 22nd, 2007 / 3 Comments »

I designed this theme yesterday and have named it BlueWhirl since every thing in this theme has a shade of blue. Why blue? Because it’s one of my favorite colors. The design has the layout of the theme Andreas which is a fluid 4 column widget ready theme. I had loved the Garland theme which […]

The Great Ant Tutorial - a great jump start

April 16th, 2007 / 34 Comments »

Apache Ant is a powerful way to convert your developmental structures to deployment structures. It is declarative and all the command line tasks used for deploying an application are represented by simple XML elements. Without much details, this tutorial would breeze you through the steps on how to build a web application using a […]

Optimal use of Ajax - use Ajax the smart way

April 10th, 2007 / 3 Comments »

Web 2.0 is the thing that can make your site stand out from the hoard of web sites springing up day by day. But are they efficient enough to make a big impression? You need to analyze on some common principles to make the best impression. These principles make you use it in the […]

Web and Desktop Apps - the 3rd World War!

April 9th, 2007 / No Comments »

The debate on desktop applications dying under the limelight  of web applications is on the rise these days. But the thing that actually means when they talk about the death of desktop apps and rise of web desktop apps is all about the end users’ perspective. The web has evolved into a whole new enterprise […]

Annotations in POJO - a boon or a curse?

April 7th, 2007 / 4 Comments »

The purpose of annotations have been well put forward with the recent upgradation of EJB to EJB 3.0 and also in the web services field by JAX-WS. Annotations help in reducing the learning curve associated with these specifications by avoiding the need to learn the deployment descriptors which are necessary to properly deploy an EJB […]