Until now, you have been opening a shell or terminal to execute your script, but now your boss wants to be able to execute the script, but he doesn’t know anything about CLI(command line interface) commands. So, what can you do? how about having a web interface that allows him to easily activate the script. Yes, that would work and its easy too. But if the script takes 5 min to complete, we don’t want to show a blank page during those 5 mins. It would be better if there was a progress bar that showed how much percentage of the script is completed. Today, we will learn to do just that, Create a progress bar to display server’s php script execution using JQuery and JQueryUI. [Read more…]
Adapter design pattern
January 15, 2011 by ·
Adapter pattern adapts a piece of code to work with another. In real world, consider a battery charger for your phone. If you went for vacation to a somewhere in Europe, your charger won’t fit into the wall outlet. You would need a piece that can wrap your that fits into the socket in Europe.
Adapter pattern is usually helpful to create new code that is compatible with old legacy code. Using adapter pattern the old code do not need to be changed to work with new code.
[Read more…]This batch file will lessen your sqlplus login frustration at zenit server.
September 23, 2010 by ·
If you are in DBS501 like me, you must be frustrated with sqlplus command. Why did they remove the good old isqlplus and instead put sqlplus. The problem with the sqlplus for most of us is because of connection problem.
If you haven’t modified the ora file to include host address for neptune, you must do that before proceeding any further. Here is the link
https://cs.senecac.on.ca/~nconkic/db-oracle11g.html
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CSS Layout without the hassle of div position
July 22, 2010 by ·
Tables are for tabular data. Div with CSS has been the new layout trend. With div and css, the code is much cleaner and accessible. But div positioning is something I always had problem with. But now using float attribute, I can create CSS Layout in much easier way.
I just watched a very good video on google about how to easily create CSS Layout. I hope you have enough time, its about an hour long video.
Check it out.
Reading about how to customize WordPress
July 19, 2010 by ·
I have been reading about WordPress this weekend.
WordPress is a Web CMS that can be used to create a blog. By default, it is set to create blog. But lots of website use WordPress as the base website and customize it to create amazing websites.
I still need to hone my CSS 2 skills, specially the layout skills. With a good knowledge of CSS, PHP, Photoshop and JQuery, WordPress can be customized to create very professional quality websites.
WordPress is a Web CMS that can be used to create a blog. By default, it is set to create blog. But lots of website use WordPress as the base website and customize it to create amazing websites.
I still need to hone my CSS 2 skills, specially the layout skills. With a good knowledge of CSS, PHP, Photoshop and JQuery, WordPress can be customized to create very professional quality websites.