Thejesh GN

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Category: Technology

For UrbanDictionary Fans 3

Technology

For UrbanDictionary Fans

Here is the scriplet which you can use to lookup a word on urbandictionary. To use pull the scriptlet onto your URL bar. If you select a word on the page and click the scriptlet takes you the word defnition directly or it will prompt for the word to lookup. Urban Dict lookup...

Coffee Project of the Month – phpMinAdmin 6

Technology

Coffee Project of the Month – phpMinAdmin

I use hell lot of open source projects. Most of them are written by individual developers or a small team of enthusiastic developers. They usually are not paid to do the job (some companies do pay to code for Open Source projects). They don’t get anything in return other than fun of coding...

Air Fueled Engines By TATA and MDI 3

Technology

Air Fueled Engines By TATA and MDI

After Nano, TATAs are aiming high by collaborating with MDI to manufacture AIR POWERED cars. Yes you heard it right. The engines of this new model will be powered by compressed air. According to this press release by TATA Motors. They are getting into an agreement with MDI to refine the technology and...

Got a new design for my web 2.0 business card 9

Life / Technology

Got a new design for my web 2.0 business card

I like to have cards of different design. Now I have a new design. Which is much better than my previous card. This time its more web2.0 and geekish. It has just enough information and lots of space for other notes,  mob number and address if req. Friends suggested that I should have...

oAuth Explained With An Example 5

Technology

oAuth Explained With An Example

The problem with using more and more social networks is with every social network you join you need to create profile then invite friends. There is no way to carry your data from one network to another network with out a hitch. Few smart people have already started working on this issue of...

Generic toString Method for Simple Java Beans 7

Technology

Generic toString Method for Simple Java Beans

I have seen developers writing toString method in each of their bean class. The purpose is to print the bean variables for logging or debugging purposes. I thought of reducing their effort by writing a generic toString method to have in their base bean class. It works for simple bean classes. Its no-brainer...