CSS Box Shadow Effect

Having too many graphical images can weigh your website down… but without them, it can start to feel dull and boring. So the best course to take is to utilise CSS to the max. It will make-up for the lack of images, while keeping you light at the same.

The Box Shadow effect is just one example of the many CSS effects, waiting to be used.

How to sync Google Calendar with Thunderbird

It’s all about the cloud these days. The ability to centralise information so that it can be accessed from various locations… reducing redundancy.

Following the aforementioned concept, it would make a lot of sense to have Google Calendar operate the same way. Well guess what… it’s possible ! If you’re using Thunderbird with Lighting for calendars, you can install the Provider for Google Calendar add-on to get seamless 2-way sync of all your calendars.

Clear input field on focus and vice versa

Web forms are popular… very popular. Occasionally, the need arises to have an input field display text by default, but then remove it on focus. In other words, when touched by the cursor.

“Windows Desktop Gadgets has stopped working” – Windows 7 (x64)

Installing an unknown gadget caused the windows 7 gadget sidebar to stop working and show the “Windows Desktop Gadgets has stopped working” error. Finally after hours of trying various things, a simple file tweak solved the problem.

Android: Returning values from a custom Dialog

Cases which involve using a custom dialog to capture user input, may require the captured data to be passed back to the displaying activity. The following describes exactly this… how to pass back data from a custom dialog to the displaying activity.

ps – by custom dialog we mean a custom class that ‘extends Dialog’.

Removing pppoeconf settings in Ubuntu 9.10

At first my internet connection required me to go through a user name and password… and hence my connection was taken care of by….

sudo pppoeconf

… but now since my internet provider has changed, and given me access to a direct connection (without username & password)…. I no longer require pppoeconf to handle my connection for me. In fact, it has become a hinderance… as I am not able to connect and if I run pppoeconf again, it tells me that….

“Sorry, I scanned 1 interface, but the access concentrator of your provider did not respond. Another reason for the scan failure may also be another running pppoe process which controls the modem. ”

Having tried things like “poff dsl-provider” and “poff -a”, I decided, it was probably best to remove the settings altogether !

Fixing Eclipse in Ubuntu 9.10

Frustratingly eclipse ( using ubuntu 9.10) does not allow the buttons to be clicked using the mouse and instead requires highlighting them first, followed by hitting ‘space’ or ‘enter’ for the selection.

(Android) R.layout.main cannot be resolved !!

Beginning android programming… everything seemed to be working… but the R.layout.main is not being recognised anymore !!

Cached up in Google !

A client accidentally found, to his surprise, that google had somehow managed to cache a “secure” page from his private web application !! Well, alhumdulillah… there now seems to be a way to prevent this from happening again…

POJO Annotation (hibernate) Example

Simple example of what a java pojo that has been hibernate annotated may look like, along with it’s corresponding sql file.