Category Archives: Programming

Stop Command Prompt Window from Closing

Published on: August 1, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Batch files are a series of commands that are executed in a sequence. People generally write batches of DOS commands and shell commands. When you execute a DOS (Windows) batch … Read more

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JavaScript: Count Items in HTML List

Published on: June 18, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

The other day I needed to dynamically count the total number of items in an HTML unordered list. The ordered list (created with OL tag) are by default counted as … Read more

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Stylish Text Shadow Examples Using CSS

Published on: April 11, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Since long web developers have been using underlying shadows to make text and boxed area look as though they are floating. In olden time images and transparent images were used … Read more

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All About Sitemap

Published on: April 9, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

When you begin to plan a website –the first thing you should focus on is the structure of your website. By structure we mean the way you want to organize … Read more

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Test Website Performance with Google Page Speed

Published on: March 26, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Google Page Speed is an excellent tool for evaluating performance of your website. Yahoo! Has since long been providing a similar tool called Y!Slow. At present Page Speed is available … Read more

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How to Add Expires Header to Images

Published on: March 26, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

“Expires” header tells a browser how to cache a web page component. If a component (image, flash, html etc.) is not going to change for long time –it is highly … Read more

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Basic Steps for Making a Website

Published on: March 23, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Many of my friends keep asking me the question about how to create a website. This article lists the very basic steps and information for accomplishing this goal. A website … Read more

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Benefits of Loading jQuery from Google

Published on: March 22, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

jQuery makes programmers’ lives so much more easier! And it’s fun as well –isn’t it? I guess it is the best javascript framework available out there. Nowadays, a massive number … Read more

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Create Floating Bar Like Gmail and Facebook

Published on: March 14, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Many people ask me about how to create a Gmail like floating bar. Facebook also uses this technique. Although it is a bit jerky but the technique quite useful in … Read more

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Randomize HTML List: Display HTML List Items Randomly

Published on: March 5, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

The following JavaScript code can randomize an HTML list. The script can handle both Ordered List (OL) or Unordered List (UL) because it works on the LI items which are … Read more

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Google AdSense: Yellow Box Appears for a Brief Moment

Published on: March 5, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Google serves its ads in an <ins> tag. Some of the blog themes do define a style for this tag and usually it is because of this style that you … Read more

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Get Codes for Cool HTML Symbols and Greek Letters

Published on: February 25, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Following is a list of special characters that can be used in webpages using HTML codes. Please sure that you are using UTF-8 character set in order to correctly use … Read more

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Fancy HTML: Special Character And Symbol ASCII Codes

Published on: February 25, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Following is a list of special characters that can be used in webpages using HTML codes. Please sure that you are using UTF-8 character set in order to correctly use … Read more

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The Best 12 Firefox add-ons for Web Developement

Published on: November 22, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

Depending upon my experience with lots of FireFox add-ons, I have selected the following 12 add-ons which in my view are the best. These are a must have bunch for … Read more

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Hindawi: Now Write Computer Programs in Indic Langauges

Published on: November 3, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

It was about a couple of years ago when I happened to attend a presentation made by Abhishek Chaudhary at Sarai office. Abhishek is an unassuming gentleman and a robotics … Read more

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Windows Notepad Editor for Programmers

Published on: October 22, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

This year, one of the best software tool I found is Programmer’s Notepad. As the name suggests, it is an editor loaded with features that are useful for people who … Read more

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How to Vertically Middle Align Text in a Div

Published on: October 10, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

To do this, we need to use height property of DIV element and line-height property of the text. If we set both these properties to equal value the text will … Read more

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How to Change Text Selection Background Color Using CSS

Published on: October 5, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

When you select text on a webpage the background color is mostly dictated by the operating system of your machine. On Windows, the most common selection background color that you … Read more

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Change onclick Event of an Element Using JavaScript

Published on: October 5, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

Let me present an example scenario: You click a button/link and call a JavaScript function. In the function you want to reset the onclick event of the button in a … Read more

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Walking DOM Tree is Now Very Simple

Published on: October 5, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

Software programmers often need to deal with the Document Object Model (DOM) of a webpage or that of an XML file. Walking through DOM tree and manipulating nodes has been … Read more

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Get Full Current URL from Address Bar

Published on: September 28, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

Yesterday, I needed to retrieve the URL of a webpage as shown in the address of browser. I was coding in PHP –so my first choice was to use PHP … Read more

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AJAX: Passing parameters to onreadystatechange function

Published on: November 27, 2008 by Lalit Kumar

When the response of an AJAX request is ready on the server the value of the readyState property of the XMLHttpRequest object is changed to “4″ which means the request … Read more

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Rapid website development

Published on: September 24, 2008 by Lalit Kumar

I am not seriously into PHP stuff. But it is a very good platform if you quickly want to come up with a dynamic website. It’s very easy and quick. … Read more

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Building strings in Java

Published on: August 25, 2008 by Lalit Kumar

Building and manipulating strings is one of the most common task performed in any programming language. In Java, the String class provides the functionality of creating and manipulating the strings … Read more

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What are Factory Methods and Why Use Them?

Published on: August 12, 2008 by Lalit Kumar

The concept of factory methods is very useful and very simple at the same time. It is simple enough to explain and I would not need to write a long … Read more

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