Eclipse Shortcut for Lowercase to Uppercase and Uppercase to lowercase

You might have wondered on how to do the lowercase to uppercase and also uppercase to lowercase in Eclipse. Unfortunately, it is not really listed anywhere in the quick access menus within eclipse as of this writing. Here is how you can convert the lowercase to uppercase using the shortcut keys and also convert lowercase to uppercase in Eclipse. Windows shortcut key for eclipse Convert to Lower case: CTRL+SHIFT+Y (CMD+SHIFT+Y on Mac OS X) Convert to Upper case: CTRL+SHIFT+X (CMD+SHIFT+X on Mac OS X) MAC OS shortcut key for eclipse Convert to Lower case: CMD+SHIFT+Y Convert to Upper case: CMD+SHIFT+X … Continue Reading →

LinkedIn Down

A rare sight of LinkedIn being Down

It is a rare sight of seeing the major network on a down state (potentially under a maintenance) which could be debatable. I do not think that these major players like linkedin would go down without a reason. Anyway, thought of sharing this rare moment and it was witnessed on March 20th, 2013 around 10:00 AM EDT.

The Extensive List of Eclipse Shortcut Keys

Eclipse has been so rich in functionality over the years and it is very widely used. Here is an extensive list of shortcut keys from eclipse which comes part of the bundle. Of course, you can customize your own short cut keys the way that you wanted. You can download the eclipse shortcut keys list as a PDF version. NOTE: This shortcut is applicable from Eclipse Version: Juno Service Release 1 onwards. Debugging Resume F8 Run to Line Ctrl+R Step Into F5 Step Into Selection Ctrl+F5 Step Over F6 Step Return F7 Terminate Ctrl+F2   Editing Ant Buildfiles Format Ctrl+Shift+F … Continue Reading →

Adding Key Value Pair to a Javascript Array

How to add a key / value pair to the Javascript array? This has been quite few questions always asked and it is very easy to accomplish this in Javascript. Those that are familiar with Java language, you can kind of equate this to a HashMap / Hashtable. There are multiple ways in which this can be accomplished. Before that, how to create the array object in JavaScript?.   The familiar way of accomplishing the javascript key value pair storing is as below. Approach 1: Key Value Pair in JavaScript NOTE: The quotes around the KEY is not mandatory. But … Continue Reading →

Adding Options Dynamically to Select using JQuery

Here is a simpler and of course a faster way of adding the Options dynamically to the Select box. Option 1: This would be faster just because we are not using any extra wrappers and also we are using the Array to construct the options. Once done, we are just using the join operation of the array to do the concatenation operation.   Option 2: Create the option object with the key and value and append to the existing list.   Option 3: The pure JQuery way of appending the options by setting the attribute and the text. Related Posts: … Continue Reading →

HTML5 – The Full Screen Mode

It is more and more visible that many of the social networks and other photo communities gone FULL SCREEN Mode ever since it was introduced in HTML5 (of course after the fact that the browsers started supporting the full screen mode functionality). Here is a quick JavaScript method that will detect the full screen mode capabilities in the browser and let you go full screen if it is supported. For now, the below example covers, FireFox, Chrome and the generic version of the HTML5 Full Screen Mode. Internet Explorer doesn’t support this feature at the time of writing this tutorial. … Continue Reading →

Free Google Apps Alternatives

As many of the start-ups and freelancers have realized since early December 2012 onwards that Google has effectively killed the free version of their Google Apps for Business Free version which allowed up to 10 users.  It was a shocking move by Google as they have always kept this free version which was very encouraging and helpful for many of the start-ups, budding entrepreneurs and some small businesses. Good news is that if you have the Google Apps created for free before the cut off (early December 2012), then you can still enjoy the free ride from google as before. … Continue Reading →

JSON Encoding Issues in Spring / JSP / Servlet

When you have a JSON response from Spring or JSP or Servlet, you might run into the issue of ENCODING especially when you try to internalization of your application. Problem: The default encoding is that “iso-8859-1” and doesn’t support all the characters of various languages. That is why you have UTF-8. Let us check out what are the different ways of applying the UTF-8 charset in our below solutions. Solution 1: In spring, you can use the following annotation to achieve this.  Use the PRODUCES and set the charset to UTF-8. Solution 2: You can set this in your JSP … Continue Reading →

How to find an element with a specific attribute or value using jQuery?

We have so many situations in jQuery to find out an ELEMENT which has a specific attribute or an attribute with a specific value. How do we do this in jQuery? We will be using the jQuery Selectors to do this. To check whether the element has an attribute with any valueFor example, we have the following html code. <div class=”wrapper”> <div> <a href=”http://muruga.yoksha.com/about”>About Muruga</a> <a id=”test” href=”http://muruga.yoksha.com”>Muruga Tech</a> </div> </div> Let us now find out the tag which has the id attribute from the div. $(“.wrapper”).find(“a[id]“); Let us now find out the tag which has the id attribute with … Continue Reading →

Simple illustration of DEPENDENCY INJECTION – Part 1

Any technology / framework can be easily understood if it can be explained in simple terms.Though it might not cover all the scenarios, it would rather be a great starter to deep dive and explore other intricate details of it. The below article would be a simple narration of Dependency Injection and why / where it can be implemented. What is Dependency Injection ? Any complex enterprise object would depend upon other objects, in order to fulfill its functional requirement. So objects wire themselves to other disparate objects and transforms into a cohesive architecture. So as the magnitude of the … Continue Reading →