Something to write about.: January 2006

Saturday, January 28, 2006

Few more useful firefox plugin

Blogger Web Comments - Allows you to easly view and add comments to the page that you are currently viewing (This is much better than, 'blog this' button that comes in google firefox tool bar)

Web Developer Extension - Provides really usefull extensions that is really required by any web developer.

Forecast Fox - Weather information at the bottom right.

livehttpheaders for Firefox

This tool is similar to ieHttpHeaders that I posted a while back, but it is a firefox extension

Mac OS X Tiger vs. Windows XP

Providing some sort of comparison between Mac Os X and Windows XP

Friday, January 27, 2006

ieHttpHeaders @ blunck.info

Nice tool for checking IE request, response headers
blunck.info

Monday, January 23, 2006

192.com - The Largest UK Directory Enquiry Service

Seems like a nice site.
192.com - The Largest UK Directory Enquiry Service

Sunday, January 22, 2006

Eclipse Distilled

This book provides quite a good introduction to eclipse, I bet there is a lot of information about eclipse on the net and most people will not require a book, but I generally find that when looking into a new topic the amount of information is too much, quite often when you are looking at a new topic you want a high level view of the entire subject before you can choose the particular sub topic to dive into. This book provides that kinda high level view (well at least the 1st chapter does).

After reading the first chapter I am very interested in Eclipse Rich Client Platform(RCP) applications.

About a month back I picked up a book on SWT (Professional Java Native Interfaces with SWT/JFace), just for casual reading just out of interest. I liked the book very much and its introduction to SWT. At that time I was thinking that the next time I have to write a desktop application I should SWT instead of Swing. But today after understanding the Eclipse RCP framework and the generic features that is provider, I feel that it provides much more application support rather than just using SWT. I feel that if you are using Eclipse RCP you can then concentrate on the actual business logic rather than spending time re-creating a UI, moreover the plugability provided by RCP is really great.

Book:Eclipse Distilled

Developing for Eclipse Rich Client Platform(RCP)

A very nice article about developing applications for Eclipse RCP

Saturday, January 21, 2006

World Tracker turns anyone into a cellphone spy - Engadget

Traking anyone using their phone and their current location in the cellphone grid.

Flickrmap - get a flash world map of your flickr photos

This is really a nice idea. Have a look at the tutorial about geo taging picture using Google Earth. I amquite tempted to go in for this and moreover it costs only 5$ per year, but I dont travel a lot neither do I take many photos.

Adding google video to blog pages

Here is a blog that has multiple google videos added to it. I have to look into how it has been done.

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Raible's Wiki: TomcatAntTasks

This is some really usefull stuff, using this you can reload Tomcat web applications without restarting the server, this is particularly usefull for rapid development.

Raible's Wiki: TomcatAntTasks