Good article about IT workers and excuses
I found this article very good. All, not just IT workers, should remember these points. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=31279
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Funny parking sign for two wheelers, from Ernakulam
A Two W h eeler parking sign from Ernakulam, Kerala , INDIA . Seems they did not had enough space for putting "H". From Prasanth's blog
Create a Zip file and make available for download using Coldfusion 8
Coldfusion 8 has the tag CFZIP by which we can zip/unzip a folder in the server. For creating a file download, that is, the user will be prompted for saving the file, we can use CFHEADER tag. We can use CFCONTENT tag to deliver the content in an unpublished directory (not mapped to web server) to the user. Now, let us begin with cfzip. <cfzip action="zip" source="C:\myfiles\myphotos" file="c:\download\myphotos.zip">
Find details of mobile operator from the number
Just came across this wikipedia page showing the list of allocated numbers to different mobile operators in India . If you get the first four digits of the mobile number, then you can go through the chart in the page to find out the operator and the state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_telephone_numbering_in_India
Free SMS service for Calicut University Exam notification
We have a free SMS service for exam notifications from Calicut University , Kerala, INDIA. Anybody in India with a Google Account can sign-up for this service. This is an unofficial service, but we will try to keep the service updated. This service is Ad free.
JavaScript coding patterns
Another post on JavaScript coding. This time I like to introduce the coding patterns that helps you to make variables and functions on your code less vulnerable to overwriting by other's variables and functions on the same page.
Photo of plane taking off from Nedumbassery Airport, Cochin, taken from Satellite
See the picture of a plane taking off from Nedumbassery Airport, shot from satellite. See the photo from Google maps . Search for Nedumbassery Airport in http://maps.google.com and see for yourself.
Restrict mails from Google BUZZ in your inbox.
Google Buzz is a great tool to view the updates for your friends in your GMail . But the mails are clogging our inbox with updates. You do not want to disable Buzz, but just the mails. I tried the following steps and found it helps to redirect the mails from Inbox.
Give footer for CFPresentation Slide
You can create presentations using CFPresentation in ColdFusion 8 . It is very fast and gives the developer a lot of options like showing notes, outline and search. You can include text, Image and swf movies to a presentation. But, if you want to create a footer section, that is not readily available. To create a footer section, you can put a div inside the CFPresentationSlide and align such that the content is always displayed at the bottom. Use the code below to show the footer section in the presentation. <div style="position:absolute;top:70%"> <font style="font:verdana;font-size:8px;">© Prasanth Kumar.S</font> </div>