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Pakistani flag S60 theme for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Posted on 17. Aug, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

I just found Pakistani flag Symbian S60 v5 theme. Tried on my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. And it looks great. I should found this theme on 14th of August.
You can download theme file from here.

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Struts 2 Spring integration: a kickstart on using dependency injection

Posted on 12. Aug, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

In this post you will find how we can integrate Spring with Struts2 through struts2-spring-plugin. And we will also see how we can use dependency injection. I assume that you are successfully running a Struts2 application. We will add our Spring integration code in that.
Lets take a scenario. You have an Interface DAO.java that has [...]

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Do you think to be an open source committer?

Posted on 05. Aug, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

We widely use open source developer tools and libraries in our daily dev life. These open source things are driven by community. I am an open source fan. And I think I must contribute to some open source project. Umm yeah, before I become a contributor I must be an active user of that project. [...]

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Div based UIs. Heaven or Hell for a developer?

Posted on 03. Aug, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

At my work I have a large application that has all web pages in table based layout. The use of Div is just limited to hide and show some content area on web page. Same is the case with CSS. Using them for styling fonts and some formatting for tables. Like every developer (not designer) [...]

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How the mind of a web developer works?

Posted on 02. Aug, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

Do you think your mind has similar type of characteristics.

Ref: Mingle2

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New topics added in SCJP 6 Certification (CX-310-065)

Posted on 17. Jul, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

Following are the points that are highlighted in Kathi Sierra and Bert Bates book on SCJP6.
1-    Console class.
2-    NavigableSet and NavigableMap.
3-    Lower(int) and higher(int) function are added in Treeset collection.
4-    Polling method in TreeSet and TreeMap.
5-    TreeSet.descendingSet() and TreeMap.descendingMap().
Thanks to Bilal for discussing these points with me.

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Fetch Twitter friends or followers through REST API in Java

Posted on 16. Jul, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

I was playing around with fetching Twitter followers and friends with Twitter4J. But it was taking time to do that. So I code it with using REST urls given by Twitter. It fetches all your friends or followers. Depending upon your application that you want one list or you want to use paging. But I [...]

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P@SHA LaunchPad, an envent to foster up entrepreneurship in Pakistan

Posted on 21. Jun, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

P@SHA (Pakistan Software House Association) has come up with a great idea to promote entrepreneurship in Pakistan. They are conducting an event LaunchPad.  Previously the president of P@SHA, Jehan Ara was involved in conducting session called Startup Insiders. A panel discussion where people ask question about their startups to the people who are from silicon [...]

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iPhone theme for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Tahir Akram.

The most interesting thing about iPhone is its usability. People love to customize things like they want to see them. I also searched out a theme that gave the iPhone look to my Nokia 5800 XM phone. I like the icon set of iPhone and this theme has tried well to look alike.
You can [...]

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