Have you watched the Aircel and MTS advertisements?
If not, watch it now. Listen carefully. At the end of both the advertisements, it says Free Facebook and Whatsapp or Free Whatsapp and Viber.
I always wondered, why they have to specifically mention Facebook and whatsapp are free, when they are actually free.
Now I know the answer.
Net Neutrality Matters.
If you wonder, what is net neutrality, why it is important read the following articles carefully, and do something.
Unlike many other programming languages, JavaScript enables you to freely pass functions around to be executed at a later time. A callback is a function that is passed as an argument to another function and is executed after its parent function has completed. Callbacks are special because they patiently wait to execute until their parent finishes. Meanwhile, the browser can be executing other functions or doing all sorts of other work.
A definition taken from jquery website
Reference: Michael Vollmer
One should also understand about callback hell
Minification is the process of removing comments and unnecessary whitespace from a program. Depending on how the program is written, this can reduce the size by about half.
for example Continue reading “what is minification?”
prerequisites
A short tutorial on, how to use yuicompressor is available on https://www.npmjs.com/package/yuicompressor
Here is a small javascript program which helps you to compress multiple files. Continue reading “how to minify multiple javascript files using yuicompressor node module”
JSFIDDLE: http://jsfiddle.net/jnelsonin/ctfy158o/
This simple formula will help you to convert a px value in CSS to corresponding em, % and pt.
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pt = (px * 3 ) / 4; em = pt / 12; % = (pt / 12 ) * 100; ie; % = em * 100; |
consider we have a pixel value of 8. Based on the above formula,
pt = (8 * 3) / 4 = 6pt
em = 8 / 12 = 0.5em
% = 0.5 * 100 = 50%
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You can donate blood if
Do not donate blood if you have any of the following conditions: Continue reading “Dos and Don’ts for Blood Donation”
In Interner Explorer, When we bring the focus to a select element, the element gets highlighted with a blue background, like in this given image. This is the default bahavior of Internet Explorer browser to indicate that, the focus is on select element.
How can we remove this highlighting?
Pure CSS method
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select::-ms-value {background: none; color: #42413D;} |
jQuery method
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$('option').click(function() { $('#select').blur(); }); |
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/jnelsonin/NMq75/
This is how the select element looks in FireFox and Internet Explorer 10, after giving a background image.
Facebook recently pushed an update of their application, which requires a lot of additional permissions.
I tried to upgrade facebook application on my mobile, and got worried to see the permissions they are asking to run this application.
Take a look at this picture. I took 4 screenshots and combined together to get a single image.
Have a closer look at the permissions which is marked in red. Continue reading “Two reasons why I uninstalled facebook application and Facebook messenger from my mobile”
