Record your screencast directly into an animated GIF
One might have come across lot of websites posting screen grab videos as GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) in their blogs, websites etc. This method of embedding pictures to the blog posts has its own...
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Recently I have encountered a scenario in my project to find a random record from a mongodb collection in my database. Since mongodb is not a traditional RDBMS we cannot do a retrieval by doing “ORDER...
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Slow queries are always an issue irrespective of whether the database is relational or non-relational databases like mongoDB, couchdb etc. Slow queries can easily be detected and fixed by profiling the...
View ArticleHow to find whether a string is base64 encoded or not
Base64 encoding is a simple algorithm to translate text and binary streams into ASCII string format to be consumed by various programs as well as transmitted over the network. Base64 is not an...
View ArticleFind out what the internet thinks about everything
Have you ever wondered what the internet thinks about things that we do or care about ? I know few commercial websites like Sentiment140, Skyttle, Chatterbox deal with twitter sentiments to monitor...
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