Export Facebook contacts to mail account

There are lots of applications in market who claim that they can effectively export your Facebook contacts to your mail account or in .CSV format. But, I doubt if any of them offers valid results. Facebook provides very efficient security mechanisms in order to protect privacy of its users. The contacts are displayed on profile [...]

Databse design mistakes part-I

Inefficient Indexing:                 This is most common mistake happens most of the time.  The column which is referred frequently for data retrieval must be indexed. If you are using where clause in queries then indexing on that column will make your database more efficient and relatively faster.  Poor designing/planning: [...]

Scala, Groovy – A Comparision

Function Groovy Scala Typed Language It is dynamically typed and also supports dynamic meta-programming. It is statically typed and has no dynamic meta-programming.  Also it is typed inferred. Influence Syntactically influenced by Java but semantically influenced more by languages like Ruby. Syntactically influenced by both Ruby and Java and semantically influenced more by Java, SML, [...]

Scala – Pros and Cons.

        Scala, which stands for Scalable Language, is a programming language that aims to provide both object-oriented and functional programming styles. It runs on Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and was designed in 2001 by Martin Odersky and his group at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, by combining the experiences gathered from designing multiple other languages. Advantages [...]

Why organizations don’t use Python?

By organizations, I don’t mean Google, IBM or any such organizations. I am talking about the general organization. If we scan through the classified page, advertisements and others they all look for Java/ .NET/ C# programmers. What is the thing, which is keeping Python off the list? Marketing: Java has Sun and C#/.Net has Microsoft. [...]

Pylons vs. Django

           It depends upon the type of application you are developing! Both frameworks are excellent to work with. But they are mainly designed for solving different problems in application development. The creation of Django was mainly for sites that publish the information on internet like newspapers, feeds or many corporate sites. [...]

Scala, Groovy, Jruby, Clojure – Comparision

Features Scala Groovy Jruby Closure What is it?? 1.Multi paradigm programming language. Designed to integrate features of object oriented languages and functional languages.  2.One of most advanced system in programming languages. 1.Object-oriented programming language for the Java platform serves as alternative to the Java programming language. 1.Java integration of Ruby programming language. 2.It is tightly [...]

Advantages of XML and Global JXDM

Justice-specific extensible markup language (XML), known as the Global Justice XML Data Model (Global JXDM), is a widely adopted standard for representing text and data in a format that can be exchanged across platforms, languages, and applications, and can be used with a wide range of development tools and utilities. The following list highlights some [...]

XMLParser and XMLSlurper

Groovy provides XML parsing features which are great tools added on Java platform. XMLParser: XML DOM contains functions for insert, delete, update, and traverse the XML tree nodes. But before manipulating such XML documents it must be loaded into the XML DOM object. XMLParser does this! It loads the XML document and converts it into [...]

Programming Languages…Engineer must learn!!

1. PHP: What it is? It is an open-source, interpretive, server-side, cross-platform, HTML scripting language, especially well-suited for Web development as it can be embedded into HTML pages.  Why you should learn it? It’s particularly widely used. High-speed scripting with caching, augmented with compiled code plug-ins (such as can be done with Perl and PHP) [...]