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QR Codes

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Have you noticed the strange looking square shape, checker like pattern code, which is given at some places to visit websites or to avail offers or even access information? If you have seen one than you are not new and if you don't know about it than also you are not new either. Chances are you might have seen QR code. QR Code is short form of  Quick Response Code. It is similar to bar code but with added extra dimension making it two dimensional code. This adds more information to the code.  "It  is the trademark for a type of  matrix barcode  (or two-dimensional  barcode ) first designed for the  automotive industry in Japan ." - Wikipedia  By Definition - It is a type of machine-readable optical label that contains information about the item to which it is attached. It uses four standardized encoding modes (numeric, alphanumeric, byte/binary, and kanji ) to efficiently store data. QR codes have recently increase their pene...

How to Get Respect at Work

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Most of the time in our current stressful environment, we tend to forget our boundaries and this happens with all of us sometime or the other. Respect is one aspect of our personality which can make or break the situation. It can actually change the relation from avoidance to  interdependence .  So, how we should be in our professional environments to get maximum benefit out of it and its not a one way road. Respect others : Show your coworkers that they matter. Respect the authority of your bosses and treat underlings well. Do your job and do it well: Don't make anyone carry your workload, be on time and offer to help coworkers when possible.  If you do not understand something or cannot handle a task do not be afraid to seek help or partner up with a coworker. Have dignity: It's great to help out others but don't let yourself be the office pushover either. Don't do everyone's work for them.  Tell the boss, "I can take one ...

Aerial Seed Bombing

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हिंदी में पढ़े :  एरियल सीड बॉम्बिंग Seed Bombs Being environmentalist from heart , I try to contribute as much as I can to reduce my environmental footprint. Apart from individual contribution the globalization has tipped the scale of demand and supply. In the past decade we have seen acceleration in world wide environmental issues like Global Warming, Glacier Melting, Weather Cycle Change, Ozone Depletion, Increase in Green House Gases. Our future looks quite dim. Somebody rightly said that  And the way we are going we don't have much time left before these problems become irreversible.  Pixabay: Deforestation Deforestation is one of the major cause of these  issues, our flora is actually the provider of many benefits like Oxygen, Lumber, Medicines, Shelter etc. to name a few. And we have mistreated, exploited our providers to an extent that we may not be able to reverse the impact in time. I was reading about the upcoming technologi...

Using SVN with Bugzilla

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Configuration management is required some way or the other to avoid any conflicting change and to keep track of what all is changed during development cycle. Following is a way to integrate SVN with Bugzilla to provide some basic tracking of what Bug is modified for which file. 1. Explore and open the root of SVN folder. Right Click and open properties as shown   2. Following screen will open. Click New 3. On Add Properties page Select‚ bugtraq‘ properties and provide appropriate values like below:   • name : bugtraq:url Value: (string) This value is the URL pointing to the bug tracking tool. The URL string should Contain the substring "%BUGID%". Example: http://esvrs72/show_bug.cgi?id=%BUGID% • name : bugtraq:warnifnoissue Value: "true"/"yes" or "false"/"no" If set to "true", then the clients will warn the user if the issue text box is Left empty. • name : bugtraq:logregex Value: (string...

Some of Eclipse Shortcuts

Eclipse is a very flexible and versatile tool which comes in many flavours. Here are some shortcuts which may be useful Table 1. Navigation Shortcut Description|  Ctrl + Shift + R  |  Open / Search for resources, e.g. files  | Ctrl + Shift + T Open / Search for Types Ctrl + E Allows to select an editor from the currently open editors Ctrl + F8 Shortcut for switching perspectives Alt + ← or Alt + → Go to previous/ next editor position in history Ctrl-PageUp/PageDown Switch to previous/next editor F3 Go to the declaration of this variable Ctrl + Shift + P Go to the matching bracket Table 2. Search Shortcut Description| Ctrl + . | Go to the next problem / error | Ctrl + , Go to the previous problem / error F4 on a variable Show type hierarchy Ctrl + J , Ctrl + K Incremental search, find next Ctrl + Shift + G Search for references in the workspace 4. Run Table 3. Running programs Shortcut Description|...