Web Developer Resources

A globally recognized avatar or to put it short, a Gravatar, was conceptualized by Tom Werner. It is simply an avatar image that appears beside your name everytime you comment on gravatar enabled sites.

Usually, the size of a Gravatar is 80 by 80 pixels. There is also a rating for each image, allowing the webmasters to control the content of to Gravatar to be displayed on their website. Email addresses are hashed with the MD5 cryptographic hash function to eliminate spam and prevent spambots from harvesting e-mail addresses.

1. PayPal Merchant Services: Free Individual Purchase Buttons: The first step to access PayPal is to go to the Merchant Section on its website. Generate the HTML code needed to make your buttons which you can add to your product pages: Buy Now, Donate, Add to Cart, Subscribe and Buy a Gift Certificate. If you want to sell a single item, you should use the PayPal “Buy Now” button.

2. PayPal Merchant Services:Free Shopping Cart Buttons: Using free shopping cart you can sell multiple items on your site which you can customize your buttons and messages. Instead of linking a button on individual product pages, the PayPal cart is designed to let your would be customers to browse all your posted merchandise before purchasing.

It’s an ultimate user interactivity, drag and drop is basically not given importance in some desktop applications but it is an integral test for web applications. If you will try to implement drag and drop in your web application framework, then you made the right decision. Nowadays, drag and drop for web apps has been limited to JavaScript frameworks such as Script.aculo.us and Rico. With the advent of GWT it does not explicitly support drag and drop, it provides you with all the necessary ingredients to make your own module.

3. PayPal Widgets: Free Storefronts The widget lets you create you create online your graphically pleasing Web Storefront. Upload your products, prices, shipping parameters, set descriptions and then display the widget to your website. You can customize it with a theme, title, information on your store and don’t forget the logo. After that, choose the product you want to display and select selling options. You then publish it for auto insertion into the TypePador get the HTML code to copy and paste on your Web space.

4.  PayPal Flash Button Creator:Free Trial or $29.99 to Buy: Its free for 30 days, this tool will let you create Shock Wave Flash files for any PayPal buttons including;Buy Now, cart, View, Donation or Subscription. To start creating your customized button, you choose one item, cart or subscription and fill in the required fields like: price, ID, item number, currency, tax and your business and Web site information plus your policies. However, this is a 30 days free trial, a registered version is available online for $29.99.

5. PayPal Button Machine:Free Trial or $19.99 to Buy

A second offer from the same company is the Button Machine, this button generating tool is an excellent option to those who do not have or use a broadband Internet connection. You can make any of the buttons like - Buy it Now, Subscription and Cart..offline.  Its interface is the same with the Flash Button Creator. Once you finished creating the button, you go into the Button Code tab and get your code and you can choose to encrypt or update the code. The trial version is free for 30 days, you can buy the registered one for $19.99.

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Nowadays, one of the most important components of any online store is payment processing. There are several methods available to merchants, but one of the most popularly used is PayPal, it lets its consumers pay for their purchases using a credit card, bank transfer or with funds from their own PayPal account balance. When checking out, the customer is directed to a page designed to match your own site that’s located on PayPal’s secure servers. Once consumer is done choosing a payment method (PayPal cash payment or credit card), the customer is then returned to your site and the payment, once cleared, is deposited to your own PayPal account. PayPal also supports international payment terms.

The Oracle DBA’s have long been wished to be able to capture applications workloads in a production environment and then it replays that workload against a test environment to determine the impact of the proposed database or application changes on the database performance. The new Database Replay feature enables an Oracle DBA to capture, massage and then replay workloads either selectively or in their own entirety within a wide range of database platforms and environment.

(Source:databasejournal)

The Firefox Web Developer Extension toolbar pins to the browser top along with your other toolbars, and is available from the browser’s menubar “Tools” button. The photo above shows the Outline Block Level Elements feature. The Drop-down, hierarchical menus makes navigating the many features very easy and accessible. There are way too many features to describe individually, but the top-level navigation selections, and a few standout components are well noted. These are; Disable, Cookies, CSS, Forms, Images, Informations, Miscellaneous, Outline, Resize, Tools, View Source and Options.

(Source: htmlgoodies)

Last  October 2007, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that California’s civil rights laws reach commercial websites and thus protect legally blind individuals who visit those sites. The complainants in the case allege that target.com is not accessible to blind individuals because the retailer failed to include “alternative text,” i.e., invisible code, that screen reading software can use to orally describe the content of the webpage. Notably, the court ruled that California disability law is more protective than its federal counterpart. While the Americans with Disabilities Act requires a link between an attempt to access a website and the actual denial of access to a physical store, the court held that the California statutes require no such connection. While the ruling has not yet been tested on appeal, it means that website developers should consider accessibility issues in designing websites that are aimed at California consumers since the sites may be evaluated for accessibility without regard to the accessibility of the brick-and-mortar premises.

(Source:Downeybrand.com)

Axis2 has something called the Service Life Cycle management support. The correct and best approach that would get the life cycle management support from Axis2. First, you need to write a life cycle management class then create and store the database connection from there. It should be noted here that when Axis2 starts up (at the time of service deployment), the Service Life Cycle class will all be invoked; also, when the system goes down, the of Service Life Cycle class will again be invoked. You are going to create the DB connection at the service deployment time and store the database connection inside the Configuration Context object.

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