CSS: Using every declaration just once

While surfing for best practices on Internet, I found this article on Google code site. It was an interesting article which was mostly directed towards web developer, but since j2ee deveoper also do some sort of web deveopment, I thought it will be a good idea to share with you guys.Author: Jens Meiert, Google WebmasterRecommended experience: Working knowledge of CSSOriginal Site: http://code.google.com/speed/articles/optimizing-css.htmlA logical way to make your website faster is to make the client...

Unit Test Helper

Working on JUnit is fun and great but always remember a golden rule "Never change a good design just to make it accessable/runnable by JUnit". Let me elaborate on this statement to tell you what exactly I meant. In our code we write data access layer, which creates connections and execute sql.Specially in Web Application, connections are often managed inside container and are accessed by our code using JNDI. This is one of the industry best practices. Problem is how to test that code outside the...

Google Maps

Google Maps is an interesting feature which most of us have used in some way or other. Either to find the way to a friend's new house or to locate a Pizza joint near our house. It helps and it sure do but what is interesting is to learn how to use this in our Applications to make them more user centric with all other Web 2.0 concepts.Let me start with giving you some examples, you go to a Bank's website and click on Locate an ATM link. It takes you to a page where you select a state from a drop...