Friday, August 29, 2014

tools

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1. Streamus™ (Beta!) is a chrome extension which turns YouTube into a music player. You can create your own playlists and it saves them to your google account. Don't have to open a new tab every time to listen to a new song:

2. Like an article, but want to save it for later? Use Pocket. Available on all platforms ( chrome, firefox, android, iOS). Just a tap and the article will be saved on all of your devices

3. StayFocusd is a chrome extension which limits your activity on a particular website (for ex. you cannot spend more than say 15 mins per day on Facebook). Once the daily quota is finished, you can no longer open the website unless you complete a challenge posted by the app. You can also control how lenient the challenge should be:

4. You probably know this. Dictionary.com's chrome extension helps to know the meaning of any word by just a double click on the word.

5. Vocabulary.com helps you to build your vocabulary by keeping track of your progress.

6. Swipe Gesture is a chrome extension which adds OSX-style two-finger multitouch gestures. Ever wondered to just flick away from a page rather than to press the backspace button or back button on the toolbar. Try this.

7. Settle Up and expense manager(or dollar bird) are pretty good apps to keep track of your expenditure and accounts.

8. SimplyNoise - Listen to brown noise while working.

9. Smooth Key Scroll is a chrome extension which enables smooth and responsive scrolling with the keyboard, on every page you go.

10. A list of educational websites, which can aid you in being more productive

Why procrastinate will be helpful

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Take 10 minutes to Learn why you procrastinate will be helpful

I was a very bad Procrastinator for a very long time, until i really understood the basics of why i procrastinate.

In order to understand why you procrastinate, first you should have a strong desire to eliminate procrastination in your life and following the methods mentioned below will be helpful.

I. Track down your everyday activity

When i first started writing down the list of activities that i do everyday, it felt like a waste of time. But later while analyzing the one month data i clearly understood why i don't have enough time to do the necessary activities and it narrowed down to the bad habits that i had created over time.

I was spending most of my time in Facebook and was affected by the "Chain-clicking curse" where watching a video from Facebook will lead to YouTube in-turn to Twitter to see the trend and it goes on and on into loads of unnecessary browsing wasting your precious time

II.Understanding why we procrastinate

We procrastinate because of the habits that we create over time. When we work some random thought strikes our mind, it might be as simple as,

where to go for the next vacation?

and I go to online to check details of it.
it doesn't stop there, then to Facebook to see where my friends went?
and something else catches up my eyes and the clicks goes endlessly

III. How we create Habits

I have been following this routine every day which let me do overtime to complete my work and had no time for the essential things in life. All of these made sense to me when i read the Power of habit by Charles Duhigg.

understanding the basic of habit was big help to me. I starts with acue/Signal in my case it was the random thought and my routine was tosearch about it and reward that i get is leaving a stressful work for that moment/satisfaction by answering my random thought which sucks my time endlessly leaving only a very short period of time to do the necessary.

Now the trick it to replace the bad routine with a good routine which will lead to greater productivity in life, which could be understood by looking at how runners reward themselves

Here the cue is the Running shoe and it lets you to the routine of running which was created over time, running leads to the reward which is sense of accomplishment on completing a run also satisfying the Endorphin craving that you get by looking at the running shoe

IV. How I cured myself by changing my routine

1. Keeping myself distraction free

a. Turn off internet: Most of my work doesn't need internet so turned
     off my WiFi whenever i work.

b. Note pad: Whenever some random thoughts strike rather than
    searching it online i started recording them down in a small notepad and
    researched about them later

c. Setting Time limits: Started setting a duration to complete my work
    which helped me to focus more on my work, Even had set time on
    socializing with my colleagues spending not more than 5 minutes on
    unnecessary talks.

2. Sustaining the habits

a. Tracking your activities: Its quite tough for me to write every activity
    now and then, so i spent half an hour every day before sleeping to write
    down the activities of the whole day splitting into hourly activities and
    do a quick analysis on where to improve next day. It looks something
    like this,

    9:00 - 10:00 : Forecast Meeting
    10:00 - 11:00 : Project#1 - Prepared the procedure

b. Prioritizing activities for tomorrow: This summary helps me in
    prioritizing the activities that i should be concentrating more tomorrow
    and I write down top 3 things that should be completed tomorrow

c. Monthly and Quarterly Review: then i started analyzing my monthly
    and quarterly data's to continuously improve my productivity

The methods mentioned above worked perfectly for me and I started finding more time to do the necessary things in life. Hope it will be useful for you as well, Let me know if it was helpful :)

These will make your life a bit easier :)

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#1: Giving a presentation? Always bring a bottle of water to the stage. When you can't remember what to say, take a drink. Nobody will know the difference.

#2: Can't find someone to help you in an electronic store? Stand by the most expensive TV and look at the price tag. Someone will be right over.

#3: If you suspect someone is following your car, take four right turns. It forms a circle, and if they are still behind they're following you.

#4: Put a red cap on a blue pen to prevent people from stealing it. Nobody steals a red pen.

#5: If you ever get caught doing something embarrassing in public, say you lost a bet.

#6: Fifteen minutes of laughter has the same health benefits as 30 min of sit ups.

#7: When shopping, the cheapest items will be on the top and bottom shelves; not eye level.

and some more

Replace "youtube" with "listentoyoutube" in the URL to download the audio of the video.

Replace "youtube" with "ssyoutube" in the URL to download the video in any quality available.

Replace "youtube" with "listenonrepeat" in the URL to repeat the video automatically .

Replace "youtube" with "youtubeskip" in the URL and you won't see ads.

What is SD

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Short for Secure Digital, an SD card is a memory card. See our SD card for a full explanation on this term.

2. Short for single-sided diskette or single-density diskette, SD is a diskette that supports writing only on one side of the diskette. See our single-density diskette definition for a full explanation and related terms.

What is COBOL , Common Business Oriented Language

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COBOL ....

Short for Common Business Oriented Language, COBOL was developed in 1960 by Grace Hopper, Bob Bemer, and others and today is the second-oldest high-level programming language (FORTRAN being the oldest).

Add/Remove Input Fields Dynamically with jQuery

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if you are looking to add and remove duplicate input fields, here’s another jQuery example below to do the task for you. This jQuery snippet adds duplicate input fields dynamically and stops when it reaches maximum.

$(document).ready(function() {

var MaxInputs   = 8; //maximum input boxes allowed
var InputsWrapper   = $("#InputsWrapper"); //Input boxes wrapper ID
var AddButton   = $("#AddMoreFileBox"); //Add button ID

var x = InputsWrapper.length; //initlal text box count
var FieldCount=1; //to keep track of text box added

$(AddButton).click(function (e)  //on add input button click
{
  if(x <= MaxInputs) //max input box allowed
  {
FieldCount++; //text box added increment
  //add input box
  $(InputsWrapper).append('<div><input type="text" name="mytext[]" id="field_'+ FieldCount +'" value="Text '+ FieldCount +'"/><a href="#" class="removeclass">×</a></div>');
x++; //text box increment
  }
return false;
});

$("body").on("click",".removeclass", function(e){ //user click on remove text
  if( x > 1 ) {
  $(this).parent('div').remove(); //remove text box
x--; //decrement textbox
  }
return false;
})

});

To show menu in every page in grails.

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this is code for layout/menu.gsp . To make a menu that needs to be viewed in every page. This code would help you. you need to take care of g tags.

<html>
<head>
<title><g:layoutTitle default="Some Title" /></title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link rel="icon" href="${resource(dir: 'images', file: 'faviconblack.png')}" type="image/png">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.3/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css">

<link rel="stylesheet" href="${resource(dir: 'css', file: 'bootstrap.css')}" type="text/css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="${resource(dir: 'css', file: 'bootstrap.min.css')}" type="text/css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="${resource(dir: 'css', file: 'bootstrap-theme.css')}" type="text/css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="${resource(dir: 'css', file: 'bootstrap-theme.min.css')}" type="text/css">

<g:javascript library="jquery" plugin="jquery"/>
<r:layoutResources/>

<g:javascript src="bootstrap.min.js"/>

<g:layoutHead />
</head>
<body>

<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-6" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<a href="#" class="" >Women</a>       
<a href="#" class="" >Men</a>       
<a href="#" class="" >Jewellery</a>       
<a href="#" class="" >Kids</a>       
<a href="#" class="" >Weddings</a>       
<a href="#" class="" >Shoes</a>       
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-8">
%{--<h2 style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Belya</h2>--}%

<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control">
<span class="input-group-btn">
<button class="btn btn-primary" type="button">Search</button>
</span>
</div>

</div>
<div class="col-lg-4">
<a href="#">Register</a>  |  
<a href="#">Sign in</a>  |  
<g:link action="index" controller="Shop">Open A Shop</g:link>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<g:layoutBody /></body>
</html>

What is Abend

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Short for abnormal end, abend is a term used to describe when a program or task terminates without warning. If an abend occurs, it is usually followed by an error message indicating the last the program's last operation, the file the caused it, or where in the memory the malfunction occurred.

Web definitions

An ABEND is an abnormal termination of software, or a program crash. This usage derives from an error message from the IBM OS/360, IBM zOS operating systems. Usually capitalized, but may appear as "abend".

(1) Acronym for abnormal end of task. It refers to software crashes or lossage. Derives from an error message on the IBM 360.

(2) Acronym for Absent By Enforced Net Deprivation. Sent in e-mailsubject lines warning friends and others of forced loss of Internet access (due to moving, network outages, or illness).

5 Open Source Tools for Web Developers

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1. Bootstrap

First released by Twitter in 2011, Bootstrap is a front-end framework for Web development that aims to speed the development process. It takes a mobile-first approach and compiles code to pure CSS. Operating System: OS Independent

2. Brackets

This Adobe project is currently one of the most popular on GitHub, though it's still a preview release. Brackets is a code editor built with Web technologies for developers who are working in Web technologies. Operating System: OS Independent

3. CodeMirror

CodeMirror is a browser-based text editor. Basically, it allows Website developers to embed a code editor in their sites, which is useful if you're creating a site that offers programming tutorials. In addition to desktop browsers, it also works with many mobile browsers. Operating System: OS Independent

4. Ember.js

There are a lot of JavaScript Web development frameworks out there—Ember calls itself "a framework for creating ambitious Web applications. It aims to make developers more productive immediately. Operating System: OS Independent

5. ZURB Foundation

One of the most popular projects on GitHub, Foundation humbly proclaims itself "The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world." With it, web developers can quickly create sites that automatically adjust for the size and type of device being used for access. Operating System: OS Independent