Upload photos to orkut or to facebook using Picasa Plugins

I was searching for a way to upload photos from picasa directly to orkut or face book.
then i came accross a 2 nice plugins!
For facebook upload:http://apps.facebook.com/picasauploader/
For orkut upload : http://www.google.com/support/orkut/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164972

Open both downloads using picasa. This will create facebook and orkut icons inside picasa which will allow you to upload directly.

Nice Site to Learn/Solve Problems in CSS : CSS-Tricks

I was browsing the net for some CSS problem i had in my project . Then i came to a very nice site called CSS Tricks . This is a site for advanced users. who have some practical experience in using CSS. I was impressed by the reasons and solutions given to some of the hectic CSS issues.

Installing Flex Builder on Eclipse 3.5 Problem Solved!

Here’s a blog post by a frustrated developer who seems to have found out how to set up the Flex Builder plugin with Eclipse 3.5 (I have tried it and it works!).  Thank you, frustrated developer!

http://worldwizards.blogspot.com/2009/08/eclipse-35-and-flex-builder.html

From the post:

(1) Download and install Eclipse 3.5. I used the J2EE install.
(2) Download and run the Flex Builder 3 installer.
(3) Ignore all the warnings that it only supports Eclipse 3.3 and 3.4. Just keep telling it that you know what you are doing and want to install it anyway. It will end with a scary message about failing and suggest you do a manual install from inside of eclipse. Don’t do that!
(4) Here is the magic, when it is done there will be a file in your eclipse/links directory called
com.adobe.flexbuilder.feature.core.link .( Note if the links folder do not exists then create this folder and also create a file called "com.adobe.flexbuilder.feature.core.link" without any further extensions)
Open that file in wordpad and you will see it contains one line:

C:/Program Files/Adobe/Flex Builder 3 Plug-in

Edit that line so it looks like this:

path=C:/Program Files/Adobe/Flex Builder 3 Plug-in

Save the file and start eclipse. Voilla!

Google++ Nice GreaseMonkey Script

A new script gives you a colorful, beautiful, wonderful Google search interface, with powerful modules like flickr, wiki, ad remover. Customizable. Compatible for autopagerize. self updated. Multi-column. I love it. :)
Get this script at :
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/59333

P4EXP Windows Explorer Integration - Problem Solved

There were lots of issues  and i was struggling to use p4exp which come in bundle with p4v setup. i Couldn't configure it properly for a long time. I searched the net couldn't find the answer. Sometimes i used to get "no workspace has been set for this connection" or unable to connect, connection failure messages, even though your p4v is working properly.

The root cause was , whatever you configure in p4v is not available for p4exp. You need to configure this manually using p4v set.

I did the following :
Open command prompt and set the following values.
c:\>p4 set P4CLIENT=<WorkSpaceName>
c:\>p4 set P4PORT=<PerfoceServerip:PortNo>
c:\>p4 set P4USER=<PerforceUserName>
Example:
c:\>p4 set P4CLIENT=vijayk_workspace
c:\>p4 set P4PORT=172.19.86.15:1999
c:\>p4 set P4USER=vijayk

You can also have p4config file.

Basically i got some help from this link:
http://maillist.perforce.com/pipermail/perforce-user/2009-September/025941.html

Tabbing in Flex

Today i observed that tabbing was not working as i expected.
I had a custom component with 2 states read state and edit state. added few textfields in it. and in readstate i disabled tabs and in edit state i enabled tabs along with giving tabindex. But at runtime when i switch to editmode still tabbing is disabled!

My favorite place where i search for new technologies.

I normally goto 3 places to search new technologies.
1. microsoft labs, adobe labs, and google labs. These are the places where i find most of the new things which are at beta stage.