Kushal Likhi

Grails

How to get Google Indexed Pages Count, and/or do Google searches through AJAX/programmatically

Hi, Recently i had to get the count of the Pages Google has Indexed for a perticular web Site progmatically. In the process i found that Google offers an AJAX Search API to perform Google Searches. . Hence i Implemented a Class which does the same for me easily(Ajax Search in Google). And this Solution Does Google Searches...

27-Sep-2011

Grails

Fast DB Management Through IDEA- Increase Productivity

Hi, well we can run SQL Queries and browse database through IDEA with a good GUI interface. It Just Requires Two Steps: 1) Setup (One time) 2)Usage (how to) A: Setup PART I 1) Download the Database Navigator Tool From Intellij Repo -> Download Tool 2) Then Execute in the Directory containing the downloaded file ...

16-Sep-2011

Technology

Increasing Productivity With The Right Hardware

Recently i upgraded my laptop to increase the productivity and to make it butterSmooth to work on even with the most demanding applications. so here is what i did: 1) New High Speed Solid State Hard Drive 2) Increased RAM. . why SSD??? CPUs and GPUs thrive on being fed massive amounts of data in parallel, our hard drives...

05-Sep-2011

Grails

Zen Coding in IntelliJ IDEA

Recently i Found this cool thing(Zen Coding) which is also supported by IntelliJ IDEA. Long story short, Zen Coding is a shorthand notation for writing HTML/CSS, Few Examples are as Follows: Ex-1 Writing a nested Markup Quickly Now in IDEA lets open any gsp/html page and write: [html] div#mainDivId>p+h1+p.classForP (After...

26-Aug-2011

Grails

Editable Label Tag and introduction to Effects Tag Lib

Lately i had some spare time, hence decided to utilise it for developing some cool GUI elements. What is effects tag lib?? It is just a new tag lib which is intended to contain some cool grails tags for GUI manipulations. new tags will be added to it on timely basis, this is the first post regarding this tag lib. Editable Lable ...

19-Feb-2011

Technology

GNOME GUI Integration w.r.t IDEA GUI Launcher

One of the important part of any Installer is integrating and defining launchers for GUI. This post will demonstrate adding entries in menu bar and panel, using scripts in context of creating a GUI launcher for IDEA IDE. currently IDEA does not come with any GUI Launcher but this does not mean that we cant have one. How cool it would...

13-Feb-2011