Essays, poems, and personal reflections from the desk and drawer.

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What is Skeuomorphism?

21 February 2024

I noticed every design is incorpating rounded edges in their rectangle shapes (yes, my website cards also). Today I Googled it and after reading some articles, I stumbled upon Skeuomorphism.

So, here I am noting down what is Skeuomorphism?

Skeuomorphism is a term most often used in graphical user interface design to describe interface objects that mimic their real-world counterparts in how they appear and/or how the user can interact with them. A well-known example is the recycle bin icon used for discarding files. Skeuomorphism makes interface objects familiar to users by using concepts they recognize.

In UI design, skeuomorphism had its boom with the advent of the first iPhone. Steve Jobs believed that UI elements should resemble real-life objects to increase ease of use. For example, the Notes app looked like a notepad. However, as users became more familiar with the iOS interface, Apple transitioned to flat design with fewer shadows and textures. Flat design stripped back skeuomorphic elements to essentials for faster loading and decluttered touchpoints.

References

Interaction Design

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Connecting MySQL from command line

13 February 2024

Open the command prompt and type the below to connect the MySQL:

mysql -u username -p

After the above command the command line will prompt you to enter the password and after entering the password you can query the database.

References

Stack Overflow, MySQL Doc

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Non-editionable objects

10 February 2024

When you are create an object in Oracle Database, default object type will be marked editionable. From 12c onwards, you can mark the objects as noneditionable , and same you cannot edit with create or replace . For altering the same you have to alter the object and change to editionable.

This is applicable to View, Funcitons, Procedure, Trigger, Library, Type.

create or replace noneditionable procedure test_proc ( p int ) as
begin
  null;
end;
select editionable from user_objects
where  object_name = 'test_proc ';

//result
EDITIONABLE   
N
create or replace procedure test_proc ( p int ) as
begin
  dbms_output.put_line ( 'Editionable version' );
end;

//result
ORA-38824: A CREATE OR REPLACE command may not change the EDITIONABLE property of an existing object.

With below you can alter the procedure.

alter procedure test_proc editionable;
create or replace procedure test_proc ( p int ) as
begin
dbms_output.put_line ( 'Editionable version' );
end;

exec test_proc (1);

//result
Editionable version
References

Oracle Doc

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Job commands in Oracle PL/SQL

2 February 2024

Here I am listing the commands using for creating, running, and fetching the scheduler jobs in Oracle database for easy reference.

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Export your Kindle book highlights

24 January 2024

If you want to export your Kindle book highlights without the page location and color information, you can follow these steps:

  • Export the content in any format you prefer.
  • Paste the content in Visual Studio Code or any other text editor that supports regular expressions.
  • Use the regular expression Highlight \(yellow\) - Location [0-9]+ in the Find and Replace tool to replace Highlight (yellow) - Location 01.
  • Replace all the matches with an empty string.

This will remove the unwanted details from your highlights and leave only the text you want to keep.

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Default Apps 2023

21 January 2024

Read the Defaults app of Chris Coyier and found interesting.

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Name attribute in input tag

15 January 2024

The name attribute specifies the name of an <input> element. It is used to reference elements in a JavaScript, or to reference form data after a form is submitted to the server.

Only form elements with a name attribute will have their values passed when submitting a form.

<form action="http://localhost" method="POST">
    <label for="User">User name</label>
    <input type="text" id="User" name="Name" value="bino" />
    <input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form

When you submit the above, server localhost will recive a content like below:

Name=bino
References

w3schools

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Set up a feed/ archive page in Hugo to display all posts

7 January 2024

This website contains various types of blogs, both technical and non-technical, that can be accessed through the variuos links. I wanted to have a single page...

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Firebase rules update

5 January 2024

To read and write without authenticaton in firebase, you need to updated the rules in the database as below.

{
  "rules": {
    ".read": true,
    ".write": true
  }
}

Please note that this allow anyone to fetch and write the data to the database.