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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; Javascript</title>
	<link>http://blog.taragana.com</link>
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		<title>5 Must-Have Firefox Add-ons for Web Development &#038; QA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These add-ons are so useful that I cannot work for a single day without them and so I would suspect most web developers and QA Engineers. These plugins / add-ons makes Firefox a formidable web development and testing platform. They are:
1. Selenium IDE - Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/5-must-have-web-developer-qa-firefox-add-ons/</link>
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		<title>Programming Language Survey: Please Provide Your Input &#038; See Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A short survey on your programming language preferences, shouldn&#8217;t take more than 1 minute of your time. Please participate and let others know too.
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Note: The survey was created using Google Docs.
Thanks for your participation in the survey.
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/programming-language-survey-please-provide-your-input-see-results/</link>
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		<title>JavaOne 2008 is Starting Now&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JavaOne 2008 is starting in couple of hours. I will be there all four days soaking in all the knowledge, fun and sharing about it in this blog.
This is my first experience in live blogging, so bear with me if I make any mistakes. Tips are welcome.
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/javaone-2008-is-starting-now/</link>
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		<title>9 Important Tips for Selenium Remote Control (Java client) - Test Tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Selenium Remote Control (RC) is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in many programming languages against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser. Selenium RC is a powerful and simple framework for running (scheduled or manually) automated UI centric regression tests for web applications / services. Here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/9-important-tips-for-selenium-remote-control-java-client-test-tool/</link>
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		<title>How To Communicate Between Java Applets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Communication between Java applets has been an interesting topic from the early days of Java. There are several esoteric ways to communicate like using Javascript as a bridge. However we will look into the simplest and most reliable method of intra-applet communication.
Simple solution to applet communication problem
Use a class with static getters and setters method(s) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-communicate-between-java-applets/</link>
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		<title>Review: Top 6 Free Linux (&#038; Windows) HTML Editors (Open Source) &#038; Recommendation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have tried several HTML Editors over the years. One of the earliest WYSIWYG HTML editor I used was Netscape Gold / Composer, which was quite basic but probably the only one at that time (1995). For quite sometime after that I used Visual Page, even when the product was discontinued because of its simplicity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/recommended-free-windows-linux-html-editor-open-source/</link>
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		<title>ExtJS Hack: How To Get Selected Index of ExtJS ComboBox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ExtJS ComboBox doesn&#8217;t advertise, in its documentation, any way to get the selected index of a ComboBox. Looking at the code I realized we can use the undocumented property selectedIndex.  However there is a catch. 
ComboBox.reset() doesn&#8217;t set the selectedIndex to -1, which it should. So whenever you use selectedIndex, remember to reset it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/extjs-hack-how-to-get-selected-index-of-extjs-combobox/</link>
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		<title>ExtJS Hack: Dynamic ComboBox &#038; Remote On-Demand Loading With Local Filtering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In ExtJS you can create ComboBox which loads data from the server. You can also code so that new data is loaded from the server in response to an event like changing selection of another ComboBox. However it also means that the filtering is done remotely which is slow.
In ExtJS ComboBox automatic filtering is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/extjs-hack-dynamic-combobox-remote-on-demand-loading-with-local-filtering/</link>
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		<title>How To Make AJAX Calls With ExtJS Easily</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Simple things should be simple. While starting with ExtJS, I saw a screencast on Grid which used a rather dubious method of making an AJAX call using an actual form element. I hunted for a better option and I came across a better option - Ext.data.Connection. Here&#8217;s an working example on how you can easily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-make-ajax-calls-with-extjs-easily/</link>
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		<title>How To Add Trim Functionality To Javascript String</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trim is a useful function available in languages like Java &#038; PHP which removes the leading and traling whitespace(s) from a String. Unfortunately Javascript doesn&#8217;t natively provide trim functionality to the String object. Fortunately there is a simple solution. Place the following code near the top of your Javascript file (or inline script) to add [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-add-trim-functionality-to-javascript-string/</link>
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