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Google drive 60 new templates

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Google drive  have just announced 60 new templates, if you haven’t checked out Google Drive templates yet, now is a good time. Making use of the many Google Drive templates or loading your own business or personal docs as a template for regular use can really save you time in Google Docs. Google drive added  new document templates like ,newletter,Buisness letter,Resume templates,Essay,Class notes,Meeting Notes,Broucher,News Letter. To start using templates, log in to your Google Apps account and either visit the url drive.google.com/templates  or select  Create  >  From template…  from your Google Docs or Google Drive list. Tip Update:  From template  has now been moved to the File menu when inside an open document. Click on  File –> New –> From template . The advantage to this change is that choosing a template from an open spreadsheet will take you to all spreadsheet templates, but it seems long winded to have to open a new or existing spre

Deep Linking in iOS

Deep Linking :- A Deeplink  much like a traditional hyperlink on a webpage. It is composed of separate elements that make up what is referred to as a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)/URL Schemes. The  URL Schemes  contains all the information that, when invoked, launches a mobile application with a specific screen. The URL Schemes Contain " ecommercebrand://" these type of word to redirect from safari to application. Handling the opening of registered urls within your app Now that you have ensured that deep linking is working, we need to handle the url used to launch the app. In it’s current state, your app can be launched using a simple url, but it can’t do much beyond that. To do more, we need to override the following function in  AppDelegate : 1 2 3 4 - ( BOOL ) application: ( UIApplication * ) application openURL: ( NSURL * ) url sourceApplication: ( NSString * ) sourceApplication annotation: ( id ) annotation

20th happy birthday for JAVA

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When a small team at Sun Microsystems set out to research the future of digital devices in 1990, they could never have guessed that their work would spawn the most popular programming language for enterprise systems. Twenty years later, and Java remains the workhorse of the enterprise, despite its origin as a language for embedded systems and cross-platform, browser-side applications. It’s been a long, strange trip for this programming language, but through it all, the one thing Java has managed to do is stay relevant to modern business needs. “One of the most impressive things about Java,” said Geir Magnusson Jr., founder of the Apache Harmony project, “is that 20 years later we’re talking about it because it’s really relevant. I don’t think you can point to anything that’s 20 years old that’s this relevant. There’s no operating system you can say that about. There’s no other language you can say that about.” Mark Reinhold, chief architect for the Java Platform