Silverterra 3d blog

Goal: sometimes we need to modify a date… Like in this simple case. Let’s add 5 minutes to the actual time. Easy with the java.util.Calendar class. Nota bene: this class can use years, hours, minutes… as well

Goal: making a TextView scrollable put two lines to the layout file: plus to the activity:

Goal: create an easy visual separator element Use only one line to create a line… where the dialogFragment_horizontal_line style is like this: nota bene: the color coming from style as well

Goal: avoid the screen rotation If you want to ignore the rotation of the device you can freeze the orientation like this. Put the following line into the manifest file (AndroidManifest.xml) under the activity section:

Goal: reset the scroll position If the page content is dinamically loaded sometimes we need to reset the scroll position of the page. Like this:

Goal: to store object on the client side The following code is simple not working: the result is: We need to stringify the object before the store like this: now the result is: and we are happy…

Goal: a simple way to kill a session in Oracle If we know the SID of the session to be killed, then use the following select to create the immediate command:

Goal: create class allow creation without the new keyword The pattern is simple: The creation itself is the following:

Goal: there was no reason There is a simple mode to list some resources from the Chrome. I have digged the following resource ids from the chrome.dll file. This code running on an empty page! Paste the following code to the developer consol and see the result.

Goal: simple and quick way to find the version of the browser Be careful this is only for Chrome and based on the user agent string. the user agent string is: and the extracted result is: