In Her Name

In Her Name, is a hexalogy of adventure, epic fantasy and sci-fi novels written by Michael Hicks, which takes us to a new world of space fights, war, romance and drama. The hexalogy includes books ‘Empire’, ‘Confederation’, ‘Final Battle’, ‘First Contact’, ‘Legend of Sword’ and ‘Dead Soul’ in the author’s recommended reading order. You can also purchase the omnibus editions ‘The Last War’ (includes First Contact, Legend of Sword and Dead Soul) and ‘Redemption’ (includes Empire, Confederation and Final Battle).

The Inheritance Series

The Inheritance Series or Cycle, is a tetralogy of epic fantasy novels written by the author Christopher Paolini. The tetralogy includes books ‘Eragon‘, ‘Eldest‘, ‘Brisingr‘ and ‘Inheritance’.

The events in the series occur in a fictional world of Alagaësia and mainly focuses on the adventures of a teenage boy named Eragon and his dragon, Saphira. The series depicts Eragon-Saphira’s struggle to overthrow the evil king named Galbatorix.

The Heroes of Olympus

‘The Heroes of Olympus’ is also a pentalogy of adventure and fantasy friction books written by ‘Rick Riordan’. It is a sequel series to ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ pentology.

Currently, however only the first two books of the pentalogy has been released, namely, ‘The Lost Hero’ and ‘The Son of Neptune’, while the third book ‘The Mark of Athena’ is set to release in Oct. 2012. The story like Percy Jackson series is streamlined on Greek mythology in synergism with Roman mythology.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Recently, on my friend’s suggestion, was acquainted through novel series, ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ elegantly written by ‘Rick Riordan’.

‘Percy Jackson & the Olympians’ is a pentalogy of adventure and fantasy friction books. The pentalogy includes books ‘The Lightning Thief’, ‘The Sea of Monsters’, ‘The Titan’s Curse’, ‘The Battle of Labyrinth’ and ’The Last Olympian’.

Returning Array from Oracle DB

Many a times, we come across situations where there is a need to return an array of objects from Oracle DB instead of rows of data.

Traditionally, in good old days whenever there was a need of array of objects (e.g.: Names of Employees from a particular department), we use to use a simple query to retrieve all DB rows with a particular department criteria (select Empname from Employee where Dept = ‘admin’). While the task of traversing all DB result rows and formation of array was done by backend code. Now, imagine repeating the procedure for hundreds of department, it will definitely burden the backend logic.

Maven & SVN plugins for Eclipse Galileo

Recently, I tried to install Maven m2 and subversion plugins for Eclipse Galileo. The procedure though tricky also involved many dependencies. So have put up a small tutorial to help you guys 🙂

Installing both Maven and SVN at a time gives us an extra hand by providing convenience to directly checkout Maven project from SVN repository into our Eclipse workplace.

Getting More from Google

Now days we all are addicted to Google let it be a developer, businessman, architect, engineer or any other professional person. Its use has been intensified in every walk of life. Also with its massive data chunk and billions of indexed web pages, one has to effectively provide a search query (keywords) to get the desired search results.

Selectors in JQuery

JQuery provides us a powerful set of tools for matching any element in a given HTML document. These sets are basically inherited from CSS since version 1 to the latest version.

Let’s have a look on the list of selectors given in JQuery:

Learning JQuery (Continued)

As we are now familiar with what JQuery is, let’s dig into JQuery Syntax and some examples.

Learning JQuery

Lot of us has already heard of JQuery, one of the most widely used client side scripting technology; it not only helps us in making our UI jazzy but also helps in manipulation of HTML pages on the fly. The popular terms associated with JQuery can be summed – fast, concise, cross-browser, client side scripting language, etc.

Though these popular terms defined the basic backbone of JQuery, many of us wonder what these terms mean exactly. Why JQuery is popular? Do we really have to use JQuery? What are its pros and cons?

Let dig into some information that would help to quench our queries.