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Apple Halwa
Ingredients: 3 big apples 1/2 cup brown sugar/normal sugar 1 cup milk 2tbsp ghee/ clarified butter 1 tsp cinnamon powder For garnish: Few thinly cut slices of apple Few mint springs Method: Coarsely grate the apples. (P.S. be careful with your finger, almost grated mine :p) In a large bottom pan, add ghee and heat…
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GIT: Get Tag Details of Current Checkout
About two weeks ago I migrated a project from CVS to git. After migration when we tried to build the project it kept failing. On debugging, I figured that in build.xml (it’s a legacy project with a complex ANT build script) they were trying to figure out from which tag it has been checked out by reading the Tag…
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Hibernate: Dynamic Insert
While doing code-review I came across hibernate’s dynamic-insert property and found it really useful. dynamic-insert is a boolean attribute of class element as defined in hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd. This is an optional attribute of the class element and if not defined explicitly defaults to false. As the name says, setting this property to true makes insert query…
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Kerala Travelogue – Kovalam
Our annual vacation would be incomplete if it didn’t have a beach destination. Kovalam’s pristine beaches was our last stop in Kerala before we flew back home. Day 1 We checked-out from the houseboat and headed straight for Kovalam. This was the first stretch where we didn’t halt on the way and it took a little…
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Kerala Travelogue – Alleppey
Prelude The main attraction of Alleppey is houseboat and we started searching for houseboat from the day we decided we were going to Kerala. We couldn’t finalize any from the ones we found online and finally our uncle who had been to Kerala a few months ago gave us the contact details of guy on…
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Kerala Travelogue – Munnar
After spending two days at the Grand Hotel, it was time to say goodbye to Kochi and head to Munnar. Munnar is a hill station situated at around 1,600 meters (5,200 ft.) above sea level and is about 130 km from Kochi and take roughly 4 hours by road. The road to Munnar is nice…
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Kerala Travelogue – Kochi
Kochi was our entry point to Kerala and stayed there for 2 days. Day 1 We took a direct flight from Mumbai to Kochi and it took 2 hours to reach there. Kochi Airport has prepaid taxi facility, a little on the expensive side but very safe. We booked a non ac prepaid taxi to…
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Kerala Travelogue
I haven’t posted in a long time, 4 years to be precise, and a lot has happened between then and now. The most significant of these being me getting hitched to the love of my life Shanti 2 years ago. We’ve been wanting to restart this blog and we felt sharing the experience of our…
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Official Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts from Microsoft
In one of my previous posts I had posted a list of new keyboard shortcuts available in Microsoft Windows 8. I now have the official list of keyboard shortcuts from Microsoft, which you can download it here [PDF]. Official keyboard shortcuts for Windows 8 from Microsoft
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[JavaScript] Check if a function Exists or Not
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If you want to check if a function exists or not before calling, here’s how to do it if(typeof window.functionName == ‘function’) { functionName (arg1, arg2); } It returns a boolean value indicating if the function exists or not.