Bits and pieces

Disclaimer:  pure hack,  don't judge on my coding skills ;) I have been trying to make use of some channels in IFTTT, and obviously the channel doesn't say what each logo means, just wrote some code to pull up all the service names in IFTTT and came up with google search for each descriptions IFTTT service listing in chrome console: https://ifttt.com/channels var sm=new Array();$.each($('.channel-grid-item__title'),function(){sm.push($(this).html());}) They have IFTTT may be useful feed https://ifttt.com/feed, but as I said pure hack this is. Gist to generate your own: https://gist.github.com/mehmoodz/d7e777f78a837d36fc53 Here is the list, Amazon Echo: Always Ready, Connected, and Fast. :Echo connects to Alexa , a cloud-based voice service, to provide information, answer questions, play music, read the news, check sports scores or the weather,  ... 11 Tips to Boost Your Android Phone's Battery Life | PCMag.com :May 1, 2014 ... But...

Hacking the project development !! I have been thinking lately, I personally do lot of projects outside my job, some ones are merely CRUD application over the web and some are novel applications. Philosophy :) The best way to do a job is not to repeat the same things again. I like products and I like components which we can re-use which can save hours setting up and starting things. Some of the best "on-the-fly" tools like 'Spring-ROO ' miss the personalization of things we want on the web development projects. For example, ROO can create a spring web project structure but what about wiring them with UI, customized UI templates to load the data. Input forms which just mimic the DB we have. So there should be a silver bullet customized to our needs where it can just create all the layers of the web project. After working around for more than several years in lots of personalized projects, I would hate myself to copy a piece of code from other project and pu...