Gurubheemacharya Karjol

Enabling google’s Captcha/recaptcha in Joomla

Captcha’s are parts of a website where you sometimes need to type in a word or recognize the images to prove you’re a human. Captchas are a great way to prevent spam activity on your website because most “bots” that attempt to post spam cannot read the letters contained in the captcha image. For years,…

Android Studio Installation

Earlier I used to develop android applications using Eclipse IDE. Recently Google has released their own android IDE called as Android Studio. This is now the official Android IDE. So I installed Android Studio and thought of recording and sharing the steps. Here we go. Why Android Studio: 1. Intelligent code editor At the…

Joomla: Installing Module throws the “updates” table error

While I was installing a module to the joomla 3.4.X, I got the below error: Table ‘xxxx_updates’ doesn’t exist SQL=SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM `updates` in joomla And the installation failed. It’s very easy to solve this issue. I found that the “xxxx_updates” does not exist in the database Hence we get the above error. To…

New Android Application- Kids App uploaded to Google Play Store

I was trying to develop an android app for my son which will help him to learn the alphabets. I thought it may be helpful to others also so sharing it in google play – Kids Application . This is just a draft version and we are planning for more features. Kids App is a…

How to Enable or Disable a button in runtime in Android

While I was working with an Android application for a customer, there was a use case to disable a button in the run time. And need to enable it after some action. We can do it very easily in Android. I have a “About” button in the screen. And I need to enable and disable…

How to know if AdMob ad has been loaded in your Android Application

In my last blog we have discussed about adding an ad from Admob network. This is in continuation with that. In the applications we may need to take some action if the ad is loaded and some other action if the ad is not loaded. In such cases it’s very much important to know if…