Android - get current location using google play services

Android location APIs make it easy for you to build location-aware applications, without needing to focus on the details of the underlying location technology. This becomes possible with the help of Google Play services, which facilitates adding location awareness to your app with automated location tracking, geofencing, and activity recognition. This tutorial shows you how to use Location Services in your app to get the current location,...

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PHP File Uploading

A PHP script can be used with a HTML form to allow users to upload files to the server. Initially files are uploaded into a temporary directory and then relocated to a target destination by a PHP script. Information in the phpinfo.php page describes the temporary directory that is used for file uploads as upload_tmp_dir and the maximum permitted size of files that can be uploaded is stated as upload_max_filesize. These...

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PHP Sessions

An alternative way to make data accessible across the various pages of an entire website is to use a PHP Session. A session creates a file in a temporary directory on the server where registered session variables and their values are stored. This data will be available to all pages on the site during that visit. The location of the temporary file is determined by a setting in the php.ini file calledsession.save_path. Bore using any...

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Hibernate Caching

Caching is all about application performance optimization and it sits between your application and the database to avoid the number of database hits as many as possible to give a better performance for performance critical applications. Caching is important to Hibernate as well which utilizes a multilevel caching schemes as explained belo...

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Hibernate Mapping Types

When you prepare a Hibernate mapping document, we have seen that you map Java data types into RDBMS data types. The types declared and used in the mapping files are not Java data types; they are not SQL database types either. These types are called Hibernate mapping types, which can translate from Java to SQL data types and vice versa....

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