Lottie JSON Structure for Animation

Lottie (Link) is an awesome animation library for web, android and ios, for creating animation files from aftereffects. However if you want to edit a lottie json file, it’s hard because the keys were abbreviated so as to reduce the size I guess.

There’s no official record of this. So python lottie docs had done a good job of decoding the json keys. Here are the main keys, I’ve extracted from their site.

Animation

Image

Transform

MultiDimensional

For more properties

Find the full list of properties here

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Growing Todo List. Shrinking Time.

I’ve been keeping a github repo for the stuffs to do later (read, procrastinate forever :)). The list have been getting bigger and bigger, and the free time seems to be getting smaller and smaller. Time flies so fast. Maybe they are not that priority in my mind right now.

Feel free to check it out (why? Maybe It’ll inspire you to start your own)

Work to do List

*Feel free to contribute – never mind … *

Simple Star Rating Jquery Plugin

Stumbled across a small jquery plugin for showing star ratings on github. Decided to expand on it and make a demo page, so that people stumbling across can still find it useful. Thanks to the original author.

Here’s the Plugin demo

Demo Link

Forked from

• Simple Stars by Robert Rusu

View source / Contribute

*Feel free to contribute few todo stuffs *

Super Coder Web - A Game of Html + Css + Js

We are (or I am?) proud to announce yet another experimental and educational game in the beginning of the year 2019. Super Web Coder - A Game of Html + Css + Js, where you arrange the code to get the target website design as shown. Currently only a single demo level is available for playing. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Here’s the game in action

You can play it here

Inspired by

• Muuri Javascript Library especially it’s kanban demo

View the source on Github

Feel free to contribute new levels or fork it to use it for other coding or games as well

Thanks for playing!

UTF-8 encoding issue in spring MVC Ajax

Recently I needed to work with a spring mvc project, with non-english characters (malayalam characters for eg.) The MySQL database table was indeed utf-8 by default and we can directly enter the non-english characters in there easily. The problem being the response from the controller was being shown as a string of characters like ???.

So begins with this Stack Overflow answer, there was a blog page which offered three solutions. However the hosting was down, have to access it via wayback machine. I’m posting the first solution here, because many replied that’s the solution that worked for them.

Solution 1: Don’t use @ResponseBody. Return void in the controller, and use HtppServletResponse to return string with valid formatting.

here’s my code

@RequestMapping("getRandomArticle")
public void getRandomArticle(
	HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {

	response.addHeader("Content-Type", "text/html;charset=UTF-8");
	response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
	
	List stuffs = dao.getRandomData();
	
	ServletOutputStream responseClient = response.getOutputStream();
	
	String jsonString = new Gson().toJson(stuffs.get(0));
	byte[] utf8JsonString = jsonString.getBytes("UTF-8");
	responseClient.write(utf8JsonString);
	responseClient.close();
}

I hope this is helpful for someone out there :)