Almond Joseph Mendoza

Had a problem with XAMPP on mac especially on MySQL, where it tells you to check the log files on the errors? I had the same problem and the way if fix it is through the terminal typing this command

/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/share/mysql/mysql.server start

To stop it
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/share/mysql/mysql.server stop

Following my post on http://monmonja.com/blog/2008/07/transaction-on-cakephp-12/ where i use CakePHP and MySQL to do transaction, now i'm using oracle and $this->Model->begin() is not working and the fix for that is

$this->Model->begin();
$returnQuery = $this->Model->getDataSource()->query($query);
if($returnQuery !== false){
$this->Model->getDataSource()->commit();
}else{
$this->Model->getDataSource()->rollback();
}

Hope this helps

Been playing around Google's Closure library and i have to say the API looks good with ofcourse some exception like i dont know how to render a component, sometime you call render, decorate or the constructor itself. And when i was browsing through the code i was curious with ColorPicker and to my dismay there was no example, having searching on the web here is how to do it

Include
goog.require('goog.dom');
goog.require('goog.ui.ColorPicker');


<style>
<!-- http://gitorious.org/element/element/commit/6f9a6373727ff6478f6e78ec4917289b6523b5ad -->
.goog-palette-cell{height:20px;width:20px;margin:0;border:0;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;border-right:1px solid #666;font-size:1px}
.goog-palette-colorswatch{position:relative;height:20px;width:20px;border:1px solid #666}
</style>

var cp = new goog.ui.ColorPicker();
cp.setSize(7);
cp.setColors(goog.ui.ColorPicker.SIMPLE_GRID_COLORS);
cp.addEventListener(goog.ui.ColorPicker.EventType.CHAN…

I'm a huge fan of jQuery and while closure is new, its pretty interesting, there are things that are easier to do in jQuery like showing or hiding DOM or DOM manipulations. $ in jQuery is goog.dom.query in closure (they used dojo, i hope they just used sizzle instead). So in order to do something like $("img .oldImages").hide() you have to include third party deps.js
<script src="third_party/closure/goog/deps.js"></script>

We need to import the following:
goog.require('goog.fx');
goog.require('goog.fx.dom');
goog.require('goog.dom.query');
goog.require('goog.fx.AnimationQueue');

function hide(dom){
var anims = new goog.fx.AnimationParallelQueue();
var items = goog.dom.query(dom);
goog.array.forEach(items,function(item){
var anim = new goog.fx.dom.FadeOutAndHide(item, 1000);
anims.add(anim);
});
anims.play();
}

function show(dom){
var anims = new goog.fx.AnimationParallelQueue();
var items = goog.dom.query(dom);
goog.ar…

There are times where you have to find the geocode of one location on the earth, there are many sites that have this features, you can find them here. Now i found an easy way to find geocode straight from Google Map.

1) Go to Google Map
2) Search for the location, for example let's search for "Cavite, Philippines", the place where i studied ComSci.
3) On the top right, there is a Send button. Click that one.
4) On your message textbox you can find the string "sll=<lat>,<long>"
Example:
..../maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=cavite,+philippines&sll=14.480642,120.894729&sspn=0.002722,0.006974&ie=UTF8&t=h&g=cavite,+philippines&z=16&iwloc=addr>

There you go, hope it helps

Ext is a great javascript library but ofcourse there are times where some things doesn't work and one of them is the rowdblclick and rowclick listener. Here is how i fixed it when i've encountered this problem.

var grid = new Ext.grid.GridPanel({
store: <your datastore>,
columns:[<your columns>],
renderTo:'example-grid',
height:200,
listeners:{
rowdblclick : function(grid,row){
alert("rowdblclick")
},
rowclick:function(grid,row){
alert('rowclick')
}
}
});

As you can see instead of doing
grid.getSelectionModel().addListener("click",
function(grid,row){ alert(''click'); })
or
grid.on("rowdblclick",function(grid,row){ alert('dblclick'); });
we added the listeners to the options when creating a new grid, there are disadvantage to this approach like when we need the listeners to be more dynamic but in case addListener and on doesn't work, try this approach.

Hope it helps

There are a lot ways on converting MTS files in ubuntu linux to AVI (or any format), examples are programs like ffmpeg, mencoder, m2tstoavi, while these method did work for other people on the web, it wasn't my case. So i keep with looking at solution and found that does work for me, its HandBrake. The beauty of this one is that is completely open source and its available atleast to windows, mac and ubuntu (haven't try it on other linux distribution). Another neat feature is that it has a GUI version and a command line version. The GUI version is pretty neat and so does the command line one.

The reason why i needed the command line is that i need to convert one folder full of MTS files to AVI and they GUI is too time consuming for me. So instead I written a script to convert all the MTS on a folder into AVI. Here is the script (download the CLI version at Handbrake)
#!/bin/bash
for file in *.MTS
do
outfile=${file%.MTS}.avi
./HandBrakeCLI -i $file -o $outfile
done

For t…

I saw a post where it was creating an sequence image from command line then using gimp to combine it, the post is at http://t.webofgoo.com/2009/02/27/create-animated-gif-from-video-in-ubuntu-linux-using-mplayer-and-gimp/comment-page-1/ and http://blog.ahfr.org/2008/03/making-animated-gifs-with-free-software.html. Now lets have more fun with it by just using command line for all the process.

You might need MPlayer and ImageMagick for this
sudo apt-get install mplayer imagemagick

The for the animated gif
mplayer -ao null -ss 0:00:01 -endpos 4 /path/to/video -vo jpeg:outdir=Extracted
cd Extracted
convert -delay 10 *.jpg -loop 0 animate.gif

If you want your full video to be converted to gif you could use this (byexamples archives)
mplayer -vo gif89a /path/to/video

For the explanation of the mplayer part please see the referenced site, for the convert please see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_basics/.

If your like me lazy in reading stuff then TTS like espeak, festival is perfect. For me it doesn't matter if it speaks like computer but as long as someone thing can read it for me its perfect. So in this journey i had made 2 scripts that could help you. This was testing in Ubuntu 9.04 with python, espeak and metacity as default.

First, create a python script or download this file, please rename the file to your folder of choice, for our example we would use /home/almondmendoza/clipboard/getClipboardContents.py
import gtk
clip = gtk.clipboard_get(selection='PRIMARY')
print clip.wait_for_text()

The previous script would get our clipboard, now to speak it we would use espeak coz its build in by default, we would have to created a shell script or download this (this change voice to en-r and speed to 200), please rename the file, for our example /home/almondmendoza/clipboard/speakClipboard.sh
#!/bin/sh
word=`/usr/bin/python /home/almondmendoza/clipboard/getClipboardContents.py…

Here is factorial function in Actionscipt 3,

package{
public class MyMath{
public static function factorial(index:uint) : uint {
var total:uint = index;
if(index > 0){
total += MyMath.factorial(index - 1);
}
return total;
}
}
}

To use it
trace(MyMath.factorial(3));
Hope it helps

Installing other os (Ubuntu in this article) on ps3 is a super easy thing to do, just download the iso and follow the instruction on this site http://psubuntu.com/, switching back to the original os is also as simple as boot-game-os, But there may be a time where you might have an error, and if the error goes something like /usr/sbin/ps3-flash-util: not found, you might want to consider the following steps to fix it:
* type sh
* /usr/sbin/boot-game-os

Thats all, on my ps3, there were an error that the system was reading boot-game-os from /sbin while its reading the ps3-flash-util from /usr/sbin and it so happen that boot-game-os from /usr/sbin is reading the ps3-flash-util from the same folder.

Hope this helps

Lately i have been experimenting with my ps3 and one of which is streaming my mac to ps3. As i guy who believed in free stuff, i found a software called MediaTomb which would stream my media from *nix (unix,linux and mac) to ps3. On mac you can follow this guide to have your media streamed.
http://www.applesource.com.au/how-to/soa/How-to-Stream-media-to-a-PS3-from-a-Mac/0,2000451082,339287550,00.htm

The problem i had after installing xcode, fink and mediaTomb is that the ip address given by mediatomb is not the same subnet of the lan network. While most of the blog would ask you to change the ip using "mediatomb -ip=192.168.1.2" this alerted an error on my mac. Its the 203 error, and to fix this:

* Open config.xml under ~/.mediatomb/
* under the server node, add the following:
<interface>en0</interface>
Now i don't really know what it means i just found it on a comment somewhere. Hope it helps

Here is a small function to convert cakephp's array from find statements to xml.

function cakeArrayToXML($arr,$keyParent = "rows"){
$arrayRow = "<$keyParent>";
foreach($arr as $tkey => $trow){
if(is_numeric($tkey)){
$arrayRow .= $this->cakeArrayToXML($trow,"row");
}elseif(is_array($trow)){
$arrayRow .= $this->cakeArrayToXML($trow,$tkey);
}else{
$arrayRow .= "<$tkey><![CDATA[$trow]]></$tkey>";
}
}
$arrayRow .= "</$keyParent>";
return $arrayRow;
}

To use it you would do something like
header("Content-type: text/xml;charset:UTF-8");
echo '<?xml version="1.0" ?>';
echo $this->EcOutput->cakeArrayToXML($this->Lyric->find("all",array("limit"=>2)));


Output would be an xml with a parent node of rows and a node name of row on each row, i guess you just have to test it to understand what i mean, haha.
Hope it helps.

Back with programming post, if you use ExtJS and you had a problem with IE then see if the setStyle is the one issuing it. To fix this :

Find
H=="opacity"
or find the line that have
H=="opacity"?this.setOpacity(I):this.dom.style[w(H)]=I

Replace it with
if(H=="opacity"){this.setOpacity(I)}else{try{this.dom.style[w(H)]=I}catch(e){}}

Hope this helps

This took me 2 hours to find out how to disable textfield on AS3, its not the perfect solution but it seems to be the only solution.

private var txtField:Textfield;
...
this.txtField = this.getChildByName("txtField");
this.txtField.mouseEnabled = false;
this.txtField.tabEnabled = false;

and to turn it enable again:
this.txtField.mouseEnabled = true;
this.txtField.tabEnabled = true;

You could also do this
//disable input
myTextField.selectable = false;
myTextField.type = TextFieldType.DYNAMIC;

//enable input
myTextField.selectable = true;
myTextField.type = TextFieldType.INPUT;


While this sound cheap coz you have to disable the mouse and the tab of that component and not the component itself, it seems to be the only solution. Thanks Adobe!!!!!!!!

This seems to be a fix for jqModal when IE7 drops all to the bottom of the page while the top of the page is the jqModal.

Open the css that came with jqModal and change to the following codes
.jqmOverlay {
background-color: #000;
+position:absolute !important;
}

The +position:absolute !important is a css targeted for IE7, i know its a hack, if you don't what that you can include a css specially design for IE


Open the javascript and search for if(ie6){$('html,body') and change it to if(ie6||ie7){$('html,body'), resulting in
if(ie6||ie7){$('html,body').css({height:'100%',width:'100%'});if(o){o=o.css({position:'absolute'})[0];for(var y in {Top:1,Left:1})o.style.setExpression(y.toLowerCase(),"(_=(document.documentElement.scroll"+y+" || document.body.scroll"+y+"))+'px'");}}

Lastly still on the javascript search for ie6=$.browser.msie&&($.browser.version == "6.0") and change to ie6=$.b…