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designcloud: UP Coffee Table by Duffy London design studio

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:47:54 +0800

UP Coffee Table by Duffy London design studio

Custom Query in cakePHP with Pagination

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:00:22 +0800

When doing large project with multiple developer working on the same repo, you tend to have duplicate of function or in this case query. Like for an example, I’m working on a project to manage customer feedback thru their website.

One of the feature requested (or obviously must have) is to be able to mark the mail as junk, thus prevent other mail from the blacklisted recipients. In my case, we have a field named ‘mailbox’ and with one of the option is ‘junk’. So, here’s how we do it in cakePHP.

You need to add custom find type, namely ‘junk’
https://gist.github.com/4499294
Next, you can call this from your controller and display it in your view
https://gist.github.com/4499341

Hopes that help!

jQuery lightbox - autoload page

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:53:00 +0800

I just noticed that I have inbox messages this morning. One of the request is to enable “color box” onload. I’m assuming that this is refering to jQuery lightbox plugin.

You can find details of the product at this page – ColorBox - a jQuery lightbox.

In order to have the lightbox automatically load when page is loaded, you need to add the following codes to your script.

<script> $(document).ready(function(){ $.colorbox({ href: "colorbox_popup.html", open: true }); }); </script>

This should automatically load the link “colorbox_popup.html” once the page has already loaded.

Notice that I don’t use $(selector), since we want the page to load itself without having to interact with other object.

Instead of loading external page, you can also use it to load html code like so:

<script> $(document).ready(function(){
$.colorbox({
html: “<h1>hello, lightbox</h1>”,
open: true
});
});
</script>

All the best!

As my leader. Do you think I'm a programmer or developer?

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:32:34 +0800

I like you as a programmer, but there are alot to learn. Let’s sit down and discuss.

Save and strip whitespace in Textmate 2

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 08:25:39 +0800

Thanks to macromates team for giving us free Textmate2 (for paid Textmate 1 customers). I notice that I have not covered this in my dev blog, althought I did covered this for Textmate 1 in here.

It almost like the previous one where you need to create a macro for this, so here’s the steps required:

open Bundle editor by go to Bundles > Edit Bundles… menu
then press Command-N and select Bundle. it will automatically keyed-in your name (Nurulazrad’s Bundle)
then press Command-N again and select Command.
key in details as follows, see embed figure.
and you are done!

For the command, you may copy and paste from below:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

[[ -f “${TM_SUPPORT_PATH}/lib/bash_init.sh” ]] && . “${TM_SUPPORT_PATH}/lib/bash_init.sh”

perl -pe ‘s/[\t ]+$//g’

Actually, I copied this from this Text Bundle. Under the Menu Actions > Converting / Stripping > Remove Trailing Spaces in Document / Selection command

All the best!

Archiving codes as downloadable in zip/tar format

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:23:16 +0800

Most of the time we just pull repo from our Beanstalk repo when deploying to our client site. But, not all files are included due to .gitignore settings. If you are using CakePHP as your framework, it will automatically excluded the following directories like app/Config app/tmp, etc…

In order to have application-1.0.zip or application-1.0.tar.gz, you need to rely on your skill playing with command line especially if you run any *nix os (mine i’m using a Mac).

The following will help you how to create the required archived applications.

For zip file:

# assume we have the following setup
# ~/Sites/myproject

% cd ~/Sites

% zip -r9 /tmp/myproject-1.0.zip myproject -x myproject/.git\*

It will create a file named “myproject-1.0.zip” in your /tmp folder. Remember .git folder will contains all the changes done your project right from your first commit.

For tar.gz file:

#assume our setup as follow
# ~/Sites/myproject

% cd ~/Sites

% tar -cvzf /tmp/myproject-1.0.tar.gz —exclude=myproject\/.git myproject

If you notice for tar, the —exclude option reads pattern, so make sure you have the right pattern in order for it to work.

The advantage of this method is it reduced the file size and included all ignores files from git.

madewithpaper: Hand shadow. by ciberfefo

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:24:56 +0800

madewithpaper:

Hand shadow.

by ciberfefo

git clone a specific remote branch

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:34:00 +0800

git clone a specific remote branch:

Due to big space in our account at beanstalk, we decided to have all projects under the same company to be created under one repo. I know this is not a good practice, but for a small company with tight budget, this is they way to go.

So, since git has set the default branch as master, we need to clone a specific branch under that repo. Now I’m working on new project called DBMS2, the following is how you can retrieve the DBMS2 branch.

mkdir dbms2; cd dbms2

git init

git remote add -t dbms2 origin [my.git.url]

git fetch

git checkout dbms2

Thus when I do git branch, it will list dbms2 branch only. Kewl!

git remove tracking local branch when push to origin

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 06:15:44 +0800

I’m not sure if the title is right or wrong. I know that there’s no such thing as local tracking branch. But what I want to do is to remove the local branch from being pushed when I do “git push”. Of course you have to do “git push -u <branch>” first, so that git knows that you want to keep traking <branch> when you do push.

From the search results, there are two (2) workable solutions.

1. git branch -d -r origin/<remote branch name>

I’m not sure if this is what I want. I don’t really want to delete the branch in the remote repo but only in my local repo.

2. This is the one that I did to remove my local branch copy and tracking while keeping my remote branch in the origin/<branch>

git config --unset branch.<branch>.remote git config --unset branch.<branch>.merge git branch -d <branch>

Hopes that this will help others who need to remove tracking their local branch.

references:

Avoiding Notices: When to Use isset() and empty()

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:00:50 +0800

Avoiding Notices: When to Use isset() and empty():

Good article regarding isset() and empty(). I would recommend avoid using empty() if possible and instead use strlen() for checking for empty string or array. Reason being non-assigned variables or empty assigned variables, both give the same result. I recommend you to read the article to understand when to use the isset() and empty() functions.

Zsh and slow git completion

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:05:51 +0800

Zsh and slow git completion:

I noticed that using Zsh give me slow access to my git repo or my command line for that matters. However, this fix seems to speed up my access to my git.

thanks!

Fixing Error with Pow, RVM, Rack and Rails 3

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:35:21 +0800

Fixing Error with Pow, RVM, Rack and Rails 3:

So I decided to enable back POW for easy setting up rails app in my computer. POW allows you to have .dev which link back to your rails app directory. Also I’m using Powify gem by 37signals. Instead of using rbenv, I’m using RVM — don’t ask why.

My pre-rails-3 apps works ok except for latest one. Reason being, I need to add .rvmrc and .powenv in my root application directory. Once that done, my rails app works like a charm.

Apache won't start with error - cannot modify limit

Wed, 09 May 2012 11:00:37 +0800

Apache won't start with error - cannot modify limit:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS just relased last few days, so I decided to upgrade my current Ubuntu 11.10 to this release. If you new to Ubuntu, please take note that LTS refers to Long Term Support. In short, LTS versions are the most stable for production mode and it release one in two years time.

Well back to my issue, once i restart my apache2, it give me lots or error, this one refers to ULIMIT set at apachectl script. I’m no expert with Apache, but this fix is working.

Brew PHP5.3 on OS X

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:20:00 +0800

Brew PHP5.3 on OS X:

update url to => https://github.com/josegonzalez/homebrew-php

Tired of getting to re-compiled all my PHP manually, since I’m using brew for updating my rails app, just googling if the same can be done for my php app — and yes, click on the link for more details

webkitbits: Apple releases Safari 5.1.4 with improved...

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:17:07 +0800

webkitbits:

Apple releases Safari 5.1.4 with improved JavaScript performance on OS X Lion (via The Verge)

webkitbits: Introducing Chrome for Android Beta At last.

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:48:45 +0800

webkitbits:

Introducing Chrome for Android Beta

At last.

How to install Drush server-wide in less than one minute

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:20:50 +0800

How to install Drush server-wide in less than one minute:

in short:

sudo wget —quiet -O - http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush-7.x-4.4.tar.gz | sudo tar -zxf - -C /usr/local/share

sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/drush/drush /usr/local/bin/drush

sudo drush

enjoy!

Installing PECL uploadprogress Extension

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:06:00 +0800

Installing PECL uploadprogress Extension:

I’m just updated my Drupal copy to version 7 recently and reliaze that I have not installed PECL uploadprogress library. A quick search on google give me the above url.

In short, just do the following:

Download PECL uploadprogress library (uploadprogress-1.0.3.1.tgz)

tar -zxvf uploadprogress-1.0.3.1.tgz

cd uploadprogress-1.0.3.1

phpize

./configure

make

sudo make install

next, you need to update your php.ini file and add the following line:

extension=uploadprogress.so

final step it to restart your apache server and you’re done!

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Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:14:05 +0800

trappedonearth:

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(Creator unknown. Discovered via @LeoLaporte)

PHP DOCUMENT_ROOT in Windows Servers

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:09:14 +0800

Being a Mac user somehow makes you tend to forget others in Windows world. Recently, one of my app failed to redirect my script to proper url simply because it was not be able to detect $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] variable. I thot I have already fixed this, but unfortunately it is not or my assumptions was wrong. So, being a lazy developer, Googling surely help me and found this solution:

// let's make sure the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] variable is set if(!isset($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'])){ if(isset($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'])){ $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] = str_replace( '\\', '/', substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'], 0, 0-strlen($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']))); }; }; if(!isset($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'])){ if(isset($_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED'])){ $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] = str_replace( '\\', '/', substr(str_replace('\\\\', '\\', $_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED']), 0, 0-strlen($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']))); }; }; // $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] is now set - you can use it as usual...

Thanks to Fyneworks for the article – http://fyneworks.blogspot.com/2007/08/php-documentroot-in-iis-windows-servers.html