BUT, this hoses other stuff in a pretty awesome way. Including my ability to run SproutCore Server locally. I’m sure ideally I’d have two dev machines, one dedicated to Mountain Lion, but sadly that’s not economically feasible.

Thus: my workaround to get sc-server working and not display a “No Matching Target” error.  Its not pretty, and it may even be a terrible idea. But it worked for me. YMMV, don’t sue me if this wrecks your life.

1. install sproutcore from the website
2. install xcode, and make sure you download the command line tools from developer.apple.com while you’re at it.
3. link /Developer to the xcode internal /Developer folder. I used:
   sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer /Developer
4. cc is being looked for, but isn’t in that folder. I just linked it to gcc, because I was too lazy to find it. I cd’d into /Developer/usr/bin/ and did:
   sudo ln gcc cc
5. cd into your project and run sc-server. Should work!
6. EDIT: make sure you install a Java Runtime if you plan to run sc-build. Otherwise your first one will fail

This is pretty hacky, and I’m quite certain there’s a better way to do it that will leave things less broken for the future. But hopefully it saves SOMEONE a headache. Or maybe just me, once Apple releases Beta 2 and it wipes out my hard drive again. C’est la vie.

This file will require a reasonably new version of jQuery to run correctly (and yes, it works in no-conflict mode).

jQuery.placeholder.1.0.1.min

Comments, questions? Feel free to comment.

NOTE: This project has been moved into github

First of all, start by reading the whitepaper.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203052.aspx

This will give you a great overview on how to construct your methods, and how to label them in order to have them exposed correctly by REST.

Next, you need to create your web.config file. Use webhttpbinding for REST.

Lastly, deployment:

How to use https for WCF services in IIS7

How to rewrite your URLs to get rid of the lame .svc extension

I am posting a small demo project, hopefully it’s useful to someone. Simply implement the API interface as you see fit, and the rest basically does itself. You’ll notice the web.config includes a SOAP binding for legacy Microsoft clients to use if they wish.

Link: API_Template

Anyone else know of this happening? A google search turned up only one post

http://www.cartoonbarry.com/2010/10/my_apple_cinema_display_is_ben.html.

Hopefully I’m not the only one, but I guess I’ll hope it’s covered by applecare. I really love Apple’s products, but they seem to be having some issues with displays. I just got my laptop back after the heat caused the adhesive in the display to stop working, and it started to separate.

pics to follow:

Unless you’re a complete masochist, you’re doing to want to split this into a more manageable data set, otherwise you’re gonna eat all the memory on your server. But this means that you can no longer use the DataSet.Tables[0].Rows.Count property to figure out how many rows you have. You can write a second stored procedure that’ll count the rows. But who wants to clog up their database with tons of stored procedures for no reason? Let’s consolidate it into one.

So what does this look like?

First: the stored procedure.

We’ll use output parameters to pass the row count back to our code


create procedure [dbo].[Search]
@searchText varchar(512), @recordsToReturn INT, @pageNumber INT, @numberofrows INT OUTPUT
AS

Now the C# (this’ll work in VB too, but feel free to convert it yourself)


SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection();
conn.ConnectionString = ".....your connection string here.....";
conn.Open();

da.Dispose();
conn.Close();


Best of luck! As always, leave a message in the comments if you have questions

important note! make sure that you don’t select the primary key of the table. instead, select 0, and the auto_increment function will automatically figure out the correct primary key

As always, if you have questions, post em in the comments!

Well it turns out it’s been around since at least 2007. Just found out about it today though. “How do I use it?” you ask?

Simply put


<!--nextpage-->


into your post. This tag acts as a page break. Done!

It seems the fastest way to do this is simply to:

delete from [table] where creation_timestamp < dateadd (mm, -6, getdate())

(deleting anything older than 6 months)

It took 3 hours (10916 seconds to be exact) to delete 1.6 million (1,619,433) records this way. (148.35 / second).

We needed to do a second batch the next day, but wanted to split it into batches to try to get better performance.

Running:


delete from [table] where pk_id in(
select pk_id from (
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY creation_timestamp desc) AS RowNumber, pk_id
FROM [table]
where creation_timestamp < '2009-12-16 13:52:08.673') _objectsToDelete
WHERE RowNumber between 1 and 100000)


takes 12 minutes. (732 seconds) (136.61 / second).

Strangely, using the TOP command with a subquery takes the longest:


delete from [table] where pk_id in (select TOP 100000 pk_id from [table] where creation_timestamp < '2009-12-16 13:52:08.673')


15 minutes (904 seconds) (110.61 / second)

Have a better way? Let me know in the comments!

Relaunch Xcode. Done.

sudo !!

Tells the terminal to run the last command again, but to throw sudo in front of it.

obligatory XKCD link:

http://xkcd.com/149/

Today, while working on a pretty simple plugin, I wanted to add this functionality, and I didn’t want to waste a bunch of time. I was given a link to this great script: http://www.warkensoft.com/2009/12/paginated-navigation-bar/

It took me about a minute to implement the functionality. I then spent another 5 minutes doing CSS and that was it. Done. I’m not usually one for link sharing, but this made my life much easier. Hopefully it can make yours easier too.

The solution is pure PHP, no javascript required. Some day, I may try to expand upon this to include javascripty goodness, because that’s pretty much the only thing that could make it better

you get a message something like:

-bash: mysqldump: command not found


so how do you fix this? well, copy and paste the following into your terminal window and press enter:

echo export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.profile

source ~/.profile


whoa, whoa, you say. what is this doing? It makes it so that when you type any command into the terminal, it does a check of these folders before giving you the “command not found” error.

If you want to undo it, you can always edit your .profile, or just delete it.

Assuming everything else works, this should solve your problem!

1. go to google maps, type the address, and click search
2. once you’ve found it, go to your address bar and clear what’s in it
3. paste: javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter())); into the address bar
4. use the coordinates for whatever you wish!

if you’re using the new version of VirtualHostX, make sure that you select Directory from the dropdown, then use:


Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All AuthConfig



Then I messed around in IE, trying to make it work, even downloading this tool:

Worst thing EVER. Don’t do this. Don’t get this. Don’t even look at this. You will feel violated if you use it.

So…how to embed an OTF font in a website (make sure you have a license to do so kids):

1. Convert OTF file to .ttf (use fontForge)
2. Embed with @font-face
3. When adding the font to a style, in IE you CAN NOT call it by the name you gave it with the @font-face declaration. You have to call it by it’s name. So if the font’s name is myfontLTSTDBOLDITALICROMAN you have to do: body{ font-family: myfontLTSTDBOLDITALICROMAN; } Sucky? Very. Works? yes.

Have a nice day

So I wrote a class that you can extend with any model class of your own, and it will automatically have create, read, update, and delete functionality with no more work required. It also uses all of the WordPress security features to properly escape everything and prevent injection. Although, if you can crack it I’d love to hear from you!

Click here to download!

This is how it works:

1. Create a new class (ex. person)
2. Give that class instance variables (ID, FirstName, LastName, Address, PhoneNumber, PostalCode, HairColour…)
3. Make sure that you add accessor methods (getters and setters) for the ID (although it’s good practice to have them for all instance variables). Depending on your project, it may be a good idea to run stripslashes() on your string get functions so that they don’t show up with escaping. You may want to run WordPress’ attribute_escape() on setters, however, again, depending on your set up this may be unnecessary.
4. Write your SQL code to create a table named (wordPress prefix)(plugin prefix)person (ex. wp_wec_person)
5. Make sure you call your primary Key personID **This is very important, without this, the system breaks down**
6. If you wish to store variables in this class, you can modify them to be private, and they won’t be written to the database

In your class, extend the class name, so for example:

class person extends wec_db {

var $ID;

var $FirstName;

function __construct($id = null, $autoload = true){

}

Setup Note: to keep your plugin from stepping on the toes of others, make sure you change the prefix at the top of the class. Also, changing the name of the class to (plugin prefix)db (example:wec_db) will make sure that it doesn’t interfere with anyone else’s if they’re using this class!

Usage:

Create / Add

$person = new person();

$person->setFirstName(‘Joe’);

$person->setLastName(‘Blow’);

$person->add();

Read

$person = new person($personID);

Update

$person = new person($personID);

–or–

$person = new person($personID, false);

$person->setFirstName(‘Jane’);

$person->update();

Delete

$person = new person($personID, false);

$person->delete();

Post any questions in the comments! I’d love to hear from you!

Why, yes it would. Try:

Event.observe(window, 'load', function(){
     try {
          $('eventName').focus();
     } 

     catch (e) {}
});

after your </form> tag. This requires the prototype javascript library

Code:

1. Add an action on the init() action to call the sack JS script (deals with AJAX in WP)

wp_enqueue_script ( ‘sack’ );

2. Create an instance of the sack object, and create variables to pass into the PHP side.

function doesCalendarExist(wpurl, confirmationFieldName, calendarNameFieldID, submitButtonID) {

var ajaxObject = new sack(wpurl + ‘/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php’);

ajaxObject.execute = 1;

ajaxObject.method = ‘POST’;

ajaxObject.setVar( “action”, “doesCalendarExist” );

ajaxObject.setVar( “confirmationField”, confirmationFieldName);

ajaxObject.setVar( “calendarName”, document.getElementById(calendarNameFieldID).value);

ajaxObject.setVar( “submitButton”, submitButtonID);

ajaxObject.onError = function(){ alert(‘Ajax error’)};

ajaxObject.runAJAX();

return true;

}

Anyways, if you want pages to be shown in a categorical listing, use post_type=page in the query string. Otherwise it’ll only show posts by default, which didn’t happen in previous versions! Mine looked like this: <?php $sportsQuery = new WP_Query(‘category_name=Sports Pages&post_type=page’); ?>

//Loop goes here…

Hope this helps somebody. I know I’ll be coming back to it when I forget!

For more info see: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts

if(eregi(“^mywebsitename.com$”, $_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]))

{

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘dbremotename’);

/** MySQL database username */

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘dbremoteuser’);

/** MySQL database password */

define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘dbremotepassword’);

/** MySQL hostname */

define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘dbremotehost’);

define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://mywebsitename.com’);

define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://mywebsitename.com’);

}

else{

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘dbremotename’);

/** MySQL database username */

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘dblocaluser’);

/** MySQL database password */

define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘dblocalpassword’);

/** MySQL hostname */

define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘dblocalhost’);

define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://mywebsitename.com’);

define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://mywebsitename.com’);

}

Here’s a list of pretty much every character and it’s encoding: http://webdesign.about.com/library/bl_htmlcodes.htm

Bonus: Need to use some encoded characters in your PHP script? Use html_entity_decode() to turn them into regular text.

• nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
• uncomment LoadModule php5_module…

To enable mod_rewrite

• In the primary site configuration, change AllowOverride to AllowOverride All AuthConfig
• Restart apache with sudo apachectl restart