var field = new Ext.form.TextField({
	enableKeyEvents: true
});
field.on('keypress', function() {
//set code
});

thats all... if your keypress still not working, just ensure you are working on ext 2.1

anyway just apt-get it (apt-get install rpl) and it's ready to run...

a simple command from rpl thats saves me lotsa of time :

 
rpl -R -x .php -x .html -x .htm '</body>' '<?php include "myads.php"; ?></body>' *
 

as you see, I was trying to insert php tags just before the body html tags, thats it, much simpler than sed :).

anyway just curious to all bashers out there, how would you guys do it in awk, sed or grep?...

anyway managed to create the XTemplate using jsonstore without using dataview.

 
var tpl = new Ext.XTemplate(
'
<table id="history-table">',
'
<tr class="heading">
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Membership</td>
<td>Issue Date</td>
<td>Expiry Date</td>
</tr>
 
',
'<tpl for=".">',
'<tpl if="Ext.isEmpty(values.FIELD_1) == false">',
'
<tr class="{[xindex % 2 === 0 ? "odd" : "even"]}">',
'
<td>{#}</td>
 
',
'
<td>{FIELD_1}</td>
 
',
'
<td>{FIELD_2}</td>
 
',
'
<td>{FIELD_3}</td>
 
',
'</tr>
 
',
'</tpl>',
'<tpl if="Ext.isEmpty(values.FIELD_1) == true">',
'
<tr class="{[xindex % 2 === 0 ? "even" : "odd"]}">',
'
<td colspan="4">No membership found</td>
 
',
'</tr>
 
',
'</tpl>',
'</tpl>',
'</table>
 
',
'
<div class="x-clear"></div>
 
'
);
 
var store = new Ext.data.JsonStore({
	url: 'index.php?page=data&entity=table1&search[ID]=20',
	root: 'rows',
	autoLoad: true,
	fields: [
    {name: 'counter'},
    {name: 'ID',type :'string',sortType:'asText'},
	{name: 'FIELD_1',type :'string',sortType:'asText'},
	{name: 'FIELD_2',type :'string',sortType:'asText'},
	{name: 'FIELD_3',type :'string',sortType:'asText'}
	]
	,listeners: {
		'load': {fn: function(){
			tpl.overwrite('20-membershipinfo',store.reader.jsonData.rows, true);
			}
		}
	}
});
 

as you see, the xtemplate data only applied after load using the listeners event. If I don't do using listeners, example execute store.load() followed by tpl.overwrite('20-handheldinfo',store.reader.jsonData.rows, true); I will always get values error... seems the data is not loaded immediately after the load() functions... anyway this code will be better without using extra component like dataview just to show this data

Last two days i received an email alert from my own scripts that monitor my sites availability. My server was very slow for the past two days and when I checked the server processes there were so many process. I was thinking that the same incident happened like before, but it was not!, it is what the term called "rapid fire".

After checking each of my websites' logs in apache, I found out this was because a seach engine spider (Sosospider+), was crawling to my websites. The spider was crawling too frequent within the short time to get info from my websites. Banning the spider using robots.txt would not immediately stop the crawler.

Thankfully for me, the company responsible for the spider responded immediately after I sent them email regarding the problem and immediately stop and decrease their spider visit to my websites....

Now,  I am just thinking out loud... this only help me for that spider only at this time, what about in future where there will be new search engines and new spider (I'm sure!) ? they will crawl again and causing the same problem and I will need to do the same again? Why can't we have some syntax (in robots.txt maybe) that says only active  bots allowed to crawl... or better yet syntax that says only certain bots can crawl (yeah then I will put only major search engines bots - oh no, this will alienated the rest of the search engines! well what the heck, go and crawl the major search engines!).

anyway whatever it is we'll need a better robots.txt or watsoever....

 
unrar e -p [filename]
 

once entered, the password will be prompted, and there it is

A quick enquiry I made, the price for the subscription is:

Monthly update -  $1,019.05  (per annum)
Quarterly update -   $509.52  (per annum)
Half-yearly update - $305.71 (per annum)
One-time update -   $203.81

That's just the data and if you want their "Address Manager" software, it costs you another $132.48.

For me, just a hobyst developer, forking out the amount Its quite hefty amount. Why can't Singpost provide free API for anyone to get their postal code data?

So is there any other alternative?

Found out couple websites that can do mapping by postal code.

1. Street Directory Web Based Map API. I think the site already down. Even the site is not down I believe the API will show the map instead of giving you the coresponding address.
2. Singapore Geocoder. It seems the one I wanted. However I tried, but the xml seems not to work. Requested the key but until now I have never receive it, tried contacting them - no reply

So any other way to get the address by just using postal code in Singapore?
Ohhh... don't let me take out the money just to get the postal code and fulfill my development thirst

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So for this, I wanted to try to integrate with Xaraya. A quick search on xaraya's extension, there's a flashservices module for xaraya.
According to the flashservices module description, it is also using AMFPHP. The module, allows flash application to access data remotely using AMF (actionscript message format).
However, again, I couldn't find any documentation on how to use the module.

Spent almost a day to figure out how to use the module. Though I manage to create my flash calls the module's remoting service, I'm still not sure whether this is the best way to do.
Anyway, this is how I done that. If anyone had experience on this module, do let me know.

Tools
* Flash 8 or other flash ide like flex builder

Notes
* For Flash 8 development you need to install flash remoting components from: [http://www.adobe.com/products/flashremoting/downloads/components/ Adobe]
* Once you installed, you will see the components from Window -> Common Libraries -> Remoting

Action Scripting

Enabling flash remoting in AS
* import all the remoting components

 
//import remoting components
import mx.remoting.*;
import mx.rpc.*;
 
//import and initialise netdebugger
import mx.remoting.debug.NetDebug;
NetDebug.initialize();
 

Setting the service

 
//set the gateway for flash remoting
var gatewayUrl:String = "http://localhost/xaraya/ws.php?type=flashremoting";
 
//set service
var _service:Service = new Service(gatewayUrl, null, 'xarServices', null , null);
 

1. The 'xarServices' refers to the modules/flashservices/services/xarServices.php
2. The xarServices has two method currently: xarModApiService and xarModFuncService
3. xarModApiService method will call the xaraya's xarModAPIFunc function
4. xarModFuncService method will call the xaraya's xarModFunc function

Calling the service's method

 
//set the arguments to call for the module to call
//this will call flashservices_userapi_test
var myargs		= new Array();
myargs[0] 	= "flashservices";
myargs[1] 	= "user";
myargs[2] 	= "test";
//the parameters set to the function called above
//notice that object is used as we might need to use the key for the function
var parameters 		= new Object();
parameters.message 	= "Welcomeeeeeeeeeee!";
myargs[3] 	= parameters;
 
//call the service
//you can call xaraya service also by using xarModFuncService instead of xarModAPIService
var pc:PendingCall = _service.xarModApiService(myargs);
 

1. myargs is an array containing the function to be called. In this case will call module/flashservices/userapi/flashservices_userapi_test.php
2. parameters is the arguments to be passed into the function

Handling flashservice return module

 
//do the respon processing
pc.responder = new RelayResponder(this, "handleResult", "handleError");
 

handleResult is a function in the action script that will handle the event once the service method is successfully called.

 
function handleResult(re:ResultEvent)
{
	//will set the flash label text's property to the result string
	mylabel.text = re.result;
}
 

handleError is an error handler function in the action script that will handle errors returned from the service.

 
function handleError(fe:FaultEvent)
{
	trace('There has been an error ' + fe.fault.faultstring);
}
 

Flashservice module
Now, this is where I'm not sure the correct way, I had to change the following to make my flash remoting work:
- Edit modules/flashservices/classes/app/Executive.php somewhere in line 340, change the:

 
return call_user_func_array ( array(&$this->_classConstruct, $this->_methodname), $a); // do the magic
 

to

 
return call_user_func_array ( array(&$this->_classConstruct, $this->_methodname), $a[0]); // do the magic
 

this is because $a will contain multidimensional array, so need to set the first element of $a

Debugging Tips
* in actionscript you can use 'trace' command to show to the debugger, example in handleError:

 
trace('There has been an error ' + fe.fault.faultstring);
 

* in xaraya's php function, you can use 'trigger_error' function so that the error will be returned to the flash's actionscript. example:

 
trigger_error("There's an error!",E_USER_ERROR);
 

* in debugging, ensure you can allow the http access, a securitty pop up will usually show if you open the html file directly (not from http address). click on settings to manage this.
** go to website privacy settings
** click on your website address
** change to allow then restart the browser

That's all. Hopefully I can see more Flash with Xaraya applications in future....

Here's what I did....

Use command 'lshw -C disk' to see the dvd writer location

tjasin@home:~/BACKUP$ sudo lshw -C disk
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: ST3320620A
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@0.0
logical name: /dev/hda
version: 3.AAE
serial: 9QF4XQ4N
size: 298GB
capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: mode=udma5 smart=on
*-volume:0
description: Linux filesystem partition
physical id: 1
bus info: ide@0.0,1
logical name: /dev/hda1
capacity: 297GB
capabilities: primary bootable
*-volume:1
description: Extended partition
physical id: 2
bus info: ide@0.0,2
logical name: /dev/hda2
capacity: 729MB
capabilities: extended partitioned partitioned:extended
*-cdrom
description: DVD writer
product: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-H552U
physical id: 1
bus info: ide@1.1
logical name: /dev/hdd
version: US06
capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
configuration: mode=udma2
*-disc
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/hdd

/dev/hdd is where my dvd writer is...

then simply :

 
tjasin@home:~/BACKUP$ growisofs -Z /dev/hdd -R -J *
 

that will burn all the files recursively into my dvd

I tried format my dvd rw media using 'dvd+rw-format', but always having error saying ":-( mounted media doesn't appear to be DVD'RW or DVD-RAM".
Did i do something wronggg?

Take a look at the screenshot that i took. The ads title was "Edison Chen Scandal" and the message was "Learning from Edison Chen affair for data storage managers in Asia". I really couldn't stop smiling; "What Edison got to do with data storage anyway?". Security? yah could be.... New marketing strategy? absolutely! I wonder, what's the CTR the advertiser get? hmm...