The codes look innocently neat and tidy in the Eclipse IDE, i.e.

However, the minute they are committed to the server, the formatting runs in fisheye.

So what’s the reason?  The main culprit is the use of tabs.  Tabs render inconsistently between the IDE and the web interface.  As a matter of fact, this is a common problem, and most open source projects have a rule to forbid the use of tabs in their source codes.

However, such stringent coding policy will require a powerful code formatting tool which will ensure that our developers can easily adhere to the standards.

Ah.. that is solved by our PHPEclipse, with its nice tab to space conversion tool…

All we need to do is to go to Preferences >> PHP >> Code Style >> Formatter and set the tab policy to convert all tabs to a 4 space indent.  Once that is done, all we need to do is to do a

Ctrl + Shift + F

To perform source code formating in eclipse… and hey presto!  Nicely formatted codes in both Eclipse and Fisheye.

Thankfully, there was Krumo.  Once Krumo has been installed properly, you can do a dhtml tree dumb of an object values with 2 simple lines:

require_once(’Krumo/class.krumo.php’);
krumo($dumpObject);       

Some screenshots to illustrate the power of Krumo:

Tada… the entire dhtml tree of the object:

The installation is also mightily simple.  Just download the entire Krumo project and dump it into your php include path.

Decided to download a ftp client, FTP Voyager for the job.  For the 30 day trial version, it can be downloaded here.

Step 1:  Click on the Connect Link

Step 2: Click on Create a NEW site profile and Finish

Step 3:  Enter Profile Name and click Next

Step 4:  Enter either IP Address of Domain Name to connect to and click Next

Step 5: Click Next Again.  Do not check Anonymous Login

Step 6:  Enter FTP User Id and Password and click Next

Step 7: Select the folder which you will want to transfer your file to and click Next

Step 8: Click Finish

Step 9:  Just click and drag across the files between remote server and your computer.

Update Site URL for DBViewer is at:

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/zigen/home/plugin/dbviewer/

After installing the plugin, you will also need to install the JDBC driver as well for DBViewer to work.  Installation of the JDBC driver is at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=99B21B65-E98F-4A61-B811-19912601FDC9&displaylang=en

Do not be mislead by the seemingly htm download.  Inside the htm file, they will provide a link for u to continue on with the real download… :P

Upon successful Installation:

Data Editing Capabilities

Well, for the XML, I can easily use the Eclipse built in ant editor.  For those that have installed the enterprise version of eclipse, I think they did include a pretty good HTML editor plugin as well.

For CSharp there is not so much choices.  Guess we will need to go with Emonic.  They do provide quite a decent CSharp editor.

Emonic - http://emonic.sourceforge.net/updatesite/internap/site.xml

Well, I did remember that MySQL had some simple string replace function to address the problem… and after some surfing on the net… wola… The solution to changing all the image path:

update dbo.dnn_HtmlText set DesktopHtml = REPLACE(Cast(DesktopHtml as NVARCHAR(4000)), ‘/aapaf/Portals/0/banners/side’ ,’/aapaf2/Portals/0/banners/side’);

Yes… I know this is not rocket science… just wanted to blog it down here to remind myself during the migration process… and hopefully.. who knows?  It might just help some frustrated soul in the future…

Some other minor stuff that I kind of figured out today was this date time mismatch on my windows machine when I do some PHP date(d-M-y) stuff.  I realised that the php.ini actually sets your timezone.. and if it kind of mismatches what you have set in your computer… you will get the mismatch.

Wanted to find out about that quite some time ago.. but alas… it a world so busy…  its really getting hard to find the time to deeply understand things…

Xtremax Company Profile 2009

We start our story with the invention of the modern day computer…

 

Over the years, computers grew in numbers and the next natural step in their evolution is to connect them together.. to share things.

 

And as these little networks grew into huge networks, some computers gain more power than the rest and call themselves servers.

 

Today millions of people are connected online at the mercy of middlemen who control the servers of the world.

 

Its okay.. but we want more…

 

We want our computers to be first class citizen on the web, allowing for collaboration, online gatherings and sharing of information that does not require servers belong to strangers.

 

If we can achieve that, a whole new whole of possibilities opens up on the web. 

 

At opera, we want to put you on the web.. so that you can interact directly with who you want.. how you want.

 

Welcome to Opera Unite.    The web you know… just re-invented.

Intro Video

Instructions

Finally, it has arrived… and it works like magic.  Basically with this plugin, we can just highlight the folder and trigger the Windows Explorer screen by using a shortcut key -> Ctrl + Alt + E.  (Just in case you do not know.. the Microsoft Key + E is the traditional way of triggering a default Windows Explorer.. so I find this new arrangement very intuitive… )

Windows Explorer Plugin:  http://startexplorer.sourceforge.net/update