Keithics Blog and Thoughts http://keithics.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:10:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Starcraft 2 : Wings of Liberty – Fireworks / PSD Template http://keithics.com/blog/adobe-fireworks/starcraft-2-wings-of-liberty-fireworks-psd-template http://keithics.com/blog/adobe-fireworks/starcraft-2-wings-of-liberty-fireworks-psd-template#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:00:17 +0000 admin http://keithics.com/blog/?p=343 Starcraft 2 : Wings of Liberty Fireworks Template for only 25.00 USD

- This template is based on Starcraft 2 Fan Site Kit.
- Made using Adobe Fireworks CS4+.
- High Quality and best for your Starcraft fan page.
- Can be saved as PSD.
- Payment via Paypal (webmaster@keithics.com)
- HTML is optional, just add 25USD for 1 homepage and 1 template.

Preview Below: Homepage at 90% from original (click to view)

]]> http://keithics.com/blog/adobe-fireworks/starcraft-2-wings-of-liberty-fireworks-psd-template/feed 0 SVN in Shared Hosting with Hostgator http://keithics.com/blog/personal-thoughts/svn-in-shared-hosting-with-hostgator http://keithics.com/blog/personal-thoughts/svn-in-shared-hosting-with-hostgator#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:36:42 +0000 admin http://keithics.com/blog/?p=336 I love Hostgator, they never let me down ever since. There might some minor incidents but their support fixed it quickly.

My Hard drive just crashed this week and now I want to have a repository for my code just in case it happens again.

To make Hostgator+SVN to work , you need:

1. SSH access.. SSH is free if you have the business plan (shared)

2. Putty (Windows)

3. TortoiseSVN (SVN Client)

Step1:

Instructions:
Type your domain name and the port as 2222, in the Saved Sessions textbox type: keithics or any name, then click Save. You can see the Name on the text area on the left.
Then click Open.

Step2:

When Putty loads, it will ask for your Username and Password. Please note that when you type your password, you can’t see anything in Putty’s commandline.
Just type your password and press Enter.

Then Create a repository.. 

svnadmin create myrepo

step3:

Install TortoiseSVN and Click Settings. In the Network Tab, browser for the Putty.exe path.

Step4:

Create a repository by right clicking an empty folder then choose TortoiseSVN->Create Repository Here.
Add a text file to that folder then right click the folder then choose SVN Checkout.
IN the URL of the repository type:
svn+ssh://keithics@keithics/home/keithics/myrepo/
Replace the bold text with your own.
svn+ssh://<HOSTGATOR NAME>@<PUTTY SESSION NAME>/home/<HOSTGATORNAME>/<REPO FOLDER>/

Good Luck and if you have any problems, just put it on the comments!

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But you must have an Apache Server (most of the servers are Apache).

Here is the code:

  1. if ($_SERVER[‘PHP_AUTH_USER’] != ‘admin’ and $_SERVER[‘PHP_AUTH_PW’] != ‘admin’) {
  2.  header(‘WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="TCG Admin Panel"’);
  3.  header(‘HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized’);
  4.  echo ‘You need to login’;
  5.  exit;
  6. } else {
  7. echo "OK!";
  8. }

Learn more about it here

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You may need to login to use other Adobe Services.

And Oh, they have templates for Web, Mobile , Wireframes etc.. cool!

As for the Text .. sorry guys.. still no System Anti Alias. Don’t wait for Adobe to bring it back. Just won’t happened.

Better border, finally!

As for performance , faster but not fast enough compared to CS3.

– there’s not much improvement of Fireworks since Adobe took over. They put up a lot of useless stuff like Flex Skinning , Adobe Air mouse events.. Just how many people uses those features?They are obviously trying to sell other products rather than listening to their customers.

I will be getting emails from Adobe (again) for this one. How about you guys what do you think?

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Problem
INSERT INTO tbl_lang (enname,code,charset,inorder) VALUES (‘asd’,'asd’,'asd’,(SELECT MAX(inorder)+1 from tbl_lang))

Fix:
INSERT INTO tbl_lang (enname,code,charset,inorder) VALUES (‘asd’,'asd’,'asd’,(SELECT MAX(inorder)+1 from tbl_lang as l))

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2. Add memory limit to php.ini

ini_set("memory_limit","128M");

3. Debug the output html first before converting to pdf.

4. Load images on the same server and with relative paths. You can’t load images using “http://domain.com”.

5. Use wordwrap with caution.

6. Always add width to your table and first row cells

7. Make sure images are in correct format with correct extension. A BMP file with .jpg extension will trigger an error.

8. Avoid special characters if possible.

If you some trouble with DOMPDF, just comment and maybe I can help you out.

All are based on experience!

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For XP , just edit:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS4\configuration\DocumentTypes\NewDocuments\Default.html

for my case I have this default below, this applies to all other documents like CSS, PHP, JS etc..

  1. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
  2. <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  3. <head>
  4. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  5. <title>Untitled Document</title>
  6. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/defaults.css" />
  7. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/styles.css" />
  8. <!–[if IE 6]>
  9. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/ie.css" />
  10. <![endif]–>
  11.  
  12. </head>
  13.  
  14. <body>
  15. </body>
  16. </html>

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AjaxCrop – inspired by PHP & JQueryPhoto Upload and Crop .I decided to make my own version and based on imgAreaSelect ,Jquery and Asido.
I hope you like it and please feel free to add a comment.

view demo | download files

EDIT: I have updated the link of asido to http://sourceforge.net/projects/asido/files/ – thanks to Johan.

What you Need:

  1. PHP 5
  2. GD Library
  3. Jquery
  4. ImgAreaSelect
  5. Asido

How it works:

  1. After uploading the local image, it will be processed and converted to jpg regardless of image type.
  2. It accepts Jpg,Gif and Png and then add a white background if the image will not fit on the exact dimension. You can change the background color by editing the php file. Please visit Asido for more details: http://sourceforge.net/projects/asido/files/
  3. The file upload is done via iframe to prevent page refresh thus mimicking Ajax (there is no way to do Ajax on file inputs) .
  4. Jquery will get the file content of the iframe and then load it to the main page. You will see the big image , cropped and converted to jpg or an error if the file upload is unsuccessful.
  5. Click create thumbnail to create a thumbnail, in the demo you can see the image source of the thumbnail so that you can use it in your application.
  6. Have FUn!

Screenshot

Screenshot

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Below is a custom function I made, I just modified Matt’s Function.

Anyway, here it is..

<ul>
<?php
$szSort = “user_id”;
$aUsersID = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare(“SELECT $wpdb->usermeta.user_id FROM $wpdb->usermeta where meta_key=’wp_user_level’ and metavalue=’2′ ORDER BY %s ASC” , $szSort ));
foreach ( $aUsersID as $iUserID ) :
$user = get_userdata( $iUserID );
echo ‘<li>’;
echo ‘<a href=”index.php?author=’ .$user->ID.’”>’;
echo ucwords( strtolower( $user->first_name . ‘ ‘ . $user->last_name ) );
echo ‘</a>’;
echo ‘</li>’;
endforeach;
?>
</ul>

As we all know that there is no such function like get_authors() , unlike categories there is get_categories , links have get_bookmarks().
]]> http://keithics.com/blog/wordpress/wordpress-tidbits-getting-the-authors/feed 0 Firefox using Fireworks – free PNG file http://keithics.com/blog/adobe-fireworks/firefox-using-fireworks-free-png-file http://keithics.com/blog/adobe-fireworks/firefox-using-fireworks-free-png-file#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:24:52 +0000 keithics http://keithics.com/blog/?p=232 here it is.. a quick drawing using Fireworks. Took me a couple of hours.. the curves are killing me!

Download the PNG file Here

firefox

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