Turning on Error Reporting for PHP...

2008-10-10T15:08:00.000+08:00

... was testing using PHP to create database in MySQL.. however.. always not successful.. and nothing was display in the web browser telling you what are the errors... So I went on searching for debugging techniques for PHP programmers.. and I found one article from the IBM developerWorks.. I found out that to enable the Error reporting in PHP i have to modify or uncomment 2 variables in the

Configuring PHP server for XSLT support...

2008-10-03T17:06:00.002+08:00

... was working on a web tutorial to create a "BBC" website... I must say.. the tutorial is lousy as it didn't explain much... but following instructions to put in this, put in that... wasted my time and didn't learn much... After I have finished... I was quite excited and tested it... well.. it didn't work... I received this error message... MM_XSLTransform error. The server could not perform

... Extracting materials...

2008-09-29T13:07:00.003+08:00

.. was given product strings for a product to work on the extraction portion... However, the product strings are not in standard format.. Without much information, I guess the design is to draw the strings into the program during the runtime... The following example shows how the product string looks like... In the example... we took only one unit as an example... In a standard file,

Modifying the Flickr Application...

2008-09-26T01:07:00.007+08:00

...after much tries... and exploring the Flex builder's help, Adobe Developer connection and some articles... I managed to modify the application further... now the search can be started by pressing the return key and when a photo is selected, it will be displayed in a bigger format in a window... You can click on the link to see how it looks like... In this example, besides keyboard and

Retrieving data from XML Files or Feeds?

2008-09-24T16:26:00.005+08:00

...reference to yesterday post, I was wondering how did we parse the feeds from the Flickr as Arrays... photoFeed = event.result.rss.channel.item as ArrayCollection;...so today, I tried pasting http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?format=rss_200_encinto the web-browser and I got a photo feed page... viewing it's source.. I noticed the xml page is formatted in this manner

Building a Flickr Application...

2008-09-23T10:56:00.015+08:00

...Flex is quite addictive... haha... and I tried out the second example shown... flickrViewer... it uses the HTTP services to send a request to the Flickr to download the photo feeds.. and show it in your Flex Application's screen... ... In the second example, I found one error in the codes.. it is one of the parameters used to send request to Flickr to retrieve photos... params.text =

My first Flex application...

2008-09-22T15:46:00.014+08:00

...read the Sitepoint's Flex articles and at the end of it, I was given a free eBook,Getting Started with Flex 3, after attempting the quiz. Usually, programming books use simple coding like helloworld, as their first tutorial... This book, however, uses a more attractive example as the first tutorial... Furthermore, the book is quite enjoyable and easy to understand... The first example used

Exploring Flex...

2008-09-17T14:07:00.001+08:00

Although I came across Flex/Apollo like 2 years ago, I have not actually touch on it.. Well… maybe I should say, I did not know how or where to start with…. until few weeks ago… I read some articles on Flex and Flex Builder 3… then I decided to give it a try… It is fun and amazing… however, there are alot of tags resides in the language and I am not sure of how to use them… I am just wondering if

Combining all together...

2008-09-06T15:41:00.002+08:00

...putting all my past few days work together... I created 2 Batch files and 1 VBScript to work together with the tools to make work simplier for the linguists....The primary batch file| xmlview.bat@ECHO OFFSTART "Please select the Source Folder" runHelp.bat "Please select the Source Folder" SourceSTART "Please select the Target Folder" runHelp.bat "Please select the Target Folder" TargetThe

Running Batch files concurrently.....

2008-09-05T01:06:00.000+08:00

...I wrote a batch script to open XML files for checking. However, 2 different sets of files, source and target, must be opened at the same time, so that we can check them visually side by side... I explored the command prompts and discovered that we could use the command, START, to do the work...The command, START, starts a separate window to run a specified program or command.This is the batch

Looping in folders, running the tool... 2

2008-09-04T01:46:00.002+08:00

...few days ago, I created a batch file to search and open all xml files in the folder and its sub-folders... however, the batch file has to be copied into the folder where the xml files reside... this can be messy and troublesome.. Hence, I modified the script so that it can be stored in one fixed location and still open the xml files in another location...The code is...@ECHO OFFIF EXIST "

VBScript: Open Folder Window Dialog...

2008-09-03T01:18:00.000+08:00

... problem with batch files is they do not have any graphical user interface... so if you need to insert some input like, location of folders, it is very troublesome... open explorer and find the folders, copy the location and paste it in the command prompt... so to simplify the methods... we can add GUI in the batch files...Const myComputer = &H11&Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application"

Looping in folders, running the tool....

2008-09-02T10:51:00.001+08:00

... was given a tool, xmlviewer, for the linguists to view and check the XML Help files. This tool, however, can only view a XML file each time... So to check the files, we have to open one file at a time... and the worst scenario is... given a set of 200 over XML files that are stored separately in sub-folders of the main one... Open a file at a time will take ages to complete... not including

Introduction

2008-07-19T00:59:00.000+08:00

I am very forgetful.... Hence, this is a little notebook to store all my thoughts, everything that I have learnt, discovered and etc...

Alex Ho