http://www.stillbreathing.co.uk/2014/04/08/progressive-enhancement


This is the crux of progressive enhancement. Here’s the recipe:

Start with a basic web page that functions with nothing but the HTML, using standard semantic mark-up. Yes, it will require full-page GET or POST requests to perform actions, but we’re not going to stop there – we’re going to enhance the page.
Add CSS to style the page nicely; go to town with CSS3 animations if you want
Add JavaScript to enhance the UI and provide all the modern goodies: AJAX, client-side models, client-side validation etc
The benefits are obvious:

If the JavaScript or CSS files (or both) fail for any reason whatsoever the page still works
The use of semantic HTML means the page is fully understandable by search engine spiders
Because everything is rendered in HTML, not built up in JavaScript, it is understandable immediately by assistive devices
Serving fully-rendered HTML is quicker than building that same HTML client-side
Built-in support for older – and newer – browsers and devices
The best web developers on the planet all argue that progressive enhancement is the best way to approach web development. I honestly have no idea why anyone would think otherwise. There’s a good article (it’s actually the first chapter of Filament Group’s “Designing With Progressive Enhancement” book) on the case for progressive enhancement here.

.Net socket debug

<sources>
<source maxdatasize="1024" name="System.Net"></source>
<listeners>
<add name="TraceFile">
</add></listeners>
<source maxdatasize="1024" name="System.Net.Sockets"></source>
<listeners>
<add name="TraceFile">
</add></listeners></sources>
<sharedlisteners>
<add initializedata="trace.log" name="TraceFile" type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener">
</add></sharedlisteners>
<switches>
<add name="System.Net" value="Verbose">
<add name="System.Net.Sockets" value="Verbose">
</add></add></switches>

<system .diagnostics=""></system>
<trace autoflush="true"></trace>
<sources></sources>
<source maxdatasize="1024" name="System.Net"></source>
<listeners></listeners>
<add name="TraceFile"></add>
<source maxdatasize="1024" name="System.Net.Sockets"></source>
<listeners></listeners>
<add name="TraceFile"></add>

<sharedlisteners></sharedlisteners>
<add initializedata="trace.log" name="TraceFile" type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener"></add>

<switches></switches>
<add name="System.Net" value="Verbose"></add>
<add name="System.Net.Sockets" value="Verbose"></add>

Obama on gun control

"We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world. But maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence"

"We do have to feel a sense of urgency about it. In Dr King's words, we need to feel the fierce urgency of now, because people are dying," he said. "And the constant excuses for inaction no longer do."

"Yes, it will be hard. And it won't happen overnight. It won't happen during this Congress. It won't happen during my presidency," he said. "But a lot of things don't happen overnight. A woman's right to vote didn't happen overnight. The liberation of African-Americans didn't happen overnight. LGBT rights, that was decades worth of work."

- Barack Obama

starting nodejs

a) express --sessions projectName
Create directory projectName with views, routes
b) cd projectName
c) npm install handlebars
d) npm install consolidate
Google for npm consolidate,
With reference to the example for express 3, modify app.js
e)

Mr Lee's final gift: One united people

"For those who say that Singaporeans are spoiled, selfish, always complaining and mercenary, what would they make of what's happening now: tens of thousands, soon-to-be hundreds, and possibly a million before the week is out, queueing for hours in the hot sun without a peep of disgruntlement. No one told them to do it. There are no freebies at the end of this queue. There are no goodie bags to be had, no fancy aerial displays, no ballot sheets to tick, no certificates of participation awaiting.

Yet there is nothing but stoic contemplation, a people united by sadness but at the same time, an amazing, totally unscripted display of goodwill and community. People are chipping in to help with free water, flowers, food and general kindness for one's fellow man. Without any expectations of reward or publicity - just plain human decency. "
-By Jaime Ee, The Business Times, 27 Mar 2015

Yesterday and today

With passing time, what seems important is so insignificant now.

select it!

select * from (

select 'lkj' name, 1 isSup, 0 isHse, 1 isMgr
union
select 'lky' name, 0 isSup, 0 isHse, 1 isMgr
union
select 'Jon' name, 0 isSup, 1 isHse, 0 isMgr
union
select 'Kim' name, 1 isSup, 0 isHse, 0 isMgr

) myTable
where isSup in (1) and isHse in (0,1) and isMgr in (0,1)

select row_number() over (partition by groupid order by date) r from test_table

mysql group_concat

SET SESSION group_concat_max_len = 1000000;
SELECT
cast(
concat(
PCR_M.PCR_Year,
'-',
LPAD(PCR_M.PCR_Id,4,'0')
) as CHAR
) as PCR_Id,
PCR_M.PCR_Name,
PCR_M.PCR_SEV_Id as Severity,
(
select
group_concat(I.ITM_Name separator ", ")
from
LINK_PCR_ITEM ITM
join ITEM I
where
I.ITM_Id=ITM.ITM_Id and ITM.PCR_Year=PCR_M.PCR_Year and ITM.PCR_Id=PCR_M.PCR_Id group by 'ITM_Id'
) as CSCI,


(
select group_concat(
"[Start][",
(select USR_Name from USERS where PAN.PAN_Author=USR_Id),
"] [",
date_format(PAN.PAN_Modification_Date, "%Y%m%d %H:%i"),
"]\r\n",
PAN.PAN_Comment,
"\r\n[End][",
(select USR_Name from USERS where PAN.PAN_Author=USR_Id),
"] [",
date_format(PAN.PAN_Modification_Date, "%Y%m%d %H:%i"),
"]"
separator "\r\n\r\n"
)
from PCR_ANALYSIS PAN
where (PCR_M.PCR_Id=PAN.PCR_Id and PCR_M.PCR_Year=PAN.PCR_Year)
) as Analysis,

(
select group_concat(
"[Start][",
(select USR_Name from USERS where PCT.PCT_Author=USR_Id),
"] [",
date_format(PCT.PCT_Modification_Date, "%Y%m%d %H:%i"),
"]\r\n",
PCT.PCT_Comment,
"\r\n[End][",
(select USR_Name from USERS where PCT.PCT_Author=USR_Id),
"] [",
date_format(PCT.PCT_Modification_Date, "%Y%m%d %H:%i"),
"]"
separator "\r\n\r\n"
)
from PCR_CORRECTIVE PCT
where (PCR_M.PCR_Id=PCT.PCR_Id and PCR_M.PCR_Year=PCT.PCR_Year)
) as Corrective

from PCR_MAIN PCR_M;

Truncated Text SSRS display in IE 10

Reference URL: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_7/ie-10-ssrs-report-viewer-issue-after-kb2888505/1e82a8b9-dea6-4351-90d3-7f4f47c4fb2a

<script> block:

    try {

        Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance().add_endRequest(function() {

            document.getElementById("ReportViewerControl_fixedTable").style.tableLayout = '';

        });

    } catch(e) {

        //ignore me alert("error");

    }

Timeline plotting

Graphite
http://graphite.wikidot.com/


OpenTSDB
http://opentsdb.net/index.html

npm bucky-server


FLOT?

references
http://jedi.be/blog/2012/01/04/monitoring-wonderland-visualization/
http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2013/06/26/practical-guide-to-graphite-monitoring/

http://www.designyourway.net/drb/javascript-visualization-libraries-to-display-charts-and-graphs-34-items/

Binary decoding with AWK

http://awk.info/?doc/bitmaps.html


function Bytes2Number( String, x, y, z, Number ) {
x = split( String, Scratch, "" )
Number = 0
for( y = 1; y <= x; y++ ) {
z = index( CharString, Scratch[ y ] ) -1
Number = Number + z * (256^(x - y))
}
return Number
}

BEGIN{
for( x = 0; x <= 255; x++ ) {
CharString = CharString sprintf( "%c", x )
FS= ""
RS = /ABC/
}

{ Width = Bytes2Number( $22 $21 $20 $19 )
Height = Bytes2Number( $26 $25 $24 $23 )
Data = Bytes2Number( $14 $13 $12 $11 )
Size = Bytes2Number( $6 $5 $4 $3 )
Depth = Bytes2Number( $30 $29 ) / 8
ImgSize = Bytes2Number( $38 $37 $36 $35 )
....
}

Sharepoint - Registering apps using appregnew.aspx

http://yourSharePointServerName/_layouts/15/appregnew.aspx.

appregnew in sharepoint

http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2013/02/18/when-do-your-apps-need-appregnew-aspx-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx

node-mapnik on windows

1) Cleaning up mess
npm cache clean if encounter issues despite changes

2) binding.gyp

2a) From the dos command prompt, running npm install
set protobuf_src=
eg set protobuf_src=x:\progra~1\protobuf\src
set cairo_src=
eg set cairo_src=x:\progra~1\cairo\src

2b) Modifying binding.gyp in directory node-mapnik
from
 'conditions': [
      ['OS=="win"', {
        'variables': {
          'PROTOBUF_INCLUDES%':'C:/dev2/protobuf/vsprojects/include',
          'PROTOBUF_LIBS%':'C:/dev2/protobuf/vsprojects/Release',
          'PROTOBUF_LIBRARY%':'libprotobuf-lite.lib',
to
 'conditions': [
      ['OS=="win"', {
        'variables': {
          'CAIRO_INCLUDES%':'$(CAIRO_SRC)',
          'PROTOBUF_INCLUDES%':'$(PROTOBUF_SRC)',
          'PROTOBUF_LIBS%':'$(PROTOBUF_SRC)/../vsprojects/Release',

          'PROTOBUF_LIBRARY%':'libprotobuf-lite.lib',

2c) from

'conditions': [

        ['OS=="win"', {

            'include_dirs':[

                '<!@(mapnik-config --includes)',

                '<!@(mapnik-config --dep-includes)',

                '<@(PROTOBUF_INCLUDES)'

              ],

to

'conditions': [
        ['OS=="win"', {
            'include_dirs':[
                '<!@(mapnik-config --includes)',
                '<!@(mapnik-config --dep-includes)',
                '<@(PROTOBUF_INCLUDES)',
                '<@(CAIRO_INCLUDES)'
              ],


3) As advised in binding.gyp, make changes to .node-gyp\*\common.gypi under user directory
xp - c:\documents and settings\username\...
win7 - c:\users\username\...


see https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/gyp-developer/p98GJxYJuH4
see https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp/issues/26


4)  Testing
npm install -g mocha
npm install sphericalmercator

Grab a copy of GDAL for windows from http://www.gisinternals.com/sdk/
sdkshell.bat to set the environment for
4a) PROJ_LIB
4b) GDAL_DATA


mocha -R spec to list details

node-gyp on windows

For node-gyp command, see *.js in the directory nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib

Prerequisite
a) Visual Studio
b) Windows SDK
c) Visual Studio SP1
d) C++ 2010 SP1 compiler update

See https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp/wiki/Visual-Studio-2010-Setup
See http://www.steveworkman.com/node-js/2012/installing-jsdom-on-windows/

Pay-it-forward

Decades of sustained, methodical development of Singapore’s water policies has its many players, from multi-national corporations to international organisations, all of whom have performed a crucial role. During the dialogue, Mr Lee acknowledged their contributions, and in a pay-it-forward move, Singapore now wants to share its expertise with other countries facing water shortages.

"We did not do this by ourselves. We climbed on other people’s shoulders. We brought this [technology] together and improved on them. We’re happy to have people climb on our shoulders, whether they are from the Middle East, China, India, whatever. It’s a collaborative effort. The world will need this because what we have assumed was limitless — endless supplies of water — is not so. We’ve found it not to be so, and that we’ve got a way out of it.” -MM Lee

C++ build environment for mapnik project on Windows

C/C++ General
\mapnik\mapnik-v2.2.0\include;\mapnik\mapnik-v2.2.0\include\mapnik\agg;.;%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)


C/C++ Preprocessor
LINUX;_WINDOWS;HAVE_JPEG;HAVE_PNG;HAVE_TIFF;MAPNIK_USE_PROJ4;BOOST_REGEX_HAS_ICU;MAPNIK_THREADSAFE;BIGINT;HAVE_LIBXML2;HAVE_CAIRO;%(PreprocessorDefinitions)


Linker General
Additional Library Directories \mapnik\mapnik-v2.2.0\lib

Linker Input
mapnik.lib;icuuc.lib;icuin.lib;cairo.lib;libboost_system-vc100-mt-1_49.lib


main include

#include "mapnik/layer.hpp"
#include "mapnik/rule.hpp"
#include "mapnik/line_symbolizer.hpp"
#include "mapnik/polygon_symbolizer.hpp"
#include "mapnik/text_symbolizer.hpp"
#include "mapnik/feature_type_style.hpp"
#include "mapnik/graphics.hpp"
#include "mapnik/datasource_cache.hpp"
#include "mapnik/font_engine_freetype.hpp"
#include "mapnik/agg_renderer.hpp"
#include "mapnik/expression.hpp"
#include "mapnik/color_factory.hpp"
#include "mapnik/image_util.hpp"

#if defined(HAVE_CAIRO)
#include "mapnik/cairo_renderer.hpp"
#include "mapnik/cairo_context.hpp"
#endif

#include <iostream>



Remarks:
Build with
C/C++ Code Generation>Basic Runtime Checks>Default
C/C++ Code Generation>Runtime Library>Multi-threaded DLL (/MD)
If you attempt to build with C/C++ Code Generation>Runtime Library>Multi-threaded Debug DLL (/MDd)
1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_thread-vc100-mt-gd-1_49.lib'

Changing someone

“But we have each come to the understanding that there is no need to try to influence the other to your own point of view. We cannot change them. They cannot change us,” -Former MM Lee

log4cxx debugging

Add debug="true" to enable debugging example: log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j='http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/' debug="true"\

QML extension

1. QML2_IMPORT_PATH is necessary for QML dll
example
set QML2_IMPORT_PATH=d:\qt\imports

2.uri
From the QML2_IMPORT_PATH, the uri comes into play
with a uri of qml.test (case sensitive),
the directory structure shall be %QML2_IMPORT_PATH%\qml\test

3.qmldir
Under the directory %QML2_IMPORT_PATH%\qml\test,
you shall have qmldir,
where the bare minimum configuration contains
plugin yourDllPluginName

optional
module uri

4.qmlpluginsdump
qmlpluginsdump will
first look at QML2_IMPORT_PATH
then the uri
The following command shall dump some values
qmlpluginsdump qml.test 1.0

5.qmltypes
Generate qmltypes with qmlpluginsdump
qmlpluginsdump qml.test 1.0 d:\qt\imports\ > d:\qt\imports\qml\test\dllname.qmltypes

6. Append typeinfo logger.qmltypes to qmldir


Title case for module name is a must to work -
Need to use Logger instead of logger for qmlRegisterType(uri, 1, 0, "logger");