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Modify a Sencha Touch Ext.Msg.Prompt with Custom Buttons

October 11th, 2011

I’ll just skip to showing you the code… basically, just create your own message box instead of using the default prompt. You create your own buttons and set custom text to whatever you like.

Ext.Msg.show({
  title   : 'Enter Email Address',
  msg     : null,
  buttons : [{
    itemId : 'ok',
    text   : 'Send',
    ui     : 'action'
  },{
    itemId : 'cancel',
    text   : 'Cancel'
  }],
  prompt  : { maxlength : 180, autocapitalize : false },
  fn      : function(text,btn) {
    // do some stuff
  }
});

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Sencha List Disclosure with a Different Event than Itemtap

October 3rd, 2011

Sencha 1.0(ish) doesn’t have an option for tying a different event for the onItemDisclosure tap than the itemtap event. Here’s a convenient workaround. Set the onItemDisclosure to true to force it to show up, but give all the work to the itemtap event.

onItemDisclosure : true,
listeners : {
  itemtap : function(record,index,item,e){
    if (e.getTarget('.x-list-disclosure')) {
      Ext.Msg.alert("Disclosure clicked!");
    } else {
      Ext.Msg.alert("Item clicked!");
    }
  }
}

FIN!

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Trackbacks and Beatdowns

September 30th, 2011

Um… haha. Well, apparently there’s someone out there looking for more glossary terms. I should create a new term for these kind of wonderful people who don’t read what you write in exchange for a link to their website. Wait. What’s that you say? One already exists? Soulsucker?

I get this stuff all the time for this site, and I just think it’s weird. It’s not useful. It’s not relevant.

What do you, my imaginary reader(s), think about posting trackbacks like this? Harmless waste of time for the blog owner? Trackbacker needs to be dragged into the Interstate by upper lip?

A new trackback on the post "Web Developer's Glossary" is waiting for your approval

http://www.epiphanydigital.biz/2011/09/23/web-developers-glossary/

Website : textile reports (IP: 176.61.142.42 , 176.61.142.42)
URL    : http://eutextilenewsDOTblogspotDOTcom
Trackback excerpt:
<strong>Great website...</strong>

Cool post, I really enjoyed reading it. I will check out your site for some more content on this subject....

EDIT: I already got a useless trackback on this post. It’s been five minutes.

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BASH, C-Shell, etc.

September 28th, 2011

I was trying to figure out how to change my default shell from CSH to BA$H for my ODU CS login after doing some customization on my .bashrc file. If you’re in the same boat as me, a few simple changes will take care of things. This can all be done without root access.

$ echo $SHELL # find out what shell you are currently using, gives me something like /usr/local/bin/tcsh
bash # to switch to a BA$H terminal. exit to your csh
If a csh ~/.login doesn’t exist, create one and put the command exec bash in it. You could also use the full path to the shell you want to use
Run source ~/.login to restart your csh with the new rule… it should skip you over to bash instantly

This got me far enough to get a terminal but not far enough to use Vi as I would like to and expect to. I use Putty, since most of the time I have to be on a Windows computer. Times are changing though and hopefully soon I can drop it entirely in favor of Ubuntu. If you are having trouble with numbers, arrow keys, the insert key, etc. try some of these helpful hints:

Open putty and load your session
Go to terminal -> features and check “disable application keypad mode”
echo $TERM and make sure that Putty and your server are using the same type. vt100 is the most common
set term/device=vt100
Load your Putty session and go to Connection -> Data and enter “vt100″ (without quotes) or whatever type you decided on. Optionally you can enter your username here as well so you only type your password on login.
Under Terminal -> Keyboard, set “Ctrl-H”, “Standard”, “ESC[n~”, and the default for everything else on that panel
For the rest, follow the directions here.

… this is still a post in progress. Sadly, I’m still not working with a full deck of Vi.

Enjoy!

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Web Developer’s Glossary

September 23rd, 2011

Sometimes people misuse common web terms. Other terms people are completely unaware of. It’s important to know your web technologies emboldened text book highlights. Here are a few.

Vaporware: software made of up a collection of “trick mirrors” and “fog” to fool others into thinking there is actually a product. Eg.: “I just sold our client a WordPess site with a free theme. It was on cPanel hosting, so all I had to do was click install. They were very impressed and I made so much $$$!” ~ Credits to Melissa Baumann for this gem
Spaghetti Code: software that is often use to keep a job since there is nobody on earth who understands it as well as its inventor. developers often use this as a way of shielding themselves from the outside world. Eg.: “I just took a nice nap in my warm spaghetti code while 9/11 happened and Daleks almost destroyed the entire universe.” ~ Credits to Melissa Baumann for this wonderful term
Copy/Paster: a “programmer” that accomplishes at least 75% of his work by copying and pasting bits of code found on Google, without any reasoning abilities to determine original code quality or the skill level to rationally merge scripts from multiple sources
Requirements Document: stick figures, scribbles, plus a ketchup stain–usually delivered on <document type=”knapkin-4.01v3″/>
Social Media Expert: i kan haz FaceBook all dai 4 monie$. i has t3h tw33ts!!!
Custom CMS: often used as a threat, this is usually a way to keep clients from managing their content along with a high dollar reoccurring maintenance bill
Web 2.0: a way to make the Internet still sound cool after the dot com crash, as in “Remember Web1.0, guys? It’s like that but now with more cheerleaders!”
Web 3.0: Web 3.0 is often seen coming back from the future to battle its younger self, Web 2.0, in a cage match, generally filled with bologna which is sometimes substituted with SPAM
Responsive Design: used to characterize a website that “listens” to the emotional needs of the end user, and then suggests an appropriate drink to match their specific mood, usually something pink
SEO: usually this refers to eating babies in a dark closet and not cleaning up afterwards before a requirements analysis meeting
Microsite: similar in all ways to a standard website, except… well, similar in all ways to a standard website
API: black magic used to conjure up solutions to really complex problems that are not clearly defined, having a desired end result described as a “requirements document”; synonymous with <beginJohnWilliams>”a long time ago in a database far far away”<endJohnWilliams>; common usage: “Isn’t there an API for that?”
SAAS (3): a cool OO kind of CSS syntax with some PHP/RUBY/C or other parser; software as a service; ur mom
BA$H: a tool used for hammering, but in a computer sciency type of way

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