Firebug is an excellent Firefox extension. With its help you can change the appearance of a web page without modifying the HTML or CSS sourcecode. Moreover, you can see what looks like after your change the web page immediately. I made a video demo. Read the rest of this entry »
Testing Web Page with Firebug
October 7th, 2008Protecting Your Computer with PowerShadow
October 1st, 2008PowerShadow is an excellent software. While it is running, it seems that your hard drive is covered with a piece of transparent glass. You can see, change or delete the files, but all the changes will be lost after the computer starts up in the next time. So it is much like the hard driver recovery card, except for it is a software, not a hardware. Read the rest of this entry »
SourceForge Web Hosting Account Changed
September 26th, 2008A few days ago I found that I could’t login to my SourceForge web hosting with SFTP. I thought the SourceForge broke down and I sent a feedback to the support team. But unfortunately, no replies. And many other project administrators report this problem.
Yesterday I read the site documents and finally I knew why. SourceForge changed the site documents and said the account of SFTP had been changed. Now the account username is “USERNAME,PROJECT-UNIX-NAME” and the host name is “web.sourceforge.net”. For example, my project unix name is “gchart” and my username on SourceForge is “ggggqqqqihc”, therefore, I need to use “ggggqqqqihc,gchart” as the SFTP username.
You can use Filezilla to login the SourceForge web hosting.
Site Changed
September 23rd, 2008I changed this blog directory today. At first, the blog address is http://programmingnote.com/ and today I moved it to “blog” directory. So now its new address is http://programmingnote.com/blog. The reason I did it is that I want to install some scripts on this site. If the blog (WordPress) is installed in the root directory, managing files is not an easy work. So I decided to move the WordPress blog to a new sub-directory.
The homepage, http://programmingnote.com is very clean and simple. I added a Google custom search to the homepage. You can use it to search all my articles from this blog, Deepblue Spaces and some other sites.
Function Overloading in PHP 5
September 23rd, 2008Function overloading means using one function to do more than one kinds of work. For example, there is a class whose name is “Container”. The container class maintains an array. It has a function called “add”. You can use “add” function to add some items to the class. The argument may be a single object or an array. i.e. $c->add(35) and $c->(add(array(35)) are the same. How to do it in PHP? Read the rest of this entry »
Adding Python CGI support to Apache
September 23rd, 2008The reason I start to learn Python is to play with Google App Engine. So I think I should learn Python web programming. I need to add Python support to my Apache server. Someone recommanded me to use “mod_python”. But unfortunately I can’t install the mod_python correctly. Therefore, I have to use Python CGI. Read the rest of this entry »
I am Going to Learn Python
September 23rd, 2008A few days ago I knew Google App Engine. A free service for hosting your own web application. App Engine uses the server farm of Google. So I think it is very stable and safe. However, up to now App Engine only support Python language. I knew a little about Python several years ago, but at that time I am not very interested in it. Last month I made a survey, most of people think that Python is the most interesting programming language. I believe it is true.
Although it is said that Google App Engine may support PHP and other languages. I don’t want to wait until the day comes. If I start to learn Python, after some days I can play with App Engine. I wish Python would give me more nice feelings.
Starting Emacs with Windows Script
September 23rd, 2008Emacs is a classic editor in Linux/Unix world. However, it can also run on Windows. For Windows users, ntemacs is a good choice. What I don’t like is: Emacs needs the environment variable “HOME”, and it looks for its configure file “_emacs” in the “HOME” directory. I don’t like setting environment variables because it may cause conflicts. If there is a method so that I needn’t set any environment variable, I can avoid this problem. Lukily, I found the solution: Windows script. Read the rest of this entry »
GChart 0.1 Released
September 23rd, 2008GChart is my first open source project. It took me about two weeks. GChart is a PHP library for data charts using Google Chart APIs. What is Google Chart API? According to the Google official document: Read the rest of this entry »
I Start to Use CVS
September 23rd, 2008I start a project on Sourceforge.net. The project is a PHP library for drawing data charts using Google Chart API. The best thing is that Sourceforge provides many useful services for development. CVS hosting is one of them. Now I am woking on Windows, I downloaded a CVS client called WinCVS. I found that using CVS can make programming interesting. Read the rest of this entry »