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Comment on Transferring / Saving Mobile Phone Text Messages Onto a PC by John

John — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:44:20 +0000

@ Tysie - i have had that a few times too (Phone could not be identified). To be honest, i am not sure how i fixed it. I just unplugged, turned things ‘off ‘n onnagan’ and retried in various orders of sequence. It seemed to work.

Comment on Man versus Robot - man’s war against robots has already started and its different to what i expected by Phineas Kibbey

Phineas Kibbey — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:44:52 +0000

The messed up thing about this, is that it’s a robot checking to see if a human can come in. How does a computer know the difference between a human and a robot? For the moment, this captcha thing kind of works, but give it 10 years or so, and we won’t be able to outsmart them by just using character recognition.

The captcha method not only blocks out robots, but also really stupid or really drunk people.

If only we could just let the robot decide what was a real request and what wasn’t. I’d bet that if I gave you a virtual hamburger and a real one, you’d be able to taste the difference, but how would a robot know how to distinguish between something that exists and something that doesn’t. As far as it’s concerned, if the data it receives is there, it’s real. Unless it can trust a human to tell it what is real or not. But then how can it ever know if it’s a real human or not telling it what to trust?

I’m rambling, because it’s a big circle of falsehood, based solely on the idea that humans know anything. Which brings me to my main point… how do we know what is real and what isn’t?

Comment on Transferring / Saving Mobile Phone Text Messages Onto a PC by Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:28:39 +0000

What an awesome find, My Sony k810i inbox was full, had to keep deleting messages to let new ones through, loads of messages on there I wanted to keep. Myphoneexplorersynced the whole lot within about 2 minutes.

Massive huge thankyou. xxxxxxx

Comment on What on Earth does a double underscore then parenthesis mean in PHP? __() by Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:07:27 +0000

Thanks too, I was contracted to write my first wordpress widget and those __(something) was really bugging me because I kept wondering if there was some obscure PHP language construct I’ve been missing for years.

Comment on why is dijit date picker background bg color transparent? by John

John — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:26:45 +0000

@ Gaston
This blog post was written a while a go. So i do not know if things have changed.

To answer your question about the “isEnabled()” bit…. look at the Zend docs example of calling the “isEnabled()” method on the Dojo view helper. I was using Zend View outside of the MVC framework, which might explian my weird Zend View object variable name ($Z_view_obj):

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.dojo.view.html
(To jump to it on the page tell your broswer to search (i.e CTRL+F) for the string: “$this->dojo()->isEnabled” )

But, for me, the key to my solution was something in the HTML body. I.e In your layouts/layout.phtml (or whatever script outputs the html body tag ) you need to remember to add the ‘dojo theme’ to the ‘class’ attribute of the ‘body’ tag in your html. Its a css thang.

For example, if you want to use the ‘tundra’ theme, add the class attribute like this:

…where you add dojo scripts/css

…..

….

My Nice page

…
rest of html content
…

————

Its happens cos
* your head is concentrating on learning Zend Form - which is a feat in itself
* plus you are getting your head around Zend MVC - which is a feat in itself
* plus you are getting your head around Dojo - which is a feat in itself
* plus your mind is thinking ‘backend’ of server
* then you head for the CSS scripts and hack away
* then you come here ;o)

BUT - After all that - the solution is a common-or-garden body tag that disrupts the whole thing. I love it.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=forgot%20to%20hook%20up%20the%20doll

Comment on why is dijit date picker background bg color transparent? by Gaston

Gaston — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:15:26 +0000

Ok I think I need to be more clear on my questions, I want to change the background color of the datepicker because the numbers are white like the background, this is what i have on my coding.

1.- On my layout:

dojo(); ?>

2. On my view:
dojo()->addStylesheetModule(’dijit.themes.tundra’);?>

3. On my Form:
$toDate = new Zend_Dojo_Form_Element_DateTextBox(’ToDate’);
$toDate->setRequired(true);
$toDate->setLabel(’To: ‘);

4. Bootstrap:
// Set the Dojo Helper
$view = Zend_Layout::getMvcInstance()->getView();
Zend_Dojo::enableView($view);

and thats it, I am new at dojo and zend in general.

thanks in advance

Comment on why is dijit date picker background bg color transparent? by Gaston

Gaston — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:46:08 +0000

Hi I am having trouble undertanding some of this post, I dont know if you can help me? on this part, how are you doing this?

if ($Z_view_obj->dojo()->isEnabled()){….

thank you

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Comment on Nice little Google Easter Egg by John

John — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:20:39 +0000

Thanks for the comment.

Here’s how to get the most out of this little gem.

There are 2 (or perhaps more) steps to jovial heaven:
* Click on the link to google.
* Click on the “did you mean?”

Comment on Nice little Google Easter Egg by desbest

desbest — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:00:54 +0000

I don’t get it.