CakePHP: Adding/deleting columns in the database after the application is Baked

If you had already baked the application and now if you made changes to the database by adding or deleting columns, then do the following:

1. Open "core.php" located at : app/config/core.php
2. Find the line which looks like: Configure::write('debug', 0);
3. Change it to Configure::write('debug', 2);
4. Refresh your application webpage.
5. Reset the line in core.php to Configure::write('debug', 0);

What basically this will do is refreshing the "model" cache.
Changing the debug level will ensure that all your databases changes are reloaded.

Following are the notes related to which debug level, you want to set.
/**
* CakePHP Debug Level:
*
* Production Mode:
* 0: No error messages, errors, or warnings shown. Flash messages redirect.
*
* Development Mode:
* 1: Errors and warnings shown, model caches refreshed, flash messages halted.
* 2: As in 1, but also with full debug messages and SQL output.
* 3: As in 2, but also with full controller dump. (NOTE: Not in CakePHP 1.3)
*
* In production mode, flash messages redirect after a time interval.
* In development mode, you need to click the flash message to continue.
*/

jQuery: Count number of visible divs

 $("div:visible").length  
 or  
 $("div:visible").size()  

If we need for a specific 'class', then

 $(".myclass div:visible").length  
 or  
 $(".myclass div:visible").size()  

HTML : Easiest way to create simple tooltips

Tooltips are the ones which appear as little bubbles with text, when you mouse hover over an item on Web-page.

In HTML, it is very easy to create them.

Simply add 'title' attribute to the element.

Examples:

<a title="Tooltip for Anchor !" href="someLink" >Gliding Phenomena Blog </a>

<img title="Tooltip on an Image..." src="myPic.jpg"  />

<div title="This is tooltip for the entire DIV">

Some content.

Blah 

Blah

</div>

SQL : Update only year in the date field

UPDATE mytable
SET datefield = CONCAT('2012','-',MONTH(datefield),'-',DAYOFMONTH(datefield))
WHERE YEAR(datefield) = 2006;

Javascript: Regex for Email Validation

function isValidEmail(email){
 var emailRegx = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_.-])+@([a-zA-Z0-9_.-])+\.([a-zA-Z])+([a-zA-Z])+/;
 return emailRegx.test(email);
}

Mac: Show/hide Hidden files in Mac OS

To Show Hidden files run the following 2 commands in the terminal

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

killall Finder


To Hide Hidden files run the following 2 commands in the terminal.

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE

killall Finder

Draw Smooth Circles in JAVA instead of jagged edge circles.

Usually when we draw circles/ovals using Graphics2D in JAVA, we get jagged edges.
Following example creates smooth edges to the circle.
The key is g2d.setRenderingHint (RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.RenderingHints;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

public class DrawSmoothCircle {
public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
BufferedImage bufferedImage = new BufferedImage(100,100, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
Graphics2D g2d = bufferedImage.createGraphics();

g2d.setRenderingHint (RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
g2d.setPaint(Color.green);
g2d.fillOval(10, 10, 50, 50);
g2d.dispose();

ImageIO.write(bufferedImage, "png", new File("newimage.png"));
}
}

Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) Basic Tutorial, Introduction

A very pleasant and quick introduction to Multidimensional(MDS) scaling can be found at

http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/florian.wickelmaier/pubs/Wickelmaier2003SQRU.pdf

http://www.tonycoxon.com/KUB/mds_menu.htm

Unix: Check unix/linux machine hardware configurations

$ uname -a
Linux comp0.abc.xyz.org 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 20 07:32:21 EST 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model  : 65
model name : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2220
stepping : 3
cpu MHz  : 2800.098
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id  : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid  : 0
fpu  : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp  : yes
flags  : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy
bogomips : 5600.19
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc

Mac : check if my intel based Mac is 32-bit or 64-bit

1. Choose About This Mac from the Apple () menu in the upper-left menu bar
2. See what Processor it has.
3. Compare your Processor Name to information below to determine whether your Mac has a 32-bit or 64-bit processor.

Processor Name	32- or 64-bit
Intel Core Solo	32 bit
Intel Core Duo	32 bit
Intel Core 2 Duo	64 bit
Intel Quad-Core Xeon	64 bit
Dual-Core Intel Xeon	64 bit
Quad-Core Intel Xeon	64 bit

Source: Extracted from http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3696

Unix: Running processes in parallel in unix shell

By using the ampersand '&' , we can run processes in parallel. Example 1: Consider the following script

for i=0; i<10;i++
do
 cat inp$i.txt;
done

The above script would run sequentially executing cat inp1.txt; cat inp2.txt; cat inp3.txt' ..... We can issue these processes in parallel by using '&' instead ';'

for i=0; i<10;i++
do
 cat inp$i.txt &
done

Example 2:

$ runprog1; runprog2; runprog2;

Above statement would execute sequentially.

$ runprog1&runprog2&runprog2&

Above statement would execute all in parallel

$ (runprog1; runprog2; runprog2;)&

Above statement would start processes sequentially and then execution is parallel.

Displaying the AJAX content in a separate window

Write the following piece of code in your call back function to display the AJAX content in a separate browser window.

function(data) {
  var myWindow = window.open('','Name of the Window','');
  
  myWindow.document.open();
  myWindow.document.write(data);
  myWindow.document.close();
}

Note: You need to make sure your browser pop up blocker has disabled.

CakePHP: remove cakePHP Flash messages using JQuery

Typically you would have all the cakePHP flash messages inside the div - alert_messages.

By using JQuery, we can remove these after intended time period.
The following example removes the cakePHP flash message after 5 seconds time period.

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('#alert_messages').animate({opacity: 1.0}, 5000).fadeOut();  
});

style.display=‘none’ doesnt work on option tags in Chrome, IE

We cannot set a style, display:none on OPTION TAG in Chrome and IE, It can be done in Firefox !

Kinda Solutions :

1. Use disabled attribute for the OPTION

2. If you want to remove them permanently, use removeChild to delete the option.

3. If you want them to show/hide, then u might have to save the removed options into a javascript variable.

jQuery: Select all options in a Multiple-option Select Box

The following code will programmatically select all the options in a multiple-option Select box. Assuming you have jQuery setup.

$("#selectAllButt").click(function() {
  $("#mySelectList option").each(function() {
    $(this).attr("selected","selected");
  });
});

The following code will programmatically UN-Select all the options in a multiple-option Select box.

$("#selectNoneButt").click(function() {
  $("#mySelectList option").each(function() {
    $(this).removeAttr("selected");
  });
});

jQuery: Get checked checkboxes, radio buttons using Pseudo selectors

jQuery Pseudo Selectors are very efficient way to get the checked checkboxes or radio buttons.
The Pseudo Selector used is - :checked

Following are some simple examples to follow:

$("#chkBoxIdOrRadioButtId").is(":checked");

- returns a boolean true if checked or false

$("#chkBoxIdOrRadioButtId").not(":checked");

- returns a boolean true if unchecked or false

$("#chkBoxIdOrRadioButtId").attr('checked','checked');

- programmatically check the desired.

$("input:radio[name='myRadioGrpName']:checked").val();

- return the value of the checked radio from the 'myRadioGrpName' group.

$("input[name='myChkBoxGrp']:checked").length;

- returns the count of the checked

$("input[name='myChkBoxGrp']:not(:checked)").length;

- returns the count of the unchecked

jQuery : Get the number of options in a select box

Using jQuery to get the number of options in a select box

$('#mySelectBoxId option').length;

Using jQuery to get the number of options that are selected in a select box

$('#mySelectBoxId option:selected').length;

jQuery, CakePHP: Submit a form using ajax; implementing "quick save"

In CakePHP, If you want to submit a FORM using an AJAX request, use jQuery Form Plugin.

You can find a detailed example at http://marcgrabanski.com/article/cakephp-ajax-quick-save-jquery

An alternative to this plugin is invoking a javascript function, when a submit button is clicked, and which would read all the input data inside the form and send it to the controller.

Tcl/Tk: How to find out the Tcl version

How to find out the Tcl version

[yourLoginPrompt]$ tclsh
% info patchlevel
8.4.13
% puts $tcl_version
8.4
% info tclversion
8.4
%

Javascript: Make indexOf function working in IE

The indexOf function is a recent addition to the ECMA-262 standard and newly introduced in JavaScript 1.6, hence it may not work in some browsers. You can work around this by inserting the following piece of code at the beginning of your scripts.

Note: This function will work in FF1.5 or above, because this algorithm is exactly the one used in Firefox and SpiderMonkey(is the code-name for the Mozilla's C implementation of JavaScript).

if(!Array.indexOf) {
  Array.prototype.indexOf = function(obj) {
    for(var i = 0; i < this.length; i++) {
      if(this[i] == obj) { return i; }
    }

    return -1;
  }
}