Codoxide
23Apr/110

My Samsung Galaxy S Home Screens

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I’ve had my Samsung Galaxy S GT-I90000 for a while now. The default iPhony look bothered me so much that I had been looking for an alternative look since the day I got it. One of my greatest inspirations have been the cool screens posted at XDA forums.

So, after couple of months of looking around, I finally threw together some screens that seemed to look decent.

Here goes:

23Sep/102

Resolving Pligg Installation Error: The pligg_config table is empty or does not exist

Pligg

So here I was, trying to setup a Pligg website on my Windows 7 machine. I’ve just gotten the latest MySQL and PHP installed. Setup all the permissions required, and ran the installer.php. All seem to go well until, I got to table setup page..

28Jul/100

BlogEngine.net Extension for Embedding JotForms form

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JotForm is one the best online Form Builders out there. It offers more enticing features on its free edition than any of its rivals.

But, why would a developer need an online Form Builder? If you are building a site from scratch or if you are using a powerful CMS such as DNN, you'd probably build the form yourself or use a form builder module. But, increasingly more people are deploying BlogEngine.net as a CMS as it's much more simpler to theme, customize, deploy, train and maintain. And BE.NET, meant to be a blog engine doesn't (yet!) have the cabailities to build forms on the fly: Nor there are any modules (yet!) to do the same. So, the likes of JotForm becomes a really good option.

The problem? Well, there's no easy way to embed a JotForm on a BE page or a post. That's why I went ahead and built this simple extension.

20May/0813

TX1000 Update: HP SUCKS!

Smashed HP TX 1000 - cobaltfan2

Guess what, my Broadcom Wireless Adapter just died. And having read this, I'm not going to even bother with taking this for repair. Mine has the exact same symptoms. The TabPC is still under warranty. But, I'm not putting myself through the painful experiences of the last two months again.

UPDATE (July 27, 2008):

Three months down the road with a replacement mobo, and the TX1000 is dead again. Thanks HP! I'll be looking for a Dell now..

Found this cool photo on DA... Wish I could muster up the courage to do this.


Photo credit: cobaltfan2
Original Image can be found here.

Update (July 26th, 2009)

Would you believe it?? Last year, I did get a mobo replacement from the local agent. That would be the 3rd mobo that graced the inside of my Tx. And sure enough, 1 year has gone and the Wireless adapter is dead again. For the time being, it's stil booting up. But, the machine is plauged with blue screens of death. So, it is slowly dying..

Of course, there seems to be a fix which requires opening up the laptop and doing some careful soldering. I'm not sure, I'm comfortable doing that. Maybe when it dies for good I'll talk a repairman into doing it.

Also going to join the FB group of the unlucky TX owners.

15Feb/080

BreadCrumbs Control: Final Touches and Demo Project

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After weeks of inactivity, I finally managed to get a demo project in place for the BreadCrumbs controls. You can download it here. The code includes few updates I have made since the last version. For the sake of flexibility, I have kept the basic control as simple as possible. In the demo, I have added few additional helper classes to provide the full functionality desired.

Extending the control is pretty simple too. For instance, to display the menus for each of the sub items in a list item, you handle the SubItemClicked event. The SubItemClickedEventArgs passed to you along with this event provides you with the row index, column index and the bottom-left corner pixel coordinates of the sub item. In the demo app, this event handled as;

void ListBox_SubItemClicked(object sender, BreadCrumbsListBox.SubItemClickedEventArgs e)
{
    ContextMenuStrip menu = null;
    if (e.ColumnIndex == 1 && breadCrumbsList.ListBox.SelectedItem != null)
        menu = GetTemplateMenu(breadCrumbsList.ListBox.SelectedIndex);
    else
        menu = _entityMenu;
    menu.Show(breadCrumbsList, breadCrumbsList.PointToClient(e.BottomLeftCorner));
}

Here, the _entityMenu is a pre-constructed menu while as the "Template Menu" is reconstructed every time based on the selection.

1Dec/070

Finding my way back to the Bread Crumbs Project

Item Selection

Due to a life changing experience that I ran into 2 weeks ago, I've been unable to continue on with my regular R&D work. I've got a small breather that might last the rest of the week and so figured I should try to finish up some of my projects: 1st off, I managed some work on the Bread Crumbs list control.

Here's what the control looks right now:


Items support Hot-Tracking

Vista's Windows Explorer style item selection

Sub-item selection

Sub-item Menu Support

Also added support for item editing:

Design

The controls design is pretty basic and the code not overly elegant at this stage.

Each row on the List Box is an instance of the BreadCrumbsItem class. The BreadCrumbsItem holds an array of strings with each element corresponding to  an individual column. The list box requires that you insert only items with equal number of columns. Otherwise an exception will be thrown.

I had trouble getting the scrollbars inherent in UserControl/ContainerControl to function properly. The OnScroll method wasn't receiving the proper scroll value and was reverting to 0 all the time. So, I had to go with adding a vertical scroll bar manually. Anyway, check out the code (49.5 KB zipped folder).