Memoirs of a common man

These days I'm working with the jQuery UI toolkit and facing diversified problems which are quite silly in nature. For example today i was trying to implement modal windows using the UI toolkit, the window was getting generated but it was not draggable. A little investigation revealed that these libraries are not only dependent on other smaller building block files, but also on the order in which the files are included. I altered the following sequence: jquery.ui.draggable.min.js jquery.ui.mouse.min.js to jquery.ui.mouse.min.js jquery.ui.draggable.min.js And it worked like a charm. Hope this helps anyone facing similar problems. Cheers!

Can drive you crazy if it's really in form. Can fuse your every bit of good wits and you can start banging your forehead on your keyboard. To the point: Scenario: I was using jQuery UI datepicker. When I was generating the picker inline to a div, it was working correctly. But the moment I was binding it with a textfield, there you go:- d(a).zindex is not a function Which libraries were used in my header: 1) jquery.min.js 2) jquery.ui.datepicker.min.js The reason: I was selectively using just the datepicker portion from the entire UI library. And the problem was there itself. I overlooked the top portion of the jquery.ui.datepicker.min.js file which clearly stated this file had a dependency with jquery.ui.core.js Solution: I included jquery.ui.core.min.js (it could be jquery.ui.core.js either) among the scripts and there I was escaping the gravitational pull of the black hole namely 'd(a).zindex is not a function' Hope this helps somebody who i...

What? You want to rotate an Image by touching it? iPhone? iPod touch application? Have googled day and night? Got your spine aching, eyes red? Calm down, help is on its way. But I don't promise its bullet proof, but still, at least its working to some extent, and its done my way, my recipe which I tried over and over again so that it could taste the way it tastes now. As said earlier, it's not perfect, but it serves the main purpose, that is rotating an image around it's center by touching it, to some extent. Scenario: I had a View, UIView object. I called it "canvas". I had another view, UIImageView. I called it "imgobj". I was required to rotate it around it's center by touching. Concept: This is only possible when I know the angle between the straight lines made by by the points, center C (cx, cy) and where I touched P1 (x1, y1) and center (cx, cy) and where I took off my finger from the screen (x2, y2). So basically if we can get the difference o...

If you have found this post and reading, definitely you're in a situation where you need that one bizarre type of files to be handled by DreamWeaver. There are tons of template engines in the market and each one ideally have their own extension for templates, tpl, stpl, shtml and the list goes on. Open the file /Configurations/Extensions.txt under from your DreamWeaver installation directory. Add the extension which you need to the appropriate group there. A snapshot might look like the following: HTM,HTML,SHTM,SHTML,HTA,HTC,XHTML,STM,SSI,JS,AS, ASC,ASR,XML,XSL,XSD,DTD,XSLT,RSS,RDF,LBI,DWT,ASP, ASA,ASPX,ASCX,ASMX,CONFIG,CS,CSS,CFM,CFML,CFC,TLD, TXT,PHP,PHP3,PHP4,PHP5,TPL,LASSO,JSP,JSF,VB,VBS, VTM,VTML,INC,JAVA,EDML,WML,THTML,STPL:All Documents HTM,HTML,HTA,HTC,XHTML:HTML,STPL Documents SHTM,SHTML,STM,SSI,INC:Server-Side Includes JS:JavaScript Documents XML,DTD,XSD,XSL,XSLT,RSS,RDF:XML Files LBI:Library Files Once done with this file, locate the next extensions.txt which should be a...

For those who stay in West Bengal, India, Shankarpur is no new name, rather a popular one. For those of you who have never heard of the place, this post is going to be your tour co-ordinator. Shankarpur is a beach town in Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal. It is around 185 Km away from Kolkata, one of the metros of India and capital of West Bengal. There are primarily two ways to reach Shankarpur. Both are easy and cool. First one is orthodox bus ride (the 100% common method to reach Digha until recent times), the second being train. The final destination of both the bus and the train is Digha. For me, I took the bus to get to Shankarpur and train while returning. So have had the opportunity to gather both the experiences. The next thing is: where to stay? The answer is "Nest" or the "Hotel Nest". They are sort of running a monopoly out in that place; and rightfully. Cool, now that you have the mode of accessing it set and place to live decided, lets start put...

For all those have been confounded by this error while downloading torrents, all the available blogs and posts on this suggests, your hard disk has gone for a toss. Delete the existing download, re-download. Kind of frustrating, really frustrating. My experience differs a bit. While in truest sense it is always true, that this error is coming due to read errors from your hard drive, it is not always true that it is a undo-able physical error on your disk. It could be a logical one. This means, there's still chance for you. Breath and schedule a scan on your drive the next time Windows (I was using XP professional, SP 2) starts. This again depends on which drive you got the error on. If its the one which the operating system is having exclusive access to, you have to schedule the check, the next time your OS loads. If its a secondary drive, you can do it with few clicks only without a re-boot. If you are lucky, Windows would correct the error, and you'll have your download back,...

I really don't know if this is worth a post, but the amount of frustration and pain I've endured crossing the infamous 'drawbridge', that I decided to write something here, and frankly I'll take out a lot of frustration against the game makers and the game itself in this post, and you'll find a lot of abusive words in here. So if you are a big fan of the either or you just want to read a decent article with nice and clean language, please stop reading here and go read one of those millions of posts which would leave you with a pleasing impression about the game-play of the game. First things first, I love Prince of Persia, well that's why I play. I fell in love with PoP when I played the 'Prince of Persia 3D'. I loved it because the wonderful levels, the castles, the mysterious Persian structures, and graphics. At that time also I hated few things about it, the camera movements, the way the player was allowed to control the prince, etc etc. Now after...