http://www.bravenewcode.com/products/wptouch/

If you want to customise the mobile theme, you can modify the PHP theme included in your wp-content/plugins/wptouch/themes folder in the same way as any other theme.

See a customised theme in action by visiting http://www.bestaussiecoffee.com on your Android or iPhone.

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Abstract
WordPress search is rubbish. It basically just does a WHERE post_title LIKE %Your search string% which is inadequate 90% of the time. I spent ages wrestling with plugins like Search Unleashed and Search Everything and whilst they were great plugins for beginners, they just didn’t do exactly what I wanted.

http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/search-unleashed/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-everything/

For my project, I wanted to be able to search 2 different tables and return the results of both together in the one output. The first table was the normal posts table and the second table contained a list of all my entries with lattitude and longitude values.

I tried playing around with the WordPress search modifiers, but I found them to be too slow and cumbersome.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Queries

Solution
To start with, I wrote my own plugin (more information on how to do this can be found here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin)

I then added the following filter to my plugin to fire when the WHERE clause is built in the general WordPress search:


add_filter('posts_where', 'burnsie_search_where' );
add_filter('posts_orderby', 'burnsie_search_orderby' );


And the the following function:


function burnsie_search_where( $where )
{
global $wp_query, $wpdb, $markers_table, $searchPostIDs;

In my testing I found the above code much faster and more flexible than the built in WordPress search, especially when order of results is important.

I use it on my website to ensure that 2 different tables can be searched and the results ordered independantly without messing with the original WordPress Loop.

See it in action at Best Aussie Coffee:
http://www.bestaussiecoffee.com

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rake db:seed  don't know how to build task

The solution?

Update rails to 2.3.5

How?

gem update rails

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So I set out to create my own ordinal function based on a C# version I found on the Internet.

To use the below function in your report;

1) Open up your report in Reporting Services
2) Make sure you’re in the Design section and click the “Report” menu option (up the top), then “Report Properties”
3) Select “Code”
4) Copy and Paste the function below into the “Custom Code” box.

Public Function FormatOrdinal(ByVal day As Integer) as String

    ' Starts a select case based on the odd/even of num
    Select Case (day Mod 100)
        ' If the nymber is 11,12 or 13 .. we want to add a "th" NOT a "st", "nd" or "rd"
        Case 11
        Case 12
        Case 13
            Return day.ToString() + "th"
    End Select

    ' Start a new select case for the rest of the numbers
    Select Case day Mod 10
        Case 1
            ' The number is either 1 or 21 .. add a "st"
            Return day.ToString() + "st"
        Case 2
            ' The number is either a 2 or 22 .. add a "nd"
            Return day.ToString() + "nd"
        Case 3
            ' The number is either a 3 or 33 .. add a "rd"
            Return day.ToString() + "rd"
        Case Else
             ' Otherwise for everything else add a "Th"
            Return day.ToString() + "th"
    End Select
End Function

I was then able to use the function in an expression.

I wanted to format “01/01/2010″ as “1st January 2010″. My expression was;

=Code.FormatOrdinal(Day(Fields!LETTERDATE.value)) & " " & MonthName(Month(Fields!LETTERDATE.value), False) & " " & Year(Fields!LETTERDATE.value)

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However I came across a need to paginate multiple models on the same page, for example; a list of users and a list of groups.

Luckily Google came to the rescue with this article, which demonstrates the use of the :page option, allowing you to specify the page against a model object.

Check out the code below (courtesay of candidcode.com)

Controller

@users = User.paginate(:page => params[:user_page], :per_page => 10)
@administrators = Administrator.paginate(:page => params[:administrator_page], :per_page => 10)

View

<%= will_paginate @users, :param_name => 'user_page' %>
<%= will_paginate @administrators, :param_name => 'administrator_page' %>

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The following method demonstrates how to export your bookmarks from Firefox and import them using Safari.

Step 1: Export bookmarks from Firefox

The first step requires you to export your bookmarks from Firefox. Fortunately this is fairly simple process. Simply select the Bookmarks menu item, then select “Organize Bookmarks”.

Next select the “Import and Backup” dropdown and select “Export HTML”.
When prompted, save this file to your hard drive (desktop is fine for now).

That’s it! You’ve successfully exported your bookmarks from Firefox to a standard .html file.

Step 2: Import your bookmarks into Safari

Next we need to import this file back into Safari. Now for me, the primary menu toolbar wasn’t enabled and I don’t believe it’s enabled by default. If you can’t see menu bar with “File”, “Edit”, “View” etc, then you’ll need to enable this menu bar. You can do this by selecting the cog menu icon on the right of the browser, and selecting “Show Menu Bar”.

Once you’ve got the menu bar activated, simply select “File” then “Import Bookmarks” and browse to your desktop where you saved the Firefox bookmark export!

That’s it! You’ve successfully imported your bookmarks from Firefox. You can now drop and drag your bookmarks to your preference!

I dragged my most used bookmarks to the “Bookmark Bar” in Safari which allows me to quickly access the bookmarks I used most.

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For those that don’t know, capistrano comes as a ruby gem which allows you to completely automate tasks. In my case, I wanted to remotely tell my Ruby on Rails application to retrieve the latest version of the application from github (remote repository) and then restart my Rails app.

The documentation tells me that a simply “cap deploy” from the root of my rails folder should execute my capistrano script. However for hours upon hours I was banging my head against a wall.

Here’s the error I was receiving;

C:\Web\xxxxx.com> cap deploy
* executing `deploy'
* executing `deploy:update'
** transaction: start
* executing `deploy:update_code'
updating the cached checkout on all servers
executing locally: "git ls-remote git@github.com:xxxx/xxxx.git master"
*** [deploy:update_code] rolling back
* executing "rm -rf /home/xxxx/public_html/releases/20100222103818; true"
servers: ["173.203.207.104"]
[173.203.207.104] executing command
command finished
C:/Apps/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-2.5.16/lib/capistrano/recipes/deploy.rb:98:in ``': No such file or direct
ory - git ls-remote git@github.com:xxxx/xxxx.git master (Errno::ENOENT)

The solution

Ok so I’m not really going to call this a solution because I don’t know why this works (and maybe one of you can assist me in this) but running the command “cap deploy” under a MINGW32 command shell instead of the usual Windows command prompt seemed to work just fine.

(I just MINGW32 as a shell to run all my GIT repository commands)

If you don’t use Git on windows or you don’t have MINGW32 installed, I suggest you have a look at this Git on Windows page.

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My GMAIL inbox is for EMAIL – not social media status updates ..

It’s a bit of a hack to get rid of them but here goes;

1) Up the top click the “Create a filter” link (next to the search box)

2) Where it says “has the words” .. type in “label:buzz” (without the quotes of course)

3) Click “Next Step” (Ignore the warning that pops up ..)

3) Then tick the box which says “Skip the Inbox (Archive it)”

4) Then click “Create Filter”

Done! Now all buzz notifications will NOT be displayed in your GMAIL inbox. Want to turn off Buzz completely? Luckily is a piece of pie. Scroll to the bottom of Gmail and click the “turn off buzz” link. BOOM; buzz is gone and your Inbox is safe.

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However after much distress I was able to uncover what the problem was. I recently went from an Exchange 2007 environment to a IMAP environment and hence some of my contacts were corrupted. If I tried to send an email to anyone from my old exchange contact list – the email would fail; hence the error 0X80040201.

Simply creating new contacts in Outlook for the people I wanted to send emails too, fixed this issue!

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The following example worked a charm using Subsonic and activerecord.

var fetch_ref_id = contract.All().OrderByDescending(c => c.id).Take(1).ToList();
if (iRef_new_id != null)
{
     iRef_new_id = fetch_ref_id[0].id;
}

As you can see, it creates a new list (noted by the ToList()) by connecting to the table “category”, it then selects all results (All()) and then orders the list by Descending and finally, the take(1) simply takes the top record.

I then whack the result (if you have a column called id) into a integer.

Related posts:

1. Subsonic ordering – OrderByDescending

To sort your table using activerecord, use the following examples;

To sort ascending by a column called name

var categories = category.All().OrderBy(c => c.name);

To sort descendingby a column called name

var categories = category.All().OrderByDescending(c => c.name);

You can then just bind to your gridview/dropdown list or whatever you like.

            if (categories != null)
            {
                drp.DataSource = categories ;
                drp.DataBind();
            }

Related posts:

1. How to fetch Last Record in Subsonic

Luckily I finally found a way to reset the Admin password!

You’ll need shell/SSH access for this procedure to work.

1) Login to your media wiki installation
2) Then type the following;

cd maintenance
php changePassword.php --user=Admin --password=tada321$

This will change the “Admin” user’s password to “tada321$” ! I then highly suggest you login to MediaWiki and change the password to something more secure/familiar

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