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CSS3 border shadow, border radius, multi-columns
July 28th, 2007
If you haven’t, check out CSS3 documentations on border shadow, border radius, layered background images, multi-columns etc. How cool is that? No need to make rounded corner images!!!! I can’t wait. Btw how much CSS3 does firefox support? I really haven’t thoroughly test it. What else you heard about CSS3 is uber cool? Please share!
Simple PHP URL rewrite
June 29th, 2007
One thing I did for dmb is making dodosmb.com/profile/username work with my profile.php script. Normally without the help of .htaccess, you can use the value of the path info from the global variable
$_SERVER['PATH_INFO']
For example, create a php file named profile.php and in there put:
<?php echo $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']; ?>
Then upload the file and load it with yourServerPath/profile.php/dodo. The script will print out
/dodo
In my profile.php, I get the user by doing a simple sub string command like:
$user = substr($_SERVER['PATH_INFO'], 1); // this will get rid of the leading slash
This allows me to feed users to my profile.php by using the url dodosmb.com/profile.php/username
That’s still not pretty enough; it’s better if I can do dodosmb.com/profile/username. This is where .htaccess rewrite comes in. Here’s a great tutorial for .htaccess rewrite rules. To accomplish my goal, I used the following rewrite rules in my .htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^profile/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/$ /profile.php/$1
RewriteRule ^profile/([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ /profile.php/$1
Thoughts Aside
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Funny cartoons and images
June 28th, 2007
These are cartoons and images found in my old pe backup. They were under the fun section but I don’t want to create a page for them any more so I will select the ones that still amuse me and put them in a post instead 
- Watch for the contraction
- Did you back up?
- Not exactly the PC wheel of fortune
- In case you lack of common sense
- Only wish this is a real sign
- The best computer component diagram yet
- Ever wonder where icicles came from?
- This guy ought to make you feel better about your job
- Kangaroo needs privacy too
- The final design of the engineer who quit
- The Mexican SUV - hey at least you don”t have to worry about gas
- Microsoft Word for Blondes
- It was mystery meat!
- Girlfriend remote
- Next time, go easy on the tequila
- Now you know why I love pomeranians
Thoughts Aside
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pure-essence.net is back
June 25th, 2007
What happened?
If you weren’t here when pure-essence.net went down, here’s a summary of the story.
PE got sponsored by http://edgewebhost.com/ in early 2006. The hosting was fine until mid May 2007. My site just all the sudden disappeared from the face of the internet and the owner of edgewebhost was nowhere to be found. I’ve tried everything I could to contact the owner. Emailed their support & admin, used their ticket system. I even went on webhostingtalk.com and found the owner & pmed him. I got absolute no response. I had no up-to-date backup of the site when it went down. The last backup I had was only to Jan 2006. I would have lost all my entries from Jan 2006 to May 2007. Thank goodness for webArchiver and Alberto, I was able to restore much of my loss. Web Archiver had my site logged up to May 2006 and Alberto sent me entries of my blog in his google feedreader from Dec 2005 to April 2007. Although I still lost entries and contents, without their help, it would have been worse.
What’s restored? What’s new?
If you are a regular visitor, you know I started PE way back in 2001. The site has gone through many evolutions in six years. Overall I want to stick to contents that work for me. I will remove the gallery section of the site and tentatively add a tutorial section. I might bring back some of the tutorials I wrote for Dodo’s New World that are still heavily requested. None of the static sections are done however. They will take longer to be restored. I will work on them but I don’t make any promises. I have a very busy life right now
Thank you thank you thank you!
I want to thank everyone who emailed with suggestions, comforting words and tips while the site was down. I also want to thank nagaki from xfluro.com for giving PE a new and stable home. To all visitors, please continue your support for pure-essence.net, I will keep up the good work
Thoughts Aside
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reorder taskbar buttons
April 19th, 2007
if you are like me who expect buttons in my taskbar to be a certain order, you will find it frustrating that you can’t easily reorder them. it will be nice if they implement the drag and move functionality with those like the tabs in firefox. but even in vista they didn’t do anything like that. but taskArrange seems to be a good tool to use. you don’t need to install anything. just unzip the downloaded file and double click on the exe that best fits your criteria to easily reorder your taskbar buttons.
just want to strangle IE
April 5th, 2007
for a minor revamp of the web application i’m working on at work, i want to implment this css vertical menu. i was thrilled to find that it works great in IE 5.5 which is something we still need to support. after i put everything together, i realized it is not going to work due to this notorious SELECT z-index IE bug. basically IE ignores the rule of z-index when it comes to select tag. this means when the css menu popup out in the area where there is a select tag, in IE, the select tag will be rendered on top of the popup menu. the ONLY way you can place a layer on top of any SELECT tag in IE is by adding an iframe in the html source on top of the select. altho there is a pure css way to fix this issue, it’s far from pretty.
i’ve applied the fix to my css vertical menu now and it works locally. BUT i know i’m gonna run into more issues. because the app will be on a secure server (https) and in IE it will show security alert when you have iframe tag without the src attribute. i ran into this problem before trying to use the thickbox script. i had to put a real https URL in the iframe tag for IE to shut up. but i really don’t know how everything’s gonna turn out until i’ve switched everything over and the app is deployed to the secure server.
this is the wonderful IE. you have to use ugly hacks to fix its shortcomings and then add more unnecessary code to get around the problem the hacks cause.
isn’t it lovely?
change double click folders from open to explore
March 31st, 2007
i just figured out something cool by playing around. when you double click on folders in windows xp, it opens the folder. personally i like it to open the folder with the explore view. apparently it’s quite easy to change that.
- Select Folder Options from the Tools menu in My Computer or Explorer, and click the File Types tab.
- Select Folder file type
- Hit the Advanced button
- In the new selection, you will see a list of actions associated with it. Select explore and the Set Default button
- Save settings and exit out of all of the screens
- double click on a folder and see
shorten right click -> new list
March 31st, 2007
i’ve heard about tweak UI - a free microsoft powertool for a while but never tried it out. i did today and there are two things i was able to customize that made my day. first i was able to choose which application it will use to view source in internet explorer. i was able to use my favorite text editor instead of the crappy notepad. another thing i didn’t know it could customize is the right click -> new -> list.
you may change this by unselecting the ones you don’t want in the templates section under tweak UI
i originally installed it to get rid of the windows log on screen. like in windows xp even if you don’t set a password, it will still either show you the welcome screen or prompt you to enter your password whenever you turn it on. it annoys me. there is an autologon setting you may change with tweak UI but it doesn’t work well. it seems to be reset as soon as you choose to logout or i’m missing something i think i will go with solution one suggested here.
