Introducing VSTrac January 12, 2008
Posted by mika76 in Coding, addin, open source, trac, visual studio, vs2005, vs2008, vstrac.1 comment so far
I’ve just created an online repository for a little Visual Studio addin which I’ve been working on for the last couple of days. It’s a Visual Studio integration of the Trac project management solution. You can check it out at http://vstrac.devjavu.com/.
Devjavu actually uses Trac, so if you’re not familiar with it feel free to check it out there.
Vista Shell Extensions in .NET December 27, 2007
Posted by mika76 in Coding, shell extension, vista.add a comment
If you’ve been at all interested in creating shell extensions for Vista in .NET, you’ve probably come across Mika Taulty’s The Windows Vista Shell, Thumbnails and Managed Code. One thing I just wanted to mention is that if you are working on a 64 bit version of Vista, you need to compile your shell extension in 64 bit too otherwise it will just not work. Trust me. 
VS2005 TortoiseSVN “integration” July 18, 2007
Posted by mika76 in Coding, open source, subversion, tortoisesvn, vs2005.add a comment
I just found this cool settings file which integrates commands from TortoiseSVN into VS2005. It’s not a full integration as all it uses is external tools to create the commands that you would usually swap over to Windows Explorer for, but it very, very handy. Thanks Garry!
Mamesaver April 29, 2007
Posted by mika76 in Games, emulation, mamesaver, open source, screen saver, sourceforge.14 comments
I’ve just released a little pet project of mine as an open source project on SourceForge. It is a windows screen saver which runs the MAME emulator. It runs random ROMs for specified intervals.
Check out the site. Try it. Let me know what you think or if you find any bugs.
UPDATE: I forgot to mention that you need to have the Microsoft .NET 2 Framework installed to run it.
Plotr March 7, 2007
Posted by mika76 in Coding, javascript, library, open source.comments closed
I found this great Javascript library which creates charts using the newish canvas object in the newer browsers. Check it out at http://www.solutoire.com/plotr. It seems to support bar, line and pie charts at the moment. I’m sure more will follow.
JQuery Javascript Framework September 1, 2006
Posted by mika76 in Coding, Web, Web 2.0, ajax, javascript.comments closed
Man am I impressed with this library! I have been doing amazing things with such small amounts of code. I was never one for javascript before, I always used to find it tedious, but this library has made it fun. Try it out.
Akelos framework released August 4, 2006
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It seems that the PHP Akelos framework has now been released for all to see and use. It’s released under a LGPL licence which means you can use it in your commercial apps too. Nice. The feature set looks real nice too. Now to play with it and see if it comes anywhere close to my favourite PHP framework: CakePHP.
Cheat Sheets July 5, 2006
Posted by mika76 in Coding, Web.add a comment
I found this blog entry which has a compilation of cheat sheets found on the net. There are cheat sheets for HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, MySql, Oracle, PHP, Ruby, Python, Regular Expressions and many, many more.
Enjoy.
My-BIC AJAX Framework July 2, 2006
Posted by mika76 in Coding, Web 2.0, ajax.add a comment
I’ve just recently stumbled upon this framework, and it seems very interesting. It seems to put focus more on the server side code and minimal focus on the client javascript. That being said there is a nice debugger included which appears to make developing much easier. I’m definitely going to have fun with this one.
Tree Traversal April 28, 2006
Posted by mika76 in Algorithm, Article, Coding.add a comment
I have been checking out some information for tree traversal algorithms (hence my previous post) and came upon the following articles. These are all abut the Modified PreOrder Tree Traversal (MPTT) algorithm.
- Storing Hierarchical Data in a Database from SitePoint
- Tree Traversal from Wikipedia
- Trees in Oracle SQL by Philip Greenspun
- Trees in SQL by Joe Celko
- Graphs, Trees, and Hierarchies by Joe Celko
- Cameron Perry’s web development blog #1, #2 and #3
After reading all these (and more) I am starting to understand it and to see how the implementation differs from the Adjacency List algorithm (the one where you have a parent_id on each child and use recursion to read). The biggest difference that there is is the fact that you don't need to use any sort of recursion to read in the data, but the inserting and updating of rows is far more involved using MPTT.
