The Mika Connection

Introducing VSTrac

Mladen — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:28:59 +0000

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

Mladen — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:50:40 +0000

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”

Mladen — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:25:23 +0000

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

Mladen — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:43:14 +0000

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

Mladen — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:24:32 +0000

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

Mladen — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:55:35 +0000

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

Mladen — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 06:48:33 +0000

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

Mladen — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:17:35 +0000

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

Mladen — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 08:23:26 +0000

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

Mladen — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:44:00 +0000

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.