http://armisael.silix.org Armisael's scientific world Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:57:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, this is not a plugin, neither a standalone or cross-platform application, it's only a, well, I suppose we can call it workaround... Emule collections are files used to store the ed2k link of one or (usually) more files. They can be in two different format, text or byte. In the lucky case ... http://armisael.silix.org/2010/03/how-to-use-emule-collection-file-in-mldonkey/ Yep, it is, MindGapper has been renamed into MooGraph. Why? Well, it's pretty simple, MindGapper was a funny name based on GapMinder, but now MindGapper - MooGraph is a complete software for statistical data, so we decided to change it's name. Sooner or later also the project on SourceForce will be renamed ... http://armisael.silix.org/2009/07/mindgapper-changes-into-moograph/ Your remote_function or remote_form_tag could stop working if you use jQuery into your Ruby on Rails project. This is because the jQuery $ function is different from the prototype one, and RoR uses some particular function that is not available with jQuery. For example, you can get an error like this ... http://armisael.silix.org/2009/06/ruby-on-rails-remote-functions-do-not-work/ If you create a scaffold for your rails project, it will create for you a lot of things; for example, a way to show your object in xml format. But what about adding custom elements to that xml? I solved in this way: class MyObject < ActiveRecord::Base #[...] def to_xml(options={}) ... http://armisael.silix.org/2009/04/ruby-on-rails-adding-custom-elements-in-generated-xml/ When using wx:TileList with your own ItemRenderer, you have to remember two important things to avoid scrolling problems: If you override the set data method, remember to call super.data = value. Remember that the TileList reuses the ItemRenderer instances when scrolling the component! So, if you have a TileList with 5 rows ... http://armisael.silix.org/2009/04/as3-flex-tilelist-with-itemrenderer-scrolling-problem/ I love to write my own visual classes in actionscript3. Some days ago I was searching for an undefined loader, like a rotating animated gif. But I thought that it would be great to have something wrote in as3 to do that, so I code it. I wrote a simple as3 ... http://armisael.silix.org/2009/03/as3-write-a-simple-undefined-loader/ I have a MacBook Pro 4th generation (Penryn) and using Ubuntu 8.04 all was  perfect! Two days ago I upgraded the operating system to Intrepid Ibex (8.10), and after some hour downloading the packages and installing them, the new Ubuntu was running on my MacBook... But also some problems war running ... http://armisael.silix.org/2008/11/ubuntu-810-and-macbook-pro-audio-problem/ In my informatic life I've wrote a lot of code lines, and sometimes I've spent hours and hours searching on the web the solution to problems, finding them on forums and blogs. But sometimes people that solve their problems don't write it down their solutions, or sometimes the discussion about ... http://armisael.silix.org/2008/09/why-a-blog/