Home computer took a turn of poverty, decided to fry the motherboard when I left it running TF2 for 48 hours. Who would of thought 
Went and got a Macbook Pro 17″ on salary sacrifice, and its now got everything installed and how I like it. So I’ll get an update to the form builder rolling soon, it’ll mainly just be patching to other users input. In the mean time, I’m waiting for Steam to come out on OSX, so I can break this laptop.
Rads.
This is tightly based off the Monokai theme, just with some slight tone changes to make it pretty to my eye. Anyone thats used textmate monokai, or e-texteditor monokai, you prettymuch dont want to ever code in another colour set again.
I could crap on a bit about the colour scheme, or just show it to you.
Currently supports AS, CSS, HTML, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, PERL, PHP-HTML, SQL, XML
I didn’t bother with the other stuff, cause hey, I never use it ^_^, make your own! You got a good colour base to go off.
So
Download them, install them, love them.
Background Color: #222222
Text Color: #ffffff
Invisible Character Color: #7f7f7f
REMEMBER! Use ‘Inverted Colours’!
Thanks to Monokai, ur rad.
If you’re forced to work on a mac, at least make it comfortable.
So! Here we are again, after another failed job, I was re-employed within a week of the drama. Initially I accepted a job with Zoo, but found the situation at Couch to be a little more ‘needy’. So Lex Holden and I signed on, and have been here since September something.
This makes it my second tour of Couch. Worked here as a junior back in 2004. Seems the business has matured, less confusion.
Its been good, we’ve setup an SVN, new development server, changed coding environments, put a WIKI in place for all digital stuff. Basically they were using Google Docs to organize everything web related. Which was a huge gaping mess of mixed emotions and confusion.
This is a postback, as the real date is Jan 19th 2010, but it feels more appropriate to put this in as a November entry. I had hesitations divulging where I was working for a little while.
You never what to hear these two words spoken in the same sentence, ever.
Was told via email, not even face to face, that the company that I work for has hit the wall and is in 20,000 bleeding pieces. And heres the kicker, I jinxed myself. The night before getting told I’m going to be redundant soon, I was discussing with Alice about how secure I felt in my job, and how integral I was to ‘business as usual’.
Send sandwiches, I’m going to be hungry!
So now I crouch low, assume the fetal position, and see what happens next. I’ve put my name in the hat, lets see what happens!
Strangely enough, I don’t feel worried about anything at the moment. My skill-set is good, I’m not old, and rent is paid up for another month. I’ll get another job. Be it through somewhere new, or someone in the past.
Duck and cover.
Using Nusoap, I’ve put together a simple example of how to convert a word docx to txt in codeigniter php. I’ve left error checking out etc just to keep it simple. Its once again one of those “You build on it for you own usage” snippets.
This function converts to txt then just adds a simple <p> wrapper around paragraphs. I put this into a custom file manager for TinyMCE, and it allows clean embedding of a word document to the editor.
And you can grab the Codeigniter Nusoap library from here: nusoap-codeigniter
And a zipped clean version of the PHP snippet above from here: mswordfunction
Hopefully this helps people.
Check out http://www.livedocx.com/ for information on grabbing a free user account, and to read the API.
This looks like it could come in handy for something!
http://mattkruse.com/2008/12/24/php-excel-reader/
Probably reading excel sheets, thats just a hunch tho. I could be wrong. Will try to hook it into a TinyMCE addon to make table embedding easier for clients.
Found a better library for integration, also reads into the zipped goodies of xlsx.
Take a look at http://www.codeplex.com/PHPExcel
Got a few queries from people wanting to grab the code for the form builder, so thought I’d share it around. Its crudely stripped out of the admin system I’m working on, but its a good stepping stone to make it better.
This needs an update, will work on it over the weekend. Fixed some issues with dragging and the wysiwyg editor, also cleaned up the styles.
UPDATED 9 June 2009.
DEMO
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As all the things I share, this comes with limited support, as is, and might require you to fix things yourself with your own mental abilities. This is a stripped Controller from a custom admin system I’m working on. To put it back into a controller, just edit formbuilder.php and wrap in a CodeIgniter controller extend.
Just a work in progress.
Currently working for:
This is kind of a side project at the moment, getting to work on it in spare time.
http://code.google.com/p/tweener/
Very handy actionscript 2/3 library, basically allows for simple transitions in flash. Using it in a project now, looks pretty win.
http://www.fluid.com/experiments/tweenplayground/
is a pretty good example set.
Its pretty addictive!
Thats my current stats!
Ok, back to game!
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