chrome search engines

I've switched for quite some time now to chrome. However one oddity remained with chrome after I came back from holiday in Turkey: entering search terms in the address / search bar would lead me to the turkish google site, displaying turkish sites first, and all google information in Turkish.

I do like Turkish pizza, and I wish good health and good fortune to the Turkish people and I even don't mind when the Turkish become member of the European Union but having my search results in Turkish is just over the edge. This is where my love for Turkey stops.

Problem was to change this behavior I tried setting locale, but nothing was wrong with that (or maybe resetting did not solve it).
Until half an hour ago: I found the search engine option under the manage key at the basic preference panel. There I could not edit the default google search engine, so I tried to add an entry, but I found no way to add that entry to the default search engine part. I then removed google but alas I was not able to restore that leaving me only with bing or yahoo as a valid option.

I tried reinstalling chrome: to no avail as the user data settings are not updated. Removing the whole user data setting part (under ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default) Did solve my problem but that also removed all my local settings. Only removing the Web Data file was the accurate and spot on solution. This appears to be a sqlite datafile so I may be able to change it from there, but chrome is just capable of restoring this file to its original state and that solved my issue.

file api with jquery

I have been working on a pure html website last year called iscriptdesign. It focuses on parameterized design with svg. Templates with svg and javascript code are processed, so that the user input gets evaluated by embedded javascript producing the svg. The svg can be exported, and you can use the output for a laser cutter or water cutter. Check it out ! One of the major shortcomings is the fact that it is not easy to display templates yourself. I was not able to load the template contents by a file uri, and so I had to rely on the templates on the same server as the html/javascript code for iscriptdesign resided. In the back of my mind I was looking for a more cms like approach to allow for personal uploads from third parties.

Until recently I started to realize the possibilities of the html5 file api. How sweet would it be if people could just drag n drop a template from their local filesystem on a drop spot of iscriptesign? Yesterday I started working on the project and now it's finished.

One of the real challenges was to incorporate it in jquery. Okay not really necessary of course but having the greater part of my website in jquery does make it somewhat desirable and you overtyping an example is not challenging is it?
help from stackoverflow and javaranch gave me head start (now that is challenging).

code

jQuery.fn.initDrop = function() {
  return this.each(function () {
    $(this).bind("dragover", function () {$(this).addClass('focus');$(".drop_container").addClass('focus'); return false;});
    $(this).bind("dragleave",function () {  $(this).removeClass('focus');$(".drop_container").removeClass('focus'); return false;}); 
    $(this).bind("drop",function(e) {
      $(".focus").removeClass("focus");
      $(".drop_container").addClass('focus');
      e.preventDefault();  
      var file = e.originalEvent.dataTransfer.files[0];  
      var reader = new FileReader();  
      reader.onload = function (evt) {
        digestRaw(evt.target.result, true);
      }; 
      reader.readAsText(file);  
    });
    $(this).prepend('
');
  });
};

The div label dropspot is a simple div tag.

  <div class="dropspot" id="dropspot">Drop Spot</div>

Which gets its drop behavior by:

        $("#dropspot").initDrop();

Lessons

• Unfortunately I only found this working for Firefox (Mac and Windows) and Chrome (Mac, Windows not tested). Safari is not supporting this yet.


• dropevent needs to be unwrapped by retrieving e.orginalevent.


• dragend is not working should be dragleave.


• In my case i need to remove linefeed/carriage return characters for windows(msdos) files I need to do a text.replace("result.replace(/\r\n?|\n/g, "");

Eclipse galileo

Just installed Eclipse Galileo the latest and gratest as I type.
with some quirks.
I need to set the proxy, by default it sets it to a native active provider, I had to change it to a manual "active provider".
Installation of subversive from polarion went fine allthough I forgot to add connectors
(available from http://community.polarion.com/projects/subversive/download/eclipse/2.0/galileo-site)
m2eclipse for maven support (http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/update, exclude subclipse handler optional,and maven project configurators.
spring ide (http://springide.org/updatesite)

Than I run into a

Get repository folder children operation failed.
svn: OPTIONS of '/svn/restofurl': 500 Server Error (http://serverrr.itc.intranet:8083)
svn: OPTIONS request failed on '/svn/restofurl'

Error, which was solved by adding the serverrr.itc.intranet to the list of "bypass from proxy" in the proxy pane in the preferences

mvn create artifacts

Just played around with the wicket quickstart.
all well and fun however importing it in eclipse is not making it a web project.
for eclipse ganymede, mvn eclipse:eclipse -Dwtpversion=2.0 worked almost.
It still gives an error in eclipse: Java compiler level does not match the version of the installed Java project facet. Unknown Faceted Project Problem (Java Version Mismatch) I fixed that by 1: in the compiler properties downgrading to java version 1.4, and than in projects facets setting the java version back to 5.0
et voila!

mysql with launchd

Just tried to install mysql on ox leopard. Instead of the documented 'MySQL Startup Item' I've chosen to go the mac road: launchd, as I understand mac's equivalent of windows services. It's something unique to mac and apparantly very flexible, check it out.

Mysql installs fine from the pkg distribution, however it gets installed under root:wheel.
bringing the file: com.mysql.mysqld.plist in /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysqld.plist will make it automatically pick it up during startup, you may manually control it by sudo launchctl (un)load com.mysql.mysqld.plist.

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
 <key>GroupName</key>
 <string>admin</string>
 <key>KeepAlive</key>
 <true/>
 <key>Label</key>
 <string>com.mysql.mysqld</string>
 <key>OnDemand</key>
 <false/>
 <key>Program</key>
 <string>/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld</string>
 <key>RunAtLoad</key>
 <true/>
 <key>UserName</key>
 <string>jeroen</string>
 <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
 <string>/usr/local/mysql</string>
</dict>
</plist>

starting mysql under the user mysql. However logging to mysql to change the password: mysqladmin -u root password 'secret' fails with the message:

error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)'

I've not been able to solve the problem, the documentation failes on this point. I could not manually start mysqld because, it was installed under root:wheel. So the only way to get it right: reinstall it, chmod -R jeroen:admin /usr/local/mysql*.
Than do the mysqladmin -u root password 'secret'. After that update the com.mysql.mysqld.plist file to jeroen/admin for group/userid.
Hopefully this works

motor in de garage.

Ik heb een motor en die staat mooi en droog in de garage. Alleen als ik de motor eruit wil halen ben ik enorm aan sleuren en trekken. Niet heel erg handig. Vanochtend heb ik een plateau gemaakt van de aanrechtbladen die eerder vervangen zijn (niet alles meteen weggooien), en 3 kleine transport-tableautjes verkrijgbaar bij de praxis voor 10 euro per stuk. Ik was bang dat 60 cm niet genoeg zou zijn om de motor op zijn standaard te laten staan, en heb dus een plateautje wat laten uitsteken, was achteraf niet nodig. Goed om je te realiseren dat het tableau erg beweeglijk is op het moment dat je de motor erop rijdt, veranker het aan de voor- en achterkant. Als de motor er eenmaal opstaat en je versnelt zal het plateau veel sneller wegschieten dan de motor (wet van impuls denk ik). Zorg ook bij wegrijden dat het tableau aan de achterkant gezekerd is.

blazeds

Last week I tried downloading blazeds to get it to work with flex, I compiled the source and followed the documentation to build it. However as usual the adobe documentation was not up to date: Here's what I had to do on mac (ox tiger).

• Could not load definitions from resource net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties. Solution download ant-contrib from sourceforge, and select ant-contrib from the package. Store the obtained jar in /Developer/Java/apache-ant-1.7.0/bin/lib. And do sudo ln -ns /Developer/Java/apache-ant-1.7.0/bin/ant /usr/bin/ant to make a symbolic link.


• Permgen error. Gave export ANT_OPTS="-XX:MaxPermSize=512m", which does the trick


• some of the files ant generates can not be removed, making ant main to fail. I had to "sudo ant main" to make it all work..