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Inserting data in MySQL

surianee — Thu, 20 May 2010 05:09:10 +0000

When inserting data into the database … for example,

insert into ability (`abilityid`, `desc`) values (NULL, ‘Flying’);

the quote for the columns is using ` ` which is the key under esc key ..

the values uses the ‘ ‘ which is beside the ENTER key

Working with MaxDB

surianee — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:10:44 +0000

I had a crystal report assigment that requires me to work with MaxDB.

And i keep getting this error:

invalid authorization specification;-4008 POS(1) unknown user name/password combination

the fix is to capitalise the password. Or if that doesn’t work, capitalise the username as well.

Order by cant be used in subquery

Additional flash interactive features

surianee — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:26:13 +0000

Some of the effects and interactivity which is often requested.

Magnifying Effect

Something similar to the effect in astro beyond

Handwriting tutorial

here’s a video of how to do thise cursive elegant animation. Can be adapted to create the growing vines such as in this hummingbird animation from activeden.

Flash Drop Down menu

Here is another version of the dropdown menu. Elaborate explanation.

Gradient mask Effect

The coolest effect of all time.. or try this one

http://www.newtutorials.com/cool-masking-effect.htm

Internet explorer bugs and solutions

surianee — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:22:50 +0000

The most common ones are listed here:

IE CSS Bugs That’ll Get You Every Time

These are useful too:
Internet Explorer & CSS issues

CSS drop shadow

Dreamweaver cs3 suddenly crashes and refuse to start up again

surianee — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:39:53 +0000

If you have this problem you might want to try Mike Padgett’s solution. Works like a charm.

How to get the top menu highlighted in joomla front page

surianee — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:30:05 +0000

Sometimes certain things is pretty easy actually, but often times when you don’t realize it you’ll end up trying silly remedies rather then the most obvious.

Things that falls into this category includes when you need to get the top menu or any menu in Joomla highlighted when you first load your website.

Some forums suggested change the global cache to no cache. I on the other hand was considering to use conditional statements.

but the simple answer for joomla 1.5 is the default page is indicated by a yellow star…

You can practically apply this on a any menu. Just set any menu link as a default and joomla will assign active_menu-nav to that link.

Fast Food delivery list and their menus in Malaysia

surianee — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:39:26 +0000

Here are my favorite food deliveries in malaysia and the quick shortcut link to their delivery menu because when you’re hungry googling isn’t so much fun. You can thank me later guys.

For the web designers there’s also some lesson you can learn from these sites.

Nandos

I love the artwork on nandos website. Don’t you? How ever because it’s flash, google can’t find it.
here is nandos malaysia website.

Phone: 1300-88-6555
Link to the delivery menu: nandos malaysia delivery menu.

Dominoes Pizza
Dominoes pizza’s site is googleable. Just that the phone number is hard to find. I finally found it on a motorcycle animation on the site.
phone: 1300-888-333
Link to the delivery menu:dominoes delivery menu

McDonald
I have second thoughts of posting McDonalds delivery menu since they don’t deliver to my area Damansara Perdana anymore
But here it is:

Phone Number:1300-13-1300

Link to the menu: mcdonalds malaysia delivery menu

So what can we learn from experiencing with these sites?
If you want to create a food delivery website I suggest these criteria.

Phone number must be the easiest to find.
Feature the delivery menu.
Make sure your site can be indexed by big search engines.
Avoid flash website, loading when you’re famished isn’t fun.

vector illustration from vecteezy

Infopath Terminology

surianee — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:50:13 +0000

What is it about? Basically understanding the terms makes it easier to comprehend the manuals and infopath tutorials. Here is the first batch that I got from I got it from the official sharepoint infopath blog.

I’ll update this list if I find some more. Your input is greatly appreciated (pun intended).

InfoPath client
the software program named “Microsoft Office InfoPath”

Designer
The person who is using the InfoPath client to create/design a form template

Form template
the XSN file that is created with InfoPath client and used to enter data by the form filler.

Filler
the person who is putting data into the form

Form
a form that is either filled out or in the process of being filled out by the filler. Also known as the InfoPath XML file.

Document Object Model (DOM)
XML structures in the form. In InfoPath, there is a Main DOM on which the form is based and Secondary DOMs which hold data received from Receive Data Connections.

Pixel artwork portfolio

surianee — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:21:53 +0000

Here are some of my pixel artwork that I did using Illustrator live paint. Ah I love Illustrator. It makes life so much easier.

Of course when I first started with this technique I drew a flower. It’s a girl thing. Lol

Then I thought. Aha what about a twitter bird. That should be fun.

Pink flamingo
Then I got braver and tried with to apply with background.

Hrmm.. What to pixelate next? To be continued

Bookstores in Malaysia websites and their phone numbers

surianee — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:02:46 +0000

Borders
I was searching for illustrator CS4 book and decided to call Borders Malaysia. I can’t find the website because apparently they do not have a website yet, which is a pity. I kind of like Borders. I love that they have sofa and the curve’s store is blended in with starbucks.

Now if you need to call them to check for books, Here’s the phone number for both stores.

Berjaya Time Square
Tel : 603-21410288
Fax: 603-21445037
Email: bordersbts@bordersstores.com

The Curve Mutiara Damansara
603-777259303

MPH
The website is mph.com.my .
And if you need to call the store to confirm a book you can go directly to this page: customer service.

Popular
Popular page is a flash website. Flash page is out of trend now. We need fast information people. And the drop down menu for the store locator don’t seem to work in firefox. So to avoid frustations, please browse site in internet explorer.

The site: Popular
The store locator: to find which store to call

Kinokuniya
I’ve seen many similar japanese sites which has similar styles so my only reaction is I can only *facepalm* . But it loads pretty fast though.
Here is the link to the website for malaysia: kinokuniya

To contact I can only find the address. If anyone has the number, do email me.

Cziplee
Ah our own local bookstore. Malaysia Boleh. I like the website and they are even have twitter. Stay cool cziplee.

The website: cziplee
the contact: The phone number is below the contact form.