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Installing nodeJS on debian lenny.

2011-12-27T08:41:00.005+02:00

This article describes what I did to compile and install nodejs on debian lenny running at linode.The following is not directly related to node.js but happened while I was working on this installation so here, maybe it will help someone:For some reason, apt-get did not properly work for me,the first thing was that I did not have curl installed but tring to install it did not work.to make a long (

Reserved share names on ReadyNAS

2011-11-16T13:54:00.003+02:00

Did you happen to try and create a share on your readNAS and get the following error:Invalid name or illegal characters detected in name. Name is limited to alpha-numeric, underscore _, dash -, dollar sign $, and period characters, andmust start with an alpha character. Name cannot contain ''-snap'' and name cannot be used by an existing user account.Turns out the reason is that some names are

Lock, Lock - Who is there? ...

2011-10-10T13:24:00.002+02:00

I have been trying to rename a table on a mysql DB and kept getting:Error Code: 1192Can't execute the given command because you have active locked tables or an active transactionI used SHOW FULL PROCESSLISTand was able to reduce it to only 2 lines (one of which is the one trying to run the rename).then I used kill with the id of the other connection and now I have only my own connection.but still

The function parameter for javascript Array.Sort

2011-07-20T12:56:00.003+03:00

I guess If you are reading this you already know that javascript's Array.sort function can take a function parameter.Did yo ever wander what exactly should this function return ?well its simple:This function (which should take two elements from your array) f(e1,e2) should return:any negative number to indicate that its first parameter should appear before (have a smaller index) the second

CodeSign error: code signing is required for product type 'Application' in SDK 'iOS 4.3'

2011-06-05T12:11:00.004+03:00

I have been getting this error myself and found this helpful post:http://davidbits.blogspot.com/2010/11/codesign-error-code-signing-is-required.htmlbut since I am using xcode 4 I wanted to add the guidelines for doing the same on xcode 4 so here goes:1. on the project navigator (left most gray icon that looks like a folder) click your app2. on the main pane that opens click "build Settings" at

solved:Hardware virtualization activated in bios but still does not work

2011-05-16T08:36:00.003+03:00

If you happen to need hardware virtualization you might encounter what I have.I went to the BIOS, changed the settings of Intel-VT to enabled, rebooted and VMWare still insisted that hardware virtualization is disabled.turns out that a reboot is not enough...you must POWER DOWN your computer after making this change in the bios,only then will it recognize that hardware virtualization is active.I

7-zip and archives that contains files with non-English file names

2011-03-21T18:26:00.002+02:00

after reading this in the 7-Zip revision history:- Unicode (UTF-8) support for filenames in .ZIP archives. Now there are 3 modes: 1) Default mode: 7-Zip uses UTF-8, if the local code page doesn't contain required symbols. 2) -mcu switch: 7-Zip uses UTF-8, if there are non-ASCII symbols. 3) -mcl switch: 7-Zip uses local code page.I change the link 7-Zip File Manager to use -mcu.Things now

Hebrew (utf8) characters in mysql console over putty

2011-03-09T08:41:00.002+02:00

Problem:I have a mysql server running on a debian linux hosted at linode.com some of my data has hebrew characters (utf8) in it.I am connecting to the server via putty ssh on windows 7. But when I run the sql admin console (mysql) and execute a select query all hebrew characters are displayed as '?'.The data itself wass o.k. (I know this because it is also accessed via a web page where it

how to set up hot code replacement with tomcat and eclipse

2011-03-07T15:18:00.001+02:00

Just so that I have this next time I need to do it.And maybe you will also find this link helpful.http://blog.theunical.com/ide-tools/eclipse/how-to-set-up-hot-code-replacement-with-tomcat-and-eclipse/

Steps in installing a smaple Magento

2011-02-13T10:17:00.002+02:00

This is a list of steps needed in the process of installing a sample magento site.I will be assuming that you have WAMP / LAMP already installed.go to http://www.magentocommerce.com/download and download magento and the magento smaple data. (versions don't need to match - actually the sample data is from 2008 at the time of writing).deploy the content of the magento installation to a

Back To The Future (Why logins might fail on Google and others)

2010-12-22T08:02:00.004+02:00

A few days ago I got a call from someone that asked for my help.He said that he can not login into the management section of some site that he is using,he said that he talked to the technical personal on that site and they said that the problem is not on their side and he also said that he can use his user name and password to login to that site from another machine.The symptoms on his machine

Avoiding timeout during installation of magento

2010-12-09T09:31:00.002+02:00

To avoid "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of" just set "max_input_time" in your php.ini,personally I changed it from 60 (which caused a timeout) to 240 (which worked great).

How to get a domain authorization code from bulkregister.com

2010-11-14T11:09:00.003+02:00

A few months ago I decided that I am gradually going to move away all my registered domains from bulkregister.com to godaddy.com.Now each time I transfer a domain I am faced with the question of where the hell did they place the authorization code.so as a service to myself and anyone who might be looking for the same:1. Log in2. On the main(gray) toolbar near the top, hover over "Domains" and in

empty strings are (not) different then false

2010-07-28T15:52:00.003+03:00

Did you know that if you are testing if a value does not equal an empty string in javascript:v!=''might return somewhat unexpected results if v is false var v=false;alert(v!='')will alert false and not true as you might expect.At first glance I said, well o.k. this does make sense because v is a boolean so the empty string is being cast to a boolean for the comparison yielding false.so I tried

Beware of javascript String.replace

2010-07-12T19:15:00.006+03:00

Here is a problem I encountered a few days ago:What would you expect the result of the following expression be:'abc'.replace('b','someUserInput')Well its easy to guess that it will be the string 'asomeUserInputb', and indeed it will.however what would happen if instead 'someUserInput' we realy had some some user input?you would expect it to return the actual user input with 'a' prefixing it and '

Solution to: Powershell never exists when executed from a batch file / fdbuild

2010-06-07T09:23:00.009+03:00

The short story: use

"Exception: Unknown project extension: Library" error when running fdbuild (flashDevelop) from the command line

2010-06-06T12:45:00.003+03:00

This happens to me each time I install a fresh copy of flashDevelop.Each time It takes me some time to figure out why this happens.next time I will have my blog to remind it happens because:Because the location of the FLEX SDK is not set in the flash develop setting dialog.

Hell is other people's CSS rules

2010-05-27T09:10:00.004+03:00

A significant part of the JavaScript code I wrote in the last few years is intended to run as part of HTML pages developed by other people.Now consider the following:Lets say your JavaScript has a function called "AddButton" that takes a background color, a text color, some text for the button itself and a callback function to call when the button is pressed. and it renders the HTML and CSS that

Using PSCX from multiple users on same machine

2010-01-03T15:29:00.006+02:00

I was having a problem with an automation script I was working on,It used PowerShell and PowerShell community extensions (PSCX) and it worked fine of for me, but when other people used the same machine - it did not work.after some looking around - the problem was that PSCX was installed from my user so it was automatically loaded on from my profile.The resolution:$pscxInstalled = $false;$

single and double quotes in PowerShell (PoSh)

2009-12-06T09:34:00.003+02:00

I was dealing with converting a batch to PoSh and had to create some wired mixture of double and single quotes. I was searching the net and got to this page http://www.vistax64.com/powershell/23546-mix-single-double-quotes.html where he used the following notation:# $XY$Xso it hit me:instead of odd things likewrite-host '$X'"Y"'$X'I can do:$DQ = '"'$SQ = "'"and then write-host '$X$SQ$DQY$DQ$SQ$

Tim Harford's "Marriage supermarket" from "The logic of life"

2009-11-06T23:14:00.000+02:00

I have read Tim's "Undercover Economist" (In its Hebrew translation) and enjoyed it very much so I was happy to find (again the Hebrew translation of) "The Logic of Life" at the book store.NOTE: In some of what I am about to write I am translating back to English from the Hebrew translation of the book, I hope it will not be far from the original.I am still reading it and I just read the part

position:fixed in IE7

2009-08-29T21:43:00.002+03:00

I didn't know that but if you addat the top of you page, it will convince IE7 to respect the semantics of position:fixed.(I wander what does it break in return ...)

DNS problem with gmail (404) - possible dns poisoning

2009-08-13T23:52:00.004+03:00

Yesterday I had the weirdest phenomenon, my gmail stopped working.It just returned a 404 error (page not found).Why do I say it was weird ?Because it happened only on one of the computers in my network, while the other machine had no problems getting to gmail.Because it happened on both IE and FF so it did not seem to result from a browser specific issue.Because it only effected gmail but on the

Actionscript 3's ApplicationDomain Oddities 1

2009-08-05T08:49:00.005+03:00

I have beeing doing lots of work around ApplicationDomain recently,And there is so little information about this class (other then the realy good but not sufficiant and somewhat old post by Roger Gonzalez ).so here goes odditie 1:trace(ApplicationDomain.currentDomain == ApplicationDomain.currentDomain) andtrace(ApplicationDomain.currentDomain === ApplicationDomain.currentDomain) both trace out

Google's new OS - how about "chromeOSome" or "chromeOSome G" ?

2009-07-09T12:43:00.000+03:00

Google will make an OS based on chrome - the currently refer to it as Chrome OS - they should name it "chromeOSome" or "chromeOSome G".

Google AppEngine (GAE) is case sensitive and my XP is not

2009-04-11T23:20:00.004+03:00

I was just about to post the following "complaint"/request for help to the google appengine newsgroup:Hi,I created a GAE application using python.well - that might be an overstatement, as this app is just a plain static html/js/css website.It took a while to get it running on my dev environment but finally it does work.I executed the update script and it seems to run o.k.D:\DVLP\Dozi>"C:\program

wrong or missing querystring parameters when the url of the swf gets redirected (302)

2009-03-30T17:13:00.004+03:00

A bug we just found with the IE flash player:When you load a swf from a URL that does not return the actual swf but responds with a redirect (302) to another URL where the actual swf is, the swf is loaded but paramters from the querystring of the redirected-to URL are not available to the swf.i.e.if you go try to load a swf from "http://mydomain.com/path/redirect?swfid=123"when redirects to "http

My Test Drive of Google Chrome

2008-09-03T00:03:00.007+03:00

When I told my wife that google has entered the browser arena with a new browser named "Google Chrome" her first Q was "so, is it in hebrew ?"I told her that knowing google, it is either already in hebrew or will have hebrew in a short time.well sure enough, after a quick install (no more then 2 min. I estimate) chrome was running on my machine - In hebrew of course.well - it looks different.

Two Tips For Debugging Flash Warnings

2008-06-29T22:12:00.006+03:00

If you develop Flash widgets or application you might (and should) be familiar with the flash log.One of the biggest issues with this log is that all the warnings and trace messages just pile up there regardless of what swf sent them.Here are two simple tips to trace the "Warning: name is not a function" messages:1. The reason you get those is because you are trying to call a function on some

Gigya socialize live example

2008-05-29T10:55:00.005+03:00

As you probably noticed (if you are reading this)I have decided to add Gigya Socialize to my blog, (seemed only reasonable).When you read a blog entry on my blog it will be reported to as an action you preformed and you can see both your friends actions and your own on the bottom of the right sidebar.You can also read what was written about un in techrunch:Gigya Socialize Goes Up Against Google

Optimizing Actionscript 2.0 - a bytecode perspective - Part I

2008-04-28T09:07:00.004+03:00

Lately I have beeing looking at ways to optimize some actionscript 2.0 code.I had two goals, the first was to reduce the size of the .swf file and the second was to make some parts of it faster at runtime.I will try and write a series of posts describing what I have learned and still am learning from this.Generally speaking - in most cases optimizing for speed comes at the expence of space and

Configuring custom dynamic DNS (DDNS) agains ENOM on DD-WRT

2008-04-07T00:06:00.008+03:00

I was messing around with my linksys trying to set up QoS and ended up resetting it,loosing my DDNS settings and having to recreate them.Took enough time for me to sit donw and write this down so that (my) next time would take less.so here goes:you would ususally have a single domain (e.g. dyn.yourdomain.com) that you would change dynamically and then have other domains that would map to it using

Gigya Selected by AlwaysOn as OnMedia Top 100 Winner

2008-01-23T08:48:00.000+02:00

Isn't that cool ?We where selected by AlwaysOn as OnMedia Top 100 Winner.Read more about Gigya and becomer a partner.

The class 'com.your.class' cannot be imported because its leaf name is already being resolved to imported class 'com.your.class'.

2007-12-04T20:50:00.001+02:00

While I was refactoring some ActionScript2 code, I ended up with the above error message.I searched the web and what I came up with was mostly the information that such a message actually exists.so after figuring out why I got that error I decided to write about it here for your benefit. (Leave me a comment if it helped you).well it turns out that this was cause by the following proccess:I have

Will (or did) Live Documents copy Microsoft's UI ?

2007-11-25T09:08:00.000+02:00

Live Documents , the new office suite rival say in the usability section:"Live Documents gives you a familiar user interface - that of Microsoft Office - so that there is nothing new to learn. "Can they realy do that ??I am no xpert on any copyright laws and I am all for having the copy and paste buttons look the same on all apps.but can you realy go and say "I have an office suite that is

Wildfire testimonial

2007-11-10T20:39:00.001+02:00

On Gigya where I work as a System Architect with my hands deep into our Wildfire product we are running a forum for technical Q's.One of the forum members (Joel Mirkin) just posted a Q and his oppinion on Wildfire along with it:Also just to put my 2 cents in... I totally agree with what reverbnation said. I've looked at other similar services and none of them come even close to how

using arguments vs. an array parameter

2007-09-29T14:32:00.001+02:00

This goes for both actionscript and javascript and I guess any language that lets you create functions without an arbitrary number of parameters (a syntax known as elipsis in some other languages).It is very temping to use this syntax to write general functions such as Max or Min with an arbitrary number of parameters.you would get something like (and this just an outline not code designed to

Luciano Pavarotti died, God rest his soul.

2007-09-06T11:31:00.000+03:00

71 yeas old Luciano Pavarotti, one of the world famous 3 Tenors died today.Luciano Pavarotti on IMDB

virtual pc "Use Physical Drive" grayed out

2007-09-01T18:17:00.000+03:00

A few hours ago I downloaded virtual pc 2007 and decided to try my new vista ultimate.The download and install of virual pc was quick and easy, and a very short time afterwards I had a virtual machine ready for the installation.Well, as far as I could tell, the next thing to do was to put the vista cd into the DVD and boot the VM. hmmm.. That didn't seem to work that well.What am i missing? hmm..

The keys are always in the other pocket

2007-08-29T08:43:00.000+03:00

I was wandering if anyone else noticed it.Whenever I approach a locked door (of my car or my apartment) and I am holding something that disables one of my hands, be that my sleeping daughter or just grocery products, In about 75% of the times the keys are in my other pocket :(I guess this is some private case of murphy's law.I wander if there are other paralelisms to this.

flash cs3 - I can cut and copy but I cant paste

2007-06-19T08:27:00.001+03:00

For about a month or so I am studying how to use flash,Its nice to learn something new...We bought the new adobe flash CS3 and this is the enironment I am using.There are many complaints I can make about this environment,following the issue of haveing no runtime errors and poor debugging environmentthe biggest productivity killer for me was the fact that it is set to use ctrl-X,ctrl-C and ctrl-V

Microsoft SilverLight XML vs. JSON

2007-05-05T17:20:00.000+03:00

As many others, I am also excited about SilverLight.So I downloaded the beta and took a look at some examples.well, I know microsoft is going the XML way, but I was somewhat disappointed at it.It is SO big...After working with JSON (Javascript Object Notation) for quite a long time I feel that IMHO siverlight would be much better off using JSON and not XML.How can you compete with flash when the

about face

2007-04-29T20:43:00.000+03:00

A friend just recomanded that I have a look at a book called "about face".looking at amazone they have:andmakes me wander - will people realy buy the old version when a new one is comeing out so soon ?I guess I will buy the new one. I will probably post a review after I get and read the book...

Using google to restore stage.co.il content

2007-03-09T10:20:00.000+02:00

Since I belive that most of the readers of this post will be hebrew reader,This post will be in hebrew.אתמול בערב קיבלתי דוא"ל מקרובת משפחה שלי,במכתבה היא מספרת שפתחה בלוג חדש בתפוז:ושהסיבה לכך היא שדף היוצר שלה באתר במה חדשה אבד באירוע של השחתת האתר,כמו כן היא צירפה את הלינק הבא לסיפור המעשה:http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3373961,00.htmlבהיותי איש מחשבים החלטתי לנסות ולעזור לה לשחזר כמה

argghhh, I asked you to Save, Not publish

2006-10-22T11:13:00.001+02:00

I realy don't have much time on my hands,but stuff that I feel I should blog about come to my mind quite often.so I decided that whenever I get such an idea I will just create a new blog entry,with the main point of the issue at hand but keep it as a draft until I find some time to make it publish-worthy.While doing so I discovered that when I edit the new blog entry and press ctrl+S It just goes

about html editing, newlines, new paragraphs and the behavior of the enter key

2006-10-12T08:05:00.000+02:00

The following was actually one of the issues that made me want to open a blog.while working on the HTML editor of gigya.com I encountered the following issue:The default behavior for both IE and FF is that when editing a document and the user hits "Enter" it starts a new paragraph (like in MS Word). Some (but probably very few) people might know that they have to hold down the "Shift" key while

Javascript debugger hilites wrong line

2006-10-12T01:12:00.000+02:00

You will probably see a lot of JavaScript related posts in this blog,well, this is because I do lots of JavaScript.This time I was trying to add FireFox Support to a web app I am working on.Usually I work with IE and with VS2005 for debugging.This time I had to do some debugging inside FF,so I tried both venkman and firebug and had the same problem.I placed a debugger; statement inside a function

To boldly go where no one has gone before.

2006-09-26T23:54:00.000+03:00

During development at http://www.gigya.com my markup produced the phenomenon you can see in the screenshot to the right. A button input element has successfully climbed over the scrollbar of my IE 6.0.2900.2180.The markup is far from trivial and efforts to recreate this with simple HTML have failed (Note that I only put about 5 minutes into this attempt.IMHO this is a nice bug,Anybody knows who

Ajax.Net Pro: System.NotSupportedException exception - TAKE 2

2006-09-18T09:00:00.000+03:00

Just after posting my previous entry about this issue, I got a response from michael Schwarz.It turns out that if you do not wish to convert to a web application project you can resolved the issue I described via using appripriate configuration changes in web.config.In your web.config add a urlNamespaceMapping:

Ajax.Net Pro: System.NotSupportedException exception.

2006-09-18T00:52:00.000+03:00

A while ago We encountered a technical problem with Ajax.Net Pro.The problem is fully described in here but the short story was that after we did all we can to create an application that does not maintain any state on the server side, it seemed like Ajax.Net was doing just that, and in doing so throws an exception:{"Message":"This method is either not marked with an AjaxMethod or is notavailable.

my Pizza got lost on an HTTP Redirect

2006-09-13T01:21:00.000+03:00

Well, Imagine the following scenario:You order a pizza with all the toppings you like.Then you get invited to watch a game with your neighbours.You leave a note on the door saying something like:"Dear Pizza delivery guy,We are at the neighbours one floor below - apt. 16, Thanks!"and of you go to your neighbours to watch that game.30 min. later more or less, there is a knock on the door,hmm... I

Its Never too late

2006-08-30T02:20:00.000+03:00

Well, Actually - some times it is.Its only fitting that I will create this blog at 2:20am,after all - its never too late :)I have so much on my mind and on my hand and so little time !stay with me and I prommise a fun ride.