Shigoto to otaku no mono

I lost my toolbars once

2010-01-21T10:14:00.005+08:00

Updated firefox yesterday just before shutdown my lappy. This morning i open firefox and found that i lost all my bookmarks and my toolbar is not displayed correctly.

Damn! I cant live without my delicious bookmark and also my dear stumble toolbar. Need them so so much. Tried to reinstall delicious add-onn but still the problem persist. Google around...and ta-da firefox save mode safe me. I just need to reset my toolbar setting.

The stepsare just piece of cake.

Make sure Firefox is not running
Then run firefox in safe-mode by typing in the command line "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -safe-mode
Firefox save mode window will appear check "Reset toolbars and controls" then click the "Make changes and restart".

Firefox run good as new.Yay! Love firefox!!!

Prevent the creation of .DS_Store file

2009-12-21T10:01:00.004+08:00

Been doing testing on apple mac mini and the test required to copy some files from remote devices. The creation of .DS_Store files is a good thing - because it stored custom attributes of the folder and useful for other stuffs but not for my test. So i decided to get rid of the file creation with a very simple steps.

1. Open a terminal and type
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

2. log out and back in (if this doesn't work)

3. Restart the computer for the change to take effect

Enable mod_rewrite on the fly o Ubuntu

2008-12-13T17:16:00.005+08:00

Enable it:
sudo a2enmod rewrite

Reload apache2 to enable it:
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

Disable it:
sudo a2dismod rewrite

source:
Configure mod_rewrite in Apache2 on Ubuntu 8.04

Dont forget to change AllowOverride None => AllowOverride All /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file.

The world is awesome!!!!

2008-11-10T09:53:00.000+08:00

huzzah2...My weekend was so splendid...surrounded by splendid and awesome people.

FOSS.my- having a great time there. Mingle with FOSS lover! Informative tech talks, active audience, nice place....enjoyable and laidback event.

Really inspired by Pia's talk on FOSSchix.my session 'bout "Women in OSS around the world". Never know that there are actually really cool ladies around the world doing cool stuffs. Geek suckers!!

Pamela's talk bout WebDevEDU a moodle kinda apllication. It was cool. mixi.jp behind the scene by Toru (missed the memcached) the mixi.jp alot more faster than the facebook!!, OLPC (super cool) by Pia- making the world better :)) etc. Missed quite a number of talks hope the crew will upload the vid soon....

Itchy too upload pics but unfortunatelly cant read my sd card now...:((

Congratulation to all FOSS.my crew u guys awesome!! Hope there will be next foss.my event. :P

My First Plone product

2008-10-28T11:44:00.000+08:00

Proud to announce this...My First plone product (plspeakers)-a simple plone product for tracking information of speakers for conferences.

Credit to my patience coach cutie Abdza n not forgetting charming kaeru. Thanks guys

FOSS.my

2008-10-28T11:33:00.000+08:00

So excited bout this event...http://foss.my/
Cool girls out there join the party... be on of FOSSchix.my!!!

Plone Products

2008-10-08T00:23:00.000+08:00

Been doing Plone stuffs starting frm past 2 weeks till present with heavy help from abdza n kaeru (my beloved office-mate). Thanks guys...:D

Prerequisite:

1. Install Plone on ur machine- use Unified installer to skip the hustle n bustle of making you plone work well on ur machine
2.Install argouml-UML Modelling tool.

Steps to get it done:
1. Create your product using argouml. Save the it to .zargo file.
2. Build the .zargo (eg. ./archgenxml ~/[products.zargo])
3. Copy the build product to your plone products dir
4. Log-in to your plone-site (with manager role)
5. Install the product (Site-setup->add-on products)

The custom product done!!!

Open rar archives on ubuntu

2008-06-26T09:41:00.000+08:00

To be able to extract .rar files. You need to instal ubuntu package called urar. Type the command below to install unrar:

sudo apt-get install unrar

Creating iso on ubuntu

2008-06-12T15:40:00.000+08:00

Creating an ISO CD is in ubuntu is not hard at all. All you need to do is
1. Insert the cd that you want to create its ISO
2. Right click on the cd icon, select Copy Disc
3. On Copy Dics window, select File Image on Copy disc to drop down
4. Select preferred write option and click write

yay...well it wasn't hard at all!!

Exploring Plone-First Timer Use

2008-04-07T22:06:00.000+08:00

After installing Zope...open your browser and run your Zope server url eg: Http://localhost:[port].

In my case the port is 8081. So the path is http://localhost:8081. The Zope Quick Start interface that show some quick pointers to get you started will appear. Just get rid of it. For your reference here is the screen shot.

Go to Zope management screen by adding the word "manage" after your Zope url. Enter the username and password initiated during Zope installation.The screen as the image below will appear:

There are so many tabs on the screen. Need no worry...to add a Plone Site is just a piece of cake. Go to the right most near the "add button". Select Plone Site and click "add" button. Insert the required fields- Id, Title and Description... and press "Add Plone Site"...

Now your Plone Site is ready! It will appear under the root folder. To access it just type in the url. In my case the url is http://localhost:8081/eavaykb

Exploring Plone-Introduction

2008-04-07T21:17:00.000+08:00

Been using Plone (a CMS run on Zope server) for months for my company internal knowledge bank.mmm... it is an interesting CMS and helpful tools for my company. I think it’s cool based on some videos and documentation on their site.
Today our marketing manager brief us on how to fully utilize Plone for the sake of "building excellent internal knowledge bank".
I'm so into it and plan to install it on my PC (running on Ubuntu). In Ubuntu Plone is prepackage so you just need to install it from apt-get method or simply from Synaptic Package Manager.

System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager

Search for Plone. Mark it for installation and it will automatically search for the dependencies needed.

Still downloading package....:( the speed quite slow... Will get back to you later..

This package will installed a complete Zope server for you to run Plone site.

Jock Of the day

2008-04-07T14:36:00.000+08:00

Its been a hectic half-day...browsed wildly in search for inspiration.Pop!...Fortunately browse thru a nice short story that can make up you day...|0|

A manager asked a programmer how long it would take him to finish the program on which he was working. ``It will be finished tomorrow,'' the programmer promptly replied.

``I think you are being unrealistic,'' said the manager, ``Truthfully, how long will it take?''

The programmer thought for a moment. ``I have some features that I wish to add. This will take at least two weeks,'' he finally said.

``Even that is too much to expect,'' insisted the manager, ``I will be satisfied if you simply tell me when the program is complete.''

The programmer agreed to this.

Several years later, the manager retired. On the way to his retirement luncheon, he discovered the programmer asleep at his terminal. He had been programming all night.

Quoted from "The Tao of Programming"

phpcake

2008-02-24T22:39:00.000+08:00

Get to know this marvelous framework from my colleague. It is a very helpful for RAD of a system. Here are some of the wonderful things that i found out in cake:

* No Configuration
* Flexible License- MIT License
* OO
There are more to discover. Tell you on my next post. :p

Installing Nvu on Ubuntu

2007-07-09T12:26:00.000+08:00

Download a .deb file for Ubuntu installations. make sure to take note of the directory it was placed in. Open a new shell and type the command:

cd {directory it was downloaded to}

Then use the following command to execute the installation:

sudo dpkg -i nvu-1.0.ubuntu.5.04.deb

Bluefish,NVU,VIM,Emacs comparison

2007-04-20T10:07:00.000+08:00

I've been searching for some opensource editor racently- Bluefish,Nvu,VIM and Emacs are those i put under consideration.Each of every editor has their own specialty,weakness and strength. I measured their ability according to what language(s) they recognize,how well they serve remote machine editing, are they WYSIWYG, their complexity, and the level of 'userfriendly'. The findings are tabular as follows:

Tools/ Features	NVU	Bluefish	VIM	Emacs
Core Language	-limited. -support only HTML,PHP, Javascript and CSS.	-Full featured editor for HTML -support PHP, Perl,C,SQL, CSS etc	HTML,PHP, Python,CSS	HTML, CSS etc
Editing files on remote machines	-Only via FTP	-SSH (secure shell) with -X option	-Via FTP,SFTP,SSH, rsync(incremental file transfer)	-TRAMP(Transparent Remote file access Multiple Protocol) package -work over RHS, SFTP, SSH
WYSIWYG	-Switching tab from WYSIWYG to editing source	-Lack any kind of preview or WYSIWYG interface on its own -supports opening document in an external browser.	-lack	-lack
Complexity	-Fairly	-Fairly	-On research	-On research
Userfriendly	-Fairly	-Good 1. Quick bar for frequently used buttons 2.The editors has custom menu-create your own dialog & text snippets. 3. Reference tab 4. Generate thumbnails from a directory pictures.	-On research	-On research

System Requirement Specification Format

2007-04-16T17:31:00.001+08:00

SRS (System requirement Specification)
A SRS should have:
1. user goals
2. Context description
3. Behavioral/functional requirement
4. Non-behavioral/ extra-functional
5. Constaraints
6. Assumptions

Normally not included / optional stuff in SRS are:
1. Project management
2. Design information
3. Quality Assurance plans
4. Staffing
5. Cost analysis

Bear in mind...!!!
SRS should be:
1. Correct
2. Non-ambiguous
3.Complete
4. Verifiable
5. Consistent

Below is the IEEE Std 830-1984 SRS Format:

1.0 Introduction
<- this must includint the members of your group->
1.2 Purpose of SRS
1.2 Scope of System
1.3 Defination, Acronyms,abbreviations used in the SRS
1.4 Overview
<-an over view of your SRS, brief description of the flow of your SRS ->

2.0 General Description
2.1 System Perspective
2.2 System Functions
2.3 User Characteristics
2.4 General Constraints
2.5 Assumption and dependencies

3.0 Specific requirement
<--good to start with a context level or a high level UML diagram) 3.1 Funtional requirement <--This also known as use case, functional spec or functional specification doc FSD-->
3.2 External Interface Requirements
<--Including User Interface,hardware interfaces,software interfaces, and communication interfaces . Note that your your system might not have all the interfaces stated above.Well it is depend on your system) 3.3 Performance Requirement 3.5 Design Constraints 3.5 Attributes <-- Can be described in term of reliability,security,mantainability and portability-->
3.6 Other Requirent
<--Only if availabale -->

4.0 Final Section
4.1 Project Management
4.2 Design Information
4.3 Quality Assurance Plans
4.4 Staffing
4.5 Cost Analysis

The SRS is an important supporting materials, it represent the agreement between developer and client on how the system/end product will look like.

Pentaho.

2007-04-06T14:36:00.000+08:00

Pentaho or well known as the Pentaho BI project is an open source application software that combines several open source projects. These projects are Mondrian, JFreeReport, Kettle, Pentaho and Weka.

Pentaho has establish itself as a leader within the burgeoning open source Business Intelligence (BI) market with it Open BI Suit and Reporting Server products(2006, Activa Group). The Pentaho BI provide components and functionality integrated with the Pentaho BI Platform. The platform integrate:

1. Open source OLAP Server (Mondrian),

Open source Reporting (JFreeReport)
Open source Data Integration (E.T.T.L) by Kettle
Comprehensive Open Source BI Suite (by Petaho itself)
Open Source Data Mining (Weka).

The further part will explain the major application areas in Pentaho BI Project:

Reporting

Pentaho enable to make easy access,format and distribute of information because

i. It is flexible: can be deploy as standalone desktop reporting, as web-based reporting or deploy as enterprise BI.

ii. Support variety data source including:

- relational data source

-OLAP

- XML-based data sources

iii. Variety output option including:

-Adobe PDF

-HTML

-Microsoft Excel

-Rich Text Format

-Plain text

iv. Fast and easy report design creation with Wizard-driven

Analysis

Helping in better insight on particular problem and make ease of decision making by

i. enable freely explore business information by

- dragging

-dropping

-drilling into

-cross tabulating data.

ii. Complex analytical queries can be done faster by the help of chart, statistic etc.

Dashboard

i. Provide immediate insight into individual, departmental or enterprise department by

-displaying critical information needed in understanding and in improving organizational performance

-deliver the information in key metrics in a form of intuitive visual interface.

-integration with Reporting and Analysis allows users to drill to related report and analysis to understand what factor contributing to good or bad performance.

-Portal integration make it easy to deliver relevant business metrics to large number of users, seamlessly integrated into their application.

-Integrate alerting to continuously monitor for exception and notify users to take action.

Data Mining

-Pentaho offer strong ability to query very large databases in order to uncovers hidden relationship in data which can be used to optimize business processes and predict future results.

-Full range of advance data mining algorithm (combine with OLAP technology) to provide machine-intelligent to provide data analysis to the user.

-Data mining tools can analyze historical data to create predictive models and then using Pentaho Reporting and Analysis, companies can distribute this information to the appropriate people.
-display result in an easy to understand format (graph,statistic,pie chart etc).

Workflow
Pentaho perform it task dynamically and automates business processes- produce efficient workflow and accurate result.

-It directly links to business performance metrics to the process that driven them.

-contribute a continuous cycle of business performance improvement.

Organization Suitability.

Pentaho is suitable for organizations which looking to increase revenue, lower expenses, and improve profitability by improving efficiency and effectiveness in their business processes and overall performance. It is solution-oriented BI Platform that integrate Open Source components and open standards with a process-driven engine. Thus acquiring the software consume only small portion of the budget schemed into technology advancement compartment.

Pentaho integrate all the organization's business processes from operational level to strategic level,this integration enable enterprise-sized organization establish enterprise-wide communication and enable resources (reports,analysis etc) sharing across the network. Thus by deploying Pentoha a n organization can maximize business value by moving information to the workers who can use the information to effect the way the company operates.

References:

http://www.pentaho.org

-Documentation:Pentaho Open Source Intelligence Platform Technical White Paper

http://forum.pentaho.org

-Forum:Please treat this as High Priority Request..help needed

http://www.intelligententerprise.com

-Article:

i. JasperSoft Rolling Out BI Suite

ii. Open-Source BI Stretches Beyond Reporting

http://www.activagroup.com

-Report: Pentoha Gives Open Source Business Intelligence a Boost.