Validate this!

Posted by mkhairul - August 19, 2008 at 03:08:14 pm - No Comments

 Categories: rants



A classic case of bloated software. I downloaded a video tutorial on ASP.NET
MVC Preview 3 (or something like that) and ran it with Windows Media Player. Ok, so then the validation screen pops up asking me to validate with Microsoft or Bill Gates or Steve Balmer or someone/something over
there, I clicked on OK, to go ahead.

I waited for 2-3 seconds. Thats the average maximum time for a website visitor would wait until they get some kind of a response from a website or else they’ll go to someplace else.

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Kept waiting for another 3 seconds, still nothing and I went on to find Media Player Classic.
While downloading the Terms & Agreement for Windows Media Player
pops up. I clicked on cancel, realizing my pc is already slow, I don’t know what’ll happen when I install a new Windows Media Player (maybe some taskbar shit keeps popping up, or some taskbar player thing cluttering it), I unzip the downloaded Media Player Classic, BEHOLD! ONE FILE!, unzip in Program Files and ran the video with it.

Javascript, hide paragraph

Posted by mkhairul - August 6, 2008 at 04:08:58 pm - No Comments

 Categories: Development, Troubleshoot

While I was developing a new app for use here at work. I tried to use javascript to hide an element and all of its contents.

PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
  1. function show_new(id_name)
  2. {
  3.     $('#category').hide();
  4.    
  5.     return false;
  6. }

To hide this html stuffs

PLAIN TEXT
HTML:
  1. <p id="category">
  2.             <label>Category</label><br />
  3.             </p><div class="select">
  4.                 <select class="medium" name="category">
  5.                     <option>-Select-</option>
  6.                 </select>
  7.                 <span class="moreinfo">Or add a <a onclick="return show_new('category');" href="#">test<span class="red">NEW CATEGORY</span></a> </span>
  8.             </div>
  9.             <div class="new">
  10.                 <input type="text" name="category" />
  11.                 <span class="moreinfo">Or add a <a href="#"><span class="red">NEW CATEGORY</span></a> </span>
  12.             </div>
  13.       <p>&nbsp;</p>

When I click on the link "NEW CATEGORY", it executes the javascript function but the only thing that it hides is the label. Everything else stays. I thought there was a duplicate or some shit, but no, there's none. Then I remembered that you cannot put block elements inside an inline element (thanks to weekly check using w3cvalidator on my blog).

Programming Portfolio

Posted by mkhairul - August 6, 2008 at 12:08:53 am - No Comments

 Categories: blog
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After reading The Power of Programming Portfolio, I've decided to add one myself, My Programming Portfolio. Currently there's only two. There's one project that I did in my college days that I'm eager to put but it can't run anymore. It used to though. It is a PIM (personal information manager) desktop application using Python 2.3, wxPython and some other stuffs.

I'll add some stuffs later on when I reorganize my files and folders. Heh.

On Estimation…

Posted by mkhairul - August 4, 2008 at 11:08:31 am - No Comments

 Categories: Development, Notes, Tips, blog

Here's an entry on the wiki on Estimation. Since we got a few new guys (some are trainee), I thought it might help them. Below is an example of an estimation writeup.

What is Online Trial Exam Form?

A small application to allow users to register (to participate in an online trial exam) and the admin to process the registrants.

Important: If asked to give an estimate on the spot, please, tell them you'll comeback later. Take at least 1-2 hours in breaking down tasks and estimation.

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The user (we will use the term admin here, the person who request the application) requires the following function (user requirements) :

  • The user (potential students) can enter in their information to participate in a trial exam.
    • Get the fields required. Ask which field is mandatory and why if it is not obvious (one of the obvious field is email, of course email is mandatory or else how do the system inform the user how to participate in the trial exam). 30 minutes.
    • Each registration have a time-frame. i.e. Each day starts from 5am to 5pm. If a user registers on 30th August 2008 @ 5.01pm, it will count as the user registers on 31st August 2008.1 hour
  • The admin can view list of dates (or we can call a time-frame, as each day starts from 5am to 5pm, beyond that will spill into the following day's date) and total of registration for each date.30 minutes
  • The admin can view list of students in a given date. 30 minutes
  • The admin can process a given date.
    • The system will iterate through list of registrant and send an email containing the details required to use the online examination system. 1 hour
    • The admin can reprocess a given date (skips users who have been processed). 30 minutes

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