I use Selector/contains for this but the problem is, it is case sensitive. That’s gonna be a problem to type in the exact case from the list. Here’s a snippet to extend the selector.

jQuery.extend(
        jQuery.expr[':'], {
                contains : "jQuery(a).text().toUpperCase().indexOf(m[3].toUpperCase())>=0"
});

Took the snippet from StackOverflow, but it has a typo.

I found this solution at the forum, CI 1.7 Forge Problems. Basically what you need to do is find DB_driver.php inside the database folder. Go to function _protect_identifiers (most probably on line 1193).

Add in this code (inside the function).

if (is_array($item))
{
	$array = array();

	foreach($item as $one)
	{
		$array[] = $this->_protect_identifiers($one, $prefix_single, $protect_identifiers, $field_exists);
	}

	return $array;
}

Alright, that should fix it up.

It is a collection of forms that creates a timeline for specific types of stuffs. Its a form generator something like Wufoo. But with specific custom needs, like a DataTable. I went through all the examples and some other examples from other developers but none to my liking.

There’s a datagrid plugin called Flexigrid for jQuery but then again, there’s all this hurdles that I have to go through to make it perform certain stuffs and I don’t like to constraint myself inside that type of UI.

After browsing through Smashing Magazine’s Pricing Table Examples and Best Practices. I’ve decided to use jEditable to accomodate a normal table with the function that I need by just putting in an inline editable feature to it.

The deadline is in 10 days. The system must be functional on 1st December. Let the death march begins!

$('.delete').click(function(){
    if(!confirm('Are you sure you want to delete?'))
    {
        return false;
    }
})

By returning false you stop any action from the link (redirecting you to the url)

You can see the demo here.

$rules[''] = '';

$fields[''] = '';

$this->load->library('validation');
$this->validation->set_rules($rules);
$this->validation->set_fields($fields);

if($this->validation->run() === FALSE)
{
	$this->
}
else
{
	$timestamp = strtotime('now');
	$data = array(
		'' => ''
	);
	$this->load->model('', '');

	$this->session->set_flashdata('misc_success', '');
	redirect();
}

I intentionally left some stuffs inside there, which is supposed to be filled anyway.

This is usable but it can be better. I’ll try to elaborate in the next post, or the post after the next. As soon as I finish up an example.

The first thing I did is to arrange the SQL Query in a readable manner.

Since I do not have the time to follow the trail from the SQL Query manually, I just comment out 3 conditions at a time, and add a condition each time until the item was found. In the above picture, I’ve found the culprit its the one below the commented out line.

When I commented out the line, the results for the keyword appeared as follow.

So thats the divide and conquer part. So now I know the problem is with the commented out criteria and the one below it. I traced it back to its table (products_to_categories) and found out that the category_id value is empty. Thats why it can’t join in with the categories table and thus there’s no result.

So what did I do? I told my friend about the problem, explained it to him (I gave him a couple of screenshots to explain the problem) and gives him a solution. UPDATE products_to_categories SET categories_id = xx. So that all the item have a category and will be displayed when it is searched by the application.

Erm, yeah. Thats about it.

Between that and my frustration from lack of communication within the team, it just felt like taking a blow with a sledgehammer in the chest. It brings you down, lying on the floor, barely alive in the pool of your own blood with every bit of hope crushed out of your lungs. Its the feeling of helplessness that is too much to bare. After 5 months of relentless effort to nurture communication between team members, I felt as though I have accomplished nothing. There is still very little communication.

A typical day would be like this.

*comes over to teammate cubicle*

Me: "Whats up? What are you guys people doing?" ("Korang tengah buat ape?")

*long explanation of the tasks at hand which they can solve*

Me: "Ok, cool. Just don’t forget to log it into the Issue tracker and update the wiki"

Teammate: "But I don’t have time. I’m very busy, you know"

Me: "So you’d rather answer phone calls over in the weekend when something happens than write about it? We are a team we need to know how to solve problems that the team members have already solved. We must not think as many but as one!" (My ramblings continues.. )

The thing that just burns me out and frustrates me happened a few weeks ago.

I was doing something and exchange a task with a teammate since she can’t do it. The task that I gave to her is fairly easy. Reset user’s password. The task that I took from her is fairly easy to me, just need good ol’ debugging skills. So I was doing my work then my cubicle neighbour the CRM manager told me that my other teammate (teammate B) reassign the task that I exchange with my teammate (teammate A) back to me. So I was fucking pissed-off thinking "What the fuck? Why can’t she do this easy thing?".

So I asked teammate B, why did she reassign the task to me. She said that teammate A have an "URGENT" task that needs to be done now. So I instant messaged teammate A asking why the hell is the task been assigned back to me. I was told that there is a VERY URGENT tasks that the CTO wants it to be done by the end of the day. What task? Searching for student’s username and password from a list of student. It has 400 RECORDS! Pfft, 400 records? Thats it?

I marched down to their cubicle and watched what the fuck is going on. I stood around for 5 minutes. They were searching the student’s ID through the web interface one-by-one. This is insane. This kind of thing should be automated and let the computer do the heavy lifting. Of course they don’t know how to do scripts. But the thing that really frustrates me is that they did not tell/share about the task. I have to go there and find out about it myself. If I didn’t, they would proceed with comparing it manually like a clerk. WE ARE PROGRAMMERS! WE MUST THINK LIKE A PROGRAMMER!

I called teammate B and told her I’ll take the stupid "URGENT" task, give the reset password task back to teammate B. Its settled. I did it in 70 minutes (I was quite rusty in Python and with the help of a good .NET programmer extracting the data from MSSQL). They know that I am more capable developer than them but I think they thought, "Oh, we can do this, we don’t need to ask Khairul how to do this" and proceed on doing it. I was so frustrated that I have trouble falling to sleep that night. I had to take a long walk to let all this pent-up frustration seep into the ground with every heavy steps.

The next day teammate B emailed me to do the same task but for a different list. I did it in 20 minutes, by modifying a little bit here and there. I was burned-out by that frustration that I don’t care and don’t want to know what the other teammates are doing. I just do my job, no more coming over to cubicle and preach on sharing is caring, no more telling them to log issues into Mantis and contribute to the wiki. After FOSS.my 2008, the burned-out feeling slowly subsides. But its still there.

Whew, have to get that out of my chest. Letting the frustration festers is not a good thing. Hopefully my frustration will be gone, my enthusiasm returns and I’ll continue to preach on logging issues into the Issue Tracker and accumulate knowledge into the Wiki so it will benefit everyone.

Since I want to track all this stuff up, and make it available for other people (in the company) to see the activity inside the project, I log the issue inside Mantis the Issue Tracking System. I put in as much detailed information as I can to avoid any vague description of the problem. But wait! The version information for the project is missing, I didn’t write up any docs for version 0.1 (because there wasn’t a need for it at that time, its a small insignificant system after all), so I went into the manage project settings and add in a few version (0.1, 0.2, 0.3). Report the issue and went ahead and branch the trunk into 0.1. (for any of you unfamiliar with Branch and Trunk, its a term we use in Version Control , for more information head to A Visual Guide to Version Control ).

After branching for 0.1, I branched the trunk again for 0.2 to implement the new feature. I know there’s more procedure to it than this but for this kind of small project, I’d rather skip it and get something done.

As soon as I’m done implementing this feature, I’d better write up some docs to help people modify the stuff up (if they want to, but I highly doubt anyone would want to), just in case. Now, I have to put this stuff up into the wiki in bullet points so the team would/might read it.

I went ahead and find steam.dll, downloaded it, and it says can’t find steamui.dll. I downloaded that too and continued, it updates just fine.

Few hours ago, when I arrived home from work, ran steam and it doesn’t load. It says there’s no connection to steam. I deleted cleanregistry.blob and still no luck (but this time all the login info is lost). Restored the blob file and restarted the router. Finally it runs smoothly. This is some crappy software that valve have. Time to shoot some mutants!