Software utilities

Should you need an Italian digg-like website, and you use the sociable plugin for wordpress, you can add it to the social list by adding these lines to socaible.php file:

‘DiggIta’ => Array(
‘favicon’ => ‘diggita.png’,
‘url’ => ‘http://www.diggita.it/submit.php?url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE’,
),

Hi all!

I had to insert a tree in order to edit the structure of a menu. I found out that extjs tree are great! It lets you add a tree with dynamic content and move node from the root to leafs. So I tried integrating it, it’s really easy.

I added a js function to the tree javascript (from the reorder example in the extjs package)

function getTreeContents(tree) {
return getNodeContents(tree.root,true);
}

function getNodeContents(node) {
var s = ”;
if(node.childNodes.length > 0)
{
for(var i=0; i<node.childNodes.length; i++) {
s+= node.id+’-'+node.childNodes[i].id +’|';
s += getNodeContents( node.childNodes[i],false);
}
}
return s;
}

This returns a list of parentid-childid which, everytime the tree is changed, I add to a hidden textbox. Then I get the value of this textbox in the controller code, parse it and update all the nodes according to passed values.

That’s it!

Sun anounced Wednesday that it acquired MySQL, the open source database system, critical part of the LAMP (Linux operating system, Apache web server, MySQL database manager and PHP/Perl programming languages) framework, for $1 billion.

I’ve found out a nice article on how to place an icon or image next to a select option. This is the sample css:
<select name=”issuetype” id=”issuetype”>
<option value=”1″ class=”imagebacked” style=”background-image: url(/images/icons/bug.gif);” selected>
Bug
</option>
<option value=”2″ class=”imagebacked” style=”background-image: url(/images/icons/newfeature.gif);”>
New Feature
</option>
<option value=”3″ class=”imagebacked” style=”background-image: url(/images/icons/task.gif);”>
Task
</option>
<option value=”4″ class=”imagebacked” style=”background-image: url(/images/icons/improvement.gif);”>
Improvement
</option>
</select>

option.imagebacked {
padding: 2px 0 2px 20px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 1px 2px;
vertical-align: middle;
}

Here’s an example:

EDIT: actual dropdown

If you need advice on DVD recorder, try those ones below!

First of all, think about buying a HD-DVD or Blue-ray recorder, they’re the future of disk storage. Seems like the future will be Blueray, because Sony standard was embraced by Paramount a few days ago, and it seems that Toshiba and Microsoft one, HD DVD, will soon get out of the way. Too bad for the costumers, a little price war would be good!

Also, if you need to buy a DVD Recorder, these are a few brands: Sony, Philips, Pioneer, LG, Optorite.com, Panasonic, Toshiba, Daewoo, Lito on, TX, Samsung…