The dark theme is very similar font colors, just a darker background.

You will notice it isn’t a super detailed highlighter, that is the objective. Check it out. fork it on Github. Head over to the Documentation. Get your hands dirty!

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So what type of features does this so called table plugin have that are so amazing?

• Move Columns – Works via drag and drop or api call
• Show/Hide Columns – Works from generated handle or api call
• Fixed Columns – Sets columns as fixed upon initialization or api call
• Rows Columns – Sets rows as fixed upon initialization or api call
• Persistant – Use browser storage to remember settings or supply your own

And if that isn’t enough the fact that it eats 1,000 row tables for breakfast should be. The plugin digs down below the jquery level to pure javascript for maximum performance. Finally you should know where and how to get it:

• jQuery Powertable Documentation
• jQuery Powertable on Github

Hope you enjoy!

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It may be easiest to describe a simple situation. You financed your car, and you know your monthly payment, how much you financed, and how many months you financed, but you cannot recall your interest rate. There is a method for that. Same with the other 3. So we end up with the following functions:

• finance.calculatePayment – calculate the monthly payment
• finance.calculateAmount – calculate the amount financed
• finance.calculateMonths – calculate the number of months financed
• finance.calculateInterest – calculate the interest rate
• finance.calculateAmortization – calculate an amortization schedule of each month’s interest and balance.
• finance.calculateAccruedInterest – calculate the interest money one would gain in an interest bearing account over X months.

Aside from these finance methods are simple number and currency formatting methods. Provided are USD, GBP, and EUR currency formats and add/remove methods to manage more. Enjoy!

• Finance.js Documentation
• Download or Fork from GitHub

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$paging = array(
	'fields'=>array('User.id', 'User.email', '((select max(ul2.login) from "user_logins" as "ul2" where "ul2"."user_id"="User"."id") >= \''.$two_mo_ago.'\') as "User__alive"'),
	'order'=>'User.email asc',
	'contain'=>array(),
	'limit'=>20
);

I’ve changed my query a bit for simplicity, but the basic concept is to get a true/false if the user has logged in within the past two months. This works for some databases, but I use sqlite for development, and it complained with “User__alive”. To properly group the fields cake uses the Model__field naming, but oddly Sqlite didn’t like me using this. So how can you get Cake to handle all this for you? Simple, use virtualFields with your model. The solution ended up being cleaner than the example above. Here’s what I ended up with:

$this->User->virtualFields['alive'] = '((select max(ul2.login) from "user_logins" "ul2" where "ul2"."user_id"="User"."id") >= \''.$two_mo_ago.'\')';

$paging = array(
	'fields'=>array('User.id', 'User.email', 'User.alive'),
	'order'=>'User.email asc',
	'contain'=>array(),
	'limit'=>20
);

Cake knows how to handle piecing the fields together across databases, so cross platform issue is solved, plus cake’s pagination knows what to do when you sort by this field. Of course you will want to assign these virtualFields in your model so they’re available everywhere, but for simplicity I showed using/assigning it in the controller.

Adding another level of Cake goodness you may want to consider using the model’s buildStatement to generate subquery strings. This will almost eliminate the need to write sql statements at all, thus let Cake do more cross database sql generation for you. I may tackle this in another post. Enjoy!

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Ok, so why the change?

1. So far with Impromptu you had to return true/false inside the submit callback to tell Impromptu whether or not to close the prompt. You can still do this, however the more appropriate way is to use the first parameter to call event.preventDefault() to prevent the prompt from closing. Think of it as how you would treat an anchor tag’s click event.
2. You can call event.stopPropagation() to prevent event bubbling.
3. You can now bind as many events as you like, though only one may be passed in the $.prompt() options.
4. More events available through the same interface.

In addition to the change of how events work, there were additional events. Here are all available events:

• promptloaded: called when the prompt has been displayed. Parameters (event)
• promptsubmit: called on button click. Parameters (event, value, message, formVals)
• promptclose: same as callback option. Called when prompt has closed. Parameters (event[, value, message, formVals]). Optional parameters are only available when a button was clicked.
• promptstatechanging: called before state change. return false or event.preventDefault() stops the state change. Parameters (event, fromStateName, toStateName)
• promptstatechanged: called after the state change is complete. Parameters (event, stateName)

Now you want to see what the difference is. Lets look at a quick example. I must mention you can still call $.prompt just like before, but just consider these changes “Extras”.

var jqi = $.prompt('Hello World!');

jqi.bind('promptsubmit', function(event, val, msg, fields){
    // To hold the prompt open you can either:
    // event.preventDefault()
    // or
    // return false;
});

Pretty straight forward. Again you can still use the submit, loaded, and callback options just like before with the exception of adding the event parameter first. Feel free to share your opinions!

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So how easy is it? Just download the package, unzip it, and run the OpenBlueDragonDesktop.sh. Thats all!. It will launch a gui to start, stop, and point the server anywhere (pictured above). I also must add the administration interface is MUCH more pleasing than their Adobe counterpart.

I still use ColdFusion on a daily basis, along with php. But the question remains. Does ColdFusion still play a major roll in web development? Or has it been written off is a slow, out of date, has been?

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# install php-pear
sudo apt-get install php-pear

# install PEAR OLE
sudo pear install OLE-1.0.0RC2

# install Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
sudo pear install Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer-0.9.2

Not much to it, but just getting around the prereq of OLE. Now you should be able to create and edit Excel spreadsheets on linux. Of course if you have complete flexibility in requirements for your app, you would generate ODS, but I’ll leave that for a future topic ;) Unfortunately the corporate world is quite attached to .xls and xlsx files. Anyway.. Enjoy!

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The delivery is in, now it’s time to give them away! There are 10 t-shirts going out the door, and one can be yours!

Entering is simple, just leave a thought, suggestion, creative criticism, or compliment concerning CarBounce.com in the comments below. It can be good or bad, short or detailed. Oh, and don’t forget to leave a valid email address.

What is being give away?

• 10: T-Shirt + 1 Year Premium Membership to CarBounce.com
• 10: 1 Year Premium Membership to CarBounce.com

T-shirts will be sent only within the United States. Winners outside the United States may receive a second Year Premium Membership to CarBounce. A total of 20 winners will be chosen at random. Only one entry per person.

Deadline is set for Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 11:59 PM. I am extending the deadline since I did not have enough entries. The first 5 valid entries within the initial deadline (Feb 18) are winners. That leaves 5 more t-shirts and 10 more memberships! Good Luck!

PS: The first Car Bounce coupon ILUVCB0212 can get you 40% off!

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• Fix: Option getter/setter
• Improvement: SliderAccess integration
• Addition: Added Norwegian translation
• Fix: Check for tp_inst in gotoToday method
• Fix: Swallowing date parsing errors
• Fix: Update Russian translation
• Fix: beforeShow now returns a value
• Fix: missing semicolons
• Fix: time parsing bug (“tt h:mm”)
• Fix: trim extra spaces after newly formatted time
• Addition: New $.datepicker.formatTime method
• Addition: Added Korean Translation
• Fix: Typo in Hebrew translation

As always you can check out the timepicker over at the timepicker documentation or get involved over at Timepicker’s Github page. Thanks Aagain!

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