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MySQL 6.0 SQL Quick Reference

Aug-20-2008 By miketeo

Due to some special circumstances, I have a few days’ worth of unnecessary time which I have spent to put together a MySQL 6.0 SQL syntax quick reference. The quick reference can be accessed here, or just follow the My Notes link on the side bar on the right.

Recently, I have upgraded my SIM cards from the 2G ones to the latest 3G SIMs. I have noticed that under the 3G SIMs, all the WAP pages when viewed on my phones (Nokia N82 and 6230) will include a set of “navigation toolbars” at the top and bottom of the WAP pages. I believe this is an extra feature on the WAP gateway which has intercepted the HTTP traffic to provide some ease of navigation functions for web pages on M1’s subscriber phones.

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If you are using using Dojo and Meteor Javascript library, you could be facing random Javascript errors when your web application runs in Internet Explorer. Your web application is likely to work well on the first page, but may fail when it moves to the second page or refreshes. Errors that surface can include Javascript error warnings from the Internet Explorer, or no connection to the Meteor HTTP service by the Meteor Javascript library. And weirdly, your web application seems to work fine in FireFox.

The Javascript errors seems to be an Internet Explorer specific issue. Fortunately, it can be resolved with a small modification to the Meteor Javascript library. Read the rest of this entry »

Ajax + Comet on BlackBerry 8820

Jul-13-2008 By miketeo

If you are wondering if Ajax and/or Comet are supported on the web browser on BlackBerry, the answer is probably as what you have expected. THEY DO NOT WORK! :-)

The manual offered by Reuters explains how to write Java code to inform your web application of new stories from Reuters and how to extract the information from the NewsML files for your web site. This blog post will illustrate another way of integration by scanning the syndication folder for the NewsML files. The alternate method can be implemented in various programming languages such as Python, Perl, PHP or Ruby.

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