Comments for Alex Le's Blog

Comment on Bug Day: Internet Explorer 7 SELECT element innerHTML bug by Greg Abernethy

Greg Abernethy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:26:02 +0000

Hi Alex

Thanks for the excellent tip, I could not work out what was wrong, as soon as I put .innerHTML instead of .text in the dynamically created select/options it worked.

Cheers
Greg Abernethy
Medusa Business Solutions
Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Comment on Installing Memcached from Source on CentOS 5 by L

Sun, 17 May 2009 18:44:47 +0000

dude. so appreciated

Comment on Resize and Compose Transparent PNG with PHP by Giacomo Masetti

Giacomo Masetti — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:54:19 +0000

Many thanks from Italy.
Your piece of code works like a charm, I crashed my head for hours in the attempt to understand how to resize images in PHP by keeping the transparency for PNG images and GIF images.

Comment on Customize your keyboard shortcut with AutoHotKey by Gusto

Gusto — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:58:56 +0000

I’ve been struggling with similar problems regarding the keyboard layout and specifically the “home” and “end” keys. I too had Lenovo or actually it was IBM which was equipped with separate section for insert/delete/home/end/page up/page down keys, as in the standard desktop keyboards. Now, after using a while my new HP tx2000 laptop, I’ve begun to appreciate IBM’s approach. This one has all previously mentioned 6 keys in the top right corner, all next to each other in a continuous row with F1-F12 keys. http://laptoplogic.com/data/reviews/images/211/tx2000_keyboard.jpg

Delete button is easy to find because it’s the button in top right corner but hitting “home” and “end” buttons can be a hustle sometimes, not to mention the distance your hand need to travel each time you need one of those keys. I’ve been daydreaming of getting fn+ left, right, up and down arrow keys to function as home, end, page up, page down, respectively. Your post seems to have a solution my problem, even though the user interface of AutoHotKey seems a bit too “challenging” for my taste.

Btw, do you have any experience whether one can use AutoHotKey to map Fn + key combinations?

Comment on Connection Speed Detection with Javascript by Jackson

Jackson — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:29:40 +0000

Alex, This is an awesome and incredibly helpful script - thanks so much for sharing!

Comment on Installing Memcached from Source on CentOS 5 by Will

Will — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:10:19 +0000

On ubuntu this is fixed by installing memcached and libevent first with apt. Calendar Server will only install its own versions if it doesn’t find one in the system. Perhaps there is an equivalent under CentOS?

Comment on ActionMailer: Gmail SMTP, Sendmail, and spam by Dustin Anderson

Dustin Anderson — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:32:24 +0000

Hey Alex,

I’m using AuthSMTP for a project that needs send-to-a-friend functionality (we’re also hosting it on Engine Yard Solo / Amazon EC2 which has problems with blacklisted IP’s). Not totally sure if this is the greatest solution yet, but hopefully it solves the problem you’ve described.

Unfortunately, AuthSMTP isn’t free, it’s a paid service.

See you at work tomorrow

Dustin

Comment on Resize and Compose Transparent PNG with PHP by Warren

Warren — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:34:32 +0000

Thanks! Awesome work - used part of the code to round the edges of user uploaded images in CMS.

Comment on (my) Solution to the infamous ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’ (2) by Isa Mujahid

Isa Mujahid — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:48:06 +0000

Thanks verymuch Alex!
so, I can fix my “MySQL” new installation in slackware.
in future time i’ll cite your site and translate in Indonesian language.

Comment on Stripe Designer and Photoshop by Geoffrey Barley

Geoffrey Barley — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:19:31 +0000

Hi nice post, i have come across your site once before when searching for something so i was just wondering something. I love your theme, would it happen to be a free one i can download, or is it a custom one you had made? In a few weeks i will be launching my own site, i’m not great with designs but i really like the style of your site so it would be cool if i could find (or pay for) something with a similar look. Thanks!