Rock never dies \m/

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Buying flats in Goa, India

When buying a flat in Goa whether its from a reputed builder or otherwise. there are a lot of things that need to be checked like water proofing, painting, tiles, taps, electrical switches and wiring. its best that before taking possession of the flat verify that everything is done as per the agreement.

After i booked a flat from "Kurtarkar Real Estates", before making the final payment and then taking possession of the flat, i had to do a lot of running around with the site engineer and the workers to make sure that everything was done according to the sale agreement. This would not be expected from a reputed builder but once they get the money its all the same.

You need to make sure that

the taps are fitted properly and there are no leaks at the joints.
All the electrical points acutally work.
The wash basin and kitchen sinks have the outlet pipes fitted properly and water does not leak from the joints.
its best to look for a flat during hte monsoon season from june to september that way you can be sure if water proofing was done properly or you will see the water seepage on the walls.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Textures performing in Bangalore, India on 5th Dec 2009

Textures, Dutch progressive metallers, are confirmed to perform at the Deccan Rock Festival, which will take place at the Palace Ground in Bangalore on the 5th December 2009. Co-headlining the festival will be with "Amon Amarth", Swedish dealth metallers.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Dojo 1.3.0 combobox autocomplete with dynamic population of data from database

In Dojo 1.3.0 to refesh an ItemFileReadStore attached to a combobox, we need to

set attributes urlPreventCache="true" clearOnClose="true" for the ItemFileReadStore
call the close() and fetch() methods of ItemFileReadStore

The below snippets of code have been tested in IE 6 and Firefox 3.5.3

Somefile.jsp

<html>
...
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function setComboValue(evt)
{
var comboId = dijit.byId('comboId');
if (comboId && comboId.item)
{
comboId.attr('abbreviation', comboId.item.abbreviation);
}

}
function searchForValue(evt)
{
if (evt.keyCode == 38 || evt.keyCode == 40 || evt.keyCode == 13) {
//do nothing if up arrow, down arrow or enter keys are pressed
}
else
{
var comboId = dijit.byId('comboId');
comboId.store.url = "<%=request.getContextPath()%>/searchChar.htm?myParam=" + evt.target.value;
comboId.store._jsonFileUrl = "<%=request.getContextPath()%>/searchChar.htm?myParam=" + evt.target.value;
stateStore.close();
stateStore.fetch();
}
}

var requestContents = {
override: dijit.byId("comboId").attr('abbreviation')
};

dojo.xhrPost({
url: "/someUrlTOPost.htm",
content: requestContents,
handleAs: "json",
load: function(response, args){
if(response.errors != null) {
console.log("error returned..." + response)

}
else {

console.log("add successful...");
console.log(response);
//do something useful
}
},
error: function(response, args){

}
});
</scrip>
</head>
...
<div dojoType="dojo.data.ItemFileReadStore" jsId="stateStore"
urlPreventCache="true" clearOnClose="true" id="stateStore"
url="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/searchChar.htm?myParam="></div>

<input id="comboId" dojoType="dijit.form.ComboBox"
store="stateStore" autocomplete="false" hasDownArrow="false"
searchAttr="name" onkeyup="searchForValue" searchDelay="500"
onblur="setComboValue" name="abbreviation" />
....
</html>

Json Array for data store ItemFileReadStore

{
identifier:"id",
label: "name",
items: [
{name:"Alabama", label:"Alabama",id:"0"},
{name:"Alaska", label:"Alaska",id:"1"},
{name:"American Samoa", label:"American Samoa",id:"2"},
{name:"Arizona", label:"Arizona",id:"3"},
{name:"Arkansas", label:"Arkansas",id:"4"}
]
}

Refeshing an ItemFileReadStore
by Gary Acord

This is a pretty common need with a pretty simple solution. How do you clear out the existing Data in a store, and populate it with new Data in Dojo 1.2?

The solution is pretty easy. Let’s assume you have an ItemFileReadStore (this works with ItemFileWriteStore as well) named myStore.

This creates an ItemFileRead store and assigns it to the global variable myStore.

Then you can force it to reload as such:

myStore.close();
myStore.fetch();

If you need to change the url of the store (as of Dojo 1.2.3) you can do it like this:

myStore.close();
myStore._jsonFileUrl = newurl;
myStore.fetch();

… and if you have a grid bound to the store, force it to reload

myStore.close();
myStore.fetch();
myGrid._refresh();

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

SKINDRED touring India in Oct 2009

Welsh ragga-metallers SKINDRED have announced their first-ever tour of India. The band will spend the last week of October playing four shows in the country. The details are as follows:

Oct. 25 - The Great India October Festival - Bangalore
Oct. 27 - Hard Rock Café - Mumbai
Oct. 29 - Hard Rock Café - Delhi
Oct. 30 - Hard Rock Café - Bangalore

(source:blabbermouth.net)

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

MR. BIG Japan Tour 2009 Set List

at Kousei Nenkin Hall, Sapporo, Japan

Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy
Take Cover
Green-Tinted Sixties Mind
Alive And Kickin’
Next Time Around
Hold Your Head Up
Just Take My Heart
Temperamental
Classical cover of Holst by Billy, Paul, Pat
Pat Torpey Solo incl. The Long And Winding Road, Beatles cover
Price You Gotta Pay
Stay Together
Wild World (Acoustic)
Goin’ Where The Wind Blows (Acoustic)
Take A Walk (Acoustic – Electric)
Paul Gilbert Solo on the Doubleneck
Instrumental guitar/bass battle on the Doublenecks (Paul + Billy)
The Whole World’s Gonna Know
Promise Her The Moon
Rock & Roll Over
Billy Sheehan Solo
Addicted To That Rush

Encore

To Be With You
Colorado Bulldog
I Love You Japan
Baba O’ Riley

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Mr.BIG to tour india in October 2009

Mr.Big - The sensational Rock Super Group of the 90’s as part of their reunion tour will be touring India in october 2009. The band comprises of legendary bassist Billy Sheehan, soulful Eric Martin on vocals, versatile Pat Torpey on drums and guitar virtuoso Paul Gilbert.

Venues:
10th Oct 2009 Bangalore, India Palace Ground (Freeway 19)
12th Oct 2009 Shillong, India Polo Ground
14th Oct 2009 Dimapur, India DDSC Stadium

Javascript - defining and using custom events

This site has a good article that explains the creation and firing of custom javascript events without the use of 3rd party libraries.

Class

var CustomEvent = function() {
 //name of the event
 this.eventName = arguments[0];
 var mEventName = this.eventName;

 //function to call on event fire
 var eventAction = null;

 //subscribe a function to the event
 this.subscribe = function(fn) {
  eventAction = fn;
 };

 //fire the event
 this.fire = function(sender, eventArgs) {
  this.eventName = eventName2;
  if(eventAction != null) {
   eventAction(sender, eventArgs);
  }
  else {
   alert('There was no function subscribed to the ' + mEventName + ' event!');
  }
 };

Register event handlervar myEvent = new CustomEvent("my event");
myEvent.subscribe(function(sender, eventArgs) {
 alert(eventArgs.message);
});

Fire custom event
myEvent.fire(null, {
 message: 'you just witnessed the firing of a custom event called ' + this.eventName + '!'
});