TechieDan

Wordpress is out with 2.5 RC2, the next generation after the test version of 2.5.  Well, suprisingly I did try this Wordpress 2.5 on my own localhost and was mightily impressed with the insite menus and stuffs. I meant it was all ajaxified, and loading things is really faster than usual.

A little thing about the current older version is that if you’re running it on Internet Explorer, the widget would give you sort of a problem. You can’y delete properly in the widget text. Well let’s just hope this new Wordpress version gives some answers to this problem.

Since it’s just a release 2, let’s hope for the best of the final version. To know more about this, read here

Javascript isn’t that hard. Especially when you want to handle a simple form action. For example, most sites tells us how to do validation for regular expressions and the javascript for it, but what if one is a totally newbie to javascript and html.

Here I bring upon you some of my practices which somehow though, not as new as the new javascript version and standard, it still works.

<form name=’testForm’ method=’post’ action=’callAction.jsp’>
<table>
 <tr>
  <td>Username</td>
  <td>: <input type=’text’ name=’username’ value=”></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td colspan=2><input type=’button’ value=’submit’ onClick=’submitForm(this.form);’></td>
 </tr>
</table> 
</form>

Now the above is a sample form. Now how about the javascript. Yes, as can be seen the onClick function is by itself a javascript to call a method from javascript. Now what can be done. Seeing from here, the reason instead of using a submit button, an INPUT TYPE=’button’ is being used, so it’ll be easier to handle actions using javascript.

Now have a look at the javascript method that was called. Let’s say to submit this form and to display the alert of the username.

<script language=’javascript’>
   function submitForm(thisform) {
        alert(”You have submitted ” + thisform.username.value +
                ” as your username!”);
        thisform.submit();
   }
</script>

So this function is mighty straight forward. It’ll display the username as well as submit the form to wherever it was submitted to. In this case, the form is submitted to itself.

So there you have it.

This week’s theme was metal. Seemingly most of my post are all related to technical stuffs. But this week let’s be a bit different and look at technicality outside. Well, I would of course love to have fun too instead of just basing my post all on tech stuffs.

So anyone is ON for a coaster ride on this metal frame structure.

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This blog might be technical, but it’s good to get to know what makes me technically incline to post about technical stuffs here. One thing though, no matter what people say or do, technology is never enough. You can actually see in this world that technology is rapidly evolving. Well, they even have robots that are so going to emulate humans.

My opinion is that this will benefit mainly in terms of less work for human error and more to machinery expertise to help to do the job. The consequences though is that we are going to be lazy every moment of our life. No wonder now we have cases of younger children getting obese at a super super young age. All because they just sit in front of the pc and do nothing else but play games or rather those that play with console games most of the time.

I admit I am a tech enthusiast but I do order my life to be balanced between outdoor sports and tech life. Well, I wouldn’t want to miss the chance to enjoy outdoor life while we all can, don’t we?

I am currently running Firefox 3 Beta 4 in my home PC. When installing FireFox 3 Beta 4, you’ll be greeted with this FireFox page.

Looks very futuristic and with promises of easier usage for web developers and extension developers, this version of FireFox 3 is so goin to kick ass. Previously I was harboring on the subject of the launch of FireFox 3. Yes, since it’s first beta stages, it seems that FireFox 3 is still a bit buggy in certain ways. The most annoying thing is when visiting a site with adobe flash. The adobe flash plugin seems to alerting everytime even though the plugin is installed. Maybe due to it’s beta stages.

Though I am seriously happy with the new plugins that come along with this beta version of FireFox. With tools like WebDeveloper and GreaseMonkey, this sort of ease my web development process. Yes, and StumbleUpon toolbar works fine with FireFox 3 Beta. So far so good, even the memory consumption doesn’t take as much.

Slight Problem 
When accessing another chatbox in an iframe, it jumps out.
Constant flash of plugin required