When I launched my Ext Designer today, I was presented with this screen;

And so I clicked install and the update process starts… 

Ok, a lot of other programs also have automatic update feature, so what's the big deal with this one?

This is only personal, as I've been using Ext Designer for my Ext JS based projects  quite a lot now (and all my web based projects, for fun and profits are currently based on Ext JS), and there are just features that I'm really looking forward to have in the software, namely chart support, among other things. I guess I'll need to wait for few more releases before the features are there, as they are not in the changelog;

xds-1.0.2.13 August 31st

• Data Field names can once again contain periods, for JsonReader 
• Properly remove linked node graphics from the Component Tree when a project is closed/opened/newly 
• "initialConfig" configurations are now created in an initialConfig object in the generated code, instead of being applied on the prototype of the class. This fixes issues such as supplying a "url" or "baseParams" configuration on a 
• DisplayField now gets a default value when 
• URL Prefix in Project Settings now properly requires that the value begins with http(
•  When a component is duplicated, any object/array configurations are now properly copied over as true objects and not 
•  tabTip is now properly added to any Panel that is a child of a 
•  New: Scroll bars are now accessible on the Design canvas, allowing you to scroll vertically and horizontally in large component views, such as a FormPanel with a long list of fields.

The software uses map from the My ASEAN Free GPS Map Project project, and the update didn't even update the map, as the it's still using the already 4 months old map.

Here's how the software before the update;

I recently bought myself a new laptop, and among the first thing I did was to install a bunch plugins for my already installed Mozilla Firefox.

The first round of install, and few more plugins were installed afterwards 

I do web development for fun and profit, and I am too dependent on these plugins that I can't just completely migrate.

p/s: I actually use both browsers on day to day basis; Firefox for development, and Chrome for normal browsing.  

When I came back I restarted the server and after a few days I notice my websites were not getting traffic from organic search results as usual. Upon checking I found out out that my websites has been completely de-listed from Google's index, and the pageranks dropped. 

I requested for re-consideration from Google, and after a few weeks this website (/home/shakir) has started to receive visitors from Google search, and from the progress I hope it'll be just as good as before in a matter of weeks. 

Not all is good though, as my other main website TechRecipes seems to still suffer from some sort of penalty. I'm working on fixing whatever that may be causing it to being penalized and will later request for consideration from Google, and hope everything will turn normal if not better in the near future…

ffs

Thanks for the explanation. It's a useful program and I hope it'll support charts in the future release.

Btw, do I need to pay for future releases or I can just upgrade and use the same login/key?

You will receive automatic updates for free throughout the entire 1.x line.  We'll be there for quite the foreseeable future

Charts will be supported with Ext 4.x.  Unfortunately we cannot support the 3.x branch because they are Flash based.  In 4.x, all of the charting will be done using Canvas, SVG, and/or VML as needed, and thus will be fully supported within the Designer.

That's great news. When can I expect 4.0 to be released then? And I just hope by that time Ext Designer wont be in it's 2.x release already

We will be introducing 4.0 at the Sencha Conference in November: http://www.sencha.com/conference/  I sincerely don't expect Designer to be in 2.x by that time either.  It's really up to management

dark mocha and noticed this

large banner on my way out.

I've always wanted to try work at such places ever since I was young (though I still am young, ahem), but never had the chance to. Hope to find 2-3 not-so-busy weeks in the future  so I can apply for the job.

It was an old thought but made stronger by the book

I previously read.

My cellular network data monthly bandwidth allocation is to run out soon as I've been teethering the connection from my phone to my lappy since the first day I'm here in Kota Kinabalu.

Was not able to use the lappy's WiFi, and so I tried to fix my lappy's WiFi by swapping the WiFi card (suspecting the one installed was broken),

but in the end I figured out the real problem was that I disabled the mini-pci slot of the lappy (the slot where the WiFi card is installed) in the BIOS to reduce battery consumption of the already broken lappy's battery. I also disabled Intel's Speedstep and that solves the problem of the 5 year old lappy not being snappy.

It's lunch time here at this offshore oil platform, but I don't feel like eating. It's not that I don't like the food (in contrary actually, and more on this in later posts), but it's because of my work here. I'm here with my team to install some wireless sensors at a machine in a remote platform and to create a wireless link so that the engineers here at the mother platform can do online monitoring of the machine and analyze the data gathered from the sensors. It's a pilot project that we hope if successful will be extended to other machines and platforms. After working on things for almost a week, earlier this morning, all the pieces finally came together and we can now declare our job here complete. I feel full without eating

It's my first time doing a project on an oil platform, and all the sensors we've been installing was something I never interested or had my hands on prior to this project. The wireless link we've created of around 50 kilometres air distance was the first for me as well as during my previous employments, we've only done 20 kilometres at most and the link was not even as stable as this 50 kilometres link (which using the same equipments and settings, I'm confident that we can achieve more distance quite effortlessly).

I initially joined in as a wireless consultant, but they later managed to persuade me to quit my previous job to work on this project full time. Even though on paper I'm the project manager for this project, I've been helped a lot by my team members in the project management part, as they have been doing offshore projects for quite some time already. Our small team of an old-time telecommunication antenna installer, 2 experienced electricians, a sensor expert, and a general helper managed to finish the installation process in less than a week, though the initial plan was to finish it in 4 weeks. I was very nervous before for doing it for my first time, with people I never knew and in an environment where everything must be done right. Thank God for everything.

The next boat to Kota Kinabalu will be in 2 days from now, and I need to go act busy now as I don't want to look like enjoying my stay here while other people are busy at work. . Till my next post, cheerio.

1. Web Developer Toolbar
   • It's actually a Firefox plugin that has plenty of useful tools. My favorites among other are Disable Cache, View Style Information, Display Ruler, Resize Window… I can say I love and use most of the features it has.
2. Firebug
   • It has some powerful features (though sometimes redundant with Web Developer Toolbar) to view, edit, debug, monitor CSS, HTML, and Javascript. It support plugins to make it even more powerful, and useful.
3. Vim
   • It's a powerful text editor with many useful features; too many to be listed here. The keybindings are just superb, and the screenshot is displaying split screen support.  It's perfect for text editing while on remote shell connection.
4. Screen
   • Screen is useful for creating virtual terminals and the ability to somewhat do session management. I can easily create virtual terminals, switch between them, and detach when I am to log out from a remote machine. When I get back to the machine, I can attach back to the previous Screen session, and I can continue with where I have left.
5. Multiple desktop support
   • Most Linux desktop environment supports multiple desktops. In my case I'm using Gnome which I set to have 4 desktops (or maybe it's called workspace). Other than this one desktop,  1 is set for me to work on Gimp and the graphic stuffs, another for non-work-related stuff such as Pidgin, Skype and my jukebox. Your preferences might vary.

These were not on the screenshot, but were actually in the setup;

• Linux
  • Most if not all the mentioned softwares are native Linux application. Not compulsory.
• Firefox
  • It's a web browser that supports the plugins mentioned.
• Multiple, big monitors
  • I am using 2 * 22" monitor, with effective resolution of 3360*1080. Can't imagine working on a 1024*768 screen anymore.

In general, I found it very useful to have a big workspace. Big monitor screens with high effective resolutions coupled with multiple desktops are just perfect.

What is your setup for web development?

They are for my wireless project, though most of them are for what I consider as for RnD only. The list doesn't include my previous orders, and quotes are all in USD. Please click on the image for more details.

I'm a happy man now that I can just order what I want to play with, though surely I must come up with outputs to justify the cost