RedCoupe

Im always forgetting the very useful vi shortcuts, so here’s a list of them:

ˆ = Control key

If you see a 10, this can be replaced by any number

For the ‘Welcome Back’ package I’ve gone for WipeOut HD (with Fury pack) and Infamous, for the PSP I’ll probably go for Little Big Planet and ModNation Racers. As a Playstation Plus subscriber I was pleased to be able to download Burnout Paradise as a freebie, nice one.

I was working on a couple of web pages this morning to allow completion of a course booking form, user then submits to a thankyou page, confirmation emails are sent etc.

The problem I faced was that only the course ID was being passed to the thankyou page so in the emails that are generated, it displays Course Details: 7 , instead of Course Details: 12/12/2011 PHP Basics.

So my initial thought was to create a hidden field just before the end form tag together with some javascript that gets the relevant label value:

document.getElementById('coursedetails').value = document.getElementById('training_id')[document.getElementById('training_id').selectedIndex].innerHTML;

Then in the thankyou page I just got Request.Form(“coursedetails”), this is in ASP VBScript just in case you were wondering. Works like a charm.

Since doing this is I should have done it a much easier way and not have to rely on JavaScript being enabled. I already had the value because I was already using it to display the dropdown list label. So the hidden field could have just contained the default value of the currently selected item.

Using MS SQL Server, I’ve been trying to get the second from last record that had been created because I want to do some comparison code to display what has been changed.

Anyway just form future reference here’s the SQL I used:

SELECT TOP 1 *
FROM dbo.tbl_MailList_Items
WHERE item_id < (SELECT MAX(item_id) FROM dbo.tbl_MailList_Items)
ORDER BY item_id DESC

This works perfectly for my situation and doesnt rely on just subtracting 1 from the id column because my id column is not fully incremental due to records being deleted etc.

Well what can I say, I’m finding this game absolutely awesome. The graphics and sound are fantastic and both the single player campaign and online multiplayer are incredibly addictive.

When I first played this I thought the controls seemed a bit kind of ‘sloppy’ but having spent quite a few hours on it, I’ve got used to it with no problems.

Big thumbs up for me, love it!

From a standard Apache2 install I created a folder in /var/www/ called ‘testsite’ (without the quotes).

Go to the following folder:

/etc/apache2/sites-available

…and create a file called something suitable, for this purposes of this blog post I’ll just call my file testsite, It’s contents should be:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot /var/www/testsite/
  ServerName testsite.localhost
  ServerAlias testsite.myubuntubox
  <Directory /var/www/testsite/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +Includes
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Then run the following command:

sudo a2ensite testsite

Edit your /etc/hosts file and add the following lines:

127.0.0.1 testsite.localhost
127.0.0.1 testsite.myubuntubox
192.168.0.6 testsite.myubuntubox

Obviously the ip address 192.168.0.6 may be different depending on your network setup.

Restart Apache:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

I also had to edit my c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file on my other PC to make sure that when I visit http://testsite.myubuntubox/ it resolves correctly, so I now have the following:

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.6 myubuntubox
192.168.0.6 testsite.myubuntubox

That’s it, all working, now I can develop multiple websites locally using subdomains. Personally I would rather do it this way than putting websites into folders, seems to work better with Dreamweaver.