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Solution to Acrobat Reader MDI Problem

char101 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:16:06 +0000

Acrobat reader 9 removes the multi-window functionality, so if you open a lot of documents it will clutter the taskbar. To address this issue the quickest solution that I have found and that I feel quite satisfied is using the TrayIt application.

The result to be expected:

Adobe Reader buttons are gone from your taskbar
You get an icon in the taskbar which when you click on it, you’ll get a menu of currently open Adobe Reader windows.

The steps to do it:

Run TrayIt
Run Adobe Reader
Press Shift and click the minimize button, Adobe Reader will be minimized to the tray area
On the tray icon, right click and choose Place in System Tray
Then right click again and choose Edit Profile
In “Basic” tab, check “match pattern below with window title when creating tray icon” and fill the input box with “* – Adobe Reader” (without the quotes)
In “Basic” tab, check “Handle SDI type applications like Excel, PowerPoint, or MS Project
In “More” tab, check “Hide application from the Taskbar all the time, keep tray icon only”

Then open several documents and you can see the menu when you click the tray icon.

Silk toolbar icons for GVim

char101 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:34:49 +0000

Before:

After:

Download:

It is a 8bpp PNG image. To use it as your toolbar icons, you’ll need an image editor and a resource editor. First open the image in your image editor, create a new layer below it, and fill the layer with the background color of your toolbar, then save the image in BMP format. After that, open gvim.exe in a resource editor (for example ResHacker), choose BITMAP in the tree, then choose 101, right click on it and then choose replace resource. Choose the previously saved tools.bmp, then choose File -> Save and you are done :D

Credits:
Silk icons at www.famfamfam.com

PHP Manual

char101 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:13:06 +0000

PHP manual in CHM format

About

The manual in php.net site hasn’t been updated since Dec 07, so here’s the latest php manual in chm.

Download

php_manual_en-080831.chm (4 MB)

CakePHP Documentation

char101 — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:54:17 +0000

CakePHP documentation in CHM

CakePHP 1.2 Manual
CakePHP 1.1 Manual
CakePHP 1.2 API
CakePHP 1.1 API
Articles from bakery.cakephp.org

(*) All sources are based on information available on Aug 17, 2008

Download (3 MB)

jQuery Documentation

char101 — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:49:49 +0000

jQuery Documentation

jquery-20080331.chm (150 KB)
Chm version of jQuery API browser
Basically the same as below (plus the documentation for validation and treeview plugin), but does not contains and embedded sample and therefore is much lighter.
Python script to generate the chm tochm.py (9 KB).
jQuery and jQuery UI Reference 1.2.chm (639 KB)
This is jQuery documentation wiki packaged as a chm file.
Note: datepicker does not work in IE and the ajax examples often emit “Access Denied” error (tested with IE7). If you get “Access Denied” error, try to click several times on the tree node.

Creating portable Internet Explorer 6 + Developer Toolbar

char101 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:58:19 +0000

Note that what I mean with Developer Toolbar here is not a portable developer toolbar buat a portable IE6 that works with Developer Toolbar. Other types of portable IE 6 I have tried does not work well with Developer Toolbar.

1. Install 7-zip
2. Extract XP SP2 installation package into some directory (open the .exe file with 7-zip)
3. For each one of these files:

browselc.dll dxtmsft.dll mshtml.dll urlmon.dll xpsp2res.dll
browseui.dll dxtrans.dll shdoclc.dll vbscript.dll iexplore.exe
jscript.dll shdocvw.dll wininet.dll mshtml.tlb

Find the corresponding files, i.e., browselc.dll corresponds with browselc.dl_

4. Open the corresponding file (i.e. browselc.dl_ for browselc.dll) with 7-zip
5. Create an empty directory for your portable IE
6. Extract the file in no.4 the the directory in no.5
7. Create an empty file named iexplore.exe.local
8. Copy dispex.dll to the directory in no.5. It’s not in the SP2 package, so you’ll have to copy it from another source. I copy it from C:\WINDOWS\system32. My dispex.dll version is 5.6.0.8825.
8. You can test your portable IE version using

http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/sidepages/cond_1.html

Manual installation of postgresql under administrator user in windows

char101 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:54:21 +0000

Since version 8.2.7, postgresql on windows can run under administrative user account. Here’s how to do it with postgresql 8.3.3

1) Download postgresql-8.3.3-1-binaries-no-installer.zip. Here we’ll use c:\postgresql as the target directory, so extract the archive to that directory.
2) Create a folder named data in c:\postgresql (or wherever you want it to be). Then we’ll need to initialize the data folder. Run this command:
c:\postgresql\bin\initdb -D c:\postgresql\data
3) Run the server
pg_ctl.exe start -D c:\postgresql\data

NOTE:
1) the fix to run postgresql under administrator is in pg_ctl.exe so don’t run postgres.exe directly or it will fail.
2) this setup is for testing purpose, don’t use it for production use.

Chm version of jquery api browser

char101 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:48:49 +0000

View the jQuery api browser online.

Download the chm here
http://peacech.googlepages.com/jquery-20080331.chm [150KB]

Python script to generate the chm
tochm.py [9KB]

PyLucene GCJ 2.2.0-1 for win32, python 2.5

char101 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:36:06 +0000

PyLucene is Python binding to the Lucene library created by osafoundation.org.

PyLucene-2.2.0-1-gcj-py25-win32.zip
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Compilation Settings:
This version is compiled MingW 3.4.5 (the PyLucene creators recommends MingW 3.4.2 ;P), Lucene release 2.2.0 (the PyLucene creators use Lucene revision 549438, which is older revision, I believe). I do not add Berkeley DB support on this compilation.

Installation:
Extract the zip file contents into Python site-package directory.

Usage:
import PyLucene

# your code here

Source Code:
The source code of this package can be retrieved from PyLucene homepage and GnuWin32 homepage (for the libiconv-2 source).

Test Result:
All 31 tests distributed with the sources run OK.

Other Things:
Lucene 2.2.0 has a different API with Lucene 2.1.0, for example with PyLucene 2.2.0 we can write PyLucene.FSDirectory.getDirectory(dir) while with PyLucene 2.1.0 we need to add the second argument PyLucene.FSDirectory.getDirectory(dir, False), so it might not be 100% compatible with your existing code.

PyLucene JCC 2.2.0 binary for win32

char101 — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:32:55 +0000

PyLucene JCC version (not the GCJ version). This version needs a JVM to operate.

Install:
Extract the archive contents to your python lib\site-packages.
Open lucene\__init__.py, edit line 3 with your own path to jvm.dll.

Usage:
import lucene
lucene.initJVM(lucene.CLASSPATH)

Download Link:

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pylucene-jcc-2.2.0-2-py25-win32.zip