Flex 4, Air 2, and others

From last night, I started writing a Flex program. Here is what it does:

1. open a .xls file and show it in datagrid.

2. search by column, type as change.

3. Open the changed datagrid in new .xls file.

It's pretty neat, would be very useful to process a large .xsl file.

But then I found it's not that useful because Excel could do basically everything it does. Kind of frustrated a little bit, but then I realize that it's not that bad, after I jsut re-picked up what I left about a year ago. After all, I start using Flash Builder 4, Flex 4 API, AIR 2 API, refresh some of my knowledge on Flex, like layout, HGroup(HBox), VGroup (VBox), ArrayCollection, Column list, ComboBox, Filter function....and also how to release a project.

So, it's good.

Change Cygwin ls colors

1. first, put the following lines in your .bashrc

alias ls='ls --color=auto -F --group-directories-first'

eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS`

2. edit /etc/DIR_COLORS`

Before I found that there are some directories always with green background, very annoying, take a good look, found the reason, I don't have enough permissions for these folders, so chmod 755 do it.

Eclipse conflicts with ClipMagic

I like ClipMagic, which gives me total control on ClipBoard, plus some additional perks.

But Eclipse is my bread, which I make a living on it.

Now, one of my favorite thing that I do quite often in Eclipse: alt + up/down to copy lines are not working, I then found it has something to do with ClipMagic, as I close ClipMagic, alt = up/down works....

Now I need find out how to let these two work together....

I have decided scrapping ClipMagic using Ditto....

Total Commander

Why I want to use Total Commander?

1. multiple windows operations.

2. multiple files/folder renaming.

3. save your selections into a file.

4. synchronizations: they will check the differences. ask your which way to sync.

5. Powerful search: full text search. (might need enable unicode)

6. Copy multiple files' name, path, detail into clipboard.

set up FTP server at your machine using IIS 6

Control Panel->Programs and Features->turn windows features on or off->Internet Information Services->FTP Publishing Service->FTP Server

Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Manager->Defautl FTP Site start it.

ftp://localhost:21

righ click->Peermissions->Users (matt-PC\Users), give full control

restart the server, now users will have the delete permissions.

explore this

http://www.softwarecybersleuth.co.uk/pagethree.htm

http://www.ntwind.com/software/vistaswitcher.html

Quick Add Links to Windows Vista Explorer Favorite Links

Link

If you’ve used Windows Vista for 5 minutes, you’ll have seen the Favorite Links when browsing around your filesystem. What is annoying is that by default the favorite links doesn’t include enough useful links.

Here’s the default links list (I’m sure you have seen this)

If you want to add a new link to the links bar, all you have to do is drag and drop the folder onto the links bar. I’m going to add my Computer link to the menu:

Now, it shows up in the list:

Much better!

Managing your links is extremely simple. Just open up your home directory by clicking on your icon on the start menu. You’ll see the LInks folder:

This folder contains all of the shortcuts to your favorite locations.

To remove an item from the list, you can either right-click the item and choose Remove Link, or just go to your Links folder and delete it from there.