Learning WCF RESTful Web Service

Web Service alone is already something new to me coming from old Dos-based 4th GL programming arena ... so, need to find a lot of references and examples ... yesterday, I did my own guide after learning from one good example.

The following are articles that I am going to read further:

http://pranayamr.blogspot.com/2010/11/create-hostself-hosting-iis-hosting-and.html

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/132809/Calling-WCF-Services-using-jQuery

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/283550/Implementing-5-important-principles-of-REST-using

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/571813/A-Beginners-Tutorial-on-Creating-WCF-REST-Services

http://www.dotnetspark.com/kb/1373-step-by-step-tutorial-rest-enabled-service.aspx

http://wcftutorial.net/How_to_create_RESTful_Service.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16144873/enable-wcf-service-to-use-with-json

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb412172.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6136307/advantages-of-webinvoke-post-compared-to-webget

Learning WCF RESTful Web Service

Web Service alone is already something new to me coming from old Dos-based 4th GL programming arena ... so, need to find a lot of references and examples ... yesterday, I did my own guide after learning from one good example.

The following are articles that I am going to read further:

http://pranayamr.blogspot.com/2010/11/create-hostself-hosting-iis-hosting-and.html

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/132809/Calling-WCF-Services-using-jQuery

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/283550/Implementing-5-important-principles-of-REST-using

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/571813/A-Beginners-Tutorial-on-Creating-WCF-REST-Services

http://www.dotnetspark.com/kb/1373-step-by-step-tutorial-rest-enabled-service.aspx

http://wcftutorial.net/How_to_create_RESTful_Service.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16144873/enable-wcf-service-to-use-with-json

Really a Step by Step guide (personal note) for: Developing WCF RESTful Web Service in VS2010

This is my personal note, I capture each step and screenshot when I learn from this online guide. It is not easy in this journey, I have been searching for good guide since two months ago ...

CSS Vertical Align Text in DIV

This forum points out the most important part: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9249359/text-vertical-align-in-a-div

Installing Apache on Ubuntu 12.04 or Lubuntu 12.04

It works on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Lubuntu Desktop installed:

http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-apache2-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-ubuntu-12.04-lts-lamp

JavaScript: How to remove item from Array

This is the must read

Nice, Free Icons

Nice and Free Icons

Font-family in CSS

A Good reference

Get Mouse Position in JavaScript

Here is a good one, with example

After Installing IE10 and Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web Developer

If you get the error message:
attaching the script debugger to process '[6444] iexplorer.exe' on ...

Here the solution

Make sure you give the right path of the dll file, then it will work fantastically :)

CSS Drawing Examples

Drawing lines with arrow heads and This One and also This One

Another tutorial

Drawing with toning

http://www.minimalg.it/blog/2012/web-development/drawing-flowcharts-with-css-and-svg/

http://www.amaslo.com/2012/06/drawing-diagonal-line-in-htmlcssjs-with.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6107663/drawing-a-straight-line-with-arrow-in-javascript

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11808860/arrow-triangles-on-my-svg-line

http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/css-triangle/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15416731/issue-while-drawing-line-over-html5-canvas

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12680166/how-to-use-an-arrow-marker-on-an-svg-line-element

http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/11/22/css-quick-tip-css-arrows-and-shapes-without-markup/

CSS for Map Area

Good example at W3C

Box Shadow in CSS

Useful reference

A W3C Reference

Handling Date in Javascript

W3C Sample

CSS for Firefox

Supported styles in Firefox

Mozilla prefix (-moz) styles

TransformZ
At least working for Firefox and Chrome, tested. IE10 has to run in compatibility mode (sh..t)

Sample Web-based Scheduler

The Best!

1000 tasks! still running fast! cool!

Not bad ... but not the best yet :)

Learning how to create Web Services using .NET Web Developer (Express)

How to create web service using Visual Web Developer 2010 Express

A Walkthrough at MSDN

Another Microsoft tutorial

Calling web service with parameter

CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)

To test out the rotation

XML Parser Reference

Reading from xml string

http://www.w3schools.com/dom/dom_loadxmldoc.asp

Powerful script example

Converting local folder to relative uri ...

XML DOM model

still understanding this ...

How to create a class object using JavaScript

The following is a code showing how to do OOP using javascript in pure HTML page. I almost give up and luckily found some help :)

This is great one

JavaScript Learning

If you are also new to JavaScript which is a very powerful old friend, the following are some useful links:

Learning the most basic here ...

Good start

Simply easy to follow

How to Create Class-based Attribute in a Class

If you are thinking of creating your own website with your preferred domain name ...

Hi, just in case you are looking for some help on this, the following are some urls for references on how to get it done at your own time:

http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/registerdomain.shtml

http://www.2createawebsite.com/prebuild/register_domain.html

Top 10 Domain Name Registras

One of the Top 10

Finally .... The Authentication Issue Resolved for Connecting to PostGreSQL from Java

Hooh! So HAPPY!!! Finally, got it resolved for PostgreSQL 9.2 in Windows Environment

Inside the pg_hba.conf that is inside the folder C:\Program Files\PostGreSQL\9.2\data, navigate to the section titled "# IPv4 ...", and add this:


# IPv4 local connections:
host    all             all             0.0.0.0/0                trust
host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            trust

For the second row, which is originally there with md5 authentication, make it trust also.

This solution is referenced to: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/auth-methods.html

For more details about any security issue, if your scenario is not for localhost connection. For my case, am trying to connect using localhost.

The following is a sample code used in Java:


import java.sql.*;
import java.util.*;

public class PGSample
{
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    Connection connection = null;
    try
    {
      // the postgresql driver string
      Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
 
      // the postgresql url
      String url = "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/TestDB";
   
      // get the postgresql database connection
      connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url,"pguser", "");
   
      // now do whatever you want to do with the connection
      // ...
   
    }
    catch (ClassNotFoundException e)
    {
      e.printStackTrace();
      System.exit(1);
    }
    catch (SQLException e)
    {
      e.printStackTrace();
      System.exit(2);
    }
  }
}

Note: Replace the database TestDB with the name of the DB in your pc or server. Also, replace "pguser" with the user id in your own server.

What Characteristics/Traits Make A Good Manager?

Here are some references :)

http://www.peopleskillsdecoded.com/what-makes-a-good-manager/

http://www.phdinmanagement.org/25-qualities-and-characteristics-of-a-good-manager.html

http://blog.goyello.com/2009/09/18/the-6-main-qualities-that-make-a-manager-a-good-one/

http://kathrynvercillo.hubpages.com/hub/10-Traits-of-a-Successful-Manager

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/traits-of-a-good-manager.html

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Hopkins11.html

Java + PostgreSQL

http://zetcode.com/db/postgresqljavatutorial/

http://www.java-samples.com/showtutorial.php?tutorialid=202

http://alvinalexander.com/blog/post/jdbc/sample-java-jdbc-program-connect-database

Configuring: http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/head/setup.html

Download Driver: http://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html

Checking JDBC: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4215742/how-to-test-if-jdbc-driver-is-installed-correctly-and-if-the-db-can-be-connected

Online toys shop in Malaysia (based on Google search)

The following is not basing on their ranking, but is basing on what am interested to explore further :)

http://www.e-toyz.com/index.asp?p=/static/shipping.html

http://kidstoysmalaysia.com.my/

http://shop.littlekindle.com/

http://www.safetoysforkids.net/

Some Research To Do on Objective-C

http://www.fatvat.co.uk/2010/04/getting-started-with-objective-c-on.html

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081228162412AARZ4Gh

Unicode and Chinese Characters in Java - Reference

The following are some reference points for above subject ...

Currently, am still busy to explore further ... so to keep my self some convenience for the research later :)

Added on 26 Apr

http://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2012/01/get-set-default-character-encoding.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2622911/fix-string-encoding-in-java

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/java_string_getbytes.htm

http://exampledepot.8waytrips.com/egs/java.nio.charset/ConvertChar.html

http://examples.javacodegeeks.com/core-java/nio/charbuffer/convert-between-character-set-encodings-with-charbuffer/

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http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/io/BufferedReader.html

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/io/InputStreamReader.html

http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t592855-how-to-display-input-write-chinese-text-in-java.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/766361/how-to-save-chinese-characters-to-file-with-java

http://www.b-t.asia/chinese/prog-java.php

https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=9949628&#9949628

http://users.erols.com/eepeter/chinesecomputing/programming/java.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8873121/reading-chinese-characters-into-a-string-from-a-byte-buffer

http://www.mkyong.com/java/java-convert-chinese-character-to-unicode-with-native2ascii/

http://www.mandarintools.com/javaconverter.html

Sending email with gmail smtp in Python (it's simple and powerful)

Hi, I found two python code examples and I combine them and it works. Here is the sample code.

 This example send emails using gmail smtp service, so basically it is free and is possible even if you do not have an smtp server in the office :)

Enjoy! Python is powerful :)


Sample Code in Python 2.7:

import smtplib
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText

msg_text = 'my email content is here ... !!!'
msg = MIMEText(msg_text)
msg['Subject'] = 'Hello Subject'

server = smtplib.SMTP( "smtp.gmail.com", 587 )
server.starttls()
server.login('', '')
server.sendmail('', '', msg.as_string() )

print 'email sent successfully ... yahoo!!'

Save above code into a python code file, and then at Dos prompt, type Python example.py for example :)