Solution: Go to your View, where you render your form and add the following:

$form = $this->form;
$this->dojo()->setDijit($form->getId(), array('dojoType' => 'dijit.form.Form')); 

// add form tag ...
// add elements ...

It took me nearly 3 hours to figure this out
Hope this helps someone.

did it last week – hope you like it.

Found it via twitter and worth a read.

However, the disappearing of the control panel “on screen” can be eventually solved if you do the following very few steps:

• close the control panel
• open up rededit
• navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Creative Professional\E-MU USB Audio Control Panel
• delete the following entries: “WindowX”, “WindowY”
• launch the CP again and you will see it again

It’s in everyones mouth but a lot of people do not understand fully what sprites are supposed to optimize. Well we want so badly to reduce the HTTP requests but as I’ll show you, a lot of people do not understand how to write efficient selectors for sprites.

Here’s a meaningfull chart I’m going to explain a few pixel down.

The first “wrong way” uses multiple images and no sprites and show you what you might except. For each image a request gets done. 22ms were used.

The second wrong way shows you something, a lot of people wouldn’t have guessed. For each CSS selector a request is made! The reason is, that the Browser does not know that the image has been already requested and requests it again. The browser then, when it does it’s pre-processing understands, that tghe ressource has been already requested and grabs it ideally from the browser-cache. However that’s just 4ms faster than without sprites.

.icon-mail 			{ background: transparent url(images/sprite.png) 0 0 no-repeat }
.icon-mail-add 		{ background: transparent url(images/sprite.png) 0 -40px no-repeat }
.icon-mail-attach 		{ background: transparent url(images/sprite.png) 0 -80px no-repeat }
.icon-mail-delete 		{ background: transparent url(images/sprite.png) 0 -120px no-repeat }
.icon-mail-edit 		{ background: transparent url(images/sprite.png) 0 -160px no-repeat }
.icon-mail-error 		{ background: transparent url(images/sprite.png) 0 -200px no-repeat }
.icon-mail-go 			{ background: transparent url(images/sprite.png) 0 -240px no-repeat }
.icon-mail-link 		{ background: transparent url(images/sprite.png) 0 -280px no-repeat }
.icon-nail-open 		{ background: transparent url(images/sprite.png) 0 -320px no-repeat }
.icon-mail-open-image 	{ background: transparent url(images/sprite.png) 0 -360px no-repeat }

The third and correct way uses one selector containing the sprite and a few others to change only the position of the sprite. As you can see in my fancy chart, the benefit is: 4ms for the whole test document. Thats 5.5 times faster than the first example and unbelievable 4 times faster than the second example, which uses the very same sprite!

.icons { background-image: url(images/sprite.png); background-repeat: none }
.icon-mail 			{ background-position: 0 0 }
.icon-mail-add 		{ background-position: 0 -40px }
.icon-mail-attach 		{ background-position: 0 -80px }
.icon-mail-delete 		{ background-position: 0 -120px }
.icon-mail-edit 		{ background-position: 0 -160px }
.icon-mail-error 		{ background-position: 0 -200px }
.icon-mail-go 			{ background-position: 0 -240px }
.icon-mail-link 		{ background-position: 0 -280px }
.icon-nail-open 		{ background-position: 0 -320px }
.icon-mail-open-image 	{ background-position: 0 -360px }

ps: You need something like firebug or httpwatch to check it for yourself.

This post is personal – as I’ve already mentioned – and I guess I am in the position to say that I’ve matured without becoming old. And for my step dad – I’d arrogate to oneself that i knew him that much, that he was a good person suffered a great burden he was unable to fight. Over a few years he has supported me financially and personal – because as he stated – he was able to at that time. I know he had a good reputation and people liked him for his honesty and the ability to say whats important. The sadly part about it – he wasn’t able to do all the good things to himself – which he adviced to others. It’s always easy to give good advice …

And the good thing is – he’ll be in my heart – forever. No matter how fucked up the situations sometimes was with him … he tought me a few essential things I continue to teach aswell to others:

• have a real opinion
• believe in yourself
• it doesn’t matter what other people say – as long as you don’t betray yourself

In two weeks will be the ceremony and I guess it’s my first funeral after all … and the family will come together – after long period of being not together.

May he rest in peace and whatever he has wished for shall come true in eternity.
Word!

PS: A few links I’ve just discovered about him (in german):

• abendblatt about his death notice and obituary
• grüne wedel (scroll down to Bernd Reifhardt) about his political career
• abendblatt about his political retirement in 2002

The reason might be, you’ve copied from another repos some files – including – some .svn dirs.

What user/group has the apache?
ps -ef | grep apache

Who owns the files in your htdocs?

…

Because it is most likely that you need to chown your htdocs, and or add a user to the correct group.

This is a fresh server with 500gig and only 1% is in use – so there is space and I guess there is something else wrong. fsck ‘mention’ that the superblock is corrupted. Well ok – I know it is not so wise to run fsck on a running mashine – it would be more wise from lilo or a live cd – but it is a ‘managed OS’ so the hoster do not provide such thing. If the worse get worse, I can call them and let em reinstall everything but all my configurations would be lost – or at least I had to copy my configs to the new one.

Right now I am in fsck’s interactive mode and pushing the confirm button repeatedly and /lost+found is getting affiled.

And then some message:
/dev/sda1: 37458/30277632 Dateien (1.3% nicht zusammenhängend), 2216874/121093945 Blöcke
and the console stands still. no Ctrl+C, no ‘enter’, no nothing works…

*duck*

and then

[LOCAL] : SSH2Core version 4.3.0.371
[LOCAL] : Connecting to netfreaks.de:22 ...
[LOCAL] : Changing state from STATE_NOT_CONNECTED to STATE_EXPECT_KEX_INIT
[LOCAL] : RECV: TCP/IP close
[LOCAL] : Changing state from STATE_EXPECT_KEX_INIT to STATE_CLOSED
[LOCAL] : Connected for 0 seconds, 47 bytes sent, 0 bytes received


it wasn’t me!

Of course we went to the ‘Semper opera’, the ‘Zwinger’, the
‘Frauenkirche’, took some tourist-like photos and spent the evening at
‘Neustadt’.

Right now we wait for the ship to ‘Rathen’ to see the ‘Elb-Sandstein
Mountains’ and I am starving and hope there something to eat on board.
A sausage with mustard + a bun would be great!

…

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Sent from my mobile device

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However – my work-life balance *seems* to be *unbalanced* and the affected personal relationships seems to truely suck atm; But therefor my boss said he’s satisfied with my work – and I have only 7 days left until the employment probation period is over and I am fully employed. – I guess that would be a classic scenario of a double-edged sword.

< insert your favourite f-word right here >

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=gruene.de
http://meedia.de/nc/details/article/wahljahr-09–grne-setzen-web-mastbe_100018828.html

I guess we’ll polish some things in within the next few weeks but in general I like it. However – I’ve slept only 4 hours tonight, after 18 hours of final spurt and still have another time critical task on my list …

coffee!

1. Create an Validator which always fails.
2. Check right after the isPost() condition if “your condition” matches.
3. Assign the “will-always-fail” validator to your element and you’re done.

// save as 'Zend/Validate/CustomError.php
require_once 'Zend/Validate/Abstract.php';

class Zend_Validate_CustomError extends Zend_Validate_Abstract  {

    const SOME_ERROR = 'someError';

	// configure to whatever you like, or override it with setMessage()
    protected $_messageTemplates = array(
        self::SOME_ERROR => "is not valid"
    );

	// sets the element as invalid
    public function isValid($value)
    {
        $valueString = (string) $value;
        $this->_setValue($valueString);
		$this->_error();
        return false;
    }

}

And in your form controller add right after the isPost() condition:

if(sizeof($_POST['yourelement'])>2) {
	$customError = new Zend_Validate_CustomError();
	$customError->setMessage('You must select less than 2');
	self::getElement('yourelement')->addValidator($customError);
}

The other one is by John N. Demos, getting started with neurofeedback. Since I am interested in this topic for more than 10 years I am really lucky that I’ve found that one. I’ve scanned it only just – but it seems to be a good book, because it seems to be well written, in an easy language without being flat nor to trivial. I guess this book addresses not the average folk – but if you are interested into brain waves, its meaning and how to “change” em – this book could be an option for you

It’s late – gotta sleep now

I really like multi step forms as user but as developer I hate em. Nevertheless it’s 1:40am/Saturday and I am doing stuff for work. Actually I should go out and do party but that is not the case and so I code.

Oh ya – at least I did /some/ tagging, when I went to the grocery and there are still /some/ beers in the fridge.

cheers!