Ryan Rampersad

Create a Branch and Switch to it in Git

Ryan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:31:25 +0000

You probably already figured this one out if you use git. But if you’re new to all of those awesome git tricks, well, here you go. I always forget to checkout the branch I just created, so having it wrapped up in a single command is absolutely perfect. git checkout -b [name of new branch] That takes care [...] Related posts:

Setting Build Path has Encountered a Problem in Eclipse

Ryan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:10:35 +0000

Adding a jar to an eclipse project is normally really easy. I came home from school today after adding the AP Computer Science gridworld jar. I always have to add external libraries twice because at school we have OSX and at home I have Windows, so the file paths don’t match up. So after trying to [...] Related posts:

Queue Ajax Requests in Mootools

Ryan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:52:56 +0000

On a recent project, I used ajax to render a full cell of a table upon clicking it. I found that without some kind of queue, my clients would click on a bunch to expand them, but only the first would render. Mootools offers a plugin in mootools more called Request.Queue, but that wasn’t what [...] Related posts:

CakePHP 1.3 Helper $text truncate error

Ryan — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:49:19 +0000

Today I was using one of CakePHP’s helper methods, $text->truncate. It gave me these errors and I can’t say I was pleased about it. It reminded me that sometimes, functions aren’t a piece of cake. Warning (2): array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array [CORE/cake/libs/view/helpers/text.php, line 184] Warning (2): extract() [function.extract]: First argument should be an [...] Related posts:

CakePHP – 1and1 – 500 Internal Server Error

Ryan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:20:55 +0000

I recently deployed a CakePHP application to a 1and1 server. I was presented with a wonderful 500 Internal Server Error. That only means one thing: a .htaccess was messed up somewhere. There were many places that pointed me in the right direction to fix this problem. It was definitely an annoying hitch. Seriously, there’s that [...] Related posts:

Easy CakePHP Database Settings Switching

Ryan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:35:07 +0000

CakePHP does make somethings really easy, and sometimes, not so easy. I like to have a testing setting and a production setting stored in my databases.php. Your DATABASE_CONFIG object of course contains those arrays of settings. So the question is, how do you switch exactly? It is never mentioned specifically in the documentation, but you can [...] Related posts:

Double Division in Java

Ryan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:25:26 +0000

My Computer Science discovers interesting things sometimes. Recently we were doing a little practice with Exceptions and try-catch blocks. One of our projects was to handle division by zero and not crash the program. That sounds like a ordinary project, but as it turns out, it was a more surprising than anyone would have ever [...] Related posts:

Invalid Object Initialization

Ryan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:30:40 +0000

Firebug will scream and shout about Invalid Object Initialization if you mess just a little something up. Firebug does this a lot. It is an unhelpful error because Firebug will direct you to the first line of your object, not where the problem is. Firebug gave me this, more or less. That wasn’t helpful. (Why did [...] Related posts:

Show File Extensions and Hidden Files in Windows 7

Ryan — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:33:46 +0000

When I get a new computer I always do a couple of things immediately upon getting to the Windows Desktop. One of those things is enabling the showing of extensions and hidden files. You should do it too, it can save tons of headaches. Open windows explorer either via the taskbar shortcut or by computer [...] Related posts:

Install nVidia Drivers to Ubuntu 9.10

Ryan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:59:53 +0000

I recently converted my old Windows Vista computer into a Ubuntu server after getting tired of my old virtual box virtual machine. It still had a decent graphics card (an nVidia 9500 GT) so I wanted to at least checkout Compiz Fusion. I had some trouble getting it up though. So here’s the deal. First Go As [...] Related posts: