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custom theme war file for Novell Identity Managers (IDM) User Application (UA or User App)

admin — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:54:00 +0000

Was working on the software based on Novell Identity Management (IDM). IDM software package includes a peace of software called User Application – UA. It is user portal software which supports skins or templates. I had a lot of trouble to collect all the info needed to produce a custom theme. Novell documentation is incomplete [...]

strange javascript window.open problem on ie

admin — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:59:42 +0000

Internet explorer fails to open popup window using window.open() if the name for the window contains at least minus symbol ‘-’. I guess it will fail in case of any other strange symbol.

<html> <body> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> function illegal() { window.open("http://are.ehibou.com", "aaa-aaa"); } function legal() { window.open("http://are.ehibou.com", "aaaaaa"); } </script> <a href="javascript:illegal()">Illegal</a> [...]

Strange client side xml xslt transformation problem

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:15:39 +0000

took a look at w3cshools example. Implemented exactly the same code on my environment. Firefox was performing the transformation as expected Internet Explorer (IE) all versions were failing and returning error:

Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; eSobiSubscriber 2.0.4.16; .NET [...]

Set html tags style dynamically using javascript

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:16:50 +0000

Had a probelm to find css attribute to js mapping. So here it is.

document.getElementById(id).style.<check the table for a proper fieldname>

CSS Attribute to JavaScript Reference CSS Property JavaScript Reference background background background-attachment backgroundAttachment background-color backgroundColor background-image backgroundImage background-position backgroundPosition background-repeat backgroundRepeat border border border-bottom borderBottom border-bottom-color borderBottomColor border-bottom-style borderBottomStyle border-bottom-width borderBottomWidth border-color borderColor border-left [...]

LDAP: error code 80 – NDS error: partial results (-6106)

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:51:56 +0000

Had some problems with the following error on Novell eDir:

'Read Attributes' has encountered a problem. Error while reading entry [LDAP: error code 80 - NDS error: partial results (-6106)]

First I thought that Novell eDirectory database got corrupted, but later I figured out that memberQueryURL of the dynamic group object was querying a container [...]

php+tomcat on windows

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:09:17 +0000

Got a task to install php on top of tomcat (Tomcat5) on Windows. Was strugling to make it work for a while. Was reading wrong blogs and newsgroups for a while without success untill I found a very good resource – JavaBridge. It was so easy as to run msi to install php and to [...]

windows vista

admin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:59:12 +0000

Bought new computer, “Acer Aspire x3200″, with windows vista home premium inside. Plugged in all the devices I had (printer, web cam, monitor, pda cradle, mouse, keyboard) and started it up. Some Acer disk image software started to restore/configure windows vista partitition. Computer rebooted it self and windows vista exposed a blueish screen with mouse [...]

c#.NET file acces denied problem

admin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:03:08 +0000

I was trying to access a file with the user having only read permission. the code looked like:

FileStream fs =new FileStream( "c:\path\to\file.ext", FileMode.Open);

and it uset to throw exception “access denied”. After some investigations I’ve found that FileAccess.Read helps a lot. FileStream fs = new FileStream( "c:\path\to\file.ext", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);

MDX complement operator problem

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:02:49 +0000

Playing with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis services 2005 and MDX language. Could not find many resources or error reference on the internet.

The following MDX query was created using query painter: Select (-({[My Dimension].[My Hierarchy].[My Level].&[Not existing member]})) ON COLUMNS FROM [My Cube] Executing this query results in an error:

Set used with the complement [...]

anonymous, dynamic, variable classes and methods

admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:53:56 +0000

To call a method by dynamic name you can do this:

$methodName="MyMethod"; $result=$methodName();

To create a class by dynamic name you can do this:

$className="MyClass"; $classVar=new $className;

To call any method by dynamic name in previously initialized class you can do this:

$methodName="MyMethod"; $result=$classVar->$methodName();