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Posted in Uncategorized on 01/14/2010 10:34 pm by ycTINPopular HTTP response status code in the web development
Posted in Experience & Notes on 12/01/2009 08:16 pm by ycTINThe popular HTTP response code with simple description:
2xx Success
200 OK
Good status, server return successful
3xx Redirection
301 Moved Permanently
Permanently redirect to new URL, better in the SEO (Recommend)
302 Found
Temporary redirect to new URL(Default)
304 Not Modified
The request resource has not been modified since last requested. Browser will load the content from cached (IE may not)
Windows Live Writer – Image Upload Not Supported by Weblog (Wordpress)
Posted in Wordpress on 11/25/2009 10:59 pm by ycTINYesterday, I update my blog via Windows Live Writer. But get the following error message:
Image Upload Not Supported by Weblog
The following images cannot be published because the weblog does not support image publishing.…some filenames
It has been working fine, and the Windows Live Writer not any update in this period, I just relocated my blog to another server, so I think the problem should be about this. I found a simple way to solve this problem, after checking the Wordpress configure.
Find the geography location by IP-address or host name
Posted in Best Free Resources, Domain & Web Hosting on 11/24/2009 11:49 pm by ycTINSometime you may want to know the following informations:
- IP address and hostname convertion
- Tracking and lookup IP address
- Determine the IP address or host location
- Find the geographical location of the web sites, identified by the IP address
- Display the web site geographical location in the map
- IP Tools with multi-language interface
- More informations about the hostname, domain and ip address
Demo
Click here to trace my homepage now!!
http://ip.many3.com/en/tracer/yctin.com/
Also have an igoogle gadget : iGoogle Geo IP Tool
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The country lists – Both database and dropdown list version for development
Posted in Best Free Resources, Library on 10/29/2009 10:32 pm by ycTINSome time you may need to display the country for your users choose, the following resource may help you saving the time.
Country Name and ISO 3166 Code MySQL Import File
Country Lists in Most Popular Languages – HTML Dropdown List
http://urbanoalvarez.es/blog/2008/06/06/country-state-select-lists/
In chinese section should be separate into simplified chinese and traditional chinese, detail please see below…
Best JavaScript IDE – Aptana Sutdio
Posted in AJAX, Software on 10/29/2009 09:47 pm by ycTINThe Aptana Studio based on the Eclipse IDE, is a usefully ide for develop the complex web application(e.g. AJAX, B/S Programs). I very like the code completion and the cross browser compatible detection features.
The Aptana is cross-platform, free, and open-source. Provided are differents installation type both standalone and Eclipse plugin, You can download the Aptana plugin to improve your existing Eclipse IDE or new standalone IDE.
Overview
Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, along with thousands of additional plugins created by the community.
Unified Editing for Web Apps
Aptana Studio’s editors provide world-class HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code completion, reference, and validation at your fingertips.
Ajax and JavaScript Libraries
Get unrivaled support for popular libraries including jQuery, Prototype, YUI, dojo, Ext JS, MooTools, and others.
Ruby on Rails, Python and PHP
Add powerful plugins and ready-to-use runtimes for Ruby on Rails, Python and PHP. Eclipse users can easily add Studio as a plugin.
Desktop Ajax
Use your skills to create desktop web applications with our plugin for Adobe AIR.
Free, Open Source and Cross Platform
Download Aptana Studio for Windows, Mac, or Linux. Both the standalone and Eclipse plugin distributions are free, open source software.
Yeah, it’s in there.
Multi-browser previews, SQL database tools, an awesome JavaScript debugger, server tail views, and tons more.
Quoted from Aptana homepage
The difference between utf8_general_ci and utf8_unicode_ci in MySQL
Posted in MySQL on 09/26/2009 11:55 am by ycTINThe utf8_general_ci and utf8_unicode_ci are most popular collations for utf8 charset in MySQL database. But a lot of peoples do not know the different between utf8_general_ci and utf8_unicode_ci.
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[PHP] PHPExcel – The Powerful Excel Library
Posted in Library, PHP on 09/25/2009 10:09 pm by ycTINPHPExcel is an powerful class for read & write excel files, it is very useful in the report generation. You can easily to use PHPExcel to create the true and new version excel files, not are outdated excel formats.
PHPExcel providing a set of classes for the PHP programming language, which allow you to write to and read from different file formats, like Excel 2007, PDF, HTML, … This project is built around Microsoft’s OpenXML standard and PHP.
This class set provides, such as setting spreadsheet meta data (author, title, description, …), multiple worksheets, different fonts and font styles, cell borders, fills, gradients, adding images to your spreadsheet and much, much more!Quoted from PHPExcel homepage
[PHP] PHPMailer – The Mail Library
Posted in Library, PHP on 09/25/2009 02:11 pm by ycTINThe PHPMailer a powerful and most popular email transport class with a big features and small footprint that is simple to use and integrate into your own software.
PHPMailer is free and release under LGPL license.
Full Featured Email Transfer Class for PHP. PHPMailer features:
- Supports emails digitally signed with S/MIME encryption!
- Supports emails with multiple TOs, CCs, BCCs and REPLY-TOs
- Works on any platform.
- Supports Text & HTML emails.
- Embedded image support.
- Multipart/alternative emails for mail clients that do not read HTML email.
- Flexible debugging.
- Custom mail headers.
- Redundant SMTP servers.
- Support for 8bit, base64, binary, and quoted-printable encoding.
- Word wrap.
- Multiple fs, string, and binary attachments (those from database, string, etc).
- SMTP authentication.
- Tested on multiple SMTP servers: Sendmail, qmail, Postfix, Gmail, Imail, Exchange, etc.
- Good documentation, many examples included in download.
- It’s swift, small, and simple.
Quoted from PHPMailer homepage

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Detect Internet Explorer 6 in jQuery
Posted in jQuery on 09/15/2009 11:44 pm by ycTINMicrosoft Internet Explorer 6 still is a popular browser in the world. but IE6 has are many problems so we always need to detect the browser version. jQuery provided a simple method to do this, see below

