Currently I am working on a bigger project where Extjs has an important role. Up to now I had no experience with it charts capabilities. From an earlier work experience I knew Fusion Charts, but I was looking for something “for free”, so my eye fell on Google Charts.
For blogging I use Windows Live Writer, it’s free to download and use. It is a a nice product from Microsoft. But it was a problem to me that I could do a spelling check in English but not in Dutch and German. If you have this too, well that’s history after this read.
For an application we are developing at the moment for our company, I needed an integrated player for youtube movies. Condition was however, that it could run in an Extjs version 3.2 panel (or window). I started to look on internet (where else?), for I thought that this certainly must have tried once. I was a bit surprised that there’s no standard widget for this in Extjs. Read how easy it is to use in your own applications. I will stick as much as possible to the integration, skipping explanations on why it is working, for we want to see movies, don’t we?
I would like to recommend the following reading what should i be charging for webdesign. I think it is time that a crusade is started (against who?). This, to protect all creativity that apparently to the meaning of too many have to come too often for just a little or even for free. It is time to get some understanding in this world, that something good can’t come for free.
The reason for this post is an email I got from a site called Myhammer in Germany (find the URL yourself, no help from here). Read why I think IT creativity and effort is not taken serious anymore.
A few days ago I have written about the software Hidemyip (www.hidemyip.com). I have enjoyed speed skating from Germany, but the party seems to be over. After a 3 day trial the premium options have disappeared and now whatever I try, I don’t get any IP-address any more from the Netherlands. I counted 6 different addresses (2x UK, 2x USA and 2x Canada). This software is what we call “a scam”. Luring customers into buying the premium services. So my advise (after great enthusiasm), KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF this. Don’t encourage the makers greed by buying a far to expensive premium service.
To the makers of hidemyip (Americans by the way, from California) I would say. You sunshine boys made great software, a real party, pitty that the light went out already after 3 days.
This post is about something completely different than the usual stuff. I am Dutch and I am a big fan of speedskating (congratulations Sven Kramer with your marveleous victory on the 5K). But in Germany they don’t like it so much as we do. When I look on the Dutch public TV site, I found out that I am not aloud to watch speedskating from their site, based on my geographical location. This time is not about etnic or religious background, but just that I am 150km from the border of my mothers’ country. So I started to look for a solution and I found it…
On my endless search for freeware (or almost free) software I found this application. It is originated from Romania. The software shows us a fantastic view on the possibilities of building applications with the Extjs framework. Although I have to be fair to say I only had a brief view at the deeper contents of the package, I have to admit that it is a fine piece of work. www.rvxmanager.com. Also the supporting website deserves to get a big compliment.
For an Excel document I had to add a trademark to a text in Superscript. This spreadsheet however was multilanguage and the style of a superscript (TM) is not translated/converted in a formula. But with a bit of Google I have found the solution. Here is how I did it.
What exactly is a “page ear”? Well that are those nice page flips, mostly on the right top of a web page. They are there to invite you to click on it, for getting some more “hidden” information (shown with some animation). As a sample I have used the “donkey-ears” from http://www.webpicasso.de/blog/pageear-free-peel-away-ad/. It’s free-of-charge as long as you keep the copyright in the javascript.
Personally I am allergic for software that looks nice in a demo, but in your situation just don’t works. Even worse is when the manual also useless is. So I know, I create some expectation here. I will explain how my “ear” works (related to our website http://www.rjb-europe.com).
My name is Johan van de Merwe and I am living in Bad Salzuflen, Germany. I was born however in a town called Nijverdal in the Netherlands. You probably never heard of me and that is fine. But now that you are here on my blog, I hope you will come back once in a while.
My other blog is www.djeedjee.com and that is completely in the Dutch (Nederlandse) language. The blog is about all that is interesting about developing for the web, mainly web applications, based on frameworks like jQuery, CodeIgniter and ExtJS.
As a challenge to see if I can reach a bigger audience (for I want to learn also something myself) I have decided to also blog in English. This blog will not be a one-to-one translation of the Dutch blog, but also have it’s own thing once in a while. In next few days, I will add quickly more content and hopefully together with the readers produce something nice.
