However, what I was looking for was to detect when the “enter” is pressed and to immediately kick off another event based on the user’s selection from the suggested list. And the plugin didn’t provide any callback on this.

Well, digging through the code, I commented out the following lines and it seems to work quite well. I know it’s a hack, so I might get to a more elegant solution later on. But for an immediate results, it worked fine.

    onKeyPress: function(e) {

if (this.disabled || !this.enabled) { return; }

// return will exit the function

// and event will not be prevented

switch (e.keyCode) {

case 27: //KEY_ESC:

this.el.val(this.currentValue);

this.hide();

break;

case 9: //KEY_TAB:

case 13: //KEY_RETURN:

if (this.selectedIndex === -1) {

this.hide();

return;

}

this.select(this.selectedIndex);

if(e.keyCode === 9){ return; }

break;

case 38: //KEY_UP:

this.moveUp();

break;

case 40: //KEY_DOWN:

this.moveDown();

break;

default:

return;

}

//e.stopImmediatePropagation();

//e.preventDefault();

},

For some time now, I wanted to create an app where you can view “location data”. By that I mean, any data set that has latitude/longitude pairs for locations. This can be a list of particular businesses in an area, public parks, public toilets etc.

The motive for this app came from the fact that there are a lot of datasets from local governments, which are usually hard to visualize quickly. Sure, a lot of people are building a variety of mashups for displaying the data, but they are a isolated vertical silos for each of the dataset. Why can’t we put them in a single place?

Here is the run down of what I wanted to achieve

• Allow users to upload a CSV file
• Select which columns are latitude/longitude columns
• Select which columns should describe each data point

Once the dataset is uploaded, then I want

• A map that displays all points in a clustered view – meaning, I want points that are close together to be clustered together (which makes the browsing faster)
• A list of data points that describe what they are
• A list of datasets so that users can quickly view different datasets

So, let me introduce you “Dataloco“.

However, a little strange thing with Backbone is that the content is loaded only if the URL changes. I found this behaviour a little bit peculiar and it seems like its GitHub followers agree.

Anyway, until they do something about it, here’s a little thing you can do to trick the framework so that URL is reloaded no matter what.

Backbone.history.loadUrl( Backbone.history.fragment )

Awesome or what? You’re welcome.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/australia/locationally-takes-out-sapi-hackathon/848

I updated and installed many of the Unix components, so I’m guessing that’s what caused it. Anyway, after a quick browse and sifting through a few different solutions, this is what I found to fix my problem.

- Simply just edit file my.cnf in “/etc/mysql/my.cnf”
- Find “Bind Address = ”
- Set Bind address to appropriate IP address of server
- Restart mysql  ”/etc/init.d/mysql restart”

I know it’s silly. But hey, it’s something to learn. Just leaving it here for my reference and for anyone else who might come across it!

UPDATE! : Upon a further inspection, this was not actually caused by anything else than one of my queries that was too big. I went through my DB and I naively used “text” type for nearly all of my columns. After I changed them to an appropriate types. It was all ok. Phew.

I’m quite sick of this. I created a new Twitter account yesterday for one of the apps I am creating. And as soon as I join, I get these spamming users with links to porn sites. Their tweets (I bet you) are spams because they are trying to tweet out some random content, which may or may not be related to porn. Why isn’t Twitter deleting these users even after I reported them awhile ago?

Woo hoo. I thought it was cool when Happenic made it, but now my Stack Exchange API 2.0 Contest entry “Stack Reputational” has made the PW’s Mashup of the Day! The official page is here. If you like it, please vote for it at StackApps!

More to come in next few days to improve this hopefully.

http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/cross-browser-html5-placeholder-text/comment-page-2

I’m calling my app “Stack Reputational”. It’s a way of providing a detailed look at how each user is rated throughout the Stackoverflow site.

I’ve been coding it for a few hours per day now, and it’s going great and I shall publish very soon. By the way, prize is iPad 2. Why wouldn’t anyone NOT enter the contest!