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Quick YUI Panel styling sans Javascript

In doing some application mockups, I found a quick way to skin the YUI's Panel widget without having to create Javascript objects to do it for me. For each panel you need to just add the class yui-panel . Here is a markup example ( ripped out all but the body stuff out): <body class="yui-skin-sam"> <div id="doc2" class="yui-t5"> <div id="hd">Header Stuff</div> <div id="bd"> <div id="yui-main"> <div id="panel1" class="yui-b yui-panel"> <div class="hd">Panel Header</div> <div class="bd">Here is stuff for the body of the panel</div> <div class="ft">Panel Footer</div> </div> <div id="panel2" class="yui-b yui-panel"> <div class="

Easiest way to get SQLite to put in timestamps

After doing some more digging (must have been blind before), I found that SQLite supports a default timestamp at insert. Here is an example of a create statement using the default with SQLite CURRENT_TIMESTAMP keyword. create table user ( id integer primary key, username text not null, password text not null, first_name text, last_name text, created text default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP UNIQUE(username) ); That is much easier that my previous attempt. Not sure how I missed it. But it doesn't solve the missing now() function for updates. ( did find a language solution for that in Perl but that is for another post). In that case, it will still require the use of datetime('now') . Reference: SQLite CREATE TABLE reference .

2 ways to get SQLite to put dates into columns

2 ways to get SQLite to put dates into a column. insert into mytable values( null, datetime('now') ); insert into mytable values( null, strftime('%s', 'now')); The first one inserts a row somewhat like this: 1|2009-03-10 18:47:46 The second inserts an unix timestamp: 2|1236711411 It might be best to use that unix timestamp with an integer column type for dates since SQLite doesn't support a datetime one. It makes comparisons and ordering much easier: select * from dt where lu > strftime('%s', '2009-03-10'); Output of: id|lu 6|1236643200 2|1236711411 3|1236711516 4|1236711518 5|1236711519 But the formatting is pretty ugly. :-/ Hey what about formatting it within the select with the SQLite datetime function: select id, datetime(lu, 'unixepoch') lu from dt order by lu; id|lu 6|2009-03-10 00:00:00 2|2009-03-10 18:56:51 3|2009-03-10 18:58:36 4|2009-03-10 18:58:38 5|2009-03-10 18:58:39 Better but having to add that to each select is kin

Adding http request/response logging to SOAP::Lite

Sometimes I just want to save the xml versions of the SOAP requests and responses (generally to share with someone else). The SOAP::Lite perldoc page points to using SOAP::Trace . It has lots of good stuff but its a bit heavy. And in my case, I'm trying to figure out how to log response and requests over http so the following will hopefully help simplify my next search. :) here is my approach, first the code (all good things start in code :) : package SOAP::HTTP::Logging; use warnings; use strict; use Exporter; our @EXPORT = qw( enable_logging disable_logging soap_log_file log_message ); our $logfile; our $logboth = 0; our $log_request = 0; our $log_response = 0; # setup global options sub enable_logging { $log_request = $log_response = 1; } sub disable_logging { $log_request = $log_response = 0; } sub soap_log_file { $logfile = shift if @_; return $logfile; } # logging sub sub log_message { my $in = shift; # SOAP::Lite pushes in the object its called on # only log

How to confuse ssh

I'm sure there are lots of ways to confuse ssh, just like there lots of ways to confuse me. But this is the one i found. At work we run Solaris with lots of old tools. I end up building lots of new stuff for my self and then having to work around the old ones. When I worked in a Irix shop, I had to do the same thing but for different reasons. One of the oddities that I run into is that our login shells are often csh. I like bash or ksh in a pinch. Well this means that I had to hack together a .cshrc that checks for bash and then execs it, leaving me with a perfect world of bash. It looks something like this: if ( $_ == "/bin/which" || $_ == "/usr/bin/which" ) then set which="true" endif set BASH = "$PWD/bin/bash" if ( -x $BASH && $which != "true" ) then exec $BASH endif set BASH = "/usr/bin/bash" if ( -x $BASH && $which != "true" ) then exec $BASH endif Well ssh does not like t