Wednesday, February 25, 2015
IMU LS 04 Facilitating a Massive Open Online Course Stephen Downes
Date : 22nd February, 2012
Time : 10.00 AM, Kuala Lumpur
Venue : Online (WizIQ)
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Sunday, February 15, 2015
Ubuntu 10 04 Released
Its that time of year again: a new Ubuntu release (or Kubuntu, if thats your thing). Canonical has just released Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx. This is a long term support release, meaning its supported period is far longer than that of normal releases. It comes with the latest and greatest the Free software world has to offer, while also adding some Ubuntu-specific features, of course."Ubuntu 10.04 LTS challenges the perceptions of the Linux desktop, bringing a whole new category of users to the world of Ubuntu," said Jane Silber, Canonicals CEO, "Changes like the new look and feel and the addition of a music store, layered on top of our relentless focus on delivering an intuitive and attractive user experience for new and existing Ubuntu users - these are the bridging elements to the mainstream market that our community, our partners and our users really want. Long-term support makes Ubuntu 10.04 LTS very attractive to corporate IT as well."
Starting at the beginning (literally): boot time has been improved considerably. I personally switched to the Luid Lynx branch a few days ago, and noticed the improved boot speed right away on my machine. Applications seem to start faster too, and Compiz performance has been jacked up too - although it could also be they tweaked the default duration times for the effects.
Another major focus is this whole "Social from the start" business. Theyve inlcuded something called the "Me menu" from which you can administer al your social networking and IM stuff. "The new Me Menu in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS consolidates the process of accessing and updating social networks including Facebook, Digg, Twitter and Identi.ca," the release notes detail, "The Me Menu also integrates chat channels so users can talk with friends or colleagues on Google Talk, MSN, IRC and nearly every network."
The same applies to the fancy new tray icons they designed and added to this release. Instead of making this pervasive (i.e., part of the panel) these icons are just a theme, and as soon as you switch themes, the beautiful icons disappear. It would be nice if they were available no matter the theme you chose, as a unified look for tray icons is a very welcome addition.
All the artwork has been updated in this release - from the mentioned tray icons all the way to the boot screen. Personally, I detest the graphical theme with a passion, but the new boot screen is really nice. Luckily, this is Linux, so a new theme is just a few clicks or commands away (sudo apt-get install gnome-colors shiki-colors).
It comes with version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel, and GNOME 2.30 for Ubuntu, and KDE SC 4.4 for Kubuntu.
http://www.osnews.com/story/23225/Ubuntu_10_04_Released
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Playing with Date Format in Date selector component in Pentaho CDE Example Converting 2015 02 04 to 4 Feb 15
Thank you Sam Kumar( A community guy) for asking me to explore this and hope this solution might be useful in your project.
Though, there is a direct property of setting format for date in Date selector , that will not work when you set a default value for date type parameter.
Scenario :
Lets say you have given "yesterday" as default value for date parameter and in Date selector if you give "dd-M-yy" format then you can able to see the selected date in that format BUT for the first time you will not find anything in Date selector because your default parameter value is "yesterday"Software Setup :
Problem statement :
Default values like "today", "yesterday", "One week ago", "One month ago" should take 5-Feb-15, 4-Feb-15 and etc format in Date selector when dashboard loads ...
Step by Step Screenshot solution :
1) Design the lay out for Date label & for Date selector (i.e., Html Objects for label & selector - lets assume these html objects are Col1 & Col2).
2) Creating Date parameter : parameter name = date_param
Go to components -> Click on Generic from left side -> Click on Date parameter
Give default value as "yesterday" ( or today or other from the drop down).
3) Creating Date selector for Date parameter created in Step 2 : Date selector name = date_picker
* Components section -> selections -> Date input component
* Give parameter(date_param) for listeners & parameter section.
* Give html object for this (i.e., Col2 )
4) Test -1 : Default view
5) Now, Converting the format
* Go to Advanced properties of Date selector (date_picker)
* Write below code in Post Execution section
function f(){
var date1 = Dashboards.getParameterValue("date_param").toString();
testdate = $.datepicker.formatDate("d-M-y",new Date(date1));
//alert(testdate);
document.getElementById(render_date_picker).value=testdate;
}
6) Save the dashboard and test it : Test -2
parameter default value is : yesterday
Thats it... We are done
Download Example here : Click Me
NOTES :
1) From the stack overflow link below , as the CDE is already integrated with jQuery technology we have to use formatDate function for formatting the date.2) The code should go in Post Execution section.
3) render_date_picker ----> render_ is the keyword for which we attach Date input component name.
4) Code is independent for specific date control as it is going into Date input components own Post Execution section.
for example : I have taken another date component and tested..
References :
1) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3552461/how-to-format-javascript-date
2) https://jqueryui.com/resources/demos/datepicker/date-formats.html
R&D links from Sam :-)
3)
http://stackoverflow.com/
4)
http://api.jqueryui.com/
:-) Sadhakar Pochampalli :-) BI developer :-)