Problem:  If using the multi-friend-selector in an iframe, the dialog that pops up, will sometimes be cut off on the right.

the example code they provide is something like:

<fb:serverFbml style="width: 755px;">
 <script type="text/fbml">
 <fb:fbml>
 <fb:request-form....

Solution: To squeeze the popup, so that its over the selector itself do

<fb:serverFbml width="600px">
<script type="text/fbml">
<fb:fbml>
<fb:request-form....

Voila!

The first struggle was trying to get Orientation correct.

I wanted a landscape app.  So after digging around and testing. I found this page

Creating a config.lua and build.settings file solved what I was after.

build.settings has this in it:

settings =
{
        orientation =
        {
                default = "landscapeRight",
                supported =
                {
                        "landscapeLeft", "landscapeRight"
                },
        },
}

to be continued...

I recently purchased a iPod Touch4 and an Android 2.2 device.

I have been kind of jumping around looking at the best languages and environments to develop with. I was pretty set on using Adobe CS5 with iphone packager, but after some testing, I found the performance not really useful for the type of apps I would like to make.

I think the adobe products for iphone packager will be ok if you make puzzle games or non-performance intensive apps. Simple tap, orientation change and accelerometer driven apps  are very easy assuming you have a good grasp of Actionscript 3. I really wanted to stick with AS3 and the adobe products on this, but I have finally accepted that as of today I don’t think the iphone packager is ready for high performance apps. Again it could just be me, as I have seen some demos of super optimized code that perform very well and have tested flash packaged games from the Apple app store on the itouch that run very well.

But yesterday I started to play with the Corona SDK.  So far I am very impressed and excited that the dev->test cycle is going to be extremely rapid. Save my update and reload the Corona simulator to test my code.

There are some gotchas for newbs getttin off the ground. I aim to keep adding posts mostly for my own historical progression as I dive deeper into Corona and Lua.

I’ll outline here the steps I took. I don’t know exactly what made this work, but it does.

I have System Menu 4.3u.  The guides recommended the different exploits. So I downloaded the latest Smash Stack to be used with the Super Smash Bros Brawl.

I followed the instructions and it worked great.

I also grabbed the latest BootMii installer which then allowed me to install the Homebrew channel and the bootmii system under boot2.

This next step is VERY IMPORTANT.  I then did a NAND backup. You need to do this in case somethign bad happens. your NAND is unique to your hardware.. so looking for a copy later is NOT AN OPTION.

once your NAND is backed up..

then you can move on to what I think is the most difficult part. I think what makes it confusing is that they need to be done in a particular order. 1 cIOS will unlock the next one and so on and so forth to get to the goodies which are cIOS 222 and 249.

You will now access your IOS blocks in your Wii. This is what allows your wii to play backup games and load from USB, load WiiFlow etc.

Here is a good description of what IOS is about

I used a tool called Multi-mod Manager.  This allowed me to look at IOS, WAD, and boot2.

Under IOS, you can see each block, what is supposed to be there, and what you currently have installed.

I tried an option called “Remove all stubs”  the stubbed IOS blocks are nintendo’s updates to block your changes here and some other things that is needs to work.

Remove all stubs is supposed remove IOS 202,222,236,249,250 and the other ones needs to load USB loader wiiflow and other custom software.

This tool did not work for me.

Now this is where my path split.. Iwould like to try this again.. and would appreciate some feedback on this.

So What I think should happen here is, you should manually uninstall the IOS blocks that you want to load you own version into.

Trucha bug slot 236

Hermes 202,222,223

Waninkoko’s 249,250

In all cases I used the NUS online loaders.

So the most important step is getting the right IOS 236 installed. This is gatekeeper so to speak. IT allows you to use the other cIOS tools to load the hermes and waninkoko. You must complete this step first.

I used IOS236 v5.

During the install it asks if you will be using this update for

1. legitatimate backups

2. pirated games… DO NOT choose 2.     , it will lock you out.

Select legitate backups and the IOS will get loaded…. at each step if you like you load the bootmii and look at your IOS to see what blocks are loaded. now you should see an “unknown” IOS in block 236. Awesome.. now you can use the Hermes and waninkoko tools. IF you cannot use this method to get 236 working.. the next steps will not work.

now load up the cIOS installer 222 by Hermes.

Follow the steps here , again you can use the bootmii > IOS manager to view your blocks and verify 202,222 and 223 have your versions in them.

now load up the waninkoko’s cIOS

Follow the steps and verify you have 249 and 250 loaded.

Once you are satisfied your versions work.  Download WiiFlow and load it from the homebrew channel

Wiiflow, allows you to backup your original disc and run image files you copy from other locations directly from your USB drive.

This guide is rough, send me some feedback and i’ll detail it further. Make sure you backup your NAND!

I recently came across something that has changed my life. a web site called www.Dirpy.com, here is a quote from their site:

"New to Dirpy? Dirpy is an advanced DVR for your
favorite online media. For example, use Dirpy to
record your favorite YouTube videos to mp3s!"

This site is awesome, because when you

1. search for a song
2. it shows results from youtube.com
3. you can then preview the  video
4. and then of course download it as an mp3 or other video format.

The mp3 is decent quality 256Kps and 44Khz. I am very impressed

Top 10 memory consumers
ps auxf | sort -nr -k 4 | head -10

Top 10 CPU consumers
ps auxf | sort -nr -k 3 | head -10

the main reason I did this is so I could do some queries and light data mining looking for patterns in our datasets. The issue is that the Live database is optimized for inserts and updates, not for views or summaries.

in creating a replicated database, I was able to index my slave differently, and allow it to be better suited for pulling this report views.

I am NO MySQL database expert, but was able to follow the simple directions on the mysql.com website and have this up and running relatively quickly and painlessly.

This is how I did it:

• I configured my master by adding the following to my.cnf and restarting the mysql instance:
• server-id=1276024641
  log-bin=mysql-bin
  log-error=mysql-bin.err
  binlog_do_db=<my_target_db_name>
• the db_name restricts only 1 db to be replicated. I think omitting this line will replicate all the databases on the master to the slave
• I added a unique, random number as my server-id to my slave machine’s my.cnf file. the line I added looked like this : server-id=1281421047
• I then restarted the slave mysql instance
• I then setup the replication user on the master. I used the phpMyAdmin scripts, by clicking on the “Replication” tab, then the “add slave replication user” link. I saved this info
• because I am running a live database, I needed to locate the master’s bin log coordinates. To do this, you need to ensure no one is changing the data, the manual recommends locking the tables, but on our transaction heavy system, I just closed the db for the next step.
• I then proceeeded to output a mysqldump: mysqldump -p my_database_name > db_script.sql
• while this was saving to file, I went into phpmyadmin under replication and clicked “show master status”, which displayed
• Variable     Value
  File                mysql-bin.000120
  Position       83336594
  Binlog_Do_DB    my_databaswe_name
  Binlog_Ignore_DB
• Once the data dump was complete, I re-enabled traffic back into the master db.
• I then copied the .sql file to the slave machine and imported it using: mysql -p my_database_name < db_script.sql
• Once the db snapshot was imported, I needed to tell the slave to start running the slave process thread, by running the query:
• CHANGE MASTER TO
  MASTER_HOST=’master_host_name’,
  MASTER_USER=’replication_user_name’,
  MASTER_PASSWORD=’replication_password’,
  MASTER_LOG_FILE=’recorded_log_file_name’,
  MASTER_LOG_POS=recorded_log_position;
• from there, the slave should keep in sync with the master

There is a movement away from the the typical offerwalls into networks that provide “quality” offers. Trial Pay specializes in Shopping and some survey offers. There isn’t any app install, or toolbar download offers.

What really opened our eyes to this provider is that Facebook exclusively ( so far ) uses them for their Facebook Credits system. We are in the early stages of testing. more to come.

The caveat is when you target a custom script the notation is:

Target[localhost.mem]: `/etc/mrtg/scripts/mem.pl`

or something along those lines, the caveat is that the quotes are not a ‘ but a ` ( the character at the top left of the keyboard)   this took me a little while to figure it out.

The perl script I am using is:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$machine = `/bin/hostname`;
chomp($machine);
$mem = `/usr/bin/free | grep Mem`;
$uptime = `/usr/bin/uptime`;

if ($mem =~ /^Mem:\s*(\d*)\s*(\d*)\s*(\d*)/) {
 $tot = $1;
 $used = $2;
 $free = $3;
}

if ($uptime =~ /up (.*),  \d* users?,/) {
 $up = $1;
}
print "$used\n";
print "$free\n";
print "$up\n";
print "$machine\n";

I took this from another site.. I will probablly write my shell scripts in PHP, they are just as easy , and powerful

apt-get install libnet-snmp-perl libcrypt-des-perl libcrypt-rijndael-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libdigest-hmac-perl