I filed a bug report for mozilla not being able to parse php tags. You can track it here.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367602

Initial impressions from other developers show that this is not a duplicate bug. The weird thing is this happens in Mac safari as well.

Labels: "firefox bug", dom

It seems that there are no good introductions for how to create transparent image text. However we want it for common image module like CAPTCHA which is an image authentication method. It's easy to just draw text on image, but in order to rotate the text, you have to rotate the image with the text. I think one of the solution is using mask after rotation. You need 3 images to do this.

1. Background

2. Text

3. Mask

2 and 3 must be in a same size, and when you "paste" the text, you can specify the mask as the extra paramter.

This is simple exapmle, to rotated "Hello" on the background

import Image,ImageDraw,ImageFont

# Create a background image
image = Image.new('RGB', (300, 50), (220,210,190))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)

# Create a text image
textImg = Image.new('RGB',(150,40),(0,0,0))
tmpDraw = ImageDraw.Draw(textImg)
textFont = ImageFont.truetype('ARIAL.TTF',36)
tmpDraw.text((0, 0), 'Hello', font = textFont, fill = (10,200,200))
textImg = textImg.rotate(-10)

# Create a mask (same size as the text image)
mask = Image.new('L',(150, 40),0) 
mask.paste(textImg,(0,0))

# Paste text image with the mask
image.paste(textImg,(100,0),mask)

image.save('hello.jpg')

In order to generate CAPTCHA-like image, you might want to apply random xy, color, font size, lines, etc...

So it'll be like this:

This is entire source for these examples. Please install PIL (do easy_install PIL) first.

Download Source Code Here (7.95KB)

Labels: python

This is a simple case study that I implemented for my client with Ajax Technique.

Problem: A travel company dispatchers need to look at their tour guide's schedule in one shot. Data is grouped by their job information; however, dispatchers need to look at them grouping by flight number too. Because if the arrival schedules are close enough, they want to merge two jobs in case of extra capacity in other car.

Solution: At the 1st level, it groups by the job. In the second level, user paints some colors on each job to identify similar flight schedules across all different categories: Arrivals, Departures, and Optional Tours.

Implementation: I added paint can icon , and popup color picker to fill the panel.

Result: user can look at similar flights as below:

Labels: ajax

Professor Devi released the first version of his 3D Game engine library, MSGA3D, which is based on Irrlicht library. According to our discussion, he introduced to use "ID" to control all objects, such as Node, Mesh, Sound, and even call back functions. This coding style dramatically improves student's learning curve. In terms of the functionality, his improvement is more drastic such as Timeline and Event Model Change, Sound, etc...

This is a demo to download DeviEngineDemo.zip (2.86MB)

This is a sample project file in VC++6.0 DeviEngine.zip (5.26MB)

Amount of code is minimal, and easy to control like this:

int main(void) {
        MSGAEngine3D engine(800,600,16); // Screen Size

        engine.NodeLoadCameraFPS(100); // camera ID=100

        // Load Rotating Cube
        engine.TextureLoad(300,"sample.jpg"); // create texture ID=300  
        engine.NodeLoadCube(200,200); // cube ID=200
        engine.NodeSetTexture(200,300); // texture to the cube
        engine.NodeAddPosition(200,950,600,600); // move cube
        engine.AnimatorRotation(200,30,1,31); // rotate cube

        engine.GameLoop();
        return 0;
}

That's it! this program just load cube with the texture. The original library download page should be ready soon on his Website (http://comine.com). In demo example, I included a simple FPS-look demo, texture, level, sound, and timer event within 40 lines of code (with bunch of comments and spaces).

Labels: game development

I added line numbers and some formatting capabilities to Pygments.com

Now the script tag renders line numbers by default. Also RTF download of colored code is available on the Test Page for those nice looking word documents

Labels: pygments.com, python

I purchased Pygments.com domain yesterday. Iam surprised the domain is still available. i guess the Pygments guys dont really care about the .com domain name.

But the cool thing i added is, a javascript service to colorize any code. Lets say you have a webpage with code, that needs colorizing, Just add this Javascript to the end of the page (Before you close the body tag)

print "Hello World"

Labels: json, pygments.com, python

php-5.1.6-1.2.1.centos 
php-mysql-5.1.6-1.2.1.centos 
php-pear-1.4.9-1.2.centos 
php-pdo-5.1.6-1.2.1.centos
httpd-suexec-2.0.52-28.ent.centos4 
httpd-2.0.52-28.ent.centos4

#wget http://apache.mirrormax.net/httpd/httpd-2.2.3.tar.gz 
#tar xvfz httpd-2.2.3.tar.gz
#cd httpd-2.2.3
#./configure
#make
#make install

#./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs

Labels: apache, centos, python

#wget http://apache.mirror99.com/httpd/modpython/mod_python-3.2.10.tgz
#tar xvfz mod_python-3.2.10.tgz
#cd mod_python-3.2.10
#ls -al
#./configure

#yum install httpd-devel

#./configure
#make
#make install

/usr/lib/httpd/modules

Labels: apache, centos, mod_python

class Test:
        def __init__(self):
                print "Hello World!"
        def sum(self,a,b):
                return a+b

        @staticmethod
        def sum1(a,b):
                return a+b
t=Test()
print t.sum(10,10)
print t.sum1(10,10)

#wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.4/Python-2.4.4.tgz
#tar xvfz *.tgz
#cd Python-2.4.4
#./configure
#make
#make install

#svn co http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/ django
#cd django
#python setup.py install

Labels: centos, compile, linux, python

Labels: ajax, google maps

Labels: css