apache and htaccess

1. in your Directory

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All ##### this should be All
Order allow,deny
allow from all


2. in your /var/www/xxx folder, add file .htaccess
Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*

RewriteEngine on
# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php

Cocos2D Complete

■CCLabelTTF Font List：
　　List of iOS Fonts available in iOS 3.1 and above

• Family name: AppleGothic
• Font name: AppleGothic
• Family name: Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN
• Font name: HiraKakuProN-W6
• Font name: HiraKakuProN-W3
• Family name: Arial Unicode MS
• Font name: ArialUnicodeMS
• Family name: Heiti K
• Font name: STHeitiK-Medium
• Font name: STHeitiK-Light
• Family name: DB LCD Temp
• Font name: DBLCDTempBlack
• Family name: Helvetica
• Font name: Helvetica-Oblique
• Font name: Helvetica-BoldOblique
• Font name: Helvetica
• Font name: Helvetica-Bold
• Family name: Marker Felt
• Font name: MarkerFelt-Thin
• Family name: Times New Roman
• Font name: TimesNewRomanPSMT
• Font name: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT
• Font name: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT
• Font name: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT
• Family name: Verdana
• Font name: Verdana-Bold
• Font name: Verdana-BoldItalic
• Font name: Verdana
• Font name: Verdana-Italic
• Family name: Georgia
• Font name: Georgia-Bold
• Font name: Georgia
• Font name: Georgia-BoldItalic
• Font name: Georgia-Italic
• Family name: Arial Rounded MT Bold
• Font name: ArialRoundedMTBold
• Family name: Trebuchet MS
• Font name: TrebuchetMS-Italic
• Font name: TrebuchetMS
• Font name: Trebuchet-BoldItalic
• Font name: TrebuchetMS-Bold
• Family name: Heiti TC
• Font name: STHeitiTC-Light
• Font name: STHeitiTC-Medium
• Family name: Geeza Pro
• Font name: GeezaPro-Bold
• Font name: GeezaPro
• Family name: Courier
• Font name: Courier
• Font name: Courier-BoldOblique
• Font name: Courier-Oblique
• Font name: Courier-Bold
• Family name: Arial
• Font name: ArialMT
• Font name: Arial-BoldMT
• Font name: Arial-BoldItalicMT
• Font name: Arial-ItalicMT
• Family name: Heiti J
• Font name: STHeitiJ-Medium
• Font name: STHeitiJ-Light
• Family name: Arial Hebrew
• Font name: ArialHebrew
• Font name: ArialHebrew-Bold
• Family name: Courier New
• Font name: CourierNewPS-BoldMT
• Font name: CourierNewPS-ItalicMT
• Font name: CourierNewPS-BoldItalicMT
• Font name: CourierNewPSMT
• Family name: Zapfino
• Font name: Zapfino
• Family name: American Typewriter
• Font name: AmericanTypewriter
• Font name: AmericanTypewriter-Bold
• Family name: Heiti SC
• Font name: STHeitiSC-Medium
• Font name: STHeitiSC-Light
• Family name: Helvetica Neue
• Font name: HelveticaNeue
• Font name: HelveticaNeue-Bold
• Family name: Thonburi
• Font name: Thonburi-Bold
• Font name: Thonburi

iOS4.2 Bug with UINavigationViewController

Everytime when I left the top view, I set the topView's title to @"TOP";
When I came back to the TOP, I would set the topView's title to @"", for that I had a backgroud image to be displayed as the title.
The problem was, with iOS4.2,the second time I left TOP view controller and went to a second level view controller, the back item in the NavigationBar disappeared.
"DISAPPEARED"!!!!!!!!!有木有!!!!!!!!!
I couldn't go back to the TOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got rejected by GREE for this f**king problem!!!!!!!

But, there's always a but!
I love but(this statement is still true by replacing the t with a double t)!

I came out with a solution.

1. set the top's title to @"TOP", don't set it back to @"";
2. every time you go back to the top , do this:
self.navigationItem.titleView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,1,1)];

Now, the problem disappeard!!!!
"DISAPPEARED"!!!!!!!!!有木有!!!!!!!!!

Weird problem with CCSprite

I added a CCSprite(with an image) as the background, the fps jumped to 30.0.
when I remove it or change the scale to less than 1.0, the fps would return to 60.0.
Now I am going to find out what's going on here.

Iphone Code Complete

1. how to count time.

CFAbsoluteTime time = CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent();

beware that the CFAbsoluteTime is a Double.

2. How to open a URL

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"your url here"]];

install ssh on ubuntu

I didn't use apt for a long time, so...first I updated apt...

> apt-get update

then,
> apt-get install openssh-server

after ssh get installed..

> /etc/init.d/ssh start

done!!
pretty simple, right?

About error messages and locales

Localization
1. create file for localization
/protected/messages/
/en/default.php
/cn/default.php
/jp/default.php

2. specific a lang
Yii::app()->language = "en"
: this means your en folder under /protected/messages.

3. in your default.php, write things as follows,

return array(
'name' => 'xing ming',
'required' => 'bu neng wei kong',
);
?>

4. anywhere you want to use the localized name, write,

Yii::t('default', 'name');

custum error message.
1. in your model/Model.php, find function rules.
return array(
array('name, mail', 'required', 'message' => Yii::t('default', 'required'); ),
);

2. This tag will show all the form errors in a block.
The second param is the title of the block.
Here I leave it blank.
errorSummary($model, ""); ?>

connect to remote mysql

1. if there is a firewall
sudo /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -d 0/0 -s 0/0 --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT

2. in my.cnf， set
bind-address = your IP

memcached can't link to libevent.so

> ldd /usr/bin/memcached
> LD_DEBUG=libs /usr/bin/memcached -v
> sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libevent-2.0.so.5 /lib64/libevent-2.0.so.5

Install Git

install git on a plain CentOS 5.5 64bit machine：

you may not have these three libraries, so install them first.
> yum install openssl-devel.x86_64
> yum install curl-devel.x86_64
> yum install expat-devel.x86_64


now , go to your git source directory, and hit the following command,

> make
> make install

you shall now find the git commands as bellow,

/root/bin/git*

Yii - default timezone

1.set default timezone
Encountered an error which was described here:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php
I added the following line to the index.php
date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Tokyo");

2.Gii

'modules'=>array(
'gii'=>array(
'class'=>'system.gii.GiiModule',
'password'=>'123456',
'ipFilters'=> array('localhost', '127.0.0.1', '192.168.2.249'),
),
),

3. Gii
"CDbConnection failed to open the DB connection: could not find driver"
I didn't get the proper pdo_php support.
I re-configured php using the following command:
./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql --with-pdo-mysql

...fixed now