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Friday, 9 October 2009
In the mood for romance
What has prevailed through the years too is a love of books and for reading, and gifts--but in the case of the latter, don't we all love gifts?
This gorgeous fairy dress fell into my possession thanks to my lovely friend in Melbourne, whose name funnily enough really does mean "Princess". Her grandma bought this dress for her, but after wearing it only for a few hours, she decided that the dress just wasn't "her". With love, she passed it on to me--sadly I've not found the occasion to wear it just yet!
Somehow, I reckon this dress can--and should--only be worn while one is barefoot. Any other type of shoe or sandal doesn't seem to fit right with this dreamy affair.
These lovely antique-looking danglies were purchased with Kahani (who wore them here) at one of our fave stores--Diva!
In case you were wondering, this is the lovely book I am reading (have read). Filled with lovely sweet everythings written by smitten men.
And of course, there is a gem in this book, read out by Carrie Bradshaw to Mr Big, Beethoven's letter to his "Immortal Beloved"--ever thine, ever mine, ever ours.
Dress: A gift from a Princess
Earrings: RM23, Diva (after discount)
Book: "Love Letters of Great Men", edited by Ursula Doyle, RM35.90, MPH
9 comments:
- plue said...
the material is very dreamy like~
and ur right, a dress like this deserves nothing better than a pretty feet, no shoes no heels no flipflops :P
maybe wear them if ur in UK, where the meadows are green? LOL.
enid blyton spoils me a bit :P - 9 October 2009 at 09:58
- Eli said...
We just need to stick a pair of wings on you for Halloween...
Love the earrings.
Maybe you girls should do a shoot in FRIM or a hutan somewhere. Load up on the bug spray though. - 9 October 2009 at 11:38
- Kahani said...
Ooh sho pretty! It is a fairy dress isn't it? And I love the first shot, the pose, the lighting everything was perfect.
- 9 October 2009 at 12:04
- Syen said...
Oh my. I'm in love with the first photo. It's just beautiful! =)
And you know what? I thought of exactly the same thing! This fairy needs bare feet. Lovely. - 9 October 2009 at 12:07
- Meldee said...
Thank you ladies :)
Indeed, 'tis my fairy dress! <3 - 9 October 2009 at 19:42
- liz said...
love love the first shot too :))
if you need to wear em out.. try a nude ballerina flats :) - 10 October 2009 at 22:17
- Tine said...
I read in a mag that the book featured on the SATC movie, Love Letters of Great Men, didn't actually exist. They only came up with the book after the movie :P
- 11 October 2009 at 07:05
- Tine said...
I read in a mag that the book featured on the SATC movie, Love Letters of Great Men, didn't actually exist. They only came up with the book after the movie :P
- 11 October 2009 at 07:06
- Meldee said...
Tine: Yeah, or something like that! It's still a cute read, and great for when you're feeling mushy :)
- 12 October 2009 at 12:41


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Carnival Whistle:
The sixteenth century forerunner of the ocarina. This is a wooden
vessel flute with seven or eight fingerholes depicted in an early sixteenth
century intarsia panel in the study of Isabella d'Este at the ducal palace in
Mantua. It is an end-blown duct flute and appears to be about six inches
in length in the representation. No carnival whistles from the period are
known to exist.
Colascione: A small-bodied long-necked lute inspired by eastern
models. It normally had either two or three strings tuned in fourths,
although some had up to six strings. They were made of either metal or
gut. It was first used in Italy and to some degree resembled the modern
Turkish saz. European design elements included a lute-like bridge
and tuning pegs set crossways.
Mersenne (1635) writes that the belly was sometimes made in two parts, half wood
and half parchment. In the baroque period its use spread throughout
Germany and France. Harpsichord strings are sounded by quill plectra mounted in jacks, those
being flat wooden pieces that stand on the far end of each key. When a key
is depressed the jack travels upward through a slot to force the plectrum to
pluck the string. A pivoted tongue in the jack allows it to fall back to
its resting place without restriking the string. Kortholt: (Kort Instrument, Kurzpfeife) A windcapped
sordun (see Sordun below.) Michael Praetorius
in Syntagma Musicum, volume II, 1619, depicts only one size, an F
bass (BB flat - b flat). The extra minor third of tessitura above the
highest note of the F bass sordun (which is g) is achieved not by overblowing, but by
means of two upward extension keys. Lute: (testudo, chelys, liuto, Laute) The short-necked, rounded-body, plucked string instrument evolved from the Arabic 'ud. In the 15th century five strings, often in doubled courses, were common as was the addition of tied-on gut frets. The common relative tuning was g ', d ', a, f, c; the exact pitch was dependent on the diameter of the strings and the string length. Six courses were common in the sixteenth century; these were tuned g ', d ', a, f, c, G. Toward the end of the century a seventh course was added, tuned to F or D. The rounded back was made of a number of thin strips or ribs of wood, the most common being maple, yew, and cherry; ivory, whalebone, ebony and other materials were also used. The pegbox is angled back about 90 degrees from the plane of the neck. Lute music is notated in tablature where pitches are indicated by a letter or number corresponding to a given fret. These are placed on the various spaces of the staff which correspond to specific string courses. Rhythm is indicated by various note stems placed above the staff. Archlutes such as the theorbo and chitarrone,
with a second pegbox to accommodate a set of off-board strings, were common by
the late 16th century: The theorbo, according to G. B. Doni, was
invented around 1575 by Antonio Naldi. Michael Praetorius
in Syntagma Musicum, volume II, 1619
gives two tunings - Roman [Chitarrone] (on-board: g, d, a,
f, c, G, off-board: F, E, D, C, BB, AA, GG, FF) and Paduan (on-board: g,
d, a, f, c, G, F, E, off-board: D, C, BB, AA, GG, FF, EE, DD) Note that
the top two strings/courses are tuned an octave lower than those of the common
lute. There were other variations in tuning beside those given here. The reed, which protrudes from a pirouette, is taken in the mouth. The pirouette is not used as an embouchure stop as in some shawms, but is made hollow to form a resonating cavity around the lower part of the reed. This type of pirouette brings out the higher portions of the harmonic series which in turn reinforce the fundamental. Slots are cut in the pirouette walls to facilitate this effect. The reed is mounted onto a straight brass staple which also holds a spool-shaped receiver on which the pirouette rests. This staple is mounted in a socket created for it in the top of the central bore of the rackett body. Not all renaissance racketts had pirouettes, however, as can be seen from the illustration of the cervelat in Marin Mersenne's Harmonie universelle, 1635. Only three period examples survive, all made from ivory around 1600: two in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (see photo at http://www.khm.at/system2E.html?/staticE/page210.html) and one in the Musikinstrumenten-Museum in Leipzig. The Leipzig and one of the Vienna racketts were built for left-handed playing which required the bores to be connected in the opposite direction from those meant for right-hand playing. (To accommodate both playing techniques on single bore woodwinds they either doubled the hole for the little finger of the lower hand on each side or used a butterfly key.) In normal playing only the fundamental register is used, although the instrument can be induced to overblow a twelfth as Michael Praetorius describes in Syntagma Musicum, volume II, 1619. This same source also describes and illustrates five sizes: Cant (G - d'), Tenor Alt (C - g), Bass (FF - c), Gross Bass (DD - A), and a lower Gross Bass (CC - G) which Praetorius himself designed. The body of this largest rackett is only about a foot long. Contrary to a popular misconception, racketts are not loud instruments, although one could safely describe their timbre as penetrating. Praetorius writes: "In sound racketts are rather soft, almost as if one were blowing through a comb." The harmonic recipe includes all the overtones but favors the odd numbered ones; surprisingly, the 13th partial tends to be the loudest on most notes, surpassing in strength by far the fundamental. Another misconception is that the fingerholes are drilled in a random fashion which is said to make the fingering difficult. To the contrary, the nine-bore design allows the fingering pattern to function like that of most woodwinds, albeit with a lower extension and other minor differences. The word rackett is derived from an Old High German word roccho meaning distaff. The term passed into Italian (rocco) and from it the diminutive term rocchetta, meaning spool, was derived. A certain type of renaissance era rocket or firework was called rakete, apparently because of its resemblance to a spool. The shape of the instrument is similar to early representations of both spools and firework devices. It may have been created originally as a carnival instrument with this resemblance in mind, in the same spirit that tartolds (a set of which also survive in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna) were made to appear as dragons. An inventory from the court in Stuttgart of 1589 lists "Zuendfleschen, so Rageten" (tinder flasks or rockets) along with other carnival instruments. Mersenne's term for the rackett, cervelat, is from the Italian cervellato, a short sausage of wide diameter. Like rackett, the term cervelat is descriptive of the instrument's size and shape. The renaissance rackett is often confused with its later descendant, the
baroque rackett or Wurstfagott (sausage bassoon.) This is a bassoon
made in rackett form with ten interconnected cylindrical bores of graduated size
which combine to form a pseudo-conical bore. In this case the reed is
mounted on a coiled brass bocal fitted into the top of one of the bores on the
outside edge and a bell protrudes upward from the central bore. The
fingering and timbre are similar to the baroque bassoon. Praetorius adds: "I must mention also that no small difficulty is involved in
setting up a recorder ensemble...for rarely does one find recorders that are
rightly in tune with one another. Like church organs they are easily
affected by heat and cold, their pitch being found lower in winter and higher in
summer. Thus it would be advisable to have two completes sets of wind
instruments on hand, those of one set being made to a pitch half a semitone
lower than that of the other set. But it occurred to me to piece apart the
recorders halfway between the mouthpiece and the highest fingerhole, thus
increasing the length of the upper section of the bore by the breadth of two
fingers. This makes the length of the tube variable and thus its pitch may
be adjusted higher or lower accordingly. Although certain reputed instrument
makers thought that this would make some of the recorder's notes faulty, they
really had no objections to the concept, apart from the fact that some of the
highest notes did not respond very well." Sordun: A double reed instrument with two or three interconnected
cylindrical bores in a single wooden column. The two main bores are
connected by a U-shaped channel at the bottom of the instrument. A family
of sorduns is described and illustrated by Michael Praetorius in Syntagma Musicum,
volume II, 1619. The five sizes are: cant (Bb - g'), tenor alt (Eb - c'),
G bass (C - a), F bass (BBb - g), and great bass (FF - d). This design has only two bores,
with twelve fingerholes: the first eight are arranged and function like those of
a crumhorn; four others (in descending order) are covered by the right thumb,
the middle joint of the right index finger, the little finger of the left hand,
and the middle joint of the left index finger, giving an extension of a perfect
fifth below the nominal scale. The bores connect at the bottom of the
instrument in the same manner as the rackett, which is well below a separate
side plug which can be opened to drain collected moisture. On the smaller
three sizes the upper exit of the second bore is capped and the air escape for
the lowest note is drilled at an angle near the top of the instrument, which
adds an inch or so of sounding length to the air column. Three-holed pipe: (tabor pipe, flûte à trois trous, Schwegel,
Stamentienpfeiff) A vertical
duct flute with two fingerholes on the front and a thumbhole in back. It was
often played simultaneously with the tabor by a single musician. A
complete scale is achieved by starting the nominal scale with the second octave,
ignoring the notes of the fundamental register. Only three holes then are needed to bridge the gap to
the next harmonic, being a perfect fifth higher than the starting note.
Michael Praetorius in Syntagma Musicum, volume II, 1619 mentions three sizes:
Discant (d ' - d ''' or e ''' or further), Tenor (a - a ''' ?),
and Bass (g - g ''' ?). Note that the lowest note of the discant is
the low d ' of the tenor recorder, and lowest note of the bass is the low g of
the bass recorder. The bass is fitted with a rather long bent crook to
carry the air from the player's mouth to the fipple which extends well behind
the player's head.
The modern trumpet bears only a passing resemblance to its predecessor.
Besides the lack of valves, the pitch of the natural trumpet when crooked to Bb
is an octave lower than that of the modern Bb instrument. Viola da gamba: The family of six string viols held between the legs (Italian, gamba = leg). The strings are made of gut, the fingerboard is fretted with tied-on lengths of gut and the bow is held underhand. Tuning is generally in fourths with a third in the middle as on the six-course lute. Michael Praetorius in Syntagma Musicum, volume II, 1619, describes the tunings of five sizes: Cant (a ', e ', b, g, d, A) , Tenor Alt (d ', a, e, c, G, D), Klein Bass (g, d, A, F, C, GG), Gross Bass (d, A, E, C, GG, DD), Gargross Bass (G, D, AA, EE, DD). Several other tunings are given for each size. Praetorius adds: "The large viola da gamba (Italian, violone) is usually tuned in fourths throughout, and this, in my opinion, is good. I do not consider it very important how each musician tunes his violin or viol as long as he has the ability to execute his part correctly and well. Some people get special notions about such things, and are wont to scorn organists who do not use this or that method of fingering. But this, I think, is not even worthy of discussion. Let one run up and down the keyboard with the fore, middle, or rear fingers and even with his nose if it helps, for as long as what he plays sounds good and pure and is correct and pleasing to the ear, it is not very important by what means he accomplishes it." The viola da gamba is not the forerunner of the violin, viola, or violoncello. Both families evolved from the earlier vielle or viola. Violin: (It. viola da braccio, viol of the arm) The
family of bowed string
instruments that existed concurrently with the violas da gamba (or viols.) Both
viols and violins evolved from the earlier vielle or viola; the
violin is first illustrated with its more familiar, essentially modern outline
in the earliest decades of the sixteenth century. The smaller members are
held on the arm; the strings are tuned in fifths and there are no frets.
Normally they had four strings, but some sizes had three or five.
Sylvestro Ganassi in his Regola Rubertina of 1543 describes a family of
three string violette senza tasti: Soprano (a ', d ', g), Tenor
(d ', g, c), and Basso (g, c, F). The
strings were usually made of gut, but Michael Praetorius in Syntagma Musicum,
volume II, 1619 wrote "When brass and steel strings are used on these
instruments they produce a quieter and lovelier timbre than with other strings."
He describes the tunings of six sizes including the pochette: Exilent [pochette]
(b '', e '', a ', or a '', d '', g '), Discant (a '', d '', g
', c '), Rechte Discant [violin] (e '', a ', d ', g), Tenor [viola] (a
', d ', g, c), Bass (d ', g, c, F or a, d, G, C),
Gross Quint-Bass (a, d, G, C, FF). Note that the second tuning for the
bass corresponds to the violoncello. Adriano Banchieri in his
Conclusioni of 1609 gives e', a, d, G for the tuning of the higher bass. A four string pochette
is also illustrated by Praetorius, but without an indication as to the tuning of
the extra string.
Glossary of Ancient Greek Instruments
©by Philip Neuman The single aulos pipe when played alone was sometimes called a monaulos. According to Aristoxenus, five sizes existed: parthenioi (maiden type), paidikoi (boy type), kitharisterioi (kithara-playing type, named after the large lyre-like Greek instrument, presumably of tenor range), teleioi (complete), and hyperteleioi (extra-complete.) These are thought to correspond roughly to soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass. To add to the confusion, the word aulos is almost always mistranslated as "flute". Period examples survive, notably in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the Louvre, and the ancient site museum at Corinth. Some auloi were fitted with rotating metal collars which enabled the player to select from a choice of fingerholes in order to play in several modes.
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was normally surmounted by a bulbous section (hypholmion) onto which the holmos
was fitted, a cup-shaped receiver for the reed. The reed was a
type of double reed described by Theophrastus, a pupil of both Plato and
Aristotle, in his book on the plants of Greece, "Historia Plantarum". In it,
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string closest to the player's body (opposite from the harp.) All students
learned to play the lyra. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes describes the
lyra's invention.
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When asked in an open-response format about ways to prevent skin cancer, the most commonly suggested method by both women and men was wearing sunscreen, followed by avoiding the sun and wearing a hat. Only 13.3% of women and 4.2% of men suggested avoiding tanning bed use. In addition, 5.8% of women and 5.6% of men reported that they should be evaluated for skin cancer.
"It is concerning that only a small proportion of adults reported avoidance of indoor tanning bed use to prevent skin cancer," the authors write. "Perhaps people are confused by the messages from the indoor tanning industry on possible benefits of indoor tanning, e.g. getting vitamin D from moderate exposure to artificial UV radiation. This possibility is also suggested by the fact that women and men who suggested sunscreen use as a method to reduce their skin cancer risk were more likely to have tanned indoors."
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1. Kelvin Choi; DeAnn Lazovich; Brian Southwell; Jean Forster; Sharon J. Rolnick; Jody Jackson. Prevalence and Characteristics of Indoor Tanning Use Among Men and Women in the United States. Arch Dermatol, 2010; 146 (12): 1356-1361 DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2010.355


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Going to California
I'm flying to San Jose tonight for tomorrow's OpenAjax Alliance face to face meeting, which Microsoft is hosting. On Friday, we are also hosting a new event that aims at establishing a dialogue between JavaScript library developers and Microsoft. We'll have talks from the IE, Visual Studio and ASP.NET teams, as well as talks from members of the community. This should be very interesting.
OpenAjax requests comments on browser wishlist
The OpenAjax Alliance has been working with some of the top Ajax developers on a wishlist that aims at gathering and prioritizing the development features that we need the most from next generation browsers. The process is completely open and Wiki-based, so feel free to contribute.
Microsoft now in the OpenAjax steering comittee
Thanks to all members who voted. I'm looking forward to working with the other members.
OpenAjax InteropFest 1.0: Microsoft's entry
Yesterday I got to write our entry in OpenAjax's InteropFest. The goal of this event is to demonstrate how different Ajax libraries can be parts of the OpenAjax ecosystem and interact with each other through the OpenAjax hub. The currently central feature of the hub is to expose a publish/subscribe message bus so that both producers and consumers of events can speak through a third party that is neutral to specific Ajax implementations.
The OpenAjax Alliance provides a template for demo applications that shows a live data source feeding fake stock quotes through the hub to a visual component that then renders them.
I've chosen to modify the live data source to be a Microsoft Ajax-style component. The visual component would not have been as interesting because it's really the application that is a consumer of events. The visual component itself doesn't strictly speaking communicate with the hub, the application does (through a trivial API call) and then transmits the results to the component for rendering. In other words, the data source is a lot more interesting because it exposes the event, and if it is a Microsoft Ajax component, it will use the Microsoft Ajax event pattern, which is quite different from the OpenAjax event pattern.
I did refactor the consuming part of the application quite heavily, but that was more to understand it than anything and it's not the essential part of our entry.
To achieve the mapping from Microsoft Ajax events to OpenAjax messages, I've written the following simple helper:
Type.registerNamespace("Sys.OpenAjax"); Sys.OpenAjax._Helper = function() { } Sys.OpenAjax._Helper.prototype = { mapEventToMessage:
function(owner, eventName, messageName, publisherDataMapper) {
var handler = function(sender, args) { OpenAjax.hub.publish(
publisherDataMapper ?
publisherDataMapper(sender, args) : null); } owner["add_" + eventName](handler); return handler; }, unmapEvent:
function(owner, eventName, map) { owner["remove_" + eventName](map); } } Sys.OpenAjax._Helper.registerClass("Sys.OpenAjax._Helper"); Sys.OpenAjax.Helper = new Sys.OpenAjax._Helper();The application code can use that new API to map the events of any Microsoft Ajax component to become publishers of OpenAjax messages without any necessity for the component to contain any code specific to OpenAjax, let alone know about it. In other words, the component implementation remains completely decoupled from OpenAjax and it's the application that makes the connection.
The application maps the quoteChanged event to the org.openajax.interopfest10.datagen.stockpriceupdate OpenAjax message like this:
Sys.OpenAjax.Helper.mapEventToMessage( corpList, "quoteChanged", "org.openajax.interopfest10.datagen.stockpriceupdate", function (sender, args) { var quote = args.get_quote(); return { tickerName: quote.symbol, corpName: quote.name, price: quote.price }; } );
From this moment on, all quoteChanged events will be published on the hub. An interesting thing to note is the use of an optional function that maps the Microsoft Ajax event argument to the expected OpenAjax data payload.
Brad Abrams kindly hosts the demo on his personal website for the moment:
http://brad_abrams.members.winisp.net/Projects/OpenAjax/index.htmlThe source code can be downloaded by clicking here.
Microsoft Ajax events - part 2: exposing events from custom classes
In part 1, I showed how to subscribe to events exposed by JavaScript classes built on Microsoft Ajax. In this post, I'll show how to expose new events from your own classes.
Theoretically, the only things you have to do to expose an event are to implement "add_myEvent" and "remove_myEvent" methods that add or remove handlers, and to call all subscribers when relevant. In practice, managing the list of handlers for each event is really boilerplate code that you would have to reproduce for every event. This is why the Sys.Component base class exposes an events property that is an instance of Sys.EventHandlerList, which makes the event handler management a lot easier, and also has a few performance advantages. This is not a new pattern, System.Web.UI.Control also has an Events property of type System.ComponentModel.EventHandlerList, so if you know the .NET pattern you should feel right at home.
Let's look at a very simple example for which we'll build a very simple timer component. Our timer will expose a single event: tick (in addition to the events the base class supports, but we'll get back to that in a moment). The code for the add and remove event accessors is really simple, and this is all you have to do to expose any event:
add_tick: function(handler) { this.get_events().addHandler("tick", handler); }, remove_tick: function(handler) { this.get_events().removeHandler("tick", handler); },
The only thing that will vary in this code is the event name ("tick" here).
Calling subscribers is done from the _tick private function of our Timer class:
_tick: function() { var handler = this.get_events().getHandler("tick"); if (handler) handler(this, Sys.EventArgs.Empty); // [...] }
What's important in this method is how the _tick function gets a unique function reference for the "tick" event that will forward the calls to all subscribers. This makes Ajax events similar to .NET's multicast events. The function reference that getHandler returns can be null (in the case there are no subscribers) so it's important to test it before using it, but calling it is as simple as calling a regular function: the multicasting is entirely and internally handled by Sys.EventHandlerList.
Note that this _tick function is wired using window.setTimeout from the start method as can be seen in the full source code. I also omitted the code that rewires the timeout for the next tick.
It should be noted that the signature for the handlers is always (sender, arguments) where arguments are an instance of a class derived from Sys.EventArgs. Here, there's really no relevant information that we want to send to the handlers, so we're just using Sys.EventArgs.Empty, which is a special, empty instance of Sys.EventArgs.
For your own events, you can build your own class that derives from Sys.EventArgs. You should clearly document that this new class works with your event. Typically, the new argument class should take a constructor parameter for each of the pieces of information you want to transmit to the handlers. There should also be a property getter for each of those, but there usually won't be a setter. The reason is that these arguments should most of the time be considered immutable. There are a few cases though when this is not true and the handlers should be able to communicate back to the event publisher. One example of that is cancellable events (see Sys.CancelEventArgs and its cancel property). What's important in those case is that handlers should never rely on the values of those mutable properties. Only the event publisher can do anything depending on them. In the cancellable case, for example, what setting cancel to true does is prevent an action that would have happened *after* all the handlers have been called, but it doesn't prevent the remaining handlers from being called.
In the case of the Timer component, the event is raised by an externally happening source (the timeout feature exposed by JavaScript), which is why _tick is a private function. In some cases, it may be desirable to make it possible for public consumers of the class to raise the event. In this case, the convention is to expose a public method named "raise[event name]". For example, the base Sys.Component class exposes a raisePropertyChanged method that is typically called by derived classes to raise the propertyChanged event from the setters of properties that wish to advertise their changes.
Most of the time though, the event will be raised as part of a larger operation, which is what's being exposed publicly, and there's no point in having a "raise..." method. Once more, an example of that can be found in Sys.Component: dispose raises the disposing event before it actually does its cleanup work.
This pretty much covers what you need to know to implement your own custom events. In the next and final post in this series, I'll show how to integrate Microsoft Ajax events with the OpenAjax hub.
Full code for the timer component:
Timer.js.txt (rename to Timer.js before using that file)A sample page that uses the component:
Clock.aspx.txt (rename to Clock.aspx and include in a Microsoft Ajax site with Timer.js to use)Read part 1 of this post:
Microsoft Ajax events - part 1 - subscribing -
Microsoft Ajax events - part 1: subscribing
When building Ajax applications, you basically deal with two kinds of events. First, there are DOM events, and second, events from JavaScript objects. This second category is not part of the EcmaScript specs (or of the DOM specs, of course) so each framework needs to define its own pattern to expose events. This makes it more difficult for developers to include components built on different frameworks into a single page, which is one of the problems that OpenAjax tries to solve. I'll get back to this in a future post and show how to integrate Microsoft Ajax events in the OpenAjax hub.
As with other parts of the Microsoft Ajax framework, we've tried to adhere to the .NET patterns as much as possible when we designed events in Microsoft Ajax. Events are defined by their "add" and "remove" accessors, which respectively add and remove handlers. For instance, PageRequestManager exposes a "beginRequest" event by exposing the "add_beginRequest" and "remove_beginRequest" methods. Both add and remove accessors have the same signature, which is that they take a single "handler" parameter of type Function.
So handling an event is twofold. First, you must subscribe to an event, which is as simple as the following highlighted code:
<%@ Page Language="C#" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head runat="server"> <title>Untitled Page</title> <script type="text/javascript"> function pageLoad() { var prm = Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance(); if (!prm.get_isInAsyncPostBack()) { prm.add_beginRequest(onBeginRequest); } } function pageUnload() { Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance()
.remove_beginRequest(onBeginRequest); } function onBeginRequest(sender, args) { Sys.Debug.trace(args.get_postBackElement().value +
" triggered a postback."); } </script> </head> <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <div> <asp:ScriptManager runat="server" ID="SM1"></asp:ScriptManager> <asp:UpdatePanel runat="server" ID="UP1"> <ContentTemplate> <asp:Button runat="server" ID="Button1" Text="Button 1" /> <asp:Button runat="server" ID="Button2" Text="Button 2" /> <asp:Button runat="server" ID="Button3" Text="Button 3" /> </ContentTemplate> </asp:UpdatePanel> <textarea id="TraceConsole" cols="40" rows="15"></textarea> </div> </form> </body> </html>This page starts by subscribing to the beginRequest event of the page request manager. The handler for the event which is passed to add_beginRequest, onBeginRequest, looks at the event arguments and displays the value of the button that triggered the postback in the trace console. This brings us to the second half of using events, writing the handler. All Microsoft Ajax event handlers, by convention, and exactly like in .NET, have a similar signature: they take two parameters, the event sender and the event arguments. The sender is the object that raised the event (in the example above, that would be the PageRequestManager) and the arguments are an instance of a type that derives from Sys.EventArgs. Many events will be associated with a specific argument class to enable the handler to get additional and specific information about the event. In the example above, we're using the postBackElement property of the arguments, which are of type Sys.WebForms.BeginRequestEventArgs. Similarly, the propertyChanged event on Sys.Component is associated with Sys.PropertyChangedEventArgs, which exposes a propertyName property that enables the handler to determine the name of the property that triggered the event. In other words, to learn how to properly handle an event, start by exploring its associated arguments class.
In the next post, I'll show how to expose a custom event from your own classes:
http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2007/05/22/microsoft-ajax-events-part-2-exposing-events-from-custom-classes.aspx -
OpenAjax meetings
It was my great pleasure to be at the face to face OpenAjax Alliance meetings for the first time last month. Thanks to the nice people at IBM for hosting them. I really enjoyed the discussions with Alex from Dojo, Gideon from OpenSpot and many others. There were also great demos of OpenAjax-based interoperability.
Microsoft joins OpenAjax
I'm extremely pleased to announce that we're joining OpenAjax today and that I'll represent the company in the organization's meetings starting this Thursday. This is a way for us to ensure that our user community can combine the Microsoft AJAX Library and ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions with other frameworks, today and in the future. Interoperability in the browser is a hard problem but it opens key Ajax scenarios. An industry-wide organization such as OpenAjax is a great way to ensure this goal is met in the long-term.


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Nat'l Library Week: Get Real with MPL Staff
National Library Week is in full swing, and we are inviting you to "Get Real" at the McPherson Public Library! What does that mean exactly? Well this year, we wanted to show you what we as a library are all about — and that includes our staff.
With that being said, who better to share their most memorable experiences here at the library than the three staff members who have graced the stacks of McPherson Public Library the longest! I give you–Steve Read (Library Director), Coleta Steers (Technical Services Coordinator), and Jennie Hall (Head of Adult Services)!
When did you start working at the McPherson Public Library?
SR: In July of 1990.
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CS: Stint #1 March, 1979 – May 1983, Stint #2 March, 1993 – current.
What is your fondest memory while working at the library?
SR: One Easter when my daughter was little, it was rainy and cold outside, and any hopes of egg hunting were dashed. But as the library was closed on that Sunday, I hid Easter eggs inside the library. She was all smiles.
JH: My fondest memory was helping a woman find her birth twin she'd never met — genealogy and history rock!
CS: I actually thoroughly enjoyed creating, filing, and "reading down" catalog cards for the old wooden card catalog cabinets!
What has changed most about the library since you've been working here?
SR: When I started at the library, there was one PC — and it had been fried by a lightning strike a day or two before my arrival. Now, almost everything we do here is permeated by technology.
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CS: Technology – from creating/typing catalog cards to entering the same information into the bibliographic records of our online catalog; it continues to morph as we look forward to the future . . .
What is the most embarrassing thing that has happened to you while working here?
SR: When I first started, an insurance claim was pending against the library, and my predecessor left a note and a phone number to call the Alliance Agency. I dialed the number, but being new to town, I assumed that I was calling the big Farmers' Alliance Insurance Company on Main Street. When someone answered the phone, I asked to speak to the library's agent about the claim. When she told me that she could help me, I didn't believe her: I thought I was talking with a receptionist and insisted that in a big company like that, someone in some department must be handling our claim. It turns out that I actually was talking with our agent — in the Alliance Agency office — across the street from the library in the Warren Place! The new Library Director didn't make a very good first impression on her.
JH: I plead the fifth!
CS: I can't remember an embarrassing moment. I'm pretty safe and sheltered within my four walls. I do remember a home-bound patron that I took books to when I worked at the circ desk; everyone giggled when she would call to say she needed new books, because she always asked for "Chiquita", and they all knew she meant me.
Well there ya have it! These three have seen a lot of milestones in their years here at the library. W e extend our greatest thanks to each of them for all of their continued effort and hard work that is given to the McPherson Public Library daily. Our library would not be the same without you! Thank you!


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Help with stripping paint off wood, remaining sticky residue
Would really appreciate your suggestion on my stripping paint off my wood columns and beams project. As you can see below (pix), I tried Citristrip gel (from Homedepot). It is great at removing the paint BUT BUT BUT it leaves this awful sticky residue that seems more painful to remove than the paint itself. After 2 coats of Citristrip, there's still residue in between each grain of wood. Then I tried to wipe it away with hot water and steel wool. That kinda worked, but I raised a lot of the grain with the water and the scrubbing, while making minor minor progress.
Now I have dried Citristrip on the rest of my 1 beam and column and lots of sticky residue. Please help.
I am going to try Stripeze next (from local lumber store). I would like to gel stain the beams/columns afterwards. Thank you very much for your help,
Painted column:
After 1st coat/trial run:
Excited after trial went so well, I continued on.
Can see the other beam (2nd column is on other side of brick fireplace):
After 2nd coat of Citristrip - still lots of sticky residue:
Follow-Up Postings:
I'd use mineral spirits. |
Time for some petroleum solvents. Paint thinner, denatured alcohol, maybe even MEK. I have head of comments about residue from the 'safe' strippers curdling the new coat of latex based primer. |
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text: Like the original Half-Life, this sequel has cinematic presentation and a better-than-Hollywood plot written by a legit science fiction author. There are memorable, well-written characters, such as the beautiful scientist Alyx and your friend, Dog. We can't spoil it, but watch for him. Plus, there's a presence in this game; it inspires an ominous unease. Half-Life 2 has an artistic but militaristic feel, and there are some genuinely scary moments, especially if you have any sort of headcrab phobia.


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Dont worry Melis, I loved the pink castle. It was the castle that I saw as a little kid on my first trip to WDW. So I have good memories with that castle. I also thought it looked really cool
Dont worry Melis, I loved the pink castle. It was the castle that I saw as a little kid on my first trip to WDW. So I have good memories with that castle. I also thought it looked really cool
Originally Posted by GrmGrnningGhost
See Virginia!!!!! I wasn't the only "one"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-P --pleased- Thanks Josh!
:hurray: :hurray: :hurray: Guess what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...I LIKED (NO...I LOVED ) THE PINK CAKE CASTLE TOO..................maybe cause it was my very FIRST visit,,,,,,,EVER.................to Disneyworld ...........& it was the first thing I saw.......& I was just overwhelmed .............I don,t think you ever forget that first time in the "Magic Kingdom"Quote:
Originally Posted by disneydreamer98
I was so pleased to see at least one more person liked it ..like me......as so many seemed to .....er.........hate it
Originally Posted by disneylady
Wahoo!!!! Another "one"!!!!! :wave:
don't ask me
i have heard VERY mixed reports
i did but didn't like it
Originally Posted by kylewhit89
Oh come on Kyle! Come on over to the pink side!!!!!! :sneaky:
I,m Looking Forward To Seeing The Castle Without The Decorations ..........didn,t Mind All The Charactors In Gold ....but Did,t Like That Big Mirror On The Front At All.
Also I,ll Be Happy To See A Different Forecourt "show".....saw Cinderellabration Several Times When We Was Over In October .........but Personally I Prefered The "disney Charactor" Previous Show
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Originally Posted by disneydreamer98
i don't really know
i'm on a balance beam and i have poor balance
but in real life i have GREAT balance
It appears that I was wrong about the pepto cake...there were at least three people that liked it. I think that still constitutes a minority, however. Just like polyester leisure suits and bell bottom pants, some things should NOT be revisited. I have pink sandals. That's as far to the pink side as I can go.http://www.disneyworldtrivia.com/for...lies/grin2.gif
I like the way it looks too and was hoping to take some photos before they changed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by disneydreamer98
LOL nobodys seen the castle by itself (no decorations)for a long time.Is this millions of dreams promo count as the WDW 25th Celebration?
It's the 35th, and yes, I believe it does.
I thought the pink castle was cute. I'm glad it's didn't stay, but I liked it for the time.
I wonder what they are doing with all the decoration....
:scratchin wonder if we can get one for the auction?
I loved the Pink Castle (made me hungry lol)
I hope they turn the castle into what Tokyo's did!!


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