ExtJS Hack: How To Get Selected Index of ExtJS ComboBox

July 30th, 2007 An Ext JS, a beautiful Javascript Library, ComboBox on a Toolbar fails to display when the browser window is resized or there is another div with 100% width. The problem is most likely related to resizing of the Toolbar which causes the ComboBox to stop displaying.

August 20th, 2007 In ExtJS you can create ComboBox which loads data from the server. You can also code so that new data is loaded from the server in response to an event like changing selection of another ComboBox.

July 26th, 2007 You would be surprised to know that the biggest Internet Explorer issue I am facing while writing rather complex cross-browser javascript code is related to just a comma. In javascript array if you add a comma after the last element in the array then Internet Explorer fails with a variety of undecipherable (Microsoft style) error messages.

August 14th, 2007 Simple things should be simple. While starting with ExtJS, I saw a screencast on Grid which used a rather dubious method of making an AJAX call using an actual form element.

August 8th, 2007 After much debugging I realized that in creating dialogs using Ext.LayoutDialog class of ExtJS library we must specify the configuration for east, west, north and south properties, as required, in the LayoutDialog config (see below for more requirements, details and a working example). This should be done before you add the content panels to the layout of the dialog.

July 31st, 2007 This is a sporadic error that I have seen in Firefox browsers while using the Ext JS components. It is not harmful in any way but is annoying.

March 3rd, 2009 Uniformity is very essential every where. Especially if you are writing a CV or an important official document, you must make sure that the formatting is the same everywhere.

July 21st, 2007 Ext extension UploadForm is a new extension to easily upload multiple files from web interface to a server. The files are added to a queue first and then uploaded.

April 18th, 2005 Drop in replacement for resource hogging Admin DashBoard in WordPress 2.0, 1.5.x

December 27th, 2005 WordPress developers are adding their preferred feeds to WordPress Admin Dashboard (from WordPress 1.5 onwards), which significantly slows up loading the Admin Dashboard. Additionally few essential information has been removed frfom the official version of admin dashboard and also some information moved to hard-to-get locations in order to accomodate their copious feed data.

February 2nd, 2008 I had previously stated clearly that I will not help anyone to hack MySpace, even if I did know how to. Guess how can you incite me? Here is a very interesting email I received through the contact form which does that admirably: emily waters wrote: well you answered my question you said you dont help people hack into someones elses myspace but i really think you dont know how for i have read it is difficult.

June 4th, 2007 I received this strange request on a page where I berate the need for hacking MySpace in general. The first imagery which came to my mind was grisly.

September 12th, 2009 Well, this has often occurred with me, may be with you as well. I placed a picture in your Word document only to see that its not visible.

September 26th, 2006 Ever since I had written a post on how Samy hacked MySpace, I have been inundated with comments asking me how to hack MySpace. It is obvious that the people asking didn't realize that the actual purpose of the article was not to help hacking MySpace, but to discuss about an intelligent exploit after it was patched.

April 19th, 2006 I have just posted my 1000th article on this weblog. Over the years I have tried hard to keep this blog informative and timely.