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To display a number x in 2 digits with padding zero in the front, here's the snippet to do so:

String("0" + x).slice(-2);

To display 5 digits with padding zeros, it'll be:

String("0000" + x).slice(-5);

The number of zero can be parameterized, of course:

var padding_zero = function(x, n) {
 var zeros = repeat("0", n);
 return String(zeros + x).slice(-1 * n)
}

The function repeat is the string repeater defined in here.

But these definitions doesn't check the original number if it's longer then n digits. Calling padding_zero(357, 2) will give you 57. Neither does it check if its parameters are numbers or not. (Easy and may not be a big issue depends on what you want.)

And of course, you can pad something other than zero. For example, you can pad up to 5 number of before . They are just two different img strings anyway:

// pad up to n Ys before X.
var pad = function(x, n, y) {
   var zeros = repeat(y, n);
   return String(zeros + x).slice(-1 * n);
}

So the code to generate a line of 5 rating stars may just looks like:

pad("111", 5, "0).replace(/1/g, star_img).replace(/0/g, empty_star_img);

The idea here is to generate something like "11100" first, then replace them with img tags.

All these functions assumes x,y variables are only one character to work properly because I use slice() function on String classes. To make it more general, should probably use Array.

Labels: format, javascript, number, string

Repeating a string multiple times isn't as easy as in Perl that you say $str x 3. str * 3 simply gives you a NaN. So I wrote this textbook-code-example-like repeat() funciton, that takes a String and a Number, returns a new String.

function repeat(str, i) {
   if (isNaN(i) || i <= 0) return "";
   return str + repeat(str, i-1);
}

Putting it down as a jquery extension, it becomes this snippet:

(function($){
    $.extend({
        repeat: function(str, i) {
            if (isNaN(i) || i == 0) return "";
            return str + $.repeat(str, i-1);
        }
    })
})(jQuery);

It's used like this:

var rating = 3;
var star = "<img src='star.gif'>";

// Show some number of stars based on rating.
$("#rating").html( $.repeat(star, rating) )

Labels: javascript, jquery

音樂在 The Hidden Cameras - Boys Of Melody

這 MV 也很有意思。身形高大聲音溫和的左手人吉他手相當地吸引我。

怎麼說呢，雖然說這音樂可能太「甜」了一點，也沒有什麼結構，不過在連續長時間工作之餘，這真是奢華的一品啊。

Labels: music

I use these two configuration for my little Rails app. 5 mongrel instances, balanced and externally served with Perlbal. It can still be refined to let Perlbal serves the public/ folder. But this is good enough for me at this point: mongrel_cluster.yml:

--- 
log_file: log/mongrel.log
port: 4000
pid_file: tmp/pids/mongrel.pid
servers: 5

load-balancer.conf for Perlbal

CREATE POOL my_servers
  POOL my_servers ADD 127.0.0.1:4000
  POOL my_servers ADD 127.0.0.1:4001
  POOL my_servers ADD 127.0.0.1:4002
  POOL my_servers ADD 127.0.0.1:4003
  POOL my_servers ADD 127.0.0.1:4004

CREATE SERVICE balancer
  SET listen          = 0.0.0.0:3000
  SET role            = reverse_proxy
  SET pool            = my_servers
  SET persist_client  = off
  SET persist_backend = off
  SET verify_backend  = off

ENABLE balancer

Labels: mongrel, perl, perlbal, rails, ruby

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