Server side

The HTML code that works for me:

<OBJECT id="Player"
	type="application/x-ms-wmp"
	width="210" height="45">
	<PARAM name="autostart" value="false"/>
	<PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="test-mp3.mp3">
	<PARAM name="PlayCount" value="1">
</OBJECT>

Client side

In Firefox, I found that I'll have to install a plug-in from Port25: Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin

The better solution might be to use Flash media player, but most of it are not suitable for a commercial product (unless I write a new one?).

Do comment if you have better recommendations!

It has already became a tradition of R&D department of eGenting to organise this event every year. I still can remember the feeling when I took part in the eGenting Programming Competition 2004. I felt very nervous, especially when you see hundreds of contestants coming from every part of Malaysia to be at this competition. I must say the questions are really challenging, not those that you can find in universities. It is really a good place to really know your real ability in programming.

If you think you are good in programming, why don't you prove whether you are right? This is a good chance to really test yourself. Highly recommended to fresh graduates! It is also a good place to get a well-paid job (as our economy is heading downwards at this moment)!

Details of the event

• Competition date: 15 November 2008
• Time: 10.00 am to 6.00 pm
• Venue: Auditorium, 25th Floor Wisma Genting, Jalan Sultan Ismail, 50250 Kuala Lumpur.
• Nature: Open-book handwritten programming task

Few changes to the event this year:

1. The venue is no longer at Genting Highlands (which is sad). You no longer get free ride to Genting Highlands.
2. This year they have abolished the professional category. Everyone can join the same category.

The registration will close end of this month. You still have 7 days to go. Register quickly. Don't miss this golden opportunity!

New website: eGenting Programming Competition 2008

Group together all duplicate items that occur anytime beyond twice by wrapping them with a tag, naturally "bookending" them.

Here's my solution in PHP:

$arr = array ('a', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'e',
'e', 'e', 'e', 'f', 'e', 'f', 'e',
'f', 'a', 'a', 'a', 'f', 'f', 'f');

$count = 0;
$prev = '';
foreach ($arr as $item) {
	if ($prev == $item) $count ++;
	if ($count == 2 && $prev == $item) echo '<strong>';
	if ($count >= 2 && $prev != $item) echo '</strong>';
	echo $item;
	if ($prev != $item) $count = 0;
	$prev = $item;
}
if ($count >= 2) echo '</strong>';

Give your comments, if any.

Update: After pointed out by gbyeow in the comment, I agree that it could be optimized. I was too overwhelmed by achieving the result that I forgot to optimize after I completed the code.

The optimized version:

$arr = array ('a', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'e',
'e', 'e', 'e', 'f', 'e', 'f', 'e',
'f', 'a', 'a', 'a', 'f', 'f', 'f');

$count = 0;
$prev = '';
foreach ($arr as $item) {
	if ($prev == $item) {
		$count ++;
		if ($count == 2) echo '<strong>';
	}
	if ($prev != $item) {
		if ($count >= 2) echo '</strong>';
		$count = 0;
	}
	echo $item;
	$prev = $item;
}
if ($count >= 2) echo '</strong>';

I found one common mistake that lots of people would make. Google has a goodbad example on this.

At this What is Web History? help page, if you point to the link in the page (refer the following image), you will see a weird link at status bar.

What I saw in status bar:

If the author used the following code to link, he will get the problem.

<a href="www.enrii.com">enrii.blog</a>

The author should include "http://" to avoid the problem.

<a href="http://www.enrii.com">enrii.blog</a>

So, web programmers, take note about this!

The annually organised eGenting Programming Competition is here again. If you have not heard of it before, there are basically 2 categories:

1. Graduate category for under 26 years old
2. Professional category for 26 years old and above

The prizes are very attractive, with cash prizes and job offer for graduate category, and computers and cruise trip for professional category.

Competition Details

• Competition date : 22 September 2007
• Time : 10.00 am to 6.00 pm
• Venue : Resort Convention Centre, Genting Highlands, Malaysia
• Nature : Open-book handwritten programming task

Registration is closing on 31 August 2007. Make sure you don't miss this great chance to win those fabulous prizes and even job offers.

Official website: eGenting Programming Competition

I asked my friends who do programming in Windows environment for suggestions. Most of them confirmed that CVSNT is the thing I need.

There are lots of good and detail guide out there to setup CVSNT, but I there is none that is simple and straight forward, or it's probably too complicated for my simple mind. Let me try to put up a simple guide, with my own experience.

Installation

Download the latest version of CVSNT (look for free version) and install it. Use typical settings. Restart PC.

Add Repository

Open up "CVSNT Server" in control panel. Stop the CVSNT Service. You may leave the Lock Service running.

Then, go to "Repository Configuration" tab. Click "Add". Select a location that will serves as the repository for your source files.

Press "Yes" when it requests you to initialize.

Next, go to "Server Settings" tab. Change the "Temporary Directory" to somewhere better.

Go back to the first tab, "About" tab. Start the CVSNT service that you have stopped just now.

Add User

Set environment with the following command:

set cvsroot=:sspi:localhost:{repository name}

e.g. set cvsroot=:sspi:localhost:/test

Use the following command to add a new CVS user:

cvs passwd -r {Windows account name} -a {user name}

e.g. cvs passwd -r Administrator -a englee

Enter password as requested.

Test Login

Enter the following commands:

set cvsroot=:sspi:localhost:{repository name}
cvs login
cvs ls -l -R

If you see a list after you entered the last command, you have got your CVSNT setup correctly! The next thing would be to learn to use it with command line! I think I will make another post on it in a few days.

If you find that my guide is too simple or simply incomplete, please go ahead to see the sites that I have referred.

Reference

1. CVSNT 2.5.03 Installation on Windows 2003
2. CVS Version Control on Windows in 10 minutes

It's just as simple as putting the following code at wherever you need the page break:

<div style="page-break-after: always;"></div>

Also note that there's also page-break-before which you can specify a page break before some tags.

My client has all the invoice template pre-printed on 3-layered carbon paper. My invoicing system only has to fill up the values into invoice form, and not the whole form. But, to only showing only field values on the screen will be hard to read.

Therefore, I need to make my invoice has to be shown in full when it is on the screen, but to print only field values in the printed copy.

Meyerweb.com has a good solution for this problem. Keep your current CSS. Use a different CSS for printed media. Add these lines to your <head> section:

<LINK rel="stylesheet" type"text/css" href="screen.css" media="screen">
<LINK rel="stylesheet" type"text/css" href="print.css" media="print">

In the print.css, you can simple use display attribute to make it invisible.

display: none;

If you don't like to link to any files, you can use the media attribute in the style tag in your header.

<style type="text/css" media="screen">
...
</style>

<style type="text/css" media="print">
...
</style>

It's working for me. I hope it works for you too. Feel free to comment for improvement.

Anyway, whether you have participated, or interested to participate next year, it would be nice to take a look at the sample answer for this year's competition: eGenting Programming Competition 2006 - Answer

Update: For your information, the winners of the competition will be announced at a prize presentation ceremony on 3 February 2007 in Genting Highlands Resort.

The old tradition of this competition disallows anybody who is older than 25 years old to take part. But this year, they are opening a new category for 26 and above. The first prize for this category is very attractive: 5 nights ex-Port Klang cruise onboard SuperStar Gemini for 2 persons worth over RM11,000 + HP Compaq Notebook worth over RM5,000. Then, there's another notebook for first runner up and a training programme for second runner up.

Details:

• Competition Date: 11 November 2006
• Time: 10:00 a.m - 6:00 p.m
• Venue: Genting Hotel Ballroom
• Nature: Open-book, hand-written programming task

Be sure you check out the past year questions and register before 20th of October 2006.

All related materials: Official website of eGenting Programming Competition