Tyler Weir

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• Tyler 7:42 pm on April 15, 2008 Permalink
  Tags: lift, LiftWeb ( 8 )   

  New Lift App 

  Working on another /lift/ app for fun.
  

   

• Tyler 3:03 pm on March 11, 2008 Permalink
  Tags: gravatars, lift, LiftWeb ( 8 ), Scala ( 14 )   

  Gravatars and Liftweb. 

  Liftweb and Gravatars together at last.

  Here’s the snippet:
  package net.liftweb.example.snippet

  import net.liftweb.example.model._
  import scala.xml.{NodeSeq, Text, Group, Node, Elem}
  import net.liftweb.http._
  import net.liftweb.http.S
  import net.liftweb.mapper._
  import net.liftweb.http.S._
  import net.liftweb.util.Helpers._
  import net.liftweb.util._
  import java.util.Locale
  import net.liftweb.sitemap._
  import net.liftweb.sitemap.Loc._
  import java.security._

  // gravatar_id - MD5 sum of your email address
  // size - image size
  // rating - rating of the image, let's start with "G" which is also the default

  class Gravatar {
  val theUser: User = User.currentUser.openOr(new User)

  private def getMD5(s: String): String = {
  val m = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5")
  m.update(s.getBytes(),0,s.length())
  BigInt(1,m.digest()).toString(16)
  }

  def getGravatar(xhtml: NodeSeq): NodeSeq = {
  var src = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=" + getMD5(S.attr("e").openOr(theUser.email))
  src = src + "&size=" + S.attr("s").openOr("42")
  src = src + "&rating=" + S.attr("r").openOr("G")

  <img src={src}/>
}


  And here’s how to use it in your templates:
  
<lift :Gravatar.getGravatar e="email address" s="80" r="G" />


   

• Tyler 10:08 pm on January 29, 2008 Permalink
  Tags: blueprintCSS, lift, LiftWeb ( 8 )   

  Lift and BlueprintCSS 

  I mooshed BluePrintCSS into /lift/ as you can see here:
  

  It was ridiculously easy using this tutorial.

   

• Tyler 2:05 pm on November 24, 2007 Permalink
  Tags: lift, LiftWeb ( 8 ), mysql, Scala ( 14 )   

  Using MySql with Lift 

  I need to use MySQL with my Lift webapp and here’s how I did it. In Boot.scala I replaced the Derby DBVendor object with a MySQL object. Hope that helps.

  Add this to your pom.xml:

          <dependency>
            <groupid>mysql</groupid>
            <artifactid>mysql-connector-java</artifactid>
            <version>5.0.41</version>
          </dependency>
  

  object DBVendor extends ConnectionManager {
def newConnection(name: ConnectionIdentifier): Can[Connection] = {
try
{
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver")
val dm = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/database_name", "user", "password")
Full(dm)
}
catch
{
case e : Exception => e.printStackTrace; Empty
}
}
def releaseConnection(conn: Connection)
{
conn.close
}
}


  Next up is learning how to set up my domain objects properly.