How to setup durandaljs with Areas? - single-page-application

For the life of me I can't make durandaljs work with Areas. I'm developing an application with multiple mini SPAs, but I'm not sure how to set up durandaljs to work with it. I wasn't able to find anything online that can drive me in the right direction. The only similar question I found was this one, which is very vague.
My goal is to separate each SPA within it's own folder like so:
App
--areas
----area1
------viewmodels
------views
----area2
------viewmodels
------views
The router doesn't seem to have the concept of areas and no matter how I map the routes I get 404s when I call router.activate('page1'); after mapping with router.mapRoute('page1'); durandal is trying to get /App/viewmodels/page1.js.
Changing it to:
router.mapRoute('areas/area1/viewmodels/page1');
router.activate('areas/area1/viewmodels/page1');
results in another 404 fetching App/viewmodels/areas/area1/viewmodels/page1.js
I've also tried many other combinations which I no longer remember and can't seem to get it to work.
Can someone please post a working example of how to setup durandaljs with the router plugin and multiple mini SPAs (areas)? A link to an article document would also suffice.

You can use viewLocator.useConvention - maybe something like this:
viewLocator.useConvention(
"areas/area1/viewmodels",
"areas/area1/views",
"areas/area1/templates"
);
One good thing to realize is that useConvention() works in conjunction with any existing require.config paths setting. In other words, if you set the require.config so that "viewModels" and "views" are mapped to the right folders, then all is well.
For example, the code snippet above is functionally equivalent to:
window.require.config({
paths: {
"viewModels": "areas/area1/viewmodels",
"views": "areas/area1/views",
"templates": "areas/area1/templates"
}
viewLocator.useConvention("viewmodels", "views", "templates");

I a similar structure implemented in my application. I think that you have to put this piece of code, to do the viewLocator works properly.
viewLocator.useConvention(); //You can do that in you main.js
You can see more information here: http://durandaljs.com/documentation/View-Locator/
Also I recommed you to look the code of viewLocator.js, especially, the code of useConventionMethod.
Other possibility is to override the method convertModuleIdToViewId, to make it works as you want. But I think that using useConvention methos is enought.

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I'm writing a nuxt module following this guide.
Now I would like my module to add a proxy rule to the host application. Its a lot of guesswork and nothing has done the trick so far. I tried
nuxt.options.proxy.options.push(
{
target: 'https://target-url.com',
changeOrigin: true,
pathFilter: ['path/to/match']
}
)
}
but my IDE complains that proxy is not a known property of NuxtOptions. I did shorten the above code for the sake of this post. In my code I also made sure the respective objects exist before assigning something to them.
next best guess (based on the example for adding a css library) was to do the same thing, but on the runtimeConfig like so:
nuxt.options.runtimeConfig.proxy.options.push(...)
no complaints by the IDE anymore (duh, the runtimeConfig object is of type any) but no sign of the proxy actually working.

Playing soundcloud stream on multiple clients with meteor

I'm attempting to create a collaborative jukebox as a little project to learn Meteor, so apologies for this very high-level noob question.
I need to be able to call the soundcloud SC.stream (see https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/sdks#streaming) function on multiple clients. The template all clients are looking at is binded to a object that looks something like:
room: {
title: "roomname"
currentlyPlaying: {
trackName: "track name"
trackStreamURL: "http://soundcloud/12345"
}
}
I can't seem figure out a way so that when a client, say the admin, sets a new currentlyPlaying to trigger all client to run SC.stream and start the new song.
I'm just not sure what the right meteor features are to use in this scenario, so i'm not looking for a code solution exactly, just a point in the right direction.
Thanks in advance.
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When the url changes, stop playing the previous tune and start playing the new one.
See here for documentation on cursor.observe().

Open direct links to AX-objects or datasets from external application

Is there a way to open a specified document, eg "production order 123" or form, eg "purchase orders" in Ax2012 from an external application directly?
In detail, I'm looking for something similiar like AXPath, but this doesn't work with versions greater then 2009.
Is there any ( maybe included ) way to achieve this?
There is! It's using AX's drilldown functionality which uses AxHLink.exe to handle dynamics:// URLs, which are passed to the Classes\SysStartupCmd function. You could also create some custom code there if you wanted to launch the AX client executable directly.
My question I asked some while back should have a great deal of useful information in it here:
What handles dynamics:// URLs?
Some more can be found: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa834337.aspx
EDIT:
It sounds like you are confused or the posts weren't clear enough. I think you have 3 basic options.
Dynamics:// URLs are handled by AxHLink.exe and they only seem to handle drilldown, viewalert, and viewalertrule. So if you want to use Dynamics:// URLs, you will need to hi-jack those somehow. There is a pastbin from Jan in that other stack post.
Create a custom URI handler and event poller (lot of work) see http://axcoder.blogspot.dk/2010/10/how-to-open-form-in-running-ax-from.html
Extend SysStartupCmd and then instead of using Dynamics:// URLs, just call Ax32.exe -startupCmd directly and a parameter can be passed to your custom class.

How to work with hook_nodeapi after image thumbnail creation with ImageCache

A bit of a followup from a previous question.
As I mentioned in that question, my overall goal is to call a Ruby script after ImageCache does its magic with generating thumbnails and whatnot.
Sebi's suggestion from this question involved using hook_nodeapi.
Sadly, my Drupal knowledge of creating modules and/or hacking into existing modules is pretty limited.
So, for this question:
Should I create my own module or attempt to modify the ImageCache module?
How do I go about getting the generated thumbnail path (from ImageCache) to pass into my Ruby script?
edit
I found this question searching through SO...
Is it possible to do something similar in the _imagecache_cache function that would do what I want?
ie
function _imagecache_cache($presetname, $path) {
...
...
// check if deriv exists... (file was created between apaches request handler and reaching this code)
// otherwise try to create the derivative.
if (file_exists($dst) || imagecache_build_derivative($preset['actions'], $src, $dst)) {
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// call ruby script here
call('MY RUBY SCRIPT');
}
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You should create a module that invokes hook_nodeapi, look at the api documentation to find the correct entry point for your script, nodeapi works on various different levels of the node process so you have to pick the correct one for you (it should become clear when you check the link out) http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_nodeapi
You won't be able to call the function you've shown because it is private so you'll have to find another route.
You could try and build the path up manually, you should be able to pull out the filename of the uploaded file and then append it to the directory structure, ugly but it should work. e.g.
If the uploaded file is called test123.jpg then it should be in /files/imagecache/thumbnails/test123/jpg (or something similar).
Hope it helps.

ASP.NET How to use WebConfigurationManager to get section from Specific config file?

I am trying to get sections from specific .config file such like "my.config".
WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration can get the web.config in specific path.
Maybe WebConfigurationManager.OpenMappedWebConfiguration can reach my purpose.
Can anyone share experience?
I don't know about using the OpenMappedWebconfig thing, but this is a way to do it using a easy utility class:
http://aspalliance.com/705
If you want to have neater access to the config, then create a custom class that inherits from ConfigurationSection, then you can access the variables using syntax like MyConfig.configkey, Here's an article that describes how to create the custom class and is good for some further info:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211020133931/https://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/032807-1.aspx
This article shows how to do internal custom config sections:
http://www.beansoftware.com/asp.net-tutorials/multiple-config.aspx
HTH,
Lance
EDIT: The aspalliance.com is down, so to tide you over, here are some other helpful links:
Here's a super-simple way to do it - http://www.codeproject.com/KB/files/custom_config_file_reader.aspx
Here's the verbose Microsoft way - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2tw134k3.aspx

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