categories

What kind of user-level abstraction should I use for hierarchical tags?

By user-level abstraction I mean what should I call them and what kind of icon should I use to represent it in the UI? The concept of tags should be familiar to most users right now, but I'm not so sure hierarchical tags are, nor does the abstraction of tags completely fit. What I have is actually something between folders and tags, in...

Hierarchy Visual Design

Hello, I have a hierarchy of categories, where a category can have a single parent (and you can have multiple levels of children.) I'm investigating ways to display this information to the user and it seems like a basic vanilla tree layout is the most intuitive way to go. But I'm wondering if anyone can suggest other approaches. The r...

How do you mod rewrite one level categories to two level categories ?

Say on my old site I have one level categories of products, with one category being "BMW Cars".. inside of that, I have some products : "328i" , "M3", "M5", "X5"... so basically it is a big mix of everything - cause in the beginning we didnt separate the product line into finer categories. Now we are building a new site, and have a 2 le...

Sharepoint Blog: lost join between categories and post when convert WebPart to XSLT

Hello! I modify the structure of a default page category.aspx from Sharepoint Blog template making XSLT. When I save the page and execute it in browser, I lost the connection between categories and posts, and always shows that there isn't messages in this category. Do you know how can I restore or how rebuild the connection in XSLT stru...

How do I create nested categories in a Database?

I am making a videos website where categories will be nested: e.g. Programming-> C Language - > MIT Videos -> Video 1 Programming -> C Language -> Stanford Video - > Video 1 Programming -> Python -> Video 1 These categories and sub-categories will be created by users on the fly. I will need to show them as people create them ...

Need a Recommendation for an Automatic Text Categorization Library.

Can anyone recommend any text categorization libraries that work well on short messages, like Tweets? Ideally the software would be able to look at a short message, and return a category like "sports", "entertainment", "computers", etc. I can define the categories, they don't need to be built into the software. ...

Display Wordpress Archives one category at a time?

I am almost done with my humble attempt at a custom CMS using Wordpress. The only difficulty I have is making a page display the archive for only one category (and it's children). Anyone has an idea? Thanks a lot! Regis ...

Drupal/Drigg categories management

Hey, I'm using Drigg module for Drupal (drigg-code.org) and I'm trying to accomplish the following cagtegory structure: A (parent category) - a, b, c (children) B (parent category) - b, c, d (children categories) When I click on 'b', I want to select the nodes from both A and B, but if I select the 'B' parent category, I want to only...

iPhone Obj-C: Anonymous Category or "private" Category?

Style-wise (and functionally, if there is any difference), for declaring private methods, which of these is better? @interface MyClass() @interface MyClass(private) ...

Objective-C Category import strange behavior

I am extending a class from a external library. Here is my code: Header file: Manager+MyCategory.h #import "Manager.h" #import "Element.h" @interface Manager (myCategory) - (Element*) elementWithTag:(NSInteger)tag; @end Implementation file: Manager+MyCategory.h file @implementation Manager (myCategory) - (Element*) elementWithT...

F-Script categories

Is there a way to implement the equivalent of the following in F-Script? I can't find any reference to it in the documentation. @implementation SomeClass (SomeCategory) - (void)doSomething { // ... } @end ...

Categories in static library for iPhone device 3.0

I have categories in my static library. Any application developer should set -ObjC flag to "Other Linker Flags" to use my static library properly. It works fine for iPhone device/iPhone Simulator 2.x and iPhone Simulator 3.0. But it crashes for iPhone device 3.0. As written in this article it is new linker bug. They suggest to use one mo...

objective-c static library class category, override method not working

I am using Three20 for the iphone and I am trying to change what a method does within it by using a class category. It compiles fine, but I never reach the break point in it. I'm assuming a class category affects all instances of the class, so I don't have to recompile the static library for it to work. I also know that the class I'm u...

Objective-C categories == visitor pattern?

Would you say that Objective-C categories are an implementation of the visitor design pattern? ...

Using Super in an Objective C Category?

I'd like to override a method in an Objective C class that I don't have the source to. I've looked into it, and it appears that Categories should allow me to do this, but I'd like to use the result of the old method in my new method, using super to get the old methods result. Whenever I try this though, my method gets called, but "supe...

html category / sub-category best view

Hi, I have a mysql database populated with categories/subcategories, and I'm on the way to build a php/html/css presentation module to show the hierarchy above mentioned. My objective is to have a simple and clean way to list those categories, widthout getting to confuse to the client (note that there's no "level" limit to the subcateg...

I need ideas on displaying categories for a listing

I need ideas on assigning categories to a listing. The categories will be something similar to what Ebay does. Amazon and the other sites have similar categories for listings. I have a lot of categories and Sub-Categories upto 4 levels deep, like Home & Garden > Kitchen > Small Appliances > Coffee Machines Computing > Networking > Ser...

Does allowing a category to have multiple parents make sense? Are there alternatives?

Short question: How should product categories that appear under multiple categories be managed? Is it a bad practice to do so at all? Background info: We have a product database with categories likes this: Products -Arts and Crafts Supplies -Glue -Paper Clips -Construction Paper -Office Supplies -Glue -Paper ...

Outlook 2007 - clear categories when I clear flag

When I clear the flag on an email, how can I set a rule (or create a script) to clear the categories (if any) that I've assigned to the email? ...

Private methods using Categories in Objective-C: calling super from a subclass.

Hello folks, I was reading how to implement private methods in Objective-C (Best way to define private methods for a class in Objective-C) and a question popped up in my mind: How do you manage to implement protected methods, i.e. private methods that are visible to subclasses? Suppose I have a MySuperClass with a Category containing ...