Mysql , postgres and passwords
July 31, 2004
Many developers particularly those who work in a LAMP enviorenment use the password() function of mysql to encode the passwords that they store in their database. This function is not supposed to be very secure but people use it anyway...
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SFTP
July 30, 2004
The time has come for the release of version 1.31 of the java SFTP applet Though I keep referring to the applet there are in fact two different clients. One is the applet that runs in your browser and the...
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mysql to Postgres
July 29, 2004
In recent years Many a developer has been spoilt by the ease of installing and using mysql. Thus instead of learning SQL they have learnt mySQL - Many of those who have fallen into this pitfall would happen to be...
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A new festival
July 28, 2004
I was under the impression that Festival is abandonware - apparenlty not. They have released a new version labeled as 1.95 (2.0 beta). According to my reconing this is the first major release in around three years. I made an...
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getContentWithoutUsingSoManyDamnGlobals()
July 25, 2004
How about that for a function name? I kid you not. It's a function name from the mediawiki software version 1.30. They have apparently done a lot of rewriting to improve the code and as the function name itself suggests...
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Java 5 and PHP 5 the verdict
July 24, 2004
It seems my efforts to configure PHP 5 with java 5 support was a complete and utter waste of time. Java 5 or any version of java, for that matter cannot be used with PHP 5. It's perhaps more accurate...
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Barbet
July 23, 2004
Brown headed barbets are common visitors to my small garden. My latest effort in open source software development is named Barbet in honour of this bird. barbet is a database administration tool written in java - or perhaps it would...
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PHP FTP Class
July 22, 2004
Sometime ago I made a PHP class that was a (partial) implementation of the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) since then I decided to hand it over to Rad Inks. This week I made some improvements to it and now we...
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Shared Memory
July 21, 2004
I have been doing a bit of reading about semaphores and shared memory for the last few days, in the hope of making an improvement to Mega upload. Unfortunately it does not look like a good solution. The reason is...
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500 Responses
July 20, 2004
That heading is misleading. I am not talking about HTTP or FTP error codes. Today I made my 500th post at the Devshed forums. 499 of these postings have been in reply to messages requesting help on varius topics -...
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Java admin tools for Postgres
July 19, 2004
I came across an java database administration tool for postgresql called XPG. However I immidately ran into problems when attampting to compile it. That's because the source files contains non ASCII characters - since that character sequence is part of...
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sqlite
July 18, 2004
If you are one of those developevers who happen to less than impressed by the feature set of mysql you will be terribly disapointed with sqlite. Then again sqlite isn't really intended to be a replacement for mysql. It's more...
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PHP and Shared Memory
July 17, 2004
So what good are the shared memory functions? well you can use them to share data between different PHP scripts or even with other processes running in your server. Very usefull if you know how to make use it. The...
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PHP 5 and Java 5
July 16, 2004
Does PHP 5 work with java 5? I decided to find out. The first step is of course the configuration, the last time I installed PHP 5 I installed both mysql and mysqli - this time I didn't want to...
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Mozilla 1.7
July 15, 2004
I just upgraded from mozilla 1.6 to 1.7 but unfortunately it looks and feels pretty much like what 1.6 used to feel. I don't mind not having a lot of remarkable features to write home about there was one annoying...
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Jabber List Reactivated
July 14, 2004
There seems to be quite a lot of activity in the jabber lists of late, both the jadmin and jdev lists and I still haven't got a 2.0 installation! It's been more than an year since I was last involved...
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Postgres
July 13, 2004
I have been having an on again off again affair with postgreSQL for quite some time. My first run in with postgres was in the year 2001. At the time I was just interested in seeing what it had to...
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Java new look and feel and possible bug
July 12, 2004
Is the new metal look and feel in java 5 as good as it was adevertised to be? I think so. It looks a lot more exciting than the dull grey that used to be in version 1.4xx while trying...
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USB Drive with voice recorder
July 11, 2004
I have been looking around the web for a USB drive with voice recorder. Quite suprisingly many such devices available seem to use USB 1.1 and not the faster USB 2.0 interface, USB 1.1 is a big no no since...
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Java Plug In 5
July 10, 2004
Java plug in 5.0 (it's 5 even though the java console may say 1.5) has a few nifty features. One is that it displays an animation while an applet is being loaded. This is not particularly usefull for me because...
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AITCOM wrongfully charges me again.
July 9, 2004
Just after being wrongfully charged by AITCOM - That pathetic excuse for a webhosting company, I cancelled my credit card. Apparently they beat me to it by a few hours. In other words they have made yet another wrongfull charge...
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more on Java and EXEs
July 8, 2004
The other day I wrote about the average person not knowing what Java is about. I also commented about how even developers look for ways of making executables out of jar files. Little do they know that a properly packaged...
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IE
July 7, 2004
Some one on the list a web discussion group by evolt sent the following link on google search patterns: http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html An overwhelming number of visitors to google use IE as their browser. Nothing really suprising in that, but what's really...
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People Still don't know what java is
July 6, 2004
That's right, only geeks know what java is. Want proof? then check out this page http://www.download.com/Rad-FTP/3000-2160-10292105.html This is the entry at download.com for Rad FTP. look under the user comments. One user had been scared off by the .jar extension!...
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On the road with Java 5.0
July 5, 2004
I am now getting my feet wet and hands dirty coding with java 5 simply by changing my JAVA_HOME env. variable to /opt/java/jdk1.5.0. That means any java applications that I run will automatically use the new version - which is...
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Java 5 or 1.5? the plot thickens
July 4, 2004
I have managed to sucessfully download the J2SDK 1.5 (or is it jdk 5.0 ?) at last. (Previous attempts resulted in a corrupted file). The file that I have in my hands is labeled jdk-1_5_0-beta2-linux-i586.bin so I am not sure...
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Rad Upload
July 3, 2004
We released version 1.22 of Rad Upload a couple of days ago.. There is only one difference between this and the last release; the current version makes it easier to handler recursive folder upload. Recursive folder upload has always been...
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Java 1.5 and JFrame
July 2, 2004
I have just been reading through the documentation for java 1.50 (or 5.0 or java 2 version 5 not sure which). What's interesting is that you cannot find any references at all to a version 5.0. Everywhere it's referred to...
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java 5.0
July 1, 2004
The other day I wrote about the confusion over the latest java version numbers (or at least my confusion.), though I hoped that downloading the j2sdk (?) and the documention will shed more light on it, the situation remains murky...
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