mysql to postgres
January 30, 2005
Ever since writing that online converter (which still needs a bit of work), I have been thinking of putting up a small hands on guide to go with it. After so much of procrastinating a guide is indeed available now....
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Drupal - How did I forget
January 29, 2005
While I was going through Hotscripts trying to track down that elusive perfect CMS, the name drupal completely slipped my mind. Drupal is a name that is often proposed along with PHPNuke and Mambo when the question 'can you recommend...
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The card designer
January 28, 2005
A new release of the Rad Card Designer was made yesterday. In case you have not seen it before; it's an online business card designer that can be integrated into existing web sites and applications. Of course if you don't...
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Linux is not a Silver bullet
January 27, 2005
My sister had this really ancient Notebook with factory installed windows. She only uses it for email and writing stories while on the move, so discarding it in favour of a new one is simply not on. Unfortunatley this machine...
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Advertising and Content Management Systems.
January 26, 2005
The other day I wrote about how there is a massive oversupply of content management systems. Most of them are similar in functionality and appearence and equally disapointing. Adrotation systems are no better. Yesterday I was going through hotscripts trying...
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CMS Review
January 23, 2005
CMS seems to be the hot thing these days. Everyone and his grandmother seems to be developing their own Content Management Systems. I decided to check some of the listings in hotscripts and was appalled. Some of the sites and...
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Php ads new
January 21, 2005
A few days ago I decided to give phpadsnew a go. Primarily because revenue from google adsense does not seem to grow in proportion to the growth in number of page views. Some of the ads don't seem relevent at...
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6630 - I want this phone!
January 18, 2005
The last three times I bought phones for myself it has always been Siemens. Having had the unfortunate experience of writing some j2me stuff for the 6600, I promised myself that I would not use a nokia phone again. Sometimes...
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Enhanced Java for loops anyone?
January 17, 2005
PHP is becoming more like java and java is becoming more like PHP. The so called enchanced for loops in java 5 is little different from the foreach loops that you encounter in PHP and some other languages. One wonders...
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PhpAdsNew and Adsense
January 16, 2005
For three days adsense as not generated one red cent of revenue for this site inspite of delivering over 3000 impressions a day. This looks like the ideal opportunity to install phpadsnew. PhpAdsNew is a very complicated piece of work,...
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Five reasons (not) to move to java 5
January 13, 2005
There is an article at the java website titled Five reasons to move to j2se 5 platform How valid are they? #1: Your application already works on 5.0 Nay not so, there are numorous bugs in java 5, that resulted...
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Resize and Upload Images vs Upload and resize
January 12, 2005
For years everyone has been talking about image upload and resize. What a waste of bandwidth and server resources. How much more efficient is it to resize and upload images instead. Trouble is that typical web applications can get their...
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*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption: 0x0811fd30 ***
January 11, 2005
That ladies and gentlemen is the mysterious error that you pops up when attempting to start up apache. The error was first noticed after compiling php5 with the tidy extension. Apparently this has something to do with memory allocation. A...
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tidy
January 8, 2005
Tidy, and HTML manipulation tool is something that has been in my mind for a long time and finally I found the time to download it and try it out yesterday. It's mildly suprising that there hasn't been a new...
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ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host (solved)
January 7, 2005
Kept getting this error message when trying to connect to my server. As usually when you google you find all kinds of pundits giving stupid answers in many a mailing list. In this case all the answers said it's a...
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Moving away from movable type
January 6, 2005
After being with MovableType for nearly an year the time has finally come to move on. It seems funny that I should be moving away while everyone else (including big investors) are moving towards MT (or rather it's holding company...
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Smarty
January 5, 2005
I have never had much faith in templating engines for PHP believing that they add an additional layer of unwanted complexity to an application. It's for similar reasons that I have a strong dislike for struts and other templating systems...
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Fedora, XMMS and MP3
January 3, 2005
One of the biggest annoyances about Fedora/Redhat is that it's XMMS installation is incapable of playing MP3. I have managed for sometime with jlgui which is a java MP3 player. Unfortunately since upgrading to Fedora Core3 few weeks back, jlgui...
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It's not a happy new year.
January 1, 2005
So another year has dawned but it certainly is not a happy new year, at least in this part of the world. There is no need to tell you about the destruction caused by the tsunami in Sri Lanka. You...
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