FTP Applet is now free

February 25, 2005

That's right, you can now download our (Rad Inks) FTP applet free of charge. You can use it on a non commercial website without paying any license fees. However we need to make a living too, and commercial website owners...
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Nokia 6630

February 24, 2005

Just got my hands on a Nokia 6630 and I have not been so excited by a phone in years. The last three phones I bought were siemens and the last one was purchased nearly 2 years ago. This time...
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CMS should be CMMS

February 23, 2005

A CMS is supposed to save you time in managing your website, unfortunately quite the opposite seems to be the case. I have never had much faith in PHP templating systems or their extension Content Management Systems. The more I...
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svn: malformed file recovery

February 17, 2005

This is how I recovered from an svn: malformed file error. Beware that this solution may not work for you, it may even result in your dog catching the flu. First a bit of background: In my case the repository...
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Rad Upload 2.01

February 15, 2005

A new version of Rad Upload 2 was released on Saturday. It makes several improvements over version 2.00 which was released earlier in the year. Rad Upload 2, introduced the ability to resize images as they are being uploaded. While...
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libmad

February 14, 2005

My collection of backup CDs became obsolete, thanks to a corrupted svn revision file. The sensible thing to do is to throw these CDs away and create a new set of CDs. Unfortunately the geek in me would not allow...
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svn: malformed file

February 11, 2005

Subversion is tricksy. It waits until you have been lulled into a false sense of security to spring a surpise on you. When that suprise is sprung, google does not have any answers. Having used subversion for a while and...
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Serialize and deserialize

February 9, 2005

Drupal apparently relies heavily on object serialization and deserialization. Once upon a long ago, I used to be a big fan of this tactic, only later did I realize that it may be more processor intensive than creating a new...
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Fud Forum

February 7, 2005

Today's chosen victim for this serial software killer is FudForum. As with mambo the other day the first impressions are none to good. The download includes only a handfull of files and one of them is a 1.4Mb php script....
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Choosing a CMS

February 6, 2005

This is the story of selecting a CMS for an old (really old) website. Once upon a long ago, I created a website with a bit of content on Sri Lanka. At the time, very few people knew PHP and...
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ssh_exchange_identification by a pundit.

February 5, 2005

I had a mail today from one of the stupid pundits described in my post titled ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host. This pundit assumed that I am clueless and gave me a lengthy explaination of libwrap (which I didn't...
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Raditha Problem Zip

February 4, 2005

Raditha Problem Zip? what on earth is that? i don't have a problem with zip files. I rarely use them, so why is it that someone typed in that phrase into google and came and landed on my blog entry...
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Mambo

February 3, 2005

After drupal, it's now the turn of Mambo to be put through the olive press. Things got off to a bad start when the mambo tarball extracted itself into the current directory instead of into a subdirectory as it should....
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PhpAdsNew fork - MaxMedia

February 2, 2005

Ran into another advertising system named MaxMedia, which is apparently a phpadsnew fork. I downloaded it hopefull that it may not be as complex as phpadsnew or if it is complex it would have more usefull functionality. Both hopes were...
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Drupal again

February 1, 2005

So it's back to drupal after downgrading my php installation to 4.3.8 . The drupal documentation says it does not work with PHP 5 which turned out to be true. The system does load up properly with the older version...
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