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25 posts published in 2005
Horde is an application framework used by a web-based email client IMP I use to read my email.
Having written my own Wordpress logging / statistics plug-in over the weekend – which still in prototype, consider it a ‘coming soon’ - I have star...
Building a tool to detect and convert character encodings in the FreeDB database, processing 1.8 million entries with surprising results
More for my own benefit, but here goes... This is an example of using MEncoder (Windows version) to convert a DVD to DivX.
Discover how to unlock your DVD writer's full potential by editing firmware burn speeds with this handy tool when media won't burn at rated speeds
Quick reference to Oracle TopLink version compatibility issues when importing older project files into newer workbench versions
I recently had to use the HTTP::Lite perl module and thought I would share an example of how to use it.
A quick and simple Velocimacro to generate HTML Select boxes and its Options; automatically selects the correct option based on the value given.
The code below will display the number of files open by the running process.
JSSHTunnel is a lightweight GUI application which forwards local & remote ports over SSH connections.
Symptom Trying to use hcitool returns the ambiguous error message "Device is not available: Success" \\\ [root@localhost ] hcitool scan Device is n...
This is a very simple utility function to produce an indented XML document as a String given a Document.
If you're running Windows 2000 or XP at home, it's very unlikley that you have a 'Primary Domain Controller' to give you the time of day.
Learn how type sensitivity in Velocity template comparisons can break your HTML forms and how to fix it with proper type conversion
The default configuration of Fedora Core 4 with SELinux enabled causes problems when you want to use the UserDir feature in Apache Httpd.
If you're reading this article you've probably encounted the same problem as I have.
I was working on a web-based application recently and wanted a lazy way to get data from a simple 'value object' out to the front end without havin...
Essential reading for every developer: Joel Spolsky's definitive guide to Unicode and character encoding fundamentals
It’s May; it’s coming to that time of the year where I have to update my SSL certificate again.
I have a generic USB2/IEEE1394 (Firewire) external hard drive enclosure.
Builds a JAR file Test. jar and generates a manifest specifying that class Test is the Main-Class.
A better random number generator java import java. security.
When using JDK 1. 4 and above...
Returns true on success, false on failure: java public static boolean deleteDir(File dir) { if (dir.
I made this back in April 2004, it only took a couple of hours to write and build the database.