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Good bye PWDMag, hello .NET
If you are a fan of Paul Boag, you might now that the Practical Webdesign Magazine website closed down (as did the magazine itself) and they moved to become the .NET magazine. Before closing down I took a complete mirror of the site (thanks HTTrack), and asked them if I can put up a mirror.…
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Mixed links and commentary
The thing on everybody’s mind is the recent GMail hack. You can read a very good writeup about it on Joe Walker’s Blog. You can avoid it (if you are an application developer) by Not using the JSON format Not using cookies to store session ID, but rather including the session ID in the URL.…
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Some links
Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions – a must visit for geeks. I wished it had more ships. Via Lifehacker: DivShare – upload and share your files. No bandwidth limit. I fail to see a revenue model so I predict that they’ll disappear relatively fast but until then it is very nice (no ads, no need to…
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Including mixed (SSL and non-SSL) content on your secure site
Disclaimer: while I dabble with Apache from time to time, I’m not a professional SysAdmin or Apache guru. The things described below is my own experience, and it should not be considered expert advice, just a staring point. An other way to say it: if you know better, please leave a comment :). AskApache (a…
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OpenOffice.org dictionaries
When writing it certainly helps a lot to have spell check in that given language. An important, yet not very widely known, detail of OpenOffice.org is that it has dictionaries for many languages. Compare this with Microsoft Office: if you bought the English version, you probably got only the English spell check module. If you…
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Perl and Windows
Perl is a nice scripting language, but originally it wasn’t designed for the Win32 OS. There have been many improvements over time however (the greatest of them all being ActivePerl with PPM, which – as opposed to CPAN – doesn’t require you to have all those command line tools which you have on 99.9* on…
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I love the web
A few months, 131 posts and I’m already getting very useful feedback. I would like to dedicate this post to all of my readers. Thank you all. Here are two very useful links which I got from my readers: From Anonymous comes: The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters). If you think…
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Two more things…
before I get to bed: Burrrn works great if you want to write FLAC files to an audio CD MediaCoder tries to connect to Sourceforge at every startup (presumably to check for updates). However it didn’t ask me once if I wanted to do that :(.
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Open source debugging
While trying to re-encode some podcasts (to have smaller file size), I learned the following lessons: MediaCoder looked very, very professional and I wanted to try it out for a long time. However, it freaked out over my MP3 file and crashed the included MPlayer. No problem I thought, I downloaded the latest Windows build…
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What I learned about Perl today
When you start using a new programming language for quite some time you will regularly find new things in it. Some will make you think I wish I knew this yesterday and some will seem interesting. So here is something I learned about Perl today: If your recursion level exceeds 100 (meaning that you call…