Archive for January, 2010
Apology letter to Firefox
I must apologize to you for my thoughtless action to embrace Google Chrome so swiftly. I was wrong. I admit that now. I never had any issues with you besides your appetite for memory. You really like eating all the memory you have available. But after all i bought 4 gigs of RAM for you. [...]
Twitter fail
Too many tweets ? I guess they should have built it with PHP.
Importing large files into a MySQL database
From time to time i have to insert really large files into MySQL. And sometimes there are problems because you don’t have access to the mysql command line utility from the server to issue the source command (this lets you import dumps or sql files). So you have to use phpMyAdmin or some other web [...]
Powermail file upload size
TYPO3′s Powermail extension has the ability to upload files. That’s cool. But what if you need to specify a limit on the file size so you don’t get 5 MB large pictures for something that should just be a profile photo and should be fairly small. There is a solution. Go edit your root TypoScript [...]
Facebook and Farmville. Give me a break
I would like to see all those people who send me Farmville gift requests working one week at a farm! I bet they wouldn’t like farming so interesting anymore. When you have to work all day long on the crop fields or have to clean the crap of the farm animals (btw farmville fans … [...]
Weekly article batch 2
Here is the second edition of my weekly “press review” Interesting articles last week: Gartner report on PHP – published by Danne Lundqvist on dotvoid.com – writes about a report by Gartner (here) that makes it clear that more and more companies discover the benefits of PHP and adoption is increasing among major companies. A [...]
Thinking about switching to CentOS
Recently i’ve been playing with CentOS at work, setting up a server and configuring stuff on it. I used Linux a long time ago, when Mandrake was my OS of choice and i had plenty of time. But i had to switch to Windows because of some GIS software i’ve been using in school that [...]
As expected Google Drive arrives in the form of Google Docs
We waited quite a long time for this one. But after all that time it became a reality. Google Docs slowly morphs into Google Drive. Google today announced that any type of file can be uploaded to Google Docs. The feature is being rolled out right now and will be available anytime from a couple [...]
Weekly article batch. Edition 1
I read many articles and most times i don’t bookmark them even if they are fairly good articles and can be useful in some situations. I thought i should save them somewhere, but they are not so important to be added to bookmarks. So starting with this year i will publish a post with these [...]
Nexus One : The Google Phone is here. Should we care?
Google unveiled today the much anticipated Nexus One, the so called Google Phone. And once more is demonstrated that rumors about the Mountain View company’s products usually have a solid basis. We’ve seen rumors about GBrowser ant it has come in the form of Chrome and this was also true for other products or acquisitions. [...]
