Author Archives: DelGurth
Debugging mails being send from applications
Ever needed to test the e-mail functionality of your application, on windows, without having access to a SMTP server? Try SMTP server for developers, a brilliant piece of software, so far. You need .Net for it. It’s really easy to … Continue reading
Keyboard shortcuts
Perhaps you have noted that I added a new site to the list of sites I like: Windows Keyboard Shortcut of the Day. Using keyboard shortcuts just improves your work speed a lot. A few windows shortcuts that I didn’t … Continue reading
Quick status update
So, I’ve been inactive for a while now. With the new job and moving to a new place my time to blog has been very limited. I’ve been preparing some more drafts (the number of drafts is now bigger then … Continue reading
Trying to get the Belkin F5D8053 v3 to work on Ubuntu Hardy without ndiswrapper
Update: I got it working now, see my new post about it. If I look at the Windows driver for my new Belkin F5D8053 it is based on the RT2870 chipset. There is a native driver available for this chipset. … Continue reading
VMware and Virtual PC images continued
A few days ago I wrote about VMware and the Virtual PC images. I said that it’s not a problem that you don’t have the Windows CD, and that you just had to press cancel when requested. This was only … Continue reading
PHP Acceleration with eAccelerator
With high traffic sites, performance issue’s rise. Now one of the solutions is to use an opcode caching mechanism for PHP. There are two mainstream open source solutions for that, APC and eAccelerator. And there is Zend platform and Zend … Continue reading
Using VMware player for testing Internet Explorer on Ubuntu
One disadvantage of developing websites/web applications on Unix (in my case Ubuntu) is that it’s hard to test things on Internet Explorer. Yes, you have IEs4Linux but that’s just not the same thing. For real testing with the different versions … Continue reading
Debian Etch Samba printing from Windows XP
For a while I was not able to print from Windows XP via Samba with my Brother HL 2030 laser printer which is connected to one of my servers. I’m running debian Etch there and had upgraded some packages, including … Continue reading
SVN merge changes from a deleted branch
Today I had a problem with a merge. I thought I had merged all changes from a branch into the trunk, so I deleted the branch. But somehow (probably forgetting to remove a –dry-run) not all got merged. So I … Continue reading
WordPress … I really need to change my blogging software
Today I accidentally found a bug in a version of a wordpress stats plugin. I searched for a word with a “‘” in it (foto’s) and as a result I got the following error on some blog: WordPress database error: … Continue reading