Category Archives: Development
Lightweight & fast webmail client
My main home server is a measly pentium II class machine running (now) on Debian Etch. Not the fastest machine but it works, uses little power and is cheap while setup from left-overs. Among other things it serves me my … Continue reading
Ubuntu .local domain resolving issue’s and iptables prerouting
In the past few days I’ve been helping a new colleague at my current job with getting his development area setup in Ubuntu. Most of us work with Windows, including myself since I’m not working on my laptop but on … Continue reading
Eclipse Subversive SVN+SSH and Putty Agent (pageant)
I’m using Subversive within Eclipse to provide SVN support. But since I’m now using SVN+SSH as connection mechanism to SVN, I wanted to use my SSH Key to do the authentication for me. It took me some time to find … Continue reading
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
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
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
Creating your own debian package for non-source applications
For magproductions I needed a debian package of our “own version” of Eclipse (latest Eclipse with certain plugins pre-installed). At first I was told to look at checkinstall, but since I didn’t have a makefile, that was not the answer. … Continue reading