Mega Upload 2

October 29, 2005

It's been an year since the last release on the Mega Upload PHP branch. The project itself is nearly two and a half years old and now used at over a 100,000 thousands websites. Over the past year, there have...

Javascript file upload

October 26, 2005

Is it possible to do a file upload with javascript? Short answer: no. Is it possible to trap file upload events with javascript? the short answer is again no. But there is always a way. Fortunately in software it's very...

Netbeans 5 Beta (Part II)

October 23, 2005

The attempt the other day to design a GUI with Netbeans 5 didn't meet with much success. I assumed the reason for this was because I was working on a design that was initiated with the older 4.1 version. Today...

Jars.com Double Take

October 22, 2005

A couple of days ago I wrote about how Rad SFTP was highly rated at jars.com. I also wrote about how Rad Upload. a product that was also submitted to jars.com around two years ago didn't get rated until just...

Another Joke By thawte

October 21, 2005

Thawte has a very poor idea about service and customer support, so when they asked if I would like to participate in a survey I jumped at it. At the outset the survey site mentioned that it could take about...

What's up at jars.com?

October 20, 2005

Two years ago we submitted the Rad SFTP applet at jars.com. They liked it. They gave a very high rating. Highly rated applets at at jars.com used to be featued on java.sun.com. As a result Rad SFTP was featured there...

CDAX on Linux

October 18, 2005

My new broker is part of the Colombo Direct Access (CDAX) system and I downloaded CDAX 5.4 with much enthusiasm only to find that they have sold themselves short with the installer. Why people choose to create binary installers with...

More on Obfuscators

October 16, 2005

The author of Proguard, in the true spirit of open source software development, has links to other alternative obfuscators/optimizers on his site. I have already seen some of them because they are also included in the list at mindprod. There...

DVD and Spectrums

October 15, 2005

Once upon a long ago I had a Sinclair ZX spectrum with all of 16 Kilo Bytes of RAM. Today finding a file smaller than 16KB on my 120GB hard disk is a tough ask. What set me off on...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function xslt_create()

October 12, 2005

I must have installed PHP with XSLT support a hundred times. I have seen this error reported thousands of times in various newsgroups and message boards. I have seen it only once and that was about five years back. But...

Annual Hard Disk Crash

October 11, 2005

Last year around about this time I had a hard disk crash and a mother board stew. So I wasn't at all suprised when one of the three hard disks plugged into my machine decided to go on strike. Well...

Google API and Site Search

October 6, 2005

The search results on this site used to be produced by ASPSeek. ASPSeek is no longer in development and I haven't used the alternative mnogosearch in quite a while. For the uninitated ASPSeek has nothing to do with the Active...

Looking Glass

October 3, 2005

Looking Glass is a very interesting idea by a developer at Sun. I can't wait till it's mature enough for day to day usage, so tried the live cd. Tried to start Looking Glass as a guest of Qemu. Unfortunately...

NetBeans 5 Beta

October 2, 2005

After the dispointment with the GUI designer in Netbeans 4.1, I decided to try out the 5.0 beta, which is supposed to have a different GUI designer. I decided to be adventurous based the installation on java 6 rather than...

Netbeans GUI Designer

October 1, 2005

Have been using Netbeans for quite some time with out using it's GUI designer. My opinion is that Netbeans is better than many of the other IDEs I have had the opportunity to use. But there is certainly room for...

 

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