Category Archives: Ordinateurs

Computers and that

Varchars kill the integers

Posted on March 7, 2006 by Arthur

Iknow several professional applications that use varchar fields to store typically invoice and order numbers, just because it makes it easier to fill this field with non-numerical characters (for example when issuing credit notes and that). This is pretty irritating … Continue reading →

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How did you…

Posted on February 25, 2006 by Arthur

I saw the following question in one of the server logs: ‘how to put picture on blog header?’. That’s easy: most WordPress templates already come with a ‘header image’ (see for example the Kubrick template), and it’s just a matter … Continue reading →

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Licenses and other stuff.

Posted on February 21, 2006 by Arthur

A discussion over at Cosmic Variance (‘Apple or PC laptop’) reminds me that a lot of people actually think that Apple runs on ‘Linux’. Nope, it doesn’t: it runs a ‘Unix’ flavour. If you want more points, you say either … Continue reading →

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Half-Life 2, II

Posted on February 18, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier this month, I decided to replay Half-Life 2 (earlier and earlier): while the gameplay is excellent, I still think 50 dollars for a game with no extra features is a waste, particularly compared to what you get in the … Continue reading →

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Keyboard madness

Posted on February 16, 2006 by Arthur

During one of those longer coding sessions, my development environment started to act up and (at the end) gave up on me. There was no way to save the code because of some ‘modal madness’ occurring in the background. I … Continue reading →

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Algorithms Fun

Posted on February 14, 2006 by Arthur

Interesting detail: Yahoo has released its AJAX library under the BSD license. The archive shows some neat examples of JavaScript. There are other AJAX libraries around. Some of them good. Some of them not good enough. Yahoo’s dev. blog can … Continue reading →

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It hurts. Sometimes.

Posted on February 11, 2006 by Arthur

Oh, so it was. While changing the layout, I peeked around at the WP tables and decided to ‘merge’ a couple of older MT-related categories with the appropriate ones. To my surprise, I noticed that the rowcount (or, the number … Continue reading →

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Burnt WordPress

Posted on February 9, 2006 by Arthur

Talking about burnt: it looks like WordPress is pretty much acting up with a couple of ‘SQL-errors’ on my side. They happen to appear around the time I press the ‘Save’ button. WordPress returns the following error: UPDATE IGNORE wp_posts … Continue reading →

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Good stuff

Posted on February 6, 2006 by Arthur

I saw that Markku has added my fixes to his RecentLinks plugin. You should consider updating your plugin, particularly if you run WordPress without that ‘pretty URLs’ option. Then over at Slashdot, I found a link to Goodger’s Blog discussing … Continue reading →

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Local WordPress

Posted on February 5, 2006 by Arthur

A quick guide to help you develop your ‘online site’ offline. Requirements: An offsite test server, preferably running Debian Stable (formerly ‘Sarge’). A good knowledge of MySQL, PHP and Bash Shell access to your online site. Proceed with the following … Continue reading →

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Recent-links bug

Posted on February 5, 2006 by Arthur

There’s a small bug in Rebelpixel’s recent-links plug-in: clicking the monthly archive pages always appeared to return all the recent links, instead of the (selected) month/year. A quick look in the code tells me that it goes wrong between line … Continue reading →

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Zimbra. Browse. Play Ball!

Posted on February 5, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier I was following comments that (eventually) got me stranded at Zimbra. It appears to be a collaboration server with an AJAX (ugh-the name-the-name) frontend. Closer inspection seems to reveal that the product itself is a mix of perl and … Continue reading →

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Upgrade to WordPress 2.0.1

Posted on February 4, 2006 by Arthur

I upgraded to WordPress 2.0.1, which ended up taking shorter than the last time. This time there were however more individual files and directories to delete: I feel tempted to write a shell script to do this for me next … Continue reading →

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