I am reevaluating my decision of becoming an Apple fan or not… And I tend towards becoming one. Just because of the excellent marketing and the excellent hardware! But the software isn’t that bad either! Mac OS X, once you get a bit used to it, might become your favorite OS! Of course, it has [...]

I just encountered this problem: I have an Ubuntu box, on which ran this downloading service. Because some complaints from the Internet provider, I decided to use another network (from another provider) for this downloading service. Everything else needed to remain the same. So I installed a new network card on the system, and it [...]

Ok… I started to do some Android devel… And I started to like it, even if it is based on Java, works in Eclipse and has a ton of classes. Now, the first project is a widget (weather widget). For this, there’s this “AppWidgetProvider” class that implements the design and functions for data retrieval (using [...]

It seems that the long-awaited WordPress 3.0 is out and it also seems to have some new features that, in my opinion, brings WordPress closer to what a real CMS should be. I worked quite a lot with Drupal and now I consider WordPress to be a good alternative for all those projects. The most [...]

I needed recently to overlap, on a web page, a text on an image, and the text was to be white, with a black background, with alpha. For this, the solution is to make two DIVs, both positioned in a container div. The container div has to have “position: relative”. The second div has to [...]

If you’re using Windows and you have some projects synced with SVN, you could have sometimes the need to remove the folder’s SVN references. This can be done in Windows Explorer by browsing and removing all the .svn subfolders, but if your folder has many subfolders, you’ll have a lot of work to do. There’s [...]

Because MySQL became one of the most used database engine in the world and because of the ease of development in PHP with MySQL, most of the prototype application can be developed at first using this combination (PHP+MySQL). But then, mainly because of performance issues, one might want to implement that project in C – [...]

Of course, most Solaris users are at an advanced level and those little nice things in a Linux console don’t matter that much. But I like to be more productive and enjoy using all the features I can get from a console. So here’s how I am customizing my Solaris console: 1. I am using [...]

Citeam acum pe blogul unei cunoștințe că “N-am avut niciodata mulţi prieteni. Doar multe cunoştinţe“. Și asta mi-a completat revelația pe care am avut-o în urma unor discuții mai sincere cu cei pe care îi încadram în categoria prietenilor (și încă o fac). Mi-am dat seama că de fapt termenii de prieten și cunoștință nu [...]

When using AJAX, there is a cross-domain security restriction that does not allow accessing an URL with a different domain than the one of the page that contains the script (the script’s domain). For most AJAX applications, this is not an issue, as you can host the data on the same domain. But let’s consider [...]