This was slightly annoying: I was finishing up an Oracle portal application that was making use of a little flash client to pull data from a few sources. If the data was not comprehensive enough we also provided a Single … Continue reading →

I was just reading through this mornings SD times newsletter and there was an interesting link to a new (-ish, it was released in May) search engine called Koders, which returns results from open source projects. It even has a … Continue reading →

Now that I have my mobile development environment set up I thought I'd take a few moments to make a note on how you create bookmarks to your databases when using the Eclipse plugin Quantum. First off make sure you … Continue reading →

Occasionally you'll come across database fields that contains a list of keywords that are comma delimited. One instance would be for storing the style of a certain product. Take shoe as an example, you can have a trainer, walking, formal … Continue reading →

Man pages are just a great way to find out information about the commands and their various switches on *nix based systems. One thing that has always slightly bothered me though was when you had really long man pages and … Continue reading →

Here a few ways to remove those pesky windows carriage return characters from your scripts that you run into when migrating from a windows environment to a *nix. From the command line to recursively carry out this task you can … Continue reading →

I got a bit tired of starting apache, BlueDragon and Eclipse from the command line every morning so I wrote a quick and dirty bash script that I could leave running while I went off to grab a cup of … Continue reading →

Atfer playing around a little with my USB drive I somehow managed to stuff up Eclipse and every time I attempted to start it, it would crash with an out of memory error. Eventually I read that you can use … Continue reading →

In the last couple of posts I made passing references to using a USB Flash drive for development. My dad just got back from a trip to the US and brought me back a little present: a 1 Gig usb … Continue reading →

Apologies for the long long pause in posting any updates to this site, but between some pretty heavy project work, planning our move back to Australia, leaving my current job, finding some short term contract work, re-building the CMS for … Continue reading →