Category Archives: Software & Tools

Primer on SSH and SCP

Posted on November 13, 2004 by marcus

Hardly anyone uses telnet to log into their UNIX shell anymore. And with good reason; the idea of having your password transmitted in clear text (i.e. unencrypted), thus easily obtained by nosey people equipped with the proper sniffing tools, just … Continue reading →

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Firefox 1.0 released

Posted on November 12, 2004 by marcus

Time to upgrade, folks. I'm currently still using Firefox 0.9.3, and it's proven itself to be an excellent replacement for Microsoft Internet Explorer.

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Auto-properties in Subversion

Posted on November 12, 2004 by marcus

I'm a big fan of Subversion and use it for nearly every project I work on. I work on our software projects in several ways: On the Linux development server directly, which I access from a Windows desktop using UltraEdit … Continue reading →

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PHP5 headaches

Posted on July 24, 2004 by marcus

At Lucidix we decided to test run our workflow software on PHP5 and, if all goes well, to forget about backward capability with PHP4. There's one really good reason for it; Exception handling. We've tested the web app on Win … Continue reading →

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Modified DBDesigner

Posted on July 22, 2004 by marcus

Earlier today I modified DBDesigner to, above all, not delete columns automatically after renaming the destination column in a relationship. It also displays "AI" for auto_increment columns, so I don't have to guess anymore whether I forgot to check that … Continue reading →

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