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I was hesitant to upgrade to Firefox 3 before..

By Jens Ulrik Posted on 18/06-2008 Posted in Free, Geekyness, Windows No Comments

..the Del.icio.us add-on was announced.

What goes on in my registry when…

By Jens Ulrik Posted on 15/05-2008 Posted in Free, Geekyness, Performance, Windows No Comments

Ever asked yourself what actually happens when you perform a certain thing in a certain program? Which files are read, created, updated and what goes on in my registry. The Sysinternals Process Monitor tool does this. Filter the events any …

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Magpie RSS/Snoopy problem finally solved

By Jens Ulrik Posted on 05/11-2007 Posted in LAMP, Open Source, Tips No Comments

MagpieRSS IS great – I like it a lot, and it almost does exactly what you need to aggregate RSS feeds from PHP. MagpieRSS has one achilles heel in Snoopy. MagpieRSS relies on Snoopy as the HTTP-client (browser-component) that fetches …

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Generate PDF files from PHP

By Jens Ulrik Posted on 12/09-2007 Posted in Geekyness, LAMP, Linux, Open Source, Tips, Web No Comments

For a web project I needed to create invoices, to be downloaded or e-mailed to clients in PDF format. The platform is PHP and the documentation for this almost exclusively describe PDFLib for this purpose. I am sure PDFLib is …

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How does my website look in ALL the other browsers?

By Jens Ulrik Posted on 12/09-2007 Posted in Free, Geekyness, Web No Comments

Wanna know how Mac og Linux users running rare browsers view your website? Then check out http://browsershots.org/. Queue up your URL and depending on the current load, the screenshouts will begin pouring in over the next couple of minutes. Why, …

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MySQL query/indexing tip

By Jens Ulrik Posted on 31/08-2007 Posted in LAMP, MySQL, Open Source, Performance No Comments

I originally learned about this MySQL shortcoming in the book High Performance MySQL, and luckily I remembered it for an issue that struck me today. I have two tables – one containing blog-posts, and one containing a record for each …

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Attention Profiles may filter news better

By Jens Ulrik Posted on 07/08-2007 Posted in Geekyness, Human, Web No Comments

Amazon profiles you by the books you buy. Google sponsored links are displayed by the contents of your gmail e-mails and general website interests. All “Big Brother” considerations aside – this is clever – or at least technically interesting. There …

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Light-weight XML editor

By Jens Ulrik Posted on 21/06-2007 Posted in Open Source, Tips No Comments

I was looking for an XML editor to perform a few simple tasks. Since i worked heavily with XML a few years ago, the Windows XML editor of choice is apparently still the Altova XML Spy. You can get it …

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Why are Wiki’s so darn ugly?

By Jens Ulrik Posted on 06/06-2007 Posted in Geekyness, Open Source, Web, Wiki No Comments

I am a Wiki-virgin. Not in the sense of being a wiki-reader/contributor, but today I set up my first Wiki which is about to go online. Wiki’s based on the MediaWiki software (which is also used for WikiPedia) are actually …

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Rebooting for the next couple of days

By Jens Ulrik Posted on 30/05-2007 Posted in Geekyness, Human, reboot9 No Comments

Thursday and friday i will be at Reboot 9 – it’s the third time I attend – last time was two years ago, and the first time was actually at the first Reboot conference – pre-bubble, y2k and all. This …

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