January 2006

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Some tips working with postgresql

Here are some tips for working with postgresql databases

The comparisson between Mysql and Postgresql for website development

Most, if not all, common websites that run under PHP and apache use mysql for the database. Mysql is fast, reliable and free. However, there are other solutions, and, inspired by some colleagues, we have tried postgresql in a complex project. The project basis is many types of profiles connected through various relationships. These types share some but not all properties, and have complex messaging and listing system to access each of the profiles. The recoding started in spring 2005. The results at this date are in the entry.

Unlawful practices with affilates

Recently discovered Windows WMF bug havent been unnoticed by various moneymakers. They have discovered the bug even earlier probably and did not shun from using it to make money from various visitors of the websites. One way of exploit the bug is shown in websecuritylabs. One should watch the movie where is clearly shown how [...]

Development tools – Firefox

Personally, I prefer programming using Firefox as the fronted for looking at programming results. The benefit of this over the usage of explorer is that one sees mistakes better and there are better set of tools to evaluate the result or check the design in progress. The first and perhaps most important tool is DOM [...]

Why do I use firefox

Couple of years ago the browser world looked simple: There is internet explorer and that’s it. Of cause, there were opera, safari for MAC, and mozilla, but they were for marginal users: geeks, Linux or Mac users and security aware folk. IE had more that 90 % of the market and that ment every home [...]

Small upgrade

Have just upgraded to the version 2.0 of wordpress. Some new nice features aded, like TinyMCE, for example. The web software is getting close to the common office software.