My New IDE: Eclipse PDT
I've been programming a lot with Quanta which is a leightweight kdevelop based IDE. It did the trick for quite some time, but recent developments in my coding life like SVN brought me on a Quest for my new ultimate...
Better Performance With mod_deflate
I used to use Dean Edwards Javascript Packer a lot to compress my Javascript sources. Libraries of 100kB could easily shrink to 30kB and that saves load times & bandwidth. A good writeup by Julien Lecompte made me realize that...
Determine SID of Windows User
Sometimes when digging real deep into Windows like I recently had to, you need to have the Windows SID (Security Identifier) of a local user. I wasn't able to find any standard way of obtaining this info, so I wrote...
Allow Windows Users to Restart Service
Let's say you want your local restricted users to be able to restart specific services. On linux you'd probably type visudo. In Windows I found, you have to dig a little deeper into the system and really do your research....
Class 'Imagick' Not Found
I tried to do some Image Magick with PHP recently on an Ubuntu Feisty machine, and even though I had the required package: 'php5-imagick' installed, and I updated my php.ini with imagick.so, I kept getting the error Class 'Imagick' not...