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12. February 2003

Reflektor - smart designs
General (wiki) - urs @ 14:54:13

Stefan Zbinden has finally put up his portfolio [1]. Keep it simple and concise.

[1] http://www.reflektor.ch

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01. February 2003

Alpine Ski Worldcup in St. Moritz
General (wiki) - urs @ 20:36:13

Today, the Alpine Ski Worldcup in St. Moritz has been opened [1]. Just another big event within these days in this fantastic region of Switzerland.

[1] http://stmoritz2003.ch

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25. January 2003

Straw - Desktop news aggregation for GNOME
General (wiki) - urs @ 00:22:21

Straw is a tool for Desktop news aggregation for GNOME [1].

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/straw/

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21. January 2003

nanoweb and OpenOffice.org releases
General (wiki) - urs @ 18:44:30

I just found some new releases; one on the webserver called nanoweb (2.0.1), which is hacked completely in PHP [1] and a new release of the Office suite OpenOffice.org (1.0.2) [2].

[1] http://nanoweb.si.kz
[2] http://openoffice.org

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HTTP-server written in Postscript
General (wiki) - urs @ 11:30:15

PS-HTTPD [1] is a HTTP-server written in Postscript. It is very simple (even if the code is somewhat complex) but can handle the basic tasks of a web-server. There are also Debian packages available [2].

[1] http://pugo.org:8080
[2] http://www.godisch.de/debian/pshttpd/

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18. January 2003

Lightweight Web Browsers
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Kamil Klimkiewicz discusses light weight web browsers on freshmeat [1].

[1] http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/695/

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Crypto Law Survey
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Crypto Law Survey [1] is a survey of existing and proposed laws and regulations on cryptography - systems used for protecting information against unauthorized access.

So if you want to stunnel from France to England, one need to check if there are restrictions on cypher
strength by choosing weaker algorithms.

Example for allowed 40bit crypto:
fritz$ openssl ciphers -v EXPORT40

For Switzerland:
Crypto import is not controlled. Import certificates will be given if the country of origin requires this.
The export of cryptography is regulated by the Goods Control Decree of 25 June 1997 (Verordnung über die Aus-, Ein- und Durchfuhr zivil und militärisch verwendbarer Güter sowie besonderer militärischer Güter) [2].

[1] http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/
[2] http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/c946_202.html

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17. January 2003

Nationale Cybercrime Zentrale hat Arbeit aufgenommen
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Die nationale Cybercrime Zentrale hat ihre Arbeit aufgenommen [1].

[1] http://www.cybercrime.admin.ch/

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NSA Backdoor in Microsoft Betriebssystem
General (wiki) | Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Eine Unvorsichtigkeit von Microsoft Programmierern deckte spezielle, geheime Zugriffscodes für die NSA auf, die in jedes aktuelle Windows System (ausser frühe Windows 95 Releases und Vorgänger) eingebaut sind. Die für "Sicherheit" und "Verschlüsselung" zuständige ADVAPI.DLL führt u.a. auch speziell von der NSA auf einen Rechner eingeschleuste Programme aus [1].

Die Meldung geht zurück auf 1999 [2].

[1] http://f25.parsimony.net/forum63036/messages/11231.htm
[2] http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/03/UPDATE2NewWindowsCryptoBackdoorSaid.shtml

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15. January 2003

PEAR on Mac OS X
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

For those using Max OS X to develop web applications with PHP, might like that installation guide for PEAR [1].

[1] http://www.somebodydial911.com/brainstem/osx_pear/

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13. January 2003

Debian switches to GCC 3.2 as default compiler
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

According to Debian Planet, Debian is switching to gcc 3.2 on all architectures [1].

[1] http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=895

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09. January 2003

Windows 2004 (Longhorn) Screenshots
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

According to some articles found on the web, next edition Windows OS "Longhorn" is running in alpha version. Paul Thurrott [1] has some screenshots.
Other screenshots are available at wxperience.de [2].

[1] http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/longhorn_alpha.asp
[2] http://www.wxperience.de

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06. January 2003

Common UNIX Printing System for Mac OS X
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

[via whump.com] Use CUPS to print to any PostScript printer now also on Mac OS X [1].

[1] http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020827081141461

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03. January 2003

Exifer - editing image EXIF data
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Exifer [1] is a Windows application by Friedemann Schmidt and allows the editing of EXIF data e.g. if you have set up a wrong date on your camera.

[1] http://www.exifer.friedemann.info

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30. December 2002

PHPEclipse - a development environment for PHP
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

The Eclipse Project [1] is more than just an editor. They offer a whole development environment as OpenSource.

Eclipse


PHPEclipse offers the IDE for PHP [2]. It all looks extremly promising.

[1] http://www.eclipse.org
[2] http://phpeclipse.sourceforge.net

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PEAR Out of Beta
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

"The PEAR [1] development team is proud to announce that PEAR finally is out of its long beta period. As of PHP 4.3, the PEAR installer is installed by default. Unix support is considered stable, while Windows and Darwin are still of beta-quality."; Stig Bakken.

[1] http://pear.php.net

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28. December 2002

PHP 4.3.0 released
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

After 8 month of testing and debugging we got a new PHP version with some major improvements [1].

[1] http://www.php.net/release_4_3_0.php

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27. December 2002

Imagemagick as PHP extension on Windows
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Recently, a php_imagick.dll has been released [1]. I downloaded the Imagemagick binary for Windows and installed it [2]. Then I copied all CORE_*.dll files to winntsystem32 and put an extension=php_imagick.dll in the php.ini. That got imagick running as extension in PHP, as far as I could see in phpinfo().

So if You can have a look at it, the developpers will appreciate any comments of running systems, since this is all EXPERIMENTAL yet [3].

[1] http://php.chregu.tv/php_imagick.dll
[2] ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/binaries/
[3] http://pear.php.net/manual/en/pecl.imagick.php

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26. December 2002

Data Access Object Pattern in PHP
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Harry Fuecks [1] explores a way to enhance SQL usablility with DAO.

[1] http://phppatterns.com/index.php/article/articleview/25/1/1/

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Doxygen - a documentation system
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Doxygen [1] is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, IDL (Corba, Microsoft, and KDE-DCOP flavors) and to some extent PHP and C#.

[1] http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen

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Automated Password Generator with PHP frontend
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Adel I. Mirzazhanov has an Automated Password Generator (APG) [1] covering e.g. ANSI X9.17 RNG. One can use it in server-client configuration. Have a look at the demo [2]. Check out also the article on sans.org about handling password distribution [3].

[1] http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg
[2] http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/online
[3] http://rr.sans.org/securitybasics/password_page.php

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23. December 2002

Valgrind - a memory debugger Linux
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Valgrind [1], an open-source memory debugger for x86-GNU/Linux, a GPL'd tool to help you find memory-management problems in your programs.

[1] http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/

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Torch - a machine-learning library
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Torch [1] is a machine-learning library to solve problems like:

  • Speech recognition

  • Speech decoder

  • A lot of things in gradient machines, that is, machines which could be learned with a gradient descent. This includes multi-layered perceptrons, radial basis functions, mixtures of experts, convolutional networks and even time-delay neural networks. In fact a lot of "modules" are available that you can plug as you want to get what you need.

  • etc.



[1] http://www.torch.ch

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21. December 2002

X-Mentor Content Management System
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

X-Mentor lite [1] is a news administration tool, offering to add users, givng grants etc. It has a very handy installation routine.

[1] http://www.xmentor.de/xmentor/lite.htm

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20. December 2002

PHP# compiler project by Alan Knowles
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Alan Knowles, also known as a contributor to PEAR, has done some basic reflixions on building a PHP# compiler for .NET [1].

[1] http://www.akbkhome.com/Projects/PHP_Sharp

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16. December 2002

Phoenix all-the-best-out-of-mozilla browser?
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Phoenix recently came out in version 0.5 [1]. It is some kind of browser spin-off by the mozilla project [2]. Phoenix is fast and offers some really nice features I like. Windows are tabbable and you can select a simple text somewhere and search for it with google by clicking the right mouse button etc. etc. For some of these features you will need a special download [3].

Some help is given at mozilline [4].

[1] http://mozilla.org/projects/phoenix
[2] http://mozilla.org
[3] http://texturizer.net/phoenix/extensions.html
[4] http://mozillazine.org/forums/?c=4

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12. December 2002

Gait recognition - a method against crime?
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

While googeling around for "Video Motion Capture" I came across some interesting discussion on that matter [1]. Chris Bregler [2] actually demonstrates in a video, how far those methodes already are [3].
The more appropriate expression for "how people walk" is "gait" or less specific as "gesture" [4]. Jeffrey E. Boyd is working on a Camera Mark-up Language "CaML", giving a demo of a client in action using CaML [5]. Further, we will not forget about what Microsoft is researching [6]. Finally, there is a site by the University of Southampton dedicated to Automatic Gait Recognition for Human ID at a Distance [7].
A Review on gesture recognition [8].

[1] http://halfbakery.com/idea/gait_20recognition
[2] http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bregler/
[3] http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bregler/cbkin.mpg
[4] http://dict.leo.org/?search=gait
[4] http://dict.leo.org/?search=gesture
[5] http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~boyd/
[6] http://research.microsoft.com/~rcutler/Gait/
[7] http://www.gait.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
[8] http://www.dei.unipd.it/~cuzzolin/Review.html

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PHP and UML Class Diagrams
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Harry Fuecks discusses UML (Unified Modelling Language) as a mechanism for representing software in the form of diagrams in combination with PHP [1].

[1] http://www.phppatterns.com/index.php/article/view/15/1/1

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Richter verlangt Website-Sperrung von Providern
General (wiki) | Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Wir hatten auch schon bessere Werbung für unser Land gemacht; heise.de [1] weiss zu berichten, dass ein Waadtländer Richterin die Site appel-au-peuple.org [2] zu sperren verlangt [3]. Dabei liefert das Gericht eine Liste der ISP in der Schweiz, die von der Schliessung betroffen sind; so gibt diese Angelegenheit denn auch einiges zu diskutieren [4].

Ein ähnliches Problem stellt sich auch mit dem Urteil eines Australischen Gerichtshofs zur Verantwortlichkeit von Internetpublikationen [5].

[1] http://heise.de/newsticker/data/hob-12.12.02-000/
[2] http://www.appel-au-peuple.org
[3] http://www.nrg4u.com/abuse/canton-de-vaud.pdf
[4] http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog@swinog.ch/
[5] http://nzz.ch/2002/12/14/vm/page-article8KMW7.html

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10. December 2002

PHP Examen - Swiss Made
General (wiki) | Deutsch (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Die Innerschweizer Firmen Optimaize und Infeer haben eine Platform für PHP Examen geschaffen [1].

[1]http://www.blueshoes.org/en/developer/syntax_exam/

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05. December 2002

Create RTF on the fly using PHP
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

For 50 Euro you can get an on-the-fly RTF generator written in PHP [1]. If you do not like to spend money but time on that matter, have a look on an article and its comments on phpbuilder [2].

[1] http://www.paggard.com/projects/rtf.generator/
[2] http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/nair20020523.php3

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28. November 2002

Nanoweb Debian packages available
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

For the extraodinary webserver nanoweb, Szilveszter Farkas made Debian packages available [1].

[1] http://linux.psoftwares.hu/nanoweb

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23. November 2002

Oil Spill in Galicia, Spain
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

esa [1] has some satellite images that might give you an impression of what happens there in Spain and Portugal.

[1] http://earth.esa.int/ew/oil_slicks/galicia_sp_02/

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22. November 2002

Microsoft Warning of serious Windows hole
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Microsoft has warned of a "critical" security flaw in some versions of its popular Windows operating system.

The problem affects older versions of Windows such as 2000, Millennium, and 98, but not its newest version, Windows XP [1][2].

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2498363.stm
[2] http://www.microsoft.com/security/

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19. November 2002

Saia-Burgess PCD used as webserver
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Saia-Burgess offers a Programmable Control Device with TCP/IP [0] stack which makes it possible to use it as a webserver [1][2].



There are some forums around [3][4]. Uhlemann has an Excel based control for PCD2 [5].

[0] http://www.saia-burgess.com.cn/leaflets/TI%20Web-Server%20e.pdf
[1] http://www.saia-burgess.com/e/products/pcd/
[2] http://www.sbc-support.ch/manuals/26_737_D8_PCD2.pdf (german, 9.9MB)
[3] http://www.pcd-forum.de
[4] http://www.sbc-support.ch
[5] http://www.uhlemann.de/pages/scxl.htm

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18. November 2002

Walmart sells PC with Lindows at less than $200
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Walmart sells a PC at $199.86 offering:

- 128 MB memory
- 10 GB hard drive
- CD-ROM drive
- Integrated 10/100 Ethernet connection
- LindowsOS 2.0 operating system [2]
- Modem and floppy disk drive
are not included

Apart from the modem that one probably won't need and a disk that is too small, this sounds quite reasonable. Is it the OS, that "forces" such a low price?

[1] http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1957333
[2] http://www.lindows.com

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Judy - C library dynamic array implementation
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

The Judy family of functions supports fully dynamic arrays. These arrays may be indexed by a 32- or 64-bit word (depending on the processor) or a string. Judy arrays are both speed- and memory-efficient, with no tuning or configuration required, across a wide range of index set types (sequential, periodic, clustered, random).

As far as I know, there no PHP [2]implementation of Judy yet.

[1] http://www.sourcejudy.com
[2] http://php.net/array

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16. November 2002

Rasmus offers some PHP tips and tricks
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Rasmus Lerdorf offers some handy PHP tricks and tips on his page [1].

[1] http://www.lerdorf.com/tips.pdf

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13. November 2002

Mozilla gets kind of ContentEditable
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Like Microsofts Internet Explorer there is now also a similar implementation of a ContentEditable feature in Mozilla [1]. Download the latest build or at least 1.3 alpha and try it out [2].

[1] http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97284
[2] http://www.kaply.com/work/onepageeditor.html

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12. November 2002

WAMP Tutorial in German
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Unter wamp.de [1] ist umfangreiche Installationsdokumentaion zu Windows-Apache-Mysql-PHP Systemen zu finden.

[1] http://www.wamp.de

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06. November 2002

PHP News by Powie.de
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Powie's PHP News is a news script based on PHP and MySQL written by Thomas Ehrhardt [1]. It handles also user comments and contributions.

[1] http://powie.de/pm/pmagic.php?pmagic=pnews

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03. November 2002

PHP-GTK Version 0.5.2 is out
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

After a break of about half a year PHP-GTK version 0.5.2 came out [1]. Have a look at the change log too [2].

[1] http://gtk.php.net
[2] http://gtk.php.net/changelog.php

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31. October 2002

Scaling PHP for Yahoo
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Michael J. Radwin, a Yahoo engineer, shows, why Yahoo is using PHP [1].

[1] http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm

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29. October 2002

nanoweb - new PHP webserver release 1.9.0
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

nanoweb came out with a new release and lots of new features and fixes [1].

[1] http://nanoweb.si.kz/?p=changelog

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e-novative PHP (ePHP) - PHP for Windows solution
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

e-novative PHP is a free PHP installer provided by e-novative, one of the first companies creating commercial software based on PHP. It installs and configures Apache, MySql, PHP and phpMyAdmin on Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP [1].

A support forum is available [2].

[1] http://php.e-novative.de/ephp.php
[2] http://www.e-novative.de/forum/list.php?f=4

(Update): They also provide a "Professional multi-format publishing of DocBook XML documents? Try the free e-novative DocBook Environment (eDE)" [3].

[3] http://docbook.e-novative.de/

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EM produces world-first IC operating under 0.5V
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EM Microelectronic announced that it is ready to start producing a high-performance, ultra-low voltage and ultra-low-power integrated circuit using fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD SOI) operating under 0,5 Volt [1]. EM is a Swiss based Chip manufacturer.

[1] http://www.emmarin.ch/DetailNews.asp?IdNews=37

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Xdebug extension for PHP
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The Xdebug extension helps you debugging your script by providing a lot of valuable debug information [1]. The debug information can provide:

-stack and function traces in error messages
-memory allocation
-protection for infinite recursions

[1] http://xdebug.derickrethans.nl

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16. October 2002

Phat Linux - running Linux on a Windows Host
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Phat Linux [1] can be installed on the same partition as Windows. Whether you have Windows 95/98, NT, ME, 2000 or XP, Phat Linux will work on our computer. Phat Linux comes with XIMIAN GNOME desktop [2].

As this text might intend is, that one can run Phat Linux from within Windows, which is AFAIK not possible. Please read therefore a users contribution [3].

[1] http://sf.net/projects/phatlinux
[2] http://www.ximian.com
[3] http://community.phatlinux.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=281

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14. October 2002

Eclipse - class library for PHP
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Eclipse [1] is an object-oriented programming library written in PHP.

[1] http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/people/voostind/eclipse

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11. October 2002

Bis zu 75 Prozent guenstigere Billette als am Schalter
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Die SBB ermöglichen es nun, dass Bahnticket zu Hause selbst im A4-Format ausgedruckt werden können. Die Preise fliegen dabei in die Tiefe [1].

[1] http://news.ch/print/detail.asp?ID=121376

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10. October 2002

Contest - Contribution to Open Source Bitflux Editor
General (wiki) - urs @ 12:00:00

Roger Fischer announced a contest which aims "Significant contributions to the Open Source Bitflux Editor" [1].

[1] http://advogato.org/person/Roger/diary.html?start=1

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"Cheap" Perl HTTPD for Windows 95/NT
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"Cheap" Perl HTTPD for Windows 95/NT is one of the smallest HTTPD implementations i have seen so far.

[1] http://www.lightner.net

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09. October 2002

XML to PDF using fpdf
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The fpdf library class by Olivier Plathy has been extended by a users contribution to convert XML structured data in PDF [1].

[1] http://fpdf.org/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=3359&t=3359

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Nobel Price for Kurt Wuethrich
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Kurt Wüthrich has been honored with the Nobel Price today for "his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution" [1]. He is professor at the ETH in Zürich [2].

nobel.se

[1] http://www.nobel.se/chemistry
[2] http://www.mol.biol.ethz.ch/wuthrich

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Nested menu with Flash on sourceforge.net
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I just came across that nested menu tree based on flash [1]. It is probably much faster and less resource consuming than the one I wrote in pure PHP [2].

[1] http://sfmenu.sourceforge.net
[2] http://circle.ch/scripts

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Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) Project
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What is P3P?

The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P), developed by the World Wide Web Consortium, is emerging as an industry standard providing a simple, automated way for users to gain more control over the use of personal information on Web sites they visit. At its most basic level, P3P is a standardized set of multiple-choice questions, covering all the major aspects of a Web site's privacy policies [1].

The W3C also provides a mailinglist archive [2].

[1] http://www.w3.org/P3P/
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-p3p-policy/

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08. October 2002

Ov(om)altine - Moving from Novartis to ABF
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Ovomalitne [1], a product, which has been accompanied every Swiss families' breakfast, has changed its posessor from Novartis [2][3] to the British Associated British Foods [4].

[1] http://www.ovomaltine.ch
[2] http://www.novartis.com
[3] http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=nvs&d=c
[4] http://www.abf.co.uk (803)

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07. October 2002

phpsdl - Prototyping Multimedia Streams with PHP
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PHP SDL [1] module is a wrapper/binding of Simple DirectMedia Layer [2][3] for PHP. The goal of this project is to allow rapid prototyping of multimedia applications using PHP.
A good documentation is here [4][5].

[1] http://phpsdl.sourceforge.net
[2] http://www.libsdl.org
[3] http://www.libsdl.de
[4] http://sdldoc.csn.ul.ie
[5] http://sdldoc.csn.ul.ie/pub/sdldoc.pdf

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eXist - an Open Source XML Database
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eXist is an Open Source native XML database featuring pluggable storage backends, efficient, index-based XPath query processing, extensions for keyword search and tight integration with existing XML development tools [1].

A PHP interface is also available for eXist [2].

[1] http://exist-db.org
[2] http://cvs.sf.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/exist/exist_php/

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05. October 2002

phpserv - a socket framework
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phpserv [1] by Daniel Lorch is a framework offering basic socket services, which allows developers to quickly write a server daemon in PHP.

[1] http://daniel.lorch.cc/projects/phpserv/

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30. September 2002

Bundesrat bestimmt Tagesthemen
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Heute gab die Bundesrätin Ruth Dreifuss nach Jahren ihren Rücktritt auf Ende Jahr bekannt [1].

In der Nacht auf Heute ist zudem der "Vater der AHV" und Alt-Bundesrat Hans-Rudolf Tschudi gestorben [2][3].

[1] http://nzz.ch
[2] http://www.admin.ch
[3] http://baz.ch

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GladeXT for PHP - converting glade to php code
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GladeXT by Jean Philippe Giot is a project that aims to convert gtk glade files to pure PHP code and can be found on http://jgiot.free.fr/gladeXT.

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29. September 2002

phpinfo.net - francophone php website to be discontinued
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J-Pierre Dézélus' site dedicated to php http://www.phpinfo.net is going to be discontinued after nearly three years of presence. JP's friend Vincent has brought the Elephpant logo to us [1].

http://vpontier.free.fr


[1] http://vpontier.free.fr

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jEdit - Open Source programmer's text editor
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jEdit [1] is an Open Source text editor supporting currently about more than 70 file types. It is said to run on Windows and Linux due to a Java based implementation.

[1] http://www.jedit.org

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firepages - php, mysql, apache windows installer
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A full php-, mysql-, apache-, php-gtk- and more installer for windows can be found on http://www.firepages.com.au.

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26. September 2002

Cookies the other way round
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Software-addicted people won't probably mean something to eat, when they are talking about cookies. That is might even be a third variant is shown on http://bokstavskex.framtid.nu/agi.asp.

Being a cookie for lifetime.

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nanoweb - new PHP webserver release
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Vincent Negrier has released a new version 1.8.2 of his PHP webserver written in PHP. With this version, it also installs smoothly on Windows machines [1].

http://nanoweb.si.kz


[1] http://nanoweb.si.kz

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25. September 2002

XSLT wrapper in PHP
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Pierre-Alain Joye proposes a package, which was written to "provide a simpler, cross-library and cross commands interface to doing XSL transformations" [1].

So far it provides support for:
- DOM XSLT php extension
- XSLT php extension
- MSXML using COM php extension
- XT command line
- Sablotron command line

[1] http://www.pearfr.org/xslt_wrapper

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Champions League - Liverpool FC against FC Basel
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Who would have thought of such a game ever? But it will take place tonight in Liverpool; the Swiss Champion FC Basel [1] against the legendary Liverpool FC [2].

[1] http://www.fcb.ch
[2] http://www.liverpoolfc.tv
[3] http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk

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19. September 2002

XML and PHP sample chapters
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Some sample chapters of XML and PHP by Vikram Vaswani are available at perfectxml.com [1]. If even domxml evolves quickly, it may still give you some reference point.



[1] http://www.perfectxml.com

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16. September 2002

A brainfuck interpreter in PHP
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Nono, no dirty talking here; just reproducing naming excrescence in technology. Brainfuck [1] is a turing-complete programming language written by Urban Müller around 1993 [2]. The cool thing about it is its size; the initial compiler was only 240 Bytes in size.

Short: 240 byte compiler. Fun, with src. OS 2.0
Type: dev/lang
Uploader: umueller@amiga.physik.unizh.ch

The brainfuck compiler knows the following instructions:

Cmd  Effect                               
---  ------                               
+    Increases element under pointer      
-    Decrases element under pointer       
>    Increases pointer                    
<    Decreases pointer                    
[    Starts loop, flag under pointer      
]    Indicates end of loop                
.    Outputs ASCII code under pointer     
,    Reads char and stores ASCII under ptr

Who can program anything useful with it? :)

There is a PHP interpreter for Brainfuck available now [3]. Just play around!

Some more background on BF and Turing is available [4].

[1] http://aminet.net/dev/lang/brainfuck-2.readme
[2] http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/~umueller/
[3] http://daniel.lorch.cc/projects/brainfuck/
[4] http://koeln.ccc.de/projekte/brainfuck/

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15. September 2002

File indexing made with Swish-E
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File indexing is a comfortable thing. I used it to index a file repository of about 14'000 html files at a size of 370MB. I was looking for an indexing machine making its index available either through scripting language available on a webserver and as a simple commandline interface. Swish-E [1] seemed to be the right thing. Latest versions come with a self-installing archive. The indexing of a directory is as simple as:

c:\>set PATH=%PATH%;c:\programme\swish-e
c:\somedir>swish-e -i .
c:\somedir>swish-e -w "word" -f index.swish-e

That is it. The most simple search in PHP using Swish-E is probably something like

<?php
system('swish-e -w "word" -f index.swish-e' );
?>

A handy class written in PHP [2] interfaces the generated index file, which is in this case nearly 80MB, and outputs the search result to the browser.

[1] http://www.swish-e.org
[2] http://www.neokraft.net/articles/swish-e/

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13. September 2002

Getting all installation files for IE6 SP1
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There is a way to get all files downloaded first, while the servicepack [1] might be installed later on:

"C:\Temp\ie6setup.exe" /c:"ie6wzd.exe /d /s:""#E"
Call that line from Start->Command and leave all the quotes as they are. That's it.

[1] http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q328548

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12. September 2002

Let's listen to mod_haydn
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Sterling Hughes has started a new projects called mod_haydn, a module for Apache 1.3 which allows you to embed MSIL bytecodes (the foundation of Microsoft's CLR/.NET) into Apache. Support is planned for Apache 2.0 [1].

[1] http://haydn.sourceforge.net/

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10. September 2002

HTML To PDF Conversion with PHP
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Jason Rust has written a PHP wrapper around a Perl tool called "html2ps" [1] to generate PS files from HTML and interfacing Ghostscript on the other hand to convert the PS file to a PDF [2].
It hardly works on Windows; pretty easy on Linux.

Another way to convert simple HTML to PDF is still the fabulous PHP class by Olivier [3], starting with there tutorial 6.

[1] http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html
[2] http://www.rustyparts.com/pdf.php
[3] http://fpdf.org/en/tutorial/tuto6.htm

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Printerfriendly Page made with CSS
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Instead of parsing your content and stripping tags etc. one could use a specific CSS to convert a page to a printerfriendly version. How this could work will tell you http://alistapart.com/stories/goingtoprint/.

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Bitflux Editor goes Open-Source today
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The phenomenal work by Christian Stocker and Roger Fischer called "Bitflux Editor" has gone Open-Source today [1]. Their work will be presented at OSCOM by the end of September 2002 [2].

[1] http://bitfluxeditor.org
[2] http://www.oscom.org

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09. September 2002

Choosing .NET over PHP?
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Follow an article n webmasterbase.com [1] discussing the advantages of .NET over PHP.

[1] http://webmasterbase.com/printTemplate.php?aid=871

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07. September 2002

Popup-Calendar for IE and Mozilla
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Recently I was looking for a fully confiugrable popup calendar for IE and Mozilla/Netscape. I found one written by fushikaden, also being set up as for european style, starting weeks on mondays [1].


[1] http://geocities.com/fuushikaden/PopupCalendar/

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04. September 2002

Javascript Toolbox by Matt Kruse
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Just today I found that Toolbox for Javascripts written by Matt Kruse; it is a real good place to start with - or to continue [1].

[1] http://www.mattkruse.com/javascript

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Xopus Open Source Editor release available
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Xopus is a browser based in-place wysiwyg XML editor. Xopus allows users to edit their XML data in an intuitive word processor alike way [1].

Xopus on IE and Mozilla


[1] http://xopus.org/index.jsp?menu=info

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03. September 2002

Overview on CMS
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The German PHP Magazin offers an overview on currently known Content Managment Systems on http://www.entwickler.com

There is at least missing a good alternative: http://bitflux.ch

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30. August 2002

Online platform Davecentral discontinued
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"To our Davecentral readers:

As of today, August 30, 2002, OSDN will cease operation of DaveCentral.com. The decision to do so is based on a content strategy that will help OSDN provide better, more focused editorial for its readership within the high tech and developer community."

http://www.davecentral.com

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28. August 2002

10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
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Mark Bernstein reflects on what really concerns regarding weblogs etc. on http://www.alistapart.com/stories/writeliving/.

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21. August 2002

CVS commands needed in 98% of all cases
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Alan Knowles points out the commands needed in most cases working with CVS on a posting to PEAR-DEV mailinglist [1].

[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=pear-dev

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17. August 2002

Moving Sun ONE software stack to Linux
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According to Bill Roth, group marketing manager for Sun's Volume Systems Products Group, Sun may move their Sun ONE technology to Linux.

http://www.crn.com/Components/printArticle.asp?ArticleID=36826
http://wwws.sun.com/software/linux/

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13. August 2002

CSFB to be engaged in saving US Airways
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Credit Suisse First Bosten and Bank of America are said to be engaged in financing US Airways to prevent from grounding.

"Monday the court approved $500 million in debtor financing from a group led by Credit Suisse First Boston and Bank of America. It also ended leases on 33 aircraft no longer used by the carrier. Company attorneys also revealed that top management at the carrier would be taking 20 percent pay cuts."


Well, it definitely took CSFB much longer to be engaged in helping the old Swissair, what finally ended up in a desaster.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2002/08/11/news/companies/usair/

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12. August 2002

OpenOffice Writer to Docbook converter
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Éric Bellot is working on a OpenOffice Writer to Docbook converter, which is documented at http://www.chez.com/ebellot/ooo2sdbk/manuel/. The converter is available at http://www.chez.com/ebellot/ooo2sdbk/.

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11. August 2002

Rodin - Newsfeed system using PHP and MySQL
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Rodin is a small CMS which can be used to handle a newsfeed system. It provides RSS and search features and is freely available from http://rodin.lot23.com.

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Security discussion on PHP CMS
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Alistapart is currently running a discussion thread on security issues on PHP Content Managment Systems. Feel free to follow the comments on http://www.alistapart.com/stories/phpcms/discuss/.

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02. August 2002

Ogg Vorbis - better sound at less memory consumption
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"The code went 'gold' tonight": Nach langer Entwicklungszeit hat der Audio-Codec und hoffnungsvolle MP3-Konkurrent Ogg Vorbis laut den Entwicklern in der vergangenen Nacht den Sprung zur Version 1.0 geschafft. Chris Montgomery zeichnet sich für Ogg Vorbis zuständig.

[1] http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis-dev/200207/0054.html
[2] http://heise.de/newsticker/data/nij-12.07.02-000
[3] http://www.startupjournal.com/howto/ip/20010814-fong.html
[4] http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/200108/0307.html
[5] http://winlame.sourceforge.net
[6] http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/200208/0008.html - Bitrate

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31. July 2002

Petition to enable uploading from Minidisc Equipment
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People at minidisc.org [1] started a petition to convince Sony ot enable files uploads throughout their NetMD technology used with Minidisc Equipment.

[1] http://www.minidisc.org, Petition

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27. July 2002

Optimize Webpage For Color Blindness
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According to Cal Henderson 1 of 12 people have some sort of color deficiency; basically that means for your site: choose the right color-settings [1].

[1] http://www.iamcal.com/toys/colors/


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