Category Archives: Software Development

Open Source Software and the University Role

When you ask most people, the common perception of the role of a university is to teach students, perform research, and help the community. The latter is certainly one that I find many people (especially in university roles) don’t throw … Continue reading

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PHP, Meet Master Pages

This was an article I began writing several months ago. I didn’t want to abandon it, so I’m finishing it up now. It’s merely an informational and doesn’t contain a lot of depth. It’s meant for the introductory users. For … Continue reading

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How much is too much documentation?

I really don’t think this has ever really been an age-old discussion. Business in the past had never really done much in the line of documentation (and for some businesses these days, it’s starting to show). Employees in the past … Continue reading

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VIM in Windows!? Whod’a thunk?

A friend of mine passed over the following blog entry, which I found quite to my liking. J.P. Boodhoo (a leader in the .Net development community) has found some plugins and tools which enable vim in certain applications in Windows. … Continue reading

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PHP Arrays in HTML

One of my friends who has used PHP in the past, but hasn’t touched it in a while, recently asked me what the best was to handle mass edits and deletions on a page. To understand more what he’s talking … Continue reading

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Crystal Reports Error

Background Well, as many of you have known, I’ve been working on projects that involve the dark side – that being Microsoft projects. Yes, this means I’ve been working on .Net applications in both Visual Basic and C#. The C# … Continue reading

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System.Web.Mail.MailMessage

This was a problem I had while trying to send email from my local workstation through a web application. The script would execute fine, but I wouldn’t receive any email. Upon further investigation (which included walking through a debugging session … Continue reading

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OpenLDAP, SSL, and PHP

It never ceases to amaze me how many outside dependencies there are for PHP. When trying to get a PHP application to connect to an LDAP server over SSL, you have to have the following: OpenLDAP (at least branch 2.x.x) … Continue reading

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The BLT (Books, Learning, and The Usual)

Well, it’s been a really long time since I last updated my blog and let everyone know what’s been going on in my life. In essence, I’ve been busy as usual, but have made progress by leaps and bounds in … Continue reading

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Komdo, svn, and ssh

For many of you who use Komodo, you will have undoubtedly come across the Source Code Control feature available within it. This feature works GREAT with MacOS X and Linux systems, but if you have ever tried to use it … Continue reading

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