SQLi Import is a nice eZ Publish extension that allows you to develop data importers in a quick and elegant way. Sadly, it comes only with MySQL support, but it takes only a minute to make it work with Oracle too. So here’s the SQL code I’ve used to make it happy 🙂 (tested with …
Category: Software Development
I do hate MySQL
I can’t stand it, really. I’m using it at the moment only because I’m forced to. I can’t help considering it as a toy DB, especially comparing it to PostgreSQL or SQL Server or any other serious RDBMS. The last thing that hit my nerve is this bug. Come on… can’t it even handle foreign …
FeedbackReporter and Mantis integration
I’ve just written a small script to store reports generated by FeedbackReporter on a Mantis system. It should come handy to keep track of your application crashes (crash? uh? My apps never crash! :-)) You can download it here. Simply extract it on your webserver and edit config.php to adjust your settings. It can work …
Connection without a listening socket?
I’ve encountered a network problem that left me a bit puzzled. Usually, when you want to setup a TCP connection between two sockets (let’s called them S1 and S2), you need to perform these steps on the server: create S1 bind S1 to a port (or to a port/address, if you need to) set S1 …
Quote of the Day
[…] a good programmer cultivates the virtue of laziness. (But not just any laziness: you must be aggressively, proactively lazy!) — Chris Pine, dealing with the DRY rule