Daley Ponderings | Programming

PHP Zip Uploader Script

I wrote this script a while back to upload (via HTTP) a zip file full of .pbm files, convert all the pictures to bitmaps, put the bitmaps in a zip file, and then send it back to the user. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on January 17, 2005, 10:52 pm | Read 3785 times | Comments (0)
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Mail Statistics

I finally got around to fixing up the mail statistics graph, after I accidentally erased all of our email for the past year.

Posted by Jon Daley on January 14, 2005, 10:40 pm | Read 2862 times | Comments (0)
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I decided to write a post to describe the features of the plugins that I wrote, and upgrades that I made to existing plugins to others can benefit from their use as well. You can see the actual source code, or else read my feeble descriptions. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on December 15, 2004, 6:46 pm | Read 7277 times | Comments (5)
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Plog Template Update

It had always annoyed me that you couldn't use smarty commands in the stylesheet files in plog. It turns out it wasn't that hard to figure out, and the original authors had it basically done, but if you believe the comments, didn't think it worked yet. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on December 13, 2004, 12:36 pm | Read 5173 times | Comments (4)
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Version Manager Setup

Whether you know the program as Merant, Serena or PVCS, the setup is difficult, and despite the sales department insistence that you don't need a full-time person to run their servers, I am starting to doubt it. Here are the instructions to setup a new project using the file server model with split archives. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on December 1, 2004, 1:14 pm | Read 35053 times | Comments (12)
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Test Director Problems

For those of you who have successfully installed Mercury's Test Director, and have it die suddenly, you need to check the IIS/NTFS permissions. (Note, for those of you asking questions, you should read all four pages of comments - there are various questions and answers given throughout the comments, and you will be able to get your answer quicker than waiting for someone to see your question) (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on November 17, 2004, 9:45 am | Read 46369 times | Comments (98)
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Spam: In Perspective

A friend of ours was complaining about spam, and Heather agreed, and said she had been getting tons of spam lately. I questioned her on that, since I am in charge of the filters that filter our spam, and I think they do a pretty good job: maybe 15-20 spams got through in the last two years.
She said, well, I got one yesterday, and one today.

Posted by Jon Daley on November 4, 2004, 11:19 pm | Read 9388 times | Comments (0)
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Version Control Comparison

I have been evaluating different version control programs for my company for the last month or two. My current evaluation is that all of them are broken, although I hope to discover a good solution someday soon. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on October 15, 2004, 2:42 pm | Read 182827 times | Comments (35)
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Windows Shell Auto-Completion

On all the windows machine I use, I have auto-completion turned on for the dos prompt. Apparently, I must have gotten that behavior from TweakUI, and since I always install it on a new machine, I thought it was on by default, but apparently not. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on October 6, 2004, 7:49 am | Read 8853 times | Comments (0)
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RawWrite

I needed to create a floppy disk today, and needed to find RawWrite again, since my Cygwin dd seems to not be making it correctly. I found a nifty GUI version of RawWrite that is nicer than the old command line version. Sure, the command line works fine, and I am all for command-line things, and no mouse usage, but sometimes it is nice to not have to remember the command-line options.

Posted by Jon Daley on September 21, 2004, 8:26 am | Read 2877 times | Comments (0)
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Perl Initialization

When I was installing RT (Request Tracker) I got an error, since I hadn't ever set up CPAN before. After searching for a bit, here is the solution. I figured I would post this here to help others in the future find it in google quicker. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on August 31, 2004, 3:07 pm | Read 3491 times | Comments (1)
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More Color Stuff

I added a small color changing picker (bottom right of this page), if you don't like my purply colors. Of course, you can only pick the colorsets that I let you, and right now there isn't much interesting, but I will get around to making some more at some point. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on August 23, 2004, 8:33 am | Read 3220 times | Comments (3)
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Adobe Acrobat Slow Loading

Ever notice how it now takes a year for Acrobat Reader to load up? You can speed it up about 20x or so, by moving the plugins you don't use out of the "startup" folder. If you put the files into the "optional" folder, I believe it will still be able to find them when you want to use them, and it will load them then.
A reasonable default is to leave ewh32.api, search.api, and reflow.api in your plugins directory, and move everything else into the optional folder.
You can make a disabled_plugins directory if you want them to be really gone.

Posted by Jon Daley on August 19, 2004, 10:22 pm | Read 55966 times | Comments (6)
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Cygwin

Since I just wasted a bit of time trying to figure out how I had configured Cygwin the first time, so as to help someone else set up their account, I figure I will post the instructions here: (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on August 18, 2004, 3:25 pm | Read 2906 times | Comments (0)
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Code

Someday I will get this more organized, but I wanted to at least have one post in the programming category, so I will link to my "old" code page.

Posted by Jon Daley on June 8, 2004, 8:00 am | Read 4525 times | Comments (0)
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