Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Out of the box, command prompt (cmd) in Windows 2003 Server has the auto-complete (tab-complete) feature disabled. To fix the problem open regedit and create following DWORD keys: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor] “CompletionChar”=dword:00000009 “PathCompletionChar”=dword:00000009 Open new command window and your TAB completion is working!
I just got a link to a digital edition of NT Insider, paper I used to read during my university studies (it seems pretty hard core stuff now…). Since then I forgot all about IRQs and kernel level debugging, but I remember I always loved “Peter Pontificates”. See “Pros & Cons of Agile SW Development [...]
For those of us who have some experience with MySQL exporting the data to sql just just a normal way of working. No big fuss, just start phpmyadmin, select export and it’s done. With Oracle is not as easy – you can create dump using exp and import it using imp. Which is useless if [...]
Today I run into problem running Oracle Database Control Service on Windows 2003 Server. When I was trying to run it using Administrative Tools->Services I got an error: “Windows could not start the OracleDBConsoleWIND on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, [...]
Wouldn’t it be great to have a mobile OS with proper UX? Just imagine: – smooth scrolling and scalling like ipad – android’s keyboard, ideally hardware one like the one in Droid – arrow keys (I’ll buy a kebab to anyone who will tell me why ipad don’t have one) – email client that looks [...]
This week I’ve attended meeting of London-GTUG (Google Technology Users Group). Main themes of the meeting were Chrome Extensions and HTML5. First part was interesting, but not inspiring – the Firefox plugins are widely available, Chrome Extensions just close the gap between the browsers. I like the architecture of Extensions and reasonable restrictions Google put [...]
On Thursday I gave presentation for Java Users Group in Lodz about implementation of Agile methodologies in real projects in enterprise world. The presentation has been interrupted frequently with questions and has been followed by interesting discussion. The PPT accompanyingthe presentation can be downloaded here (in Polish): Agile w praktyce_public. The most important observations and [...]
I’ve been reviewing list of changes in PHP 5.3 and one thing captured my attention – for some reason they decided to add “goto” in PHP. I won’t even bother to look for rationale after that decision, I can bet it looked like: – should we add goto support in PHP? – no, it’s bad! [...]