One of our shipment application are used by a number of countries. It has a functionality to write files in an organized manner using country and gateway codes. In other words, files for Manila gateway are written inside PH->MNL folder. It has been used for years by our client and now a reported bug...
Been using it for months now, download the update here .
Last time, gmail increased the attachment limit to 20 megabytes, now it's offline browsing of google reader feeds. I just noticed the new feature of offline reading of google reader through Google Gears (currently on beta). I previously had plans of switching to a windows client application for reading...
Our boss asked us developers for our preferred developer books and we submitted our wishlists, weeks later they ordered all 20+ of them, whoa! all the books that we wished for, nice! I'm currently browsing through Michael Feathers' Working Effectively with Legacy Code . So what is legacy code...
after a year of using bloglines , i have now been using google reader. i just love the the "all items" in "list view" mode. been familiarizing myself with the keyboard shortcuts (as usual) but for the meantime, you can subscribe to my shared item feeds here (new feature of google...
unique constraints are very common for database table designs in applications nowadays. there are two ways to safely code an application to cater for this unique constraint requirement. (1) do an existence check/query before doing the insert. (2) let the database throw a unique constraint and handle...
i arrived home last tuesday and my roommate (who is also a .NET developer and an ex-officemate) is on the phone for an interview. the interviewer was from the US and her questions are very technical and trivial. the funny thing is my roommate all have pages of cheat sheets around him, referencing each...
i recently updated my yahoo messenger to 8.1 and i noticed last week that i could no longer connect using my office box. i asked our network admin to take a look at it and he told me that there were problematic updates on the latest version of yahoo messenger so he rolled it back to version 5.x. The...
i have just started using the shortcut keys for gmail as shown here . as usual, i printed a copy and pasted it in my cubicle borders. i love it when they standardize navigation keys, the J and K keys for move up and move down selections are similar with bloglines '.
I recently turned on Automatic Updates in my laptop and since last saturday, i experienced a crashing svchost process related to it after boot up. There were times that i couldn't access any MMC plugin application and even my control panel after the crash. I've seen a number of resolutions in the internet...