Open Source
Something to do with Open Source software.
A client is using Openfire IM for their users, and would like some custom queries to audit user conversations (which are stored by Openfire in tables in the SQL Server database). Because Openfire supports multiple database servers and multiple platforms, the designers chose to store all date/time stamps in the database as 15 character strings, which get converted to Java Date objects in their code (Openfire is written in Java). EDIT: Turns out these are actually stored as BIGINT, not VARCHAR(15), ......
My Wordpress emails were being rejected by my ISP's SMTP server. I fixed this by editing wordpress\wp-includes\plugg... in the wp_mail() function, the following line: // Set to use PHP's mail() $phpmailer->IsMail(); Which uses the PHP mail feature, To the following: // Set to use SMTP mail() $phpmailer->IsSMTP(); $phpmailer->Host='localh... This uses my local smtp server, but you can look at the phpmailer class and set variables here to use whatever smtp server you wish, authenticated, ......
I can't remember all the userids and passwords I need at all the websites I go to. I can't imagine anyone can! But where do you store them? You can write them down, but you need to put them in a safe so no intruder gets access to you bank accounts, etc... I've used an old copy of CryptInfo on my Palm device for a long, long time. But now I've found a better alternative, and it is open source and free! You can find out more about it here:http://passwordsafe.so... It is a Windows application, ......
I was just looking for more info about Google's move to offer an inexpensive alternative to Microsoft Word for word processing, when I discovered this recent blog post from the CEO of Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz: My Family Photos - and ODF. For those who will use Microsoft Word 2007, Sun is apparently creating a plug in that will allow users to set the Open Document Format as the default format for saving documents. Very interesting... Microsoft cannot ignore this format, and clearly isn't ......
Well, I've finally made time to start my own blog, and here it is, my first post. Most of my work involves Microsoft .NET, web pages, rich clients, communications, and so forth, and I'm sure I'll be blogging about some of those experiences soon. But I plan to also blog about any technology issues that come up that I think are interesting enough to share, including new discoveries regarding Java, Linux, and open source projects which aren't necessarily new but are either new to me or something I think ......