Category Archives: Technology

The MicroPHP Manifesto

As written by Ed Finkler: I am a PHP developer I am not a Zend Framework or Symfony or CakePHP developer I think PHP is complicated enough I like building small things I like building small things with simple purposes I … Continue reading

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Fedora, PHP, and the hash collision

There’s a very good post on Ars Technica forums about testing Linux servers running PHP for the hash collision vulnerability. I tested my Fedora 15 system as described and found that it was vulnerable. Patching the vulnerability, however, seems to … Continue reading

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Testing Blogilo

Trying out Blogilo, a blogging client that came with the latest release of KDE.

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Regaining access to WordPress

Just saw this on LinkedIn…  Haven’t tested it, but looks workable. The problem: lost WordPress administrator password and no way for WordPress to send e-mail, so the conventional password reset isn’t an option.  However, direct access to the database (via … Continue reading

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Building a YouTube on your own

Jon Jenkins, Director of Corporate Applications at Amazon.com, recently gave a webinar, in which he mentioned that it took two of his software engineers three weeks to build an internal video sharing application called Broadcast, now serving as the back … Continue reading

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Trying out Windows Live Writer…

This post is being written in Windows Live Writer.  Let’s see how it turns out… I think I like the table feature; tables have always been a hassle to produce in WordPress.  Let’s give it a whirl: Column One Column … Continue reading

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Technology vs. Jobs

A question from LinkedIn: How do you view the relationship between Technological Innovation and Job Creation?  A net positive, a net negative, net neutral? The relationship between technological innovation and job creation is threefold: Technological innovation creates (relatively few) high-paying … Continue reading

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A neat xcopy trick

Windows has a command-line utility called xcopy, which it inherited from the good old DOS.   This utility is very useful when you need to copy a large number of files, especially if they are organized into an elaborate directory tree.  … Continue reading

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Institutional Investor on high-frequency trading

From Institutional Investor: Inside the Machine: A Journey into the World of High-Frequency Trading 10 Jun 2010 Michael Peltz An editor’s journey into the world of high-speed trading and proprietary algorithms that make or break markets. At 2:45p.m. on Thursday, … Continue reading

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Smart Grid in China

From Institutional Investor: Investors Want to Plug Into China’s Smart-Grid Market 01 Apr 2010 Xiang Ji Beijing’s massive conversion to a smart power grid could just one-up the rest of the world. Savvy entrepreneurs and investors are looking to get … Continue reading

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