I ran across a problem when trying to run a program located in “Program Files” directory from within a Python application using os.system(). It was obvious that the problem was caused by the space character in the name of the …
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Sometimes I need to get all the names of the columns in an sql table, most often to use the names of the columns as names of variables as it’s easier to use than simple $row[1], $row[2], etc. Let’s take …
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comparison of IE 9, FF 4, and Chrome from the Javascript performance point of view
It’s been a while since Debian 6 got released. Now I found some spare time to check it out. Before I get to installing it on my home server, I decided to have a peek using Virtualbox. At first I …
Long time ago, I was trying to figure out how to change position of items in a list. Let’s say there’s a list of product in an e-commerce solution and the user wants to choose what items go first and …
To my great delight, I discovered that Half-life 2 is now available for something like 10 € nowadays. I know the game is quite old now, but I only played Episode One back then so I couldn’t resist to learn …
Sometimes, you’ve got a whole chunk of HTML code that needs cleaning up a bit before you can use it. This week I got some materials in .doc format that had to be put on a website. There was so …
One of the few things I really do miss in Linux environment is a proper accounting software. About a year ago, I managed to convince a friend of mine who owns this local store to try Linux on his office computer. He took to …
This has nothing to do with my work, but it’s related to computers anyway and life’s not work all the time, is it.
Today, I got feedback about a bug in an application in which I did some minor alterations not long ago. The application gives several rather long lists containing names and as it was often quite difficult to tell which list …