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I agree. This is also the same with big companies....

2012-05-27T21:49:19.592-04:00

I agree. This is also the same with big companies. Passwords and other data should be safe and secured. Important files should be encrypted to ensure its safety and security. A company should also need to hire an excellent developer that knows how to do ethical hacking.

Awesome advantages of GIT Time Extractor Game to k...

2012-05-08T06:14:03.231-04:00

Awesome advantages of GIT Time Extractor Game to keep in mind for application development…

Thanks a lot! Very actual theme for me. As additio...

2012-05-04T05:56:47.323-04:00

Thanks a lot! Very actual theme for me. As addition I recommend to read the article Improving personal efficiency

I agree that SSH is great. I literally use it eve...

2012-04-04T14:16:58.356-04:00

I agree that SSH is great. I literally use it every single day. However, its use is unfortunately incompatible with over-the-air packet radio on frequencies regulated under Part 97.

Anne, I did not know that! Thank you for the exc...

2012-04-03T20:08:28.082-04:00

Anne,

I did not know that! Thank you for the excellent insight into using four (4) decimal places to meet GAAP requirements.

Frank

I learned this back when I was working with money ...

2012-04-03T20:00:53.570-04:00

I learned this back when I was working with money data in the (then relatively new) Microsoft "Currency" type in their ISAM database engine:

If you want to meet Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), you need to have at least FOUR decimal places. This ensures that rounding errors will not, on average, exceed $0.01 more often than many thousand transactions (because rounding errors tend to even out).

If, on the other hand, you are only using 2 decimal places, you can expect rounding errors to equal or exceed $0.01 fairly frequently.

Microsoft's Currency type, by the way, behaves like a 4-decimal-place Decimal type, but is stored in the database as a scaled integer for exactitude.

It is pretty easy to write routines that emulate this behavior. Or as you say, with MySQL you can use Decimal and still get exact storage. But you should use 4 decimal places, not 2.

If it isnt broken, Why fix it? SSH was designed by...

2012-04-03T02:13:50.287-04:00

If it isnt broken, Why fix it?
SSH was designed by default to be more Stable. No need to fix something that isnt broken. The regulations are archaic.

Hi!, Why year "2000", legal reason or ...

2012-03-15T11:10:53.084-04:00

Hi!,

Why year "2000", legal reason or rule?

Thank you

Perfect post. Here’s a tool that lets youbuild all...

2012-03-07T02:51:16.683-05:00

Perfect post. Here’s a tool that lets youbuild all types of web forms with email alerts fast and without coding. Just point and clickhttp://www.caspio.com/online-database/features/web-forms-online.aspx

Greetings Frank, Just writing to correct one piece...

2012-02-23T17:34:45.902-05:00

Greetings Frank,
Just writing to correct one piece of information. The FirstPlace was SalesLoft, Second place was CubeVibe and third place was Driver.ly. Just throwing in for accuracy. If you would like the supporting video I can email. Just shoot me you email. I am cto@fatjoescars.com with a product called driver.ly .

2012-02-10T09:17:53.420-05:00

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After posting this, I learned that you can also us...

2012-01-18T01:10:12.192-05:00

After posting this, I learned that you can also use the :reply_to symbol as documented in ActionMailer http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionMailer/Base.html#method-i-mail.

Lots of options :-)

I wanted to add, some might find the syntax for sy...

2012-01-18T00:29:33.262-05:00

I wanted to add, some might find the syntax for symbols in Ruby a little tricky. :reply-to will not work, but both

"reply-to".to_sym
and
:'reply-to'

are exactly the same. For instance in Rails Console or IRB instance the following will return true:

"reply-to".to_sym == :'reply-to'
=> true

When I read this it got me wondering .Thanks for s...

2009-11-05T09:08:23.091-05:00

When I read this it got me wondering .Thanks for sharing your experience.
rossie_jordan@yahoo.com

Pretty funny Frank ;) Take care, JME

The Georgia Tech team, int80, came in 5th place. ...

2006-12-26T12:44:00.000-05:00

The Georgia Tech team, int80, came in 5th place. The winner of the contest was the TU Vienna team, We_0wn_Y0u. The results can be seen at http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~vigna/CTF/final_results.html. The final video is at http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~vigna/CTF/iCTF_UCSB_2006.mov.

Yay...an update! :o)

2006-06-03T22:31:00.000-04:00

Yay...an update! :o)

A few weeks ago I received an e-mail from Rubén, i...

2006-06-03T21:45:00.000-04:00

A few weeks ago I received an e-mail from Rubén, in Spain, asking about how one would implement b2zip in Java.

A little searching revealed that there are a number of resources about the bzip and bzip2 algorithms.

A Apache-license Java implementation is at:
http://www.kohsuke.org/bzip2/

The main project homepage is at:
http://www.bzip.org/

There is some good summary information at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzip2

From Wikipedia: "bzip2 uses the Burrows-Wheeler transform to convert frequently recurring character sequences into strings of identical letters, and then applies a move-to-front transform and finally Huffman coding. In bzip2 the blocks are all the same size in plain text..."

You need to update...

2006-06-01T14:24:00.000-04:00

You need to update...

Thanks man for you good explanation of huffman enc...

2006-04-13T19:30:00.000-04:00

Thanks man for you good explanation of huffman encoding. I am finding it tricky to do it in java

Many of the icons and artwork used by free softwar...

2005-08-20T12:34:00.000-04:00

Many of the icons and artwork used by free software are very good, but it can be difficult figuring out who holds the copyright on any given piece. There are a number of designers selling icon sets in various styles. Perhaps if you find an artist with graphics that you like and the default license agreement is not ideal for your project, you can propose an alternate agreement. An additional benefit to working with a particular designer is that he would likely be able to create additional artwork specifically for your application that is in the same style as the stock graphics.

Hello!

I'm facing the same kind of issu...

2005-08-18T16:07:00.000-04:00

Hello!

I'm facing the same kind of issues with icons licences. I'm working with others in the development of a Web application for my company's corporative intranet. Since this Webapp is intented for future use in foreign corporate intranets (Germany, USA, etc), well, licenses & legal stuff are critical issues.

We want royalty-free, preferably (L)GPL or CC, icons. Obviously, we can't make the our software GPL since its intrinsically owned & copyrighted by our company.

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I agree. This is also the same with big companies....

Awesome advantages of GIT Time Extractor Game to k...

Thanks a lot! Very actual theme for me. As additio...

I agree that SSH is great. I literally use it eve...

Anne, I did not know that! Thank you for the exc...

I learned this back when I was working with money ...

If it isnt broken, Why fix it? SSH was designed by...

Hi!, Why year "2000", legal reason or ...

Perfect post. Here’s a tool that lets youbuild all...

Greetings Frank, Just writing to correct one piece...

After posting this, I learned that you can also us...

I wanted to add, some might find the syntax for sy...

When I read this it got me wondering .Thanks for s...

Pretty funny Frank ;) Take care, JME

The Georgia Tech team, int80, came in 5th place. ...

Yay...an update! :o)

A few weeks ago I received an e-mail from Rubén, i...

You need to update...

Thanks man for you good explanation of huffman enc...

Many of the icons and artwork used by free softwar...

Hello!I'm facing the same kind of issu...

Hello!

I'm facing the same kind of issu...