Monthly Archives: May 2007

Lessons Learnt After Developing a Web Application – Coding

By Odd Christer Brovig | Published: May 28, 2007
Yesterday I talked about how the project was executed in both the design and implementation phase. Today I’m ranting a bit more in detail about how we coded the thing in PHP (v5). Database Access Our Approach When coding started, we agreed on (or rather, I pushed the view) that we should use the DAO [...]
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Lessons Learnt After Developing a Web Application – Design and Implementation

By Odd Christer Brovig | Published: May 28, 2007
This spring I have been doing some work on a web application, part of a deliverable in one of my courses (INF5270). We were a team of four writers/programmers/designers/whatever needed. The deadline was about an hour ago, and we delivered our system 3 hours before that for once. So, for personal reflection I thought I’d [...]
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Last Weeks Picks

By Odd Christer Brovig | Published: May 17, 2007
There was a pillow fight in Toronto last week, and the picture of this pillow fighter caught my eye. Maybe I will give up my disdain for people with dreads someday too? For some reason I’ve always felt a bit of contempt for people who doesn’t wash their hair on a regular basis, although some [...]
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Installing GMF on Eclipse 3.3 (M7) Europa

By Odd Christer Brovig | Published: May 17, 2007
I ran into a problem today trying to install GMF on Eclipse 3.3M7 Europa. Some file within the GMF package could not be found and the updater just threw an error. The solution was easy (after trying so many mirrors..), use GMF’s own update site (of course..). The URL to the update site is: http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/gmf/update-site/releases/site.xml [...]
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SumatraPDF – a small gem

By Odd Christer Brovig | Published: May 14, 2007
Thought I just would share a link to a small gem (literaly): SumatraPDF. It’s a blazing fast PDF viewer without any bells and whistles, just pure PDFviewing goodness. It can’t select text, but I seldom do that anyways. Give it a try :-)
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Essential Software for a Fresh Windows XP Install

By Odd Christer Brovig | Published: May 6, 2007
As a personal reminder, and possibly helpful for other people, I’d thought I’d post what software I spend hours installing after hours of installing Windows XP. Security Spybot S&D – Cleans out spy and malware Avast! Anti virus – Free, and good(?) Avira Anti virus – Free, and good(?). Has a annoying screen popping up [...]
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Picks of the Week

By Odd Christer Brovig | Published: May 6, 2007
Things I found interesting this week. The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs (article) This article talks about how one should mark up HTML documents semantically correct. Although the comments points out some flaws (as using a H4 tag after something other than H3 – and thus breaking the hierarchy) the articles sums [...]
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First post and so on

By Odd Christer Brovig | Published: May 6, 2007
Well, this is my first post, and first time setting up WordPress, which seems great :-) I considered setting up SimpleLog, but being totally unfamiliar with the nuts and bolts to get RoR going I decided to go to the security and bug-riddled haven of PHP software. ;-) Anyways, if things get fubar, it’s as [...]
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