Author: murat

We have hit a PHP mine!

Floating point numbers. http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.float.php When you compare two variables holding decimal values, NEVER trust the…

Show MS Access Subreports With No Data

On MS Access applications, usually I use subreport objects with SQL queries of their own,…

“Flex”ing with web services using Zend AMF

PHP has always been my favourite scripting language to develop applications for the web. I…

Why “bing”?

...when we can "ask" or "google" or "yahoo!" Today, I thought let me check an…

Another clumsy application from Microsoft: cisvc.exe

Also known as content indexing service, this process is part of Windows operating system, and…

Tape backup on CentOS

On this occasion, we have a PHP/Firebird application. We had to backup the database and…

Paging records in MS SQL Server 2005

After years of torturing their SQL Server users, Microsoft provided a "better" way of paging…

Setting up a web application on CentOS 5.3

Ingredients for our web application are Apache HTTP Server 2.2, PHP 5.2, Firebird 2.1and Oracle…

Have you not LinkedIn yet?

Think off a website: Monster.com + Facebook.com = LinkedIn.com They explain themselves: LinkedIn is an…

PHP Stock Profiler: Improvements

I've been planning to improve this application by adding a SQLite database, updating itself say…