marcus welz

Hardly anyone uses telnet to log into their UNIX shell anymore. And with good reason; the idea of having your password transmitted in clear text (i.e. unencrypted), thus easily obtained by nosey people equipped with the proper sniffing tools, just isn't all that appealing. The replacement for telnet is SSH, which stands for SecureSHell and […]

Time to upgrade, folks. I'm currently still using Firefox 0.9.3, and it's proven itself to be an excellent replacement for Microsoft Internet Explorer.

I'm a big fan of Subversion and use it for nearly every project I work on. I work on our software projects in several ways: On the Linux development server directly, which I access from a Windows desktop using UltraEdit (Load/Save via SFTP), WinSCP, PuTTY, and the command line svn client. On my Windows PC, […]

At Lucidix we decided to test run our workflow software on PHP5 and, if all goes well, to forget about backward capability with PHP4. There's one really good reason for it; Exception handling.
We've tested the web app on Win XP, Apache 2.0.50, MySQL 4.0.20 and PHP5.0.0. Everything ran great. I started implementing exceptions and all […]

Earlier today I modified DBDesigner to, above all, not delete columns automatically after renaming the destination column in a relationship. It also displays "AI" for auto_increment columns, so I don't have to guess anymore whether I forgot to check that AI column without opening up the edit box for every single table, as there are […]