Routing Life

Salesforce.com Not Completely Multi-Lingual

Lode — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:25:30 +0000

In my opinion, Salesforce.com is not ready to be used in multi-language environments. You can translate nearly everything displayed in the interface. But some key elements cannot be translated, and that’s blocking real multi-lingual support. The names of objects are displayed a lot by default in the interface of Salesforce.net. For the built-in objects that [...]

Apache CXF + WS-Security = “The signature or decryption was invalid”

Lode — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:34:55 +0000

Our SOAP web service with WS-Security written in Java using Apache CXF returns a SOAP Fault saying “The signature or decryption was invalid” when it’s run on Linux, but not when it’s run on Windows. We are having this strange problem with a SOAP client and server, both written in Java using Apache CXF. The [...]

Upgrading XenServer Pool

Lode — Fri, 13 May 2011 09:19:37 +0000

When you want to upgrade a XenServer pool, there are a couple of things to keep in mind: If you want to add a new server to the pool, it is not possible to install a newer version of XenServer on that new server. Because once installed, it will not be able to join your [...]

A fast Queue for Routing in PHP

Lode — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:47:49 +0000

Lets honour the title of this blog, and talk about routing. Routing is the process of selecting paths in a network. (from Wikipedia). At RouteYou we are interested in all sorts of paths in street networks : Shortest walk route Shortest cycling route Nicest walk route Nicest cycling route … In the past we used [...]

Global Javascript Variable “media” in Chrome 5

Lode — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:11:29 +0000

Apparently, you can’t use a global Javascript variable named “media” in Chrome 5. In all Chrome version prior to version 5, this was not an issue. Starting with version 5, the global variable “media” contains an object of type Media. I’m not sure what it’s use is, but I guess it has something to do [...]

VMware ESXi vs XenServer

Lode — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:16:00 +0000

A run through the pros and cons of VMware ESXi and Citrix XenServer. And why we redeem ESXi for XenServer. A year or so ago, we at RouteYou bought a new PC to do data processing. Since we use all sorts of software, some running on Windows other on Linux, we decided to use virtualization [...]

Optimized by-value Assignments in PHP

Lode — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:02:12 +0000

In programming some variable types are passed by value, others by reference. Using one or the other has a number of implications. This article handles about the implications of passing variables by value on speed and memory usage in PHP. According to the Zend PHP5 certification study guide, by-reference activity is often slower than using [...]

Page Speed Suggestions in Google Webmaster Tools

Lode — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:53:10 +0000

Google added a new labs feature to Webmaster Tools: Site Performance. Besides showing how fast (or slow) your site is, it also gives you some page speed suggestions. The page speed suggestions for RouteYou.com contain one rather strange suggestion. It suggests us to gzip compress the Javascript code for Google Analytics : I don’t think [...]

Debugging PHP SoapClient

Lode — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:33:48 +0000

When working with SOAP Web Services, it’s sometimes handy to see the raw SOAP request sent by the client and the raw SOAP response received from the server. This makes debugging your SOAP server or SOAP client that much easier. Wireshark One option is to install Wireshark, a network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. [...]

VMware Server Disk IO Performance

Lode — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:04:29 +0000

After adding some guests to our VMware Server installation (more information about the installation of VMware Server in Ubuntu) I noticed it becoming realy slow. Even when the guests weren’t realy doing something, it was slow.I found that rather strange since the machine running VMware Server isn’t running anything else and has the following configuration [...]