rvdavid: A Web Developer's Blog

MySQL Funny/Strange Characters replacing apostrophes after import

rvdavid — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:22:57 +0000

Our client contact from a Web Design Company we develop web applications and business websites for rang us late yesterday with a problem they had encountered. They were migrating a database from one MySQL database server to another and noticed that question marks and other strange characters such as aeons or blackbox question marks are [...]

First episode of Comic Strip: The Developers … at Silverwater

rvdavid — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:28:17 +0000

Ask and you shall receive… well… sort of. I called a meeting one morning regarding our “DevProducts on Blogger” project - I said that I did not want it to be so serious as our new Website is going to be and I asked for some fun elements to it along with updates on what [...]

NSS Backup - a “Not So Simple Backup” solution for Linux

rvdavid — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:04:10 +0000

As mentioned on my previous post, I’ve started using NSS Backup as my primary backup solution for my mobile workstation which runs Ubuntu Linux. I gotta say, it’s running pretty well, although recently I’ve had issues with Ubuntu recognising the mountable external hard disc I’ve been using as a back-up drive - save that story [...]

My IQ is 133 and I’m a Visual Mathematician?!

rvdavid — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:22:04 +0000

Wonderful, I’ve somehow found an itch to do an IQ test due to a link I followed from a test I did discussed at: http://blog.rvdavid.net/great-so-now-im-a-paranoid-narcissist/ My IQ is apparently 133 and labels me as a “Visual Mathematician” based on the “absolutely accurate” online IQ test (of course I’m being sarcastic) found at http://www.testq.com/

Great… So now I’m a Paranoid Narcissist

rvdavid — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:50:24 +0000

During a brief period of procrastination brought on by an email from my wife accusing me of being a Narcissist based on a paragraph that she came accross, I found myself doing a quick disorder test. In reply to her email I wrote saying that the paragraph she had sent was wrong and did not at [...]

Joomla!: How to hide the Administrator or Front end layout template

rvdavid — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:56:44 +0000

It’s taken a good part of an hour trying to find how to disable the administrator or front end template for Joomla. So I thought I’d just make a post in an effort to turn this frustrated energy into something positive. To display only the contents of the view on the page without being framed by a [...]

sbackup issue: 30 GB Root Partition Full?! HOW?!

rvdavid — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:11:37 +0000

So a while ago, some time at close of business, I was doing some final tests for the fourth phase of project achilles when all of a sudden, I’ve been struck with some random mysql errors. “Data source not available” and other similar errors with other etc. This is some crazy s#it which I didn’t need, [...]

IPV6 enabled by default in kernels 2.6.28-4 and up

rvdavid — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:59:51 +0000

Just a quick update to an old post I made: Disabling IPV6 to tweak network connectivity. The tweak mentioned on the post will only work for kernel versions prior to 2.6.28-4 as discussed on the following bug report: IPV6 causes slow internet access. Sorry for those who have tried to apply this tweak and failed. [...]

YES! New Project Co-ordinator now on board!

rvdavid — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:09:47 +0000

Well, I’ve wrapped up another night of coding… I guess I have a few minutes to myself so I’ll make a quick note about a change in the company that’s got me very excited. We have recently acquired the services of a Project Co-ordinator, and man, after the first day, I can say that this is [...]

Just another one of those “Oh I’m so busy” blog posts.

rvdavid — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:48:46 +0000

Hey guys, it’s been a long, long while since I’ve posted on this blog - I am simply too busy to do anything other than work on/for the business. So while I’ve got a few minutes to myself, I thought I’d do a quick update. Joomla As I scroll through my previous posts, I noticed that I’ve [...]