Archive for the 'dev' Category

Debugging PHP +curl in Visual Studio 2008 = NO GO!

I rejected VS.PHP as a viable solution for PHP debugging. It happened in 4 steps.
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I was trying VS.PHP 2.8 with Visual Studio 2008, when I found that, for curl projects, it is needed to edit the file php-xdebug.ini located in the VS.PHP install folder, and then uncomment the use of the curl extension.
This means that at line [...]

Opera User Javascript and other ways to customize any page, client side

If you, like me, want to customize some sites you visit, your best tools are Opera User Javascript, for the Opera browser, and GreaseMonkey, for Firefox.
I use Opera for the sites I have to visit very regularly – I usually have 100+ open tabs on Opera, mostly news and finance related. Opera is the only [...]

Excel tip: find how many days of the year have gone by

When you are working with cells formatted as having dates, if you subtract them, you get how many days separate those dates.
Problems might arise when you are writing a “date” on some cell, but you are using a custom format for the year, month and day.Because of the custom format, functions like “DATEVALUE”, that return [...]

How to run C# binaries, as CGI applications, in IIS

If you want to use C# to write CGI applications, you might stumble on some technical difficulties, when using the IIS web server: no matter what are the permissions you set for the folder holding the CGI executable, whenever executing it, the web server doesn’t process the file and tries to serve it as if [...]