Migrate e107 to Joomla!

Well i’ve been thinking alot lately that e107 has started getting sloppy. It is becoming slow enough, many downtimes of their site, plugins stop developing any more and most of all i’ve heard that some of their developers have been recruited by Joomla. So...

fopen vs socket_create

So here is one that got me confused. I thought that the two functions are somewhat equivalent in the matter of reading a page. What i mean is that i thought either using fopen with a URL or create my own wrapper with the socket functions would be the same. How...

Linux download manager

Here is something i was looking for the past days. Today i just felt like i had to find out a way. What i needed is a console download manager for RapidShare. And the solution was right in my hands… I was thinking i had to find a suite to do the job nicely...

Encryption in ANSI C

Here i was presented with a small challenge. I wanted to create a small library in C to be able to encrypt any size of file of any type. It had to be written striclty ANSI cause i wanted it to compile under any C/C++ compiler. So i came up with a library that will...

XP-me -> 1-0

For two days i’ve been struggling to change the OS on my laptop. I got it less than a month ago and it came along with Windows Vista. I mean i like them but a few compatibility issues i had with some games and some other stuff made me want to try my luck with...