Fiddling with encodings… What a mess!

This has been bugging me the few last months that i got a job and i have to develop greek sites. This encoding thing is a mess! You never gonna know what will happen the next time you develop a new site. One has to be very carefull about the database’s encoding...

Still on the process…

Well migrating is not that hard as i thought it would be. One thing is for sure. I’ve been missing around… Joomla is realy good especialy the new version. I mean it has many features, extensions, it is very organized and one can surely realy work miracles...

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...

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...

Jasmine v1.1 YOOHOO!

Ok. I am pretty excited with this one. Jasmine, a year ago, was just a “what if”… Today it is on v1.1 a pretty stable one. Some bugs that have been previously found are now covered and some extra features that i had on a “later todo” list...