Mind the gap

Store procedures on favourite language

I already knew PostgreSQL allows to develop store procedures on Java and Perl. But now it’s possible to create them on PHP. Hope it’ll be interesting for PHP developers who use PostgreSQL or are just planning do to that.

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The keyboard for Geek programmers!

If you want to type on the computer keyboard faster just buy Das Keyboard – the leyboard without any sign on the keys: If you are an elite programmer who can write sophisticated code under tight deadlines, someone who makes impossible projects possible; or a Silver Web Surfer your colleagues turn to when they need IT advice: this keyboard is for you. The devisers of […]

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Dropdown list in the report filters

Yesterday I wrote a tip how to add your fields in the report filters and display columns when a custom report is created. Today I discovered another interesting thing. If the field definition has a type ‘enum’ and as options it contains existing dropdown list this list will be displayed in the report filters instead of plain text field: ‘status’ => array( ‘name’ => ‘status’, […]

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Run kppp without root password

Once I already faced with problem to run kppp without root password. It’s so annoying! After upgrade to Fedora 4 I forgot to make needed changes. And as result now I have to type root password again. I found my old post about this problem but this approach was not working! So, I found new one. To avoid typing root password when kppp is running […]

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SugarCRM: custom reports

SugarCRM provides a tool to build custom reports. If you add some new yourown fields in some module and want to include them in reports you have to add their definitions in vardefs.php which is placed in the module directory. To allow to specify logic operation in the report files you need to specify data type for added fields: … ‘my_new_field’ => array( ‘name’ => […]

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Ночной Дозор aka Night Watch

Сегодня стартовал показ российского суперблокбастера “Ночной Дозор”. Демонстрироваться он будет под названием Night Watch в Rio Cinema и K-Cineplex на русском(!) языке с греческими субтитрами. Очень хороший шанс увидеть в принципе неплохую картину на большом экране да еще и на родном языке 🙂 Я уже посмотрел “Ночной Дозор” и не один раз на DVD и могу сказать, что фильм мне очень понравился. Постараюсь попасть на […]

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“CPAN”.replace(/CP/, “JS”)

Today I found a quite interesting site – JSAN – JavaScript Archive Network. It contains Open Source JavaScript libraries and software and developed similar CPAN. For example, you can find there Test.Simple-0.21 – module for testing JS code which is like Perl module Test::Simple. It’s really cool place for JS developers. The Perl guys maybe will like JS more after examination of JSAN content 😉 […]

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Skype announced video conferencing

Skype 2.0 (beta) now includes video conferencing. So, people who use Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ or other messenger know have a good reason to move to Skipe. But Skype version with video intergation availabe only for Windows. Hope it’s just temporary 🙂

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