I’ve recently been looking into PHP ORM frameworks. One framework that scored highly was CodeIgniter’s implementation of the ActiveRecord pattern.
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In 2008, Chen released an Eclipse plugin called “Eclipse Timeline”, allowing to display time-based events using an ajax widget inside an Eclipse view. Unfortunately, while the plugin was released under a BSD-style license, he never released the sources.
I’ve taken the time an revamped the plugin based on current Eclipse 3.5 and Mylyn 3.2 APIs.
To install the current version, you can use the Eclipse Timeline update site.
As FireFox 3 (FF3) is now available as first public beta version at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html, many users will realize that their add-ons don’t work any longer.
One possible cause is that the extension is provided through “insecure” update sites, i.e. not using HTTPS as transport protocol. To enable FireFox 3 loading updates from such sites, follow these steps:
A common problem with not so many solutions on the web is submitting HTTPS requests using Perl’s LWP module. This works fine as long as no proxy is involved. When the request needs to pass a proxy, you find out quickly, that LWP is not able to handle proxies for HTTPS traffic. Instead, the underlying SSLeay library must be used to tunnel the traffic transparently.
The following code shows how to:
$proxy = 'http://user:pass@server';
$ua->proxy(['http'], $proxy);
$proxy = 'http://server';
$ENV{HTTPS_PROXY} = $proxy;
$ENV{HTTPS_PROXY_USERNAME} = user;
$ENV{HTTPS_PROXY_PASSWORD} = pass;
# working, http & https
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http(s)://site/');
my $res = $ua->request($req);
if ($res->is_success){
print $res->as_string;
}
The tricky part is that lwp will still needs the http_proxy to handle http requests correctly, but not https_proxy as it needs to pass down the requests to SSLeay.
As written in this post, WP-Cache needs several modifications in order to run on Windows and/or IIS. Provided below is an updated version of latest WP-Cache 2.1.0 with all Windows/IIS fixes included.
WP-Cache 2.1.0 for Windows/IIS
Eclipse is- amongst being an IDE and almost everything else- a powerful development environment for cross-platform rich client applications (RCP).
One particular feature of the Eclipse IDE is the framework for working with resource, more specifically the workspace resources. Michael Elder documented the Common Navigator Framework (CNF) in a series of articles in his blog.
After writing the tutorial on how to get WP-Cache running on Windows, I’ve realized I could just make it a bit easier. Together with the latest WP-Cache release 2.0.19, I’ve build a preconfigured package.
Download wp-cache_2.0.19_win.zip.
We’ve recently analyzed if CpuIdle can be supported on Windows Vista. The good news is: yes it can! However, due to changes Microsoft implemente in Vista, the are currently some constraints.
Due to user account control (UAC), CpuIdle is no longer able to access the registry keys required to allow CpuIdle to add itself to the programs run when Windows starts. No error message will be displayed, but CpuIdle also won’t start automatically. To work around this issue, the following options exist:
The third possible option would be to run CpuIdle with administrator rights (Right-click, Run As Administrator or use the compatibility options). The downside of this is that Windows does from now on display a security warning when starting CpuIdle.
Since Microsoft received a lot of criticism regarding UAC in Vista Beta2, we’re currently not rolling out an updated version with Vista support but will wait for Beta 3 and changes in UAC to be released.
CpuIdle has just been updated:
CpuIdle is available for download here.