Last night I had a rather frustrating problem. I was setting up the XAMPP package on a Windows 7 box and wanted to configure some virtual hosts. This is fairly easy – there is a dedicated configuration file for virtual hosts and in my case they needed to be virtual virtual hosts – so I [...]
Posted on August 17, 2011, 10:00 am, by mbanzon, under
Digital life.
Since I started to use GMail I haven’t deleted any SPAM mail. Until now! When I began using GMail I quickly realized that my SPAM automatically ended up in the SPAM folder and was deleted after 30 days. That is very convenient because that leaves a number (unread messages) next to the folder name which [...]
Posted on August 15, 2011, 6:30 am, by mbanzon, under
Digital life.
I got a license for 1Password through some software bundle at a special price from MacUpdate. I just recently started using it today! It is awesome! I really like that I don’t need to remember any passwords – but having different passwords for every site/service! I’ve actually taking it a step further and started using [...]
Posted on June 27, 2010, 5:53 pm, by mbanzon, under
Programming.
The other day at work we ran into a problem with users updating to the newest version of our software. Our main program queries a server with the version number and receives an address from where the newest installer can be fetched. The program then launches a browser that downloads and runs (on the users [...]