Basenetix http://www.basenetix.com Android Apps You Can't Live Without! Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:57:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Stop Using the PHP Error Suppressor “@” and “or die” http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Basenetix/~3/oGI3IZarzIg/ http://www.basenetix.com/mysql/stop-using-the-php-error-suppressor-%e2%80%9c%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9cor-die%e2%80%9d/#comments Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:57:55 +0000 James http://www.basenetix.com/unknown/stop-using-the-php-error-suppressor-%e2%80%9c%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9cor-die%e2%80%9d/ It annoys me when I see tutorials for learning PHP with code like this: $fd = @ file ( "doesnotexist" ) ; and this: $md = mysql_connect ( "localhost" , "user" , "pass" ) or die ( "Could not connect!" ) ; It’s bad practice in the real programming world and shouldn’t happen. The at symbol (@) is used to silence any errors caused by calling a function as shown above, when proper error handling should be implemented. Similarly, the practice of using “or die” to error check needs to stop being taught.

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]]> http://www.basenetix.com/mysql/stop-using-the-php-error-suppressor-%e2%80%9c%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9cor-die%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0 http://www.basenetix.com/mysql/stop-using-the-php-error-suppressor-%e2%80%9c%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9cor-die%e2%80%9d/ Recipe: Salmon Korma on Naan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Basenetix/~3/AnrkPkf9Q5U/ http://www.basenetix.com/style/recipe-salmon-korma-on-naan/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:48:01 +0000 James http://www.basenetix.com/unknown/recipe-salmon-korma-on-naan/ Yeah OK so this isn’t an original recipe, it’s shamelessly lifted from my Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food book that my sister gave me a couple of years ago. I love this recipe and make it at least once a month though, and you can vary it by swapping out the korma paste with any sort of paste – tandoori, tikka massala etc. Ingredients Half a Cucumber Lemon juice Red chilli Yoghurt Coriander 2x Naan bread 2x Salmon fillets Salt & Pepper Korma paste (e.g

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]]> http://www.basenetix.com/style/recipe-salmon-korma-on-naan/feed/ 0 http://www.basenetix.com/style/recipe-salmon-korma-on-naan/ Open Source Firewall http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Basenetix/~3/Un_d8oP3G0I/ http://www.basenetix.com/open/open-source-firewall-2/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:05:32 +0000 Kelvin http://www.basenetix.com/unknown/open-source-firewall-2/ At work we use commercial Firewall appliances, where the vendors charge a fortune for the updates and support, its poor value for money, so I’m going to be looking into the Open Source alternatives, here’s the ones I’ve identified so far, hopefully I’ll get chance to review them and post my findings - http://www.smoothwall.org/ http://www.ebox-platform.com/ http://www.vyatta.com/ http://www.endian.com/en/community/ http://www.untangle.com/ http://www.astaro.com/ http://www.idecogateway.com/ http://www.zeroshell.net/ http://www.collax.com/produkte/detail/produkt/Schutz-vor-Angriffen http://www.clearfoundation.com/

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]]> http://www.basenetix.com/open/open-source-firewall-2/feed/ 0 http://www.basenetix.com/open/open-source-firewall-2/ Open Source Firewall http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Basenetix/~3/rrzudm14_VU/ http://www.basenetix.com/open/open-source-firewall/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:05:32 +0000 Kelvin http://www.basenetix.com/unknown/open-source-firewall/ At work we use commercial Firewall appliances, where the vendors charge a fortune for the updates and support, its poor value for money, so I’m going to be looking into the Open Source alternatives, here’s the ones I’ve identified so far, hopefully I’ll get chance to review them and post my findings - http://www.smoothwall.org/ http://www.ebox-platform.com/ http://www.vyatta.com/ http://www.endian.com/en/community/ http://www.untangle.com/ http://www.astaro.com/ http://www.idecogateway.com/ http://www.zeroshell.net/ http://www.collax.com/produkte/detail/produkt/Schutz-vor-Angriffen http://www.clearfoundation.com/

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]]> http://www.basenetix.com/open/open-source-firewall/feed/ 0 http://www.basenetix.com/open/open-source-firewall/ Recipe: My Ratatouille http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Basenetix/~3/aXMNpEl3JHk/ http://www.basenetix.com/time/recipe-my-ratatouille/#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:22:02 +0000 James http://www.basenetix.com/unknown/recipe-my-ratatouille/ Ratatouille is a great dish and full of vegetables which makes it cheap to do.

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]]> http://www.basenetix.com/time/recipe-my-ratatouille/feed/ 0 http://www.basenetix.com/time/recipe-my-ratatouille/ Recipe: Chicken & Mushroom Pie http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Basenetix/~3/gT5HpCx71IE/ http://www.basenetix.com/cool/recipe-chicken-mushroom-pie/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:19:47 +0000 James http://www.basenetix.com/unknown/recipe-chicken-mushroom-pie/ I love pies, and they’re so easy to make, especially with pre-rolled pastry.

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]]> http://www.basenetix.com/cool/recipe-chicken-mushroom-pie/feed/ 0 http://www.basenetix.com/cool/recipe-chicken-mushroom-pie/ Alternative to array_merge merging many arrays http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Basenetix/~3/gvo_ozpAMVI/ http://www.basenetix.com/coding/alternative-to-array_merge-merging-many-arrays/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:17:27 +0000 James http://www.basenetix.com/unknown/alternative-to-array_merge-merging-many-arrays/ I have a case at work where I needed to go through a big list of arrays, and add them to a new master array. It turns out this is incredibly slow when adding many large arrays to a larger array. The alternative to this if you don’t care about keys or duplication of values is to just add it into the array

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]]> http://www.basenetix.com/coding/alternative-to-array_merge-merging-many-arrays/feed/ 0 http://www.basenetix.com/coding/alternative-to-array_merge-merging-many-arrays/ VMWare Server sucks! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Basenetix/~3/L0nRfBPjklg/ http://www.basenetix.com/time/vmware-server-sucks/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:16:49 +0000 Kelvin http://www.basenetix.com/unknown/vmware-server-sucks/ At the office we use VMWare Server on a couple of different systems to run “appliance” based applications, the problem is every few months the Web interface suddenly screws up and all we get is 503 errors when attempting to login. I’ve searched high and low for the cause and solution to fix it, as far I can tell its occurs because the server randomly deletes or corrupts some important Tomcat related content. Then the only solution I’ve found to fixing this is  completely uninstall VMWare Server, remove all the licenses, reboot the system and then re-install VMWare server.

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]]> http://www.basenetix.com/time/vmware-server-sucks/feed/ 0 http://www.basenetix.com/time/vmware-server-sucks/ Projx Transfer http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Basenetix/~3/5tggTDFvc-Y/ http://www.basenetix.com/time/projx-transfer/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:43:08 +0000 Kelvin http://www.basenetix.com/unknown/projx-transfer/ Some users are reporting problems with Projx Transfer and the new version of Eclipse, this is something I need to investigate, but won’t have time to do it until next week, please continue using Eclipse 3.4 – 3.5 until then..

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]]> http://www.basenetix.com/time/projx-transfer/feed/ 0 http://www.basenetix.com/time/projx-transfer/ Adding Extra Security – Encrypting Passwords For Multiple Users http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Basenetix/~3/dB_ZCZwhvcw/ http://www.basenetix.com/coding/adding-extra-security-%e2%80%93-encrypting-passwords-for-multiple-users/#comments Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:30:23 +0000 James http://www.basenetix.com/unknown/adding-extra-security-%e2%80%93-encrypting-passwords-for-multiple-users/ As many of you probably know, I’ve been working for quite some time on a project called Private Passwords . It is an online password management tool which stores your passwords for any site and allows you to retrieve them from anywhere in the world. One of the things that has niggled me for a while was the fact that the encrypted passwords were all encrypted using an AES encryption key , but had no real barrier if someone somehow managed to get hold of the AES key

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