http://www.petermac.com Australian software and website developers Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:24:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Q. How much will my website cost me? A. Depends on the size and complexity of the site. Q. If all i want is a few web pages that tell the world about my buiness. A. We can design a look and feel, get a few web pages up and host them for about ... http://www.petermac.com/2009/02/creating-your-website-faq/ A few of my clients have had similar experiences with the Microsoft Access database system. As a light-weight non mission critical solution it offers ease of use and in the right hands can be extremely functional. The problems start usually after a few years of use when a database moves ... http://www.petermac.com/2008/10/upgrading-from-ms-access/ I've just spent the best part of two hours fighting with the set-up of clamav on a relatively new Fedora 8 Server.  The documentation wasn't the greatest so I've decided to do my bit to patch some of the holes. 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Although only 9 weeks old, she shows great focus in object oriented design (she chases any object that moves). She's got an excellent grasp of string manipulation technniques and we have to agree that her display of experience in the J2SE (Sleeping and ... http://www.petermac.com/2007/08/purrfect-java-solutions/ I've just finished reading a little gem of a book. It's called 'The Martian Principles for Successful Enterprise Systems' with a subtitle of '20 Lessons Learned from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission'. The author is Ronald Mak. Imagine designing an information retrieval, indexing and presentation system for the two Mars ... http://www.petermac.com/2007/07/designing-enterprise-software/ The attached files contain binaries and source code for a .Net Compact Framework application we built to enable the input of petrol consumption details and the subsequent downloading of that information to a desktop application. It was written in C# under a Visual Studio 2005 project and makes use of ... http://www.petermac.com/2006/11/working-with-the-net-compact-framework/ In this world of bad guys and hackers and crackers, us developers have to be on our guard against all sorts of stuff that tries to break our websites. Validating input using JavaScript alone is not sufficient to gurad against the baddies as it can be worked around by ... http://www.petermac.com/2006/10/validating-your-php-input/ I've worked on a bundle of web based applications over the years and time and time again I've seen the recurring problem of the slash. Yes, we've probably all seen it in one or more forums where the apostrophe some user entered, probably with the name O'Brein ends up ... http://www.petermac.com/2006/10/using-magic_quotes_gpc-or-addslashes/ I recently modified a web server to run Postfix instead of sendmail as it's main MTA. The result was fairly pleasing and a Postfix/Imap/Webmail implementation meant my client was able to pick up and manage mail while travelling. One problem encountered however was the mail server was also ... http://www.petermac.com/2006/09/php-mail-function-with-postfix/