Archive for January, 2007

obfuscating PHP code

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Recently I needed to obfuscate PHP code. Nothing fancy, no bullet-proof protection needed. The goals were:
* complicate removing of license protection by an unexpierenced person, and
* prevent code re-use by a third party.

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mysql statistics

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Found an useful command: “SHOW STATUS” or, depending on the mysql version, “SHOW GLOBAL STATUS“. Of some interest also “SHOW VARIABLES” (or, correspondingly, “SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES“).

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the essence of functional programming

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

I’ve transcripted the code examples from the paper “The essence of functional programming” by Philip Wadler.

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Learning Haskell

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

The main problem of learning Haskell is the very beginning, the first step: to write a working program, which
* as small as possible, and
* more than just print "Hello, World!"
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Lexmark isn’t printing

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

After returning from holidays, I found that printer doesn’t print anymore. After some investigation, I found that dmesg contains:

usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
usb 2-1: device not accepting address 7, error -71
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8
usb 2-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71

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