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Thinking of buying a MacBook Pro? Don’t.

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Norbert Krupa

I’ve always been an opponent of Mac. Mostly because of the fanaticism behind the brand. I still cannot get my head around paying an inflated price on identical hardware just because of a brand. Not to mention, the inability or… Continue Reading →

Apple, MacBook
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Asynchronus consumer producer example in Java

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Norbert Krupa

Consumer.java 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 //Consumer.java public class Consumer extends Thread { private Test test; private… Continue Reading →

Java
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Fetch SharePoint RSS with PHP using cURL for parsing

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Norbert Krupa

The SharePoint instance that I needed to get an RSS feed out of was behind an https layer. To accomplish this task, I used cURL to fetch the list. In addition, I needed cURL to not verify the security certificate… Continue Reading →

cURL, PHP, RSS, SharePoint
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MySQL backups in batch with folders and 7-Zip compression

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Norbert Krupa

I needed a way to do a daily backup of tables individually from a database. I accomplished this with a Windows batch script.

7-Zip, backup, MySQL, shell
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getCalculatedValue() problem using IF formula with PHPExcel

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Norbert Krupa

I use PHPExcel to read and write Excel files. It is a very useful class. However, I ran into an issue with cells containing an IF formula. PHP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12… Continue Reading →

Excel, PHP, PHPExcel
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Creating a JIRA issue with PHP using cURL

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Norbert Krupa

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40… Continue Reading →

cookie, cURL, HTTP Header, JIRA, PHP

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