Monthly Archives: December 2002

After installing Mozilla with …

After installing Mozilla with the xft patch as mentioned before this is what it looks like. I had to install the latest Galeon too, but I wanted to do that anyway.
Originally the default font Galeon used was “serif” but the serif fonts didn’t look very good, they’re a bit “busy” or “smudged”. The sans serif fonts though look better IMO. This is the font other apps on the RedHat 8.0 desktop use too. I’ll probably comment later after I’ve used the browser for a few hours, so look out for that!

Something in the latest Apache …

Something in the latest Apache or PHP releases causes Spackle updates to fail. After much trouble-shooting I tracked it down to the way POST requests were formed by Spackle.
Originally each client would send a request to the server with the POST made up of a complete URL in the POST part, ie.

http://192.168.1.1/~spackle/client.php?action=update…..

instead of

action=update….

In client.sh, change the following:

echo -n “$server&action=update&data=” > content
to
echo -n “action=update&data=” > content

Spackle hasn’t working for months because of that. Must contact the author again.

Java Developer's Journal – Des …

Mention the latest design pattern and suddenly your peers will see you as a genius of software engineering, “…you see I have employed the Decorator pattern for this particular class…” While you’re fighting the urge to give them a good slap, allow me to let you into the big secret. There is none!

Java Developer’s Journal – Design Pattern Snobs

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