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PostgreSQL and Drupal conflict

We have been running Drupal for some time now and we have noticed that it generates a very large amount of warnings in our log files.

The warning is in link with improperly formatted strings. PostgreSQL tries to follow the SQL specification to the letter and that means you cannot use the backslash character to escape special character sequences (such as \n for a newline character.)

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SLiteChat Version 1.5.2 Released

I’m happy to announce the release of a new version of SLiteChat.

Why I like Ubuntu Karmic

A little while ago I decided, finally, that I’d had enough of dealing with Microsoft Vista on my laptop (an HP Pavilion dv7). I had been running Kubuntu Jaunty (Ubuntu with the KDE4 interface) using VirtualBox, and was pretty happy with it. I thought that it worked out pretty well because Vista seemed to handle all the hardware angles and at least I could still get to Linux when I needed it (for example, to make builds for my open source application, SLiteChat). However, when giving a talk about CMake to my company’s client, and using my laptop with a projector attached, the networking decided to freeze, thus making my talk impossible to continue.  That’s M$ Vista for ya. :/ Fortunately, I could switch to VirtualBox and at least illustrate stuff from the command line, but this frustrated me beyond belief. So I decided to take action and install a better OS on my system.

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Ubuntu Karmic is pretty dang awesome!

I just upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu Karmic. Wow what an impressive OS!!!!! I also moved away from KDE, and well you know what? Gnome works really really well, so much better than KDE 4, I’m sad to say. And I was a big KDE fan up until recently!

It’s quiet…too quiet!

I suppose I ought to post to this blog once in a while, eh?!

Is there anyone out there listening? Does anyone care? :-)