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The Data Pile: Roller template

Filed Under (general, roller) by j on 05-11-2010

Since there has been some interest in the roller template that i have designed, i decided to upload it here, so you can freely use it. You probably want to exchange the pictures and if you do have to modify any of them template files, i suggest taking a deeper look into the template [...]

The Data Pile: Customizing Emacs

Filed Under (emacs, general) by j on 05-11-2010

Some of you might be forced to spent nearly the whole day in a texteditor like e.g. emacs to do their work. This usually is
especially true for developers, that have to write code the whole day and therefore are forced to look into theier editor the whole day. So why not customize it [...]

The Data Pile: XviD, AVI, FLV, MKV support for FrontRow on Mac OS X

Filed Under (general, os x) by j on 05-11-2010

Have you ever wondered why FrontRow does not play your precious AVI/XviD/MKV and the like files? The Answer is the codecs are missing. The missing codecs need to be installed as extensions to Quicktime since FrontRow uses Quicktime to play it’s content listed in the library.

The logical next step is to download the missing [...]

The Data PileThe Data Pile: Using Java Enumerations

Filed Under (c0ding, enum, java) by j on 04-11-2010

This article shows a basic implementation of a Java enumeration type that you can use to do a switch on Strings for example.Continue reading: Using Java Enumerations

The Data PileThe Data Pile: Programming with the APR – Using APR HashTables

Filed Under (APR, c, c0ding) by j on 02-11-2010

This short article will show how to use the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) with it’s built in hashtable.Continue reading: Programming with the APR – Using APR HashTables

The Data Pile: Programming with the APR – Using MD5

Filed Under (APR, c, c0ding) by j on 02-11-2010

This article intends to show how to basically use the MD5 hashing algorithm that ships with the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library.

Continue reading: Programming with the APR – Using MD5

The Data Pile: Programming with the APR – Using apr_getopt

Filed Under (APR, c, c0ding) by j on 02-11-2010

This article will show you how to use the built in command line parser that comes with the APR. There will be two source files, one showing you how to use apr_getopt just to parse simple, single options and the other peace of source will show you how to use it with so called long options. You can download the single option parser here and the long options parser here.

Continue reading: Programming with the APR – Using apr_getopt

The Data Pile: Programming with the APR – Persisting information

Filed Under (APR, c, c0ding) by j on 01-11-2010

This article will show you how to store information in the database that comes with the Apache Portable Runtime (APR). Basically a simple struct data type is persisted into that database. You can download the code here.

Continue reading: Programming with the APR – Persisting information

The Data Pile: Programming with the APR

Filed Under (APR, c, c0ding) by j on 01-11-2010

This article will give you an introduction of how to program with the Apache Portable Runtime (APR). It illustrates a simple command line program.

Continue reading: Programming with the APR

DNS Trouble (update)

Filed Under (Info) by chris on 26-10-2010

Leider kommt es zur Zeit aufgrund der Inkompetenz unseres Providers zur Zeit zu Störungen im DNS System:

mail.coffeecrew.org wird nicht korrekt aufgelöst.

Eingehende mails werden nach wie vor empfangen, zum Mail-Abruf steht zur Zeit nur die Weboberfläche unter folgendem Link zur Verfügung: https://81.169.170.17/

Sorry für die Unannehmlichkeiten!

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(Update 19:43 Uhr CEST)

Die ersten DNS Server propagieren wieder die korrekte IP für mail.coffeecrew.org. Somit ist nur noch vereinzelt mit Störungen zu rechnen.