MyIP is a little example program in Delphi that shows your hostname and ip-address.

I am very grateful that a certain Cornelius has ported the TurboPower Delphi components to Delphi 2005.

If I had read the last part of the article about 'Deploying applications on Windows', I would have known that imageformat plugins should be placed in an 'imageformats' folder...

An installation program that installs the 5.2 version of the BDE.

One fine day, Windows decided to switch the drive letters of my E: and F:. Here is how to change them back.

Just to remember typing svn resolved file after resolving a svn-conflict.

To generate localized dates in php scripts, you need setlocale, strftime, and maybe a search in /usr/share/locale.

The MessageDlg function is used to display messages to the user. These messages may be informational, or warnings or whatever. There is complete freedom over the choice of buttons that the user may press to acknowledge the dialog.

One of the drawbacks I encountered switching people to open source software, was the difficult downloading system of SourceForge. For that reason, I set up my own download page for some sourceforge projects, about two years ago.

MySQL's (mmm, I like MySQL) auto_increment is called IDENT in SQL Server (brr, I do not like SQL server).

According to this /.-post, Winbind can be used to log on to AD from Linux/BSD/...

I just put `Dive into Accessibility' on my `should read when I have some time left'-list.

Thanks to Bogtha for the link.

I really should read this article on PHP and LDAP.

Question: How to change a column type in MySql?

Answer:

alter table accounts change paswoord paswoord varchar(60);

(see this list of handy mysql commands.)

After upgrading to MySql-server 5, I found my BugZilla installation broken. Luckily I was not the first one with this problem, and Chuck Caplan posted a solution on his blog.