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PEAR::Structures_Datagrid

PHP

Okay, so to all those who wrote this lovely little library, thank you!
Refactoring old code to use this wound up saving me quite a few days of programming time and let me export Excel files instead of the usual cheat (although if it gives a more portable format, is it really a cheat?) of exporting CSV files.… Read the rest

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PEAR

PHP

Doing some work refactoring old hand-written code using PEAR libraries at the moment. Just have to say, structures_datagrid and HTML_Table_Matrix are very, very useful tools sometimes…… Read the rest

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Wireless Broadband continued

General

The more I look at this, the worse the picture gets…

  • There’s the boards.ie sticky which is saying (amongst other things) that gmail and torrents are throttled, thatĀ  everyone is getting horrendous latency, throughput and reliability, and that Comreg is getting complaints from all sides about three;
  • There’s the occasional complete refusal of the modem to be recognised by the computer, requiring either the Huwai software to be restarted, the usb cable to be plugged out and back in again, the restarting of windows or all of the above;
  • There’s the occasional failure of the modem to authenticate without any further error message telling you if it’s a hardware or a software or an account problem or who to call to fix it;
  • And now there’s news that all this is due to be gone over by Today FM tonight at 1800 on 103FM…
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