How-to

Many websites use Geo-Locating services to provide location aware content, so users will get the content in their language and currency, and will "enjoy" from some targeted adverts.
Geo-location is also required when providing content that is protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management) and has some geographical constraints.
On top of that, webmasters can benefit from Geo-Locating logs to analysis their web traffic.

This article explains how to build your own GeoLocating solution by translating IP address to Country.
At the end of this article, I'll show an example of simple Java implementation of IP-to-Country Geo-Locating tool.

I have several accounts in my msn messenger. Yesterday one of my accounts just wouldn’t sign-in.
My live messenger kept trying to sign-in forever, setting a false password returned an error message and I had no problem sign-in with my other msn account.
After spending two hours on this problem and in the spirit of 16bytes, I decided to post the solution to this problem.

In a previous blog I showed how you may configure eclipse with FacesIDE and Tomcat plugins. This configuration gives you an IDE for JSF development.

In this blog we will use this configuration to build a first JSF application.

The application is simple. It asks you for your age, and then calculates it in dog years, based on the ever-true formula of manYears / 7.

However, this has enough JSF in it to show how eclipse, FacesIDE and SysDeo's Tomcat plugin join make for an adequate development platform.

This blog shows you how to configure an entirely open-source JSF development and test platform.

Eclipse can be easily set up to support JSF development with FacesIDE and Tomcat. The process is quite easy – if you have the right plugins.

In Eclipse architecture, plugins are additions to the basic platform. Actually, when you install eclipse, many plugins are already there for you under the hood. They serve as extensions, builts on the basic functionality provided by the platform.

If you want the basic eclipse to serve as a JSF development workbench, a good choice would be to add the FacesIDE plugin to it.

Windows Vista, Microsoft’s new operating system, brings many new cool features. It seems the new look and feel gets all the attention, the famous aero glass transparency and the amazing new windows browsing 3D effect (pressing the keyboard’s “Windows” button + TAB) provide a killer user experience and a better way for us humans to communicate with our computer.

However, Vista has also provides many more other features besides User Experience, features such as Search and Organization, enhanced networking capabilities, speech recognition and off course, the best secured version of Windows yet.

I just installed from scratch PHP5 (PHP version 5) to run with MySQL and Apache HTTP server. Despite the popularity of this configuration, I spent few hours straggling to set it up. The main reason it was not straight forward is that most of the “how-to” articles I found on the net were not up-to-date and just didn’t work with the latest version of Apache, PHP and MySQL.

Nowadays, most of the low cost hosting packages come with PHP and MySQL. PHP became very popular, with many free scripts available to download, and writing new PHP scripts is a fast and easy way to build dynamic and stable web sites.

Installing PHP on your local machine makes testing your PHP scripts much easier.
Save time on debugging, without the need of uploading your test files to the server for every minor change you’ve done on your test scripts.