I’m upgrading some code I wrote to talk to a new version of the Citrix NetScaler’s API. The NetScaler’s manuals (that’s right, plural) weigh in at a combined 1114 pages so documentation isn’t a problem and their implementation is a breeze using WSDL over SOAP. However, some of the core changes left me [...]
Tagged caching, code, Mozilla, scalabilityWhen you’re using CakePHP!
Turns out CakePHP considers a TINYINT(1) to be a Boolean. Judging from all the support tickets that have been filed, I’m not the first person to get taken off guard by this behavior. When I asked about it on IRC, the response was that since MySQL considers a TINYINT(1) to [...]
I might have played the devil’s advocate when Lars was hating on frameworks at the barcamp last weekend, but that doesn’t mean I don’t see his point. The latest in a series of frustrations with frameworks kept me up until 3am last night. What better way to cap it off than complaining on [...]
Tagged AMO, CakePHP, code, Drupal, Mozilla, scalabilityI’m not one to jump on bandwagons just because they’re rolling by (even with great companions), but I started using Python in one of my projects and I’ve got to say that I’m pretty happy with it. I think their documentation leaves something to be desired but overall the language is pretty intuitive and [...]
Tagged code, PythonI submitted Threadbubble to AMO tonight. I wanted to work out the bugs and get it in a stable state before I put it on there and I think it’s reached that point. Hosting it on AMO will prevent potential security issues, and it has the side benefit of providing automatic updates.
The add-on [...]
This is probably well documented, but it’s a good reminder anyway. If you’ve got a column in MySQL that is textual (like a varchar), you need to make sure MySQL sees the data going into it as a string. Here’s an example I stumbled across today when I left out some quotation marks [...]
Tagged code, MySQLWhen writing an extension for Thunderbird, it’s a common goal to be able to tell when new mail has arrived. In versions of Thunderbird before 2.0, the accepted practice was to get a pointer to the nsiMsgMailSession and add a listener that got called when a new mail event happened. The code would [...]
Tagged add-ons, code, ThunderbirdThis release fixes an annoying bug that caused messages to disappear from the message list (even though they were still in the folder). In previous versions, if there was a thread with 2 messages in it, and you deleted or moved the root message, the other would disappear from the display. If you [...]
Tagged add-ons, ThreadBubble, Thunderbird