Ljubljana, Slovenia

Engineering

Just ship it
Let me start with a story. There was a group of friends, somewhere in the fog that was 1997. They had a common interest - computer programming. But not any kind of software, no, they wanted to see how far they could push hardware back then. They were doing the kind of stuff that today you only see in video games. They traveled to various competitions around Europe, having gotten some good placements with their entries.
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Connecting to a Cisco VPN with OpenConnect on a Chromebook without Crouton
I have been looking at a Toshiba Chromebook 2 with Full HD screen for the last few months. The $300 price tag, my dying home laptop, and the good reviews convinced me to finally take the plunge and purchase it as a laptop for home use. If you, like myself, have a Cisco VPN at work, you might find out that you can’t connect the Chromebook to your VPN. From what our network engineer found out it’s basically just some XAUTH mismatch.
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Outlook 2010 + GMail IMAP
I was loosing my shit over the last few days where I tried to track down an encoding issue in the emails being sent out for a client. The problematic client was Outlook 2010. If the email was sent to the exchange account, the contents were just fine, displaying the special UTF-8 characters. If it was sent to GMail, it was also fine in the browser. But having the account added via IMAP to Outlook 2010 displayed the email contents with garbled special characters in the client (utf-8 encoded characters displayed in a windows-1250 character set).
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PHP Comparisons
If there is something every developer (not just PHP) should know, it’s when to use a strict equality operator. Interestingly enough, using empty() in PHP has exact behavior as checking loose equality with == false. This whole thing was inspired (and partially ripped off of) the JavaScript Equality Table. The design caught my eye, more than anything. I’m kinda wishing most if not all languages would have this kind of basic reference.
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