Monthly Archives: July 2010

db4free.net’s 5th birthday

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Markus Popp

To my shame I must admit, I missed it. It happened on June 29, 2005 when db4free.net was first available to the public. At that time it was running MySQL 5.0.7 beta. Quite a lot has happened since then, MySQL … Continue reading →

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Smarty 3 and __autoload()

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Markus Popp

When I first tried out Smarty 3 (which is available as Release Candidate 3 at the moment), which was that I updated an existing Smarty 2 installation, I ran into this error message: Fatal error: Class ‘Smarty_Internal_Template’ not found in … Continue reading →

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How to detect the user’s preferred language – smarter than Google

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Markus Popp

Sometimes I find Google annoying. Don’t get me wrong, I am not one of the many Google haters out there. They have done amazing things and especially since they have released WebM as Open Source and royalty free video format, … Continue reading →

Posted in PlanetMySQL, WWW | 4 Comments

db4free.net blog has moved and what’s new

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Markus Popp

It was about time to switch to something new. I finally have my new blog launched at www.mpopp.net which is something that I had planned for quite a while. This new blog is a replacement for my old blog at … Continue reading →

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Welcome

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Markus Popp

to my new blog, featuring various topics, like (mostly) Open Source software, Web Development, Astronomy, Politics, and who knows what else. Looking for older blog posts from me? Please find them at http://db4free.blogspot.com. Enjoy, there is more to come!

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