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Comment on The Hitcher by Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:25:24 +0000

hi,
I was thinking to buy The Hitcher as I m fan of Sean Bean since I saw him in Troy and Silent Hill. now as u suggesting to watch it on boring Saturday, I will do it hopefully:) thanks for sharing your views.

Comment on Making thumbnails for movies with ffmpeg by Anon

Anon — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:23:11 +0000

If you get “Incorrect frame size” it’s because this web page has weird encoding making the x in “-s 150×100″ a special character rather than a regular x.

Comment on Odnoklassniki.ru - Russian classmates, but abroad? by Marina

Marina — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:34:30 +0000

I belive there is such a high persent of foreign members of odnoklassniki.ru site because of high speed of internet and unlimited availability in most of western countries. So anyone from Russia who lives abroad can open and use it easily, unlike many Russian classmates, who can either limited internet on no computer.

Comment on Hulk by The Incredible Hulk - Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov

The Incredible Hulk - Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:26:37 +0000

[...] see “The Incredible Hulk“. I didn’t particularly liked the first part - “Hulk“, but there was nothing better to choose from [...]

Comment on Migrating MS Dynamics CRM to SugarCRM by Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:59:11 +0000

I don’t remember it now, but we went through all of the formats, and none were actually usable. I think it even has its own CSV export, but it fails to escape data properly, so international strings and separators were all screwed.

Comment on Migrating MS Dynamics CRM to SugarCRM by TiamaT

TiamaT — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:52:32 +0000

Which exporting formats does Dynamics support?

Comment on Migrating MS Dynamics CRM to SugarCRM by Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:21:26 +0000

Tiamat,

First of all, have you ever seen any Microsoft application that allows you to export to YAML or JSON? We were really glad to get the data in a parse-able format.

Secondly, CSV is one of the most compact formats out there. It contains pure data with the minimum of overhead. Both YAML and JSON would have resulted in much larger files. That would make exporting and importing them harder (longer, more resources needed, etc).

Thirdly, since we were dealing with a hostile system (MS CRM), we had to keep an eye on what we were getting. CSV, as any other tabular format is excellent for human readability. You can just open a file, scroll through a few lines and columns and notice a problem. JSON is practically unreadable by humans. YAML is not pleasant either.

Comment on Migrating MS Dynamics CRM to SugarCRM by TiamaT

TiamaT — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:36:53 +0000

Hello there. I didn’t understand why did you use CSV, HTML and excel to export database data? There are several markup languages, created for it. For example, YAML, JSON. Those languages were created for those tasks and, I believe, there were some another way to transfer data between two different databases. Or I there ware some issues, which didn’t let u to do it?

Comment on Where did all the PHP programmers go? by edpratomo

edpratomo — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:43:42 +0000

besides being clueless, another characteristic commonly found in PHP community is arrogance. this is just one example: http://blog.timbunce.org/...pe.....-the-edge/ (check comment #8 out).

clueless + arrogant. what a great combination!

Comment on Odnoklassniki.ru - Russian classmates, but abroad? by byby

byby — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:33:09 +0000

God bless whoever created “Odnoklassniki” . I’ve lost contact with all my classmates years ago and now I found them again! That’s not the best friends you make in school, they are the only friends you will ever have. I even found my first love with simple press of the button. Life is good,,,