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Viewpoints from the Web

How to connect to an open office base database using macro within the form

Unless you already know how to do it, it can be quite tricky. The following site has a good description.

How to connect to an open office base database using macro within the form.

Viewpoint from the Web

The new purpose of Viewpoint from the Web is to become a central point for users to comment on other sites. There are more details in the vftw blog.

The old vftw blog has been moved to a more suitable domain at unravelthe.net.

All the old posts are available there including:

Highlighting author comments on WordPress

How to highlight comments made by the article author in your blog. This method doesn’t use hard coded emails making it flexible and easier to implement. It also uses IDs so the comments can’t be faked.

Full Article: Highlighting author comments on WordPress

Redirect using PHP

How to make a redirection script using PHP.

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Using Apache httpd with Glassfish

If you have a working instance of apache and a working instance of glassfish, you can get them working together, i.e. have apache handle all the incoming http and let it forward any jsp or servlet calls to glassfish.
You’ll need to dowload and setup mod_jk for apache. Then you’ll need to follow the instructions …

Full Story: Using Apache httpd with Glassfish

Internet Explorer 8: taking quirks and hacks into the future

Microsoft is choosing quirks mode over standards compliance for Internet Explorer 8. The browser will render in quirks mode unless you add the new meta tag.

Full Article: Internet Explorer 8: taking quirks and hacks into the future