Month: June 2007
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Dealing with scam emails
Spam filters are pretty good these days. Most of the spam you get gets blocked either by your email provider or by your mail program of choice. But every once in a while scam emails have a tendency of slipping through. You know the type – “WINNING NOTICE – CATEGORY A WINNER”. The great Nigerian […]
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Running a successful JUG
Ahmed Hashim from the Egypt JUG wrote an excellent post a while back about how to run a successful JUG. Great post, I'll probably use it as a checklist. http://egjug.org/hashimblog/2006/10/14/how-to-make-a-successful-java-user-group/ Since posting last week on the name change I have been approached with offers of sponsorship, as well as help from other JUGs. Greatly appreciated.
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All New Dublin JUG!
The people have spoken. The Dublin Java Meetup Group is now officially changing its name to the Dublin Java Users Group. I’ve been going over ideas for pushing the JUG ahead over the coming months. So far pie in the sky stuff, but you have to have an agenda:– meetups (of course – the forum […]
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Dublin Java Meetup Rebrand/Relaunch
Over the coming months I’m going to be relaunching the Java Meetup that I organize. Hopefully rebranding it to a JUG will get a few more eyeballs on the group’s activities as it expands from a monthly drinks and discussion format. Some of the ideas I’m hoping to try out are coding workshops and perhaps […]
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Setting up DGB PHP debugging against XAMPP
Here's one in case anyone is pulling out their hair trying to work out why they get the following message in their apache error.log: PHP Warning: Module 'Zend Optimizer' already loaded in Unknown on line 0PHP Warning: Zend Optimizer: module registration failed! in Unknown on line 0 It seems that dbg somehow conflicts with Zend […]