.NET Hell & Heaven

Step 1

Download and install the Instant Client rpms from oracle which you can get here http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/instantclient.html.

# rpm -ivh oracle-instantclient11.1-basic-11.1.0.7.0-1.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -ivh oracle-instantclient11.1-devel-11.1.0.7.0-1.x86_64.rpm

Step 2

Compile and install the oci8 extension

#
pear install pecl/oci8

Step 3

Edit your php.ini file (/etc/php.ini) and add the extension=oci8.so in the Dynamic extensions section.

Our new president is Mircea Geoana. Is it a good thing?! Is it a bad thing?!…We shall see…I hate both

[Later update]. Sorry…huge mistake..our new president is Traian Basescu…(at least for these days)

Hong Kong – the most beautiful place I’ve ever visited!!!!

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Florin RAICU

Hi,

Thanks to good friends I can share with you some pictures with me in China – Guangzhou

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Florin RAICU

eWeek wrote an interesting article about 10 reasons why Google should still fear Microsoft.

The reasons are:

1. It’s huge
2. Google is a newbie
3. The Yahoo deal matters
4. Windows is still powerful
5. Microsoft is improving
6. Bing is pretty good
7. Microsoft is settings its sights on Google
8. The enterprise trusts Microsoft
9. Microsoft knows the future is the cloud too
10. Windows 7 is the X factor

Florin RAICU

Toshiba and the British company XMA launched a contest in the United Kingdom for college students. The contest is very funny. The prize is £3,500 , a Toshiba laptop and an internship at XMA

All you need to do is to answer in less than 100 words to a simple question: “Why are you the next Bill Gates?”

For more information about this contenst thenextbillgates.co.uk

Florin RAICU

Microsoft organized a short movie contest called: 72-hour Windows 7 film festival.

The biggest prize was $3.000; second place $2.000 and the next 6 movies received $500. Here you can see all the movies which got at least $500.

Grand prize: “7 Beat”  Â



First prize: “Untitled (Parkour)”



Second prize, Superhero: “W7 vs. Captain Virus”



Second prize, Free for All: “Journey to Wiggins”



Second prize, A Blast from the Past: “Bill and Paul’s Excellent Adventure”



Second prize, Reality TV: “Metropolitan Detail”



Second prize, Pets/Family: “IT Bud”



Second prize, Pop Culture: “Don’t Quote Me on This”



Honorable mention: “Installation”

This is why I’m starting not to like Microsoft anymore.

Hey, you are a serious company, not a joke.

Florin RAICU

More info here.

Florin RAICU

Just a few minutes ago a friend of mine asked me how can he apply width attribute to a label (he’s trying to format a form without using tables). Well the idea is very simple. You need to use the label element, but because the label is an inline element, it cannot have width value; in order to do this you need to put display:block or float:left.

<!--
label, input 
{
    margin-top: 5px;
    float: left;
}

label 
{
   display: block;
   width: 100px;
}
-->