Daniel E. Markle's Blog

In the process of migrating from a Sharp Zaurus 5500 to a Nokia N800, I needed to convert my extensive ZSafe password list to Password Safe format so it works with pwsafe for maemo. In case it might be useful to someone else, the conversion script is available. Note that it requires pwsafe for Linux (I installed the pwsafe Debian package before building this script).

There is a wonderful application for OS X called Disco. It makes burning much simpler than the built-in Finder options, with the added touch of a smoking CD burning window which makes burning fun. I have found one problem with it though, the Spandex system doesn't always correctly span your files across multiple discs.

Although I code most of my more complicated projects in Java, I still use PHP for simple projects and have many old applications still using it. When doing database work in PHP I use Pear DB to avoid built-in api changes, and because it is very similar to Perl DBI as well as many other database abstraction layers which I am already familiar with.

Recently Pear DB has been deprecated in favor of Pear MDB2. DB will continue to be supported with security updates, but new development has moved to MDB2.