Nov 19 2008

Take care of your images

René Samselnig

You might have heard of the double post issue, which causes form data to be sent a second time to the server. This can be resolved by a HTTP redirect after the post has been processed. Today another problem occured to me, one that reminded me of that issue. Continue reading



Oct 21 2008

Evaluation with untyped languages

René Samselnig

When using JavaScript or PHP you need to keep in mind that these aren’t typed languages. Typed languages give us a lot of restrictions whilest keeping us from doing stupid things. Untyped languages do not have those restrictions so they leave us with a lot of freedom. Do we need this kind of freedom? Continue reading



Mar 12 2006

Optimised fotoalbum available

René Samselnig

Today I played a bit with my fotoalbum. I learned that I made a whole lot of database queries which are not necessary at all. So I began making optimisations to improve performance. Continue reading



Feb 3 2006

HTTP Push Client in Posix C

René Samselnig

Have you ever wanted to push a value to a HTTP page and don’t care about the result? Well, you can do it in pure C, but be prepared – it is not as trivial as you might think. Here is how to do it. Continue reading



Nov 17 2005

Metaprogramming in C++

René Samselnig

Today I finished my work on a somehow special exam. Our grade of the course taught by Dr. Zoltán Porkoláb would be calculated by a C++-programme. We had one week to write a header file that is included in that programme. Continue reading