Yesterday I was working on a client box to install Sphinx Search into vBulletin 3.7.1 version. I installed also a little product I made that will use the eBay Partner Network affiliate link, instead of a regular eBay link. This is where I encountered the 2147483647 integer issue.
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Way back in 1998, a small site emerged out of nowhere. Yuji Oshimoto published his font work for the first time. I found this site by accident, linked into one of Phong’s tutorials. (more…)
I’ve got an email today from Christian Beauclair (Microsoft Canada), thanking me for my participation at the Heroes Happen {Here} event, in Montreal. The event was held on the same date my birth date is… no laptop gift from Microsoft this time. Still, I managed to get a Windows Vista Ultimate license and (most important) a copy of Visual Studio 2008 Standard edition.
Even without the software giveaway, it was worth attending due to many interesting developer features and improvements present into the new software. Microsoft was also trying to show the world that developers are just simple human beings, with their normal life, kids and family. That was a nice touch, since it is true.
In the email, Christian also sent an invitation to solve four puzzles, part of the Crack The Code contest. I was a little disappointed, Microsoft made it really easy. It took me less then 1 minute to solve all puzzles. That means a huge number of users will participate in the $4,000.00 FutureShop draw. See the puzzle details, below.
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I finally finished the Sphinx Search integration, into vBulletin 3.7 forum software.
After 1,500 lines of code and a lot of server testing, I can say that the product can be labeled as “industrial grade”. This product is pretty technical, it requires server administration knowledge, as well patience to read the help information for each new option implemented into vBulletin control panel. (more…)
This will be a quite long product to code, for vBulletin.
I was looking at the current solutions and none of them was satisfactory for my site usage. So I decided to build my own. The project is large because it will be similar to eBay functionality, all embedded into vBulletin. (more…)