Tim Groeneveld

I have had a few emails regarding whether it would be possible to add Interbank communication support into MyBanco such as SWIFT, and I would just like to say here, YES! It is possible, and it is very easy to do. If you are looking to write a new plugin to do SWIFT transactions (or […]

Every time I go to my Inbox every morning; I seem to have three or four questions waiting for me regarding MyBanco. Starting from the most asked question, and going down to questions I seem to get less often, I thought I might answer a few of those questions so that I will never have […]

It’s amazing what I do in a week at work. Milko’s Everywhere Even more Milko’s They are in the bin as well Lot’s of screen with lots of text, too.

Software is really a very different type of “product” – the only I know that is released not completely finished neither fail-proof.

Right, so you have a new installation of MyBanco, what should you do now? Well, here are a few ideas just to get the ball rolling: Create a new skin of MyBanco. Skins are very easy to make, you do it by just copying an existing skin to a new directory (skins are in C:\xampp\htdocs\Skins). […]

Download xampp-win32-1.7.0.exe from the Apache Friends website Run xampp-win32-1.7.0.exe, and set the ‘Extract Path’ to C:\ ( It’s OK, all the files will go inside a directory called ‘xampp’ ) When the extracting has finished, go into C:\xampp\, and rename htdocs to htdocs.old Create a new directory called ‘htdocs’ Copy all of the extracted files […]

Yesterday I talked about the mybanco-0.05-better-curl-support patch, and now I have a few more to share. ==> mybanco-0.05-check-for-mysql.patch This patch makes the backend spit out a nice error if there is no MySQL extension loaded on the server. This is much better then things just appearing t do nothing ==> mybanco-0.05-better-errors-when-they-happen.patch This patch adds more […]

Hello everyone! About time I updated this blog! Today I am writing to give you all a new patch (with another one comming in about one hour or three.) This first patch, which I am going to offer up today is to improve a small issue with installations that do not have cURL enabled. If/when […]

My development environment is CentOS 5. Running a library that is two and a half years old really sucks on a new Linux box, especially because I had to install three compat libraries. The software is called “webpay”, and the actual library itself is distributed as a binary library; which would be alright apart from […]

<Ashley> Kayla came up with something so funny… you know when you take photos from up above you, they’re ‘myspace’ photos? well, she reckons that when you take photos with the camera looking up at you, they’re ‘Facebook’ photos xD

So, I thought I might like to tell you all that I am working the life of the working man now. I recently (on Thursday) started work at my first real full-time job at Digital Pacific. It seems like a pretty good place, and even though it means moving from my current place in residence, […]

Today I was working on MyBanco when the thought came to me of what Linux needs to get a better market share (our ultimate goal, 100%). Then it occured to me! We need a promo, of course, not just any promo, a Li-Li-Li-Li-Linux 2.6.3 🙂 See 2:36 🙂

<Beeth> Girls are like internet domain names, the ones I like are already taken. <honx> well, you can stil get one from a strange country 😛 I laughed.

A few months ago, when I started working on MyBanco, I wrote a special RPC, or Remote procedure call protocol, a network protocol that allows a computer program running on one host to cause code to be executed on another host. This protocol, which uses HTTP/HTTPS and JSON is called MyInfo. MyInfo was designed so […]

There is a small typo around line 115 of backend/Plugins/transfer.php, where a line that says:$SQL = ‘INSERT INTO `myinfo`.`temp_data` (should actually say$SQL = ‘INSERT INTO `temp_data` ( You can either change this typo manually by hand, or download the patch from my patches folder my MyBanco. mybanco-0.05-bad-query.patch 15-Oct-2008 07:50 patch mybanco-0.05-bad-query.patch.md5 15-Oct-2008 07:52 md5 checksum […]

With the help of researchers Robert Marks, Blake LeBaron and John Holland, I have been able to start implementing an algorithm for a “self operating” stock exchange. Called MyStocko, it is an application that will be able to operate a simulated stock exchange automatically without any user or operator intervention. It records all buy/sell transactions, […]

Ever tried to register a domain name, and realise, there is nothing that identifies something small? I mean, sure, there is .com for commercial enterprises, and there is .net for big network (companies) and even .org for national/international organisations, but what about if you want to do something… small? Well, your good friend is now […]

I have always wanted to be able to write my own software to run a stock exchange, but I have never been able to get a full grasp on how the whole stock exchange system worked. I always had been left with many questions. How exactly are the prices decided of the buying and selling […]

This text has been translated from an article written in freiesMagazin 10/2008 page 60. The article was written by Marcus Schulderinsky For a project to be successfully managed and to be available on the internet, it needs a website and various small tools. The so-called project-hosting “has to have all the services required together and […]

Recently, a good friend of mine sent an email to the Free Software Foundation, the FSF, which was founded by Richard Stallman History Lesson time! Richard M. Stallman is a hacker and software freedom activist. He wished to create a free operating system called GNU (which is a recursive acronym for GNU’s Not Unix). Stallman […]

On the 12th of September, I turned 18. This would be one reason for me slacking off in terms of number of posts. Thanks to everyone who sent me a happy birthday email 🙂 Will post a little about what I did for my birthday as time goes on, I am somewhat disapointed that I […]

Some things were designed just to not run on a Windows platform. It gets me thinking – what if someone went and actually installed a trojan onto one of these babies? Scary if you ask me.

I just hate it when terms get thrown around incorrectly. One of the two words that really annoy me when they are said incorrectly is piracy. Piracy is when you are on the sea, and steal things from other ships. Spread the word: Download the SVG file. Filesharing.svg

What ShareSource looked like back in the day, when it had “only” 200 projects. This is back on the old origional ShareSource software that I wrote for me and webs. The new software is alot faster.