Linux Random Thoughts St. George really needs to update their webpay client library for Linux November 21, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment 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 […] Read more » Banking binary libraries Linux Software
Humor Random Thoughts Facebook photos November 18, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment <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 Read more » facebook fun humour photos
Misc Random Thoughts Livin’ the life of a working boy November 16, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment 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, […] Read more » employment jobs personal
Humor Linux What Linux needs… October 27, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment 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 🙂 Read more » ads advertising Humor Linux promotion Windows
Humor Women are like… October 22, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment <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. Read more »
Finance & Payments MyBanco How MyStocko works October 18, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment 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 […] Read more »
MyBanco MyBanco 0.05 bad query patch October 15, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment 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 […] Read more » MyBanco patches woops
Finance & Payments MyBanco Announcing MyStocko October 15, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | 2 Comments on Announcing MyStocko 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, […] Read more » MyInfo MyStocko PHP Software
OpenNIC Feeling small? Try .micro October 13, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment 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 […] Read more » .micro dns OpenNIC
MyBanco Random Thoughts How the stock exchange works October 8, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | 3 Comments on How the stock exchange works 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 […] Read more » economics finance MyBanco stock exchange