Last week Oracle bought Textura for $663 million, giving the database giant a vertical construction solution in the cloud. Today it bought Opower for $532 million giving it a vertical utilities cloud solution. I can’t be sure, but I think I see a pattern here. Opower provides cloud data solutions for the utilities industry. What that means in practice is that it gathers data from… Read More
12
2009
PHP urlEncode urlDecode Tool
So while I was at it made this PHP urlEncode urlDecode Tool because I keep forgetting to bookmark other sites’ urlencode/urldecoders. Also because the Mac version of Hackbar in Firefox doesn’t have the same options as the Window’s version.
12
2009
PHP TimeDiff Tool
I needed to send an email with human readable string of the difference between two timestamps, so I made this little tool:
21
2009
Downloading older versions of software
So the adage, “Sometimes newer is not always better,” is true when it comes to software. I find myself getting used to older software and don’t necessarily need all the newer features.
Sometimes I buy a version or two older than the newest to save some money, but that’s another article.
Now obviously Windows has a built-in extraction tool, but I will harken back to WinZip days…that’s why I go here to download the older version of Winzip – Version 7 is my favorite.
You can goto Oldversion.com and download a whole-host of older applications.