News & Announcements

re.compile is proud to announce that one of our new works, an all new community for bands, dj's, producers, music stores, studios, and more, is almost complete and ready to go live.

www.greekbands.gr - clean, easy to use, and featuring gizmos and gadgets like wall, like button, music albums, photo albums, track of the month, voting, latest news, agenda, online chat, skype calls between users, and many many more!

Coming soon to a server near you.

Of course it is!

But, what does that mean? What IS really the meaning of portable? Surely, it cannot just be the fact that you can compile the same code without compiler errors, on 2 different platforms. No. It isnt as portable as we would hope. Of course it compiles and runs fine, without any problems, but thats not all.

One thing you really should be aware of, is the font management in QT for Windows, and QT for Mac or Linux. When you create a label, and you give it a font size of 12pt, for example, in Windows it will display ok. But in Mac the font will be tiny, compared to to what you wanted it to be.

We have recently developed an Excel analyzer for one of our clients, which processes huge excel product catalogues, groups them in categories, exports their images, and saves in a Joomla! Virtuemart e-shop module as products.

The script is based on PHP and two of the common php-to-excel classes. One reads the data, and the other reads the graphics. We used that way because the script that reads the images needs a lot of memory on the host computer and since we repeatedly read data over an over again (as the sheets progress) we don't need to read the images every time.

Most of us have been in this situation. You get an old database export, which needs to be re-imported to a new system, and you find out that its Greek encoding is completely messed up!

Thats a common problem especially from old databases where their collation is latin1 and encoding is iso-8859-7 whereas new systems have utf8_bin collation and UTF-8 encoding. Hmm... there needs to be a solution for this, the data can't just be gone!

We built the new portal for the 16th ITA Workshop in Greece, http://www.ita-itw2011.gr/ together with New Event Generation, using Drupal and a custom application, both working together with an online registration system that is responsible for particapants registration. Thanks to New Event Generation for their great collaboration.

The International Telework Academy is a virtual organization dedicated to:

- Promoting research in the field of telework and other new forms of work;
- Strengthening ties between the international telework research community
- Facilitating exchange between academic researchers, business practitioners and policy makers.