Wednesday, 20 January 2010

CakePHP: Calling Oracle stored procedures and functions

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Our testing with Cake is almost complete. We have been able to read and write data correctly in our non UTF-8 Oracle database, managed to c...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010

CakePHP: The dependent listboxes problem

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Note: This example is outdated. I have a newer blog post that addresses the same issue using more up to date methods and functionality. ...
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009

CakePHP and Oracle on CentOS. My own how to guide

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During the last couple of days I formated and set up from scratch my CakePHP development server, using CentOS, php 5.3 from Remi and the Or...
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009

CakePHP: A behavior for acessing non UTF Oracle databases

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The origins of our company's Oracle database date back at the beginning of the decade. At that time we had Oracle version 9i running on...
Tuesday, 1 December 2009

How to set up the SAPRFC extension for PHP on CentOS 5

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SAPRFC SAPRFC is an extension module for PHP 4 and 5, that makes it possible to call ABAP function modules running on a SAP R/3 system fr...
Friday, 27 November 2009

Enterprise class hardware for Enterprise class software

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We wanted to set up a portable LAMP server for a home project we are playing with and there it is : Since the little monster uses two S...
Thursday, 26 November 2009

SAP: All the little text tables

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Even after 5 years of tampering with ABAP, I still have problems getting used to the way SAP name their production tables. All those four l...
Thursday, 12 November 2009

The CakePHP manual in PDF

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if anybody wants a PDF version of the entire CakePHP manual as it appears in http://book.cakephp.org/ , the book is available from here . ...
Saturday, 31 October 2009

How to split a music file (flac, wv ...) when given the corresponding .cue file.

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This is the second time I needed to do this, so instead of googling again, I thought that I may post it here for future reference ..... ...
Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Fedora: Using and authenticating yum through a proxy

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I have just finished a Fedora 11 installation here at the office. We needed a test bed for working with symfony and our EL machines did no...
Friday, 11 September 2009

Javascript : Yet an other email address validator.

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I was building a Conduct us page the other day and run into the need for a JavaScript e-mail validator. I googled around a bit only to dis...
Friday, 4 September 2009

Windows: The ultimate way to get rid of stuck print jobs.

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Sometimes print jobs get stuck for good. Users try to delete them and then the entire queue gets stuck too. I have many times tried to find...
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Wednesday, 2 September 2009

Windows: Shutting down machines remotely

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I have many times heard people complain about Windows machines freezing or being very slow to respond. The problem sometimes is so bad that...
Tuesday, 1 September 2009

CentOS: Problems updating python

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I have been running into the same problem while trying to update my 5.3 CentOS machine. Yum reported three packages that needed update :...
Friday, 12 June 2009

Linux: Safely deleting .rpmnew files

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Just got on my hands on the new Fedora 11 today. I have to admit that I didn't get a chance to explore all the new things that Leonida...
Sunday, 3 May 2009

Linux: File containing active DHCP leases

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On openSUSE systems this is located in /var/lib/dhcp/db/dhcpd.leases On CentOS the leases file is in: /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases As...
Thursday, 16 April 2009

Oracle 11g: Switching to native compilation

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One of the most celebrated features of Oracle 11g is supposed to be the PL/SQL native compilation feature. This allows PL/SQL code to be c...
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Tuesday, 7 April 2009

Linux: Getting passed rsync's most notorious error messages and determining whether a shell is interactive or not.

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While trying to back up my personal data using rsync -aruvzh --delete /home/thanassis/jdevhome/ thanassis@192.168.1.68:/home/thanassis/jde...
Friday, 27 March 2009

JDevelopr 10g to 11g. It's a long way to migration

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Today i tried migrating a simple project from JDeveloper 10g (10.1.3.4) to 11g (11.1.1.0.1) )and the results are mostly disappointing. ...
Monday, 23 March 2009

Linux: Mind your labels

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I had seen labels used in /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf but never quite got the hung of them, until I read page 170 of Tammy Fox...