Friday, 31 January 2014

CakePHP 2.x: Saving paging data in the session

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Quite some time ago I wrote a blog post about saving CakePHP 1.x paging data in the session so that they can be available at next page visi...
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Sunday, 12 January 2014

Enable MP3 on Fedora 20

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A very short how to enable mp3 playback on your brand new fedora installation. Enable PRM Fusion repository. Install the vlc phonon...
Thursday, 7 November 2013

CakePHP New application database config (never forget the enconding)

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Today I will put down the way to begin a new web application project using CakePHP. The first part is database creation. Database charset...
Friday, 1 November 2013

SchemaSync: An effective and simple way to synchronize MySQL databases

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I have spend the last couple of days trying to find out a solution for migrating changes from a development database to the productive. I w...
Saturday, 19 October 2013

Netbeans 7.x and Debian

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Switched my laptop from Fedora 19 to Debian 7.1 for some peace, quiet and stability. It appears that the latest transitions to kernel 3.11 ...
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Monday, 7 October 2013

CakePHP locking tables

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Here are my two cents on the issue. The code below is a function from a behaviour that tries to create an additional unique key on a fie...
Friday, 14 June 2013

Using a raspberrypi as an sftp server

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Following a previous post regarding how to use your raspberry-pi device as a file server, we are going to continue amd set up sftp service...
Thursday, 23 May 2013

CakePHP and AJAX submitting a form with jQuery

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A couple of years back I wrote an article about how to handle the dependent drop down lists problem using CakePHP's Ajax facilities. T...
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Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Using a raspberry-pi as a UPS server with nut

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In this post we will try to install the Network UPS tools on a Raspberry-Pi device, attach a USB connected UPS and use it as a UPS server t...
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Thursday, 28 February 2013

NVidia on Centos 6

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The post documents the steps I followed in order to install the NVidia drivers using kmod-nvidia and ELPrepo on a fresh CentOS installatio...
Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Fedura 18 update with fedup

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After updating two fc17 x86_64 KDE PCs over the network using FedUp , I thought that I would put down my experience and prepare anyone tryi...
Saturday, 15 December 2012

xmllint : Command line XML parser and formatter

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So you were given a XML file that came straight out of a windows system with no indentation and incorrect line endings. The simplest way ou...
Thursday, 13 December 2012

Gnome2 Default Keyring location

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Just a quick note for me -- and anyone else out there -- The location of the keyring in gnome2 is in ~/gnome2/keyrings . And if you forget ...
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Thursday, 6 December 2012

Using a raspberrypi as a file server

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The idea came to me from a friend. I wanted to install a small network storage system to use merely as a file exchange repository at the of...
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Thursday, 18 October 2012

PHP: Workaround for the mailbox is empty imap error

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If you are in the process of learning how to use the PHP imap* family of functions in order to manage a remote mailbox, here is a little hi...
Sunday, 15 April 2012

bash scrupt to copy all songs in an m3u list into a folder

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This is not the first time I thought about it and it took a lot of digging and googling in order to get the right command line to do it. So...
Friday, 17 February 2012

CakePHP: Loosing translated texts

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This one drove me crazy for the last couple of hours, so I thought I better share it right away. I have a bilingual CakePHP application t...
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Command line to mount USB flash drives in Linux

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The subject is not new and nothing beats the device notifier icon in KDE asking you what to do with a newly inserted flash drive. This post...
Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Java enums: A complete example

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I started programming with Pascal, so I have deep feelings for enumerated types. To be honest I feel that they are a much more easy going a...
Tuesday, 15 November 2011

CentOS: Specifying DDNS hostname

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A quick reminder. When using a CentOS machine on network with a DDNS then in order for the host name to appear correctly on the DDNS manage...