Linux, PHP, LAMP, The Web in a blog- Android – how to develop directly on a phone
- Android drawable default icons – they are free to use
- Android how to read and write files
- Uncompress on the fly when copying a file from a remove location with scp
- Setting up an encrypted volume on an external hard drive on CentOS
- Linux bash – tar tricks
- Implement Selenium tests
- Using a downloaded package without IDE in Java
- CSS selectors optimisation
- Ubuntu Linux on Acer Aspire AO751h
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Ubuntu Linux on Acer Aspire AO751h
Don’t use the Ubuntu Netbook Remix but the Desktop version. To fix the monitor resolution: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo/ Wi-fi should work out of the box
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Process forking in PHP on Linux
Command Line with PHP _ Introduced with PHP 4.3 (2002-12-27) _ PHP packed with very useful functions: exec, shell_exec, passthru _ PEAR package Console_CommandLine to easily handle arguments and options _ You can do system administration and release management with … Continue reading
Posted in PHP, System Administration
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How to benchmark apache+php
This is to see whether you server is CPU-bound or RAM-bound. We have to stress it and see which one of those components gets saturated first. If that is the RAM, we can add easily more RAM. The amount of … Continue reading
Posted in Apache, PHP, System Administration
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Create video tutorial
_ recordmydesktop (CONTROL-C to stop) _ mencoder out.ogv -o out.avi -ovc lavc -oac pcm _ avidemux __ cut start __ cut end __ don’t crop the video __ video: mpeg4 (x264) __ format: AVI __ add subtitles (if any) __ … Continue reading
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Linux command Line – copy a file from remote to local
Copy a file from a remote location to a local directory (for example to burn a backup on DVD): scp backups@server1:backup20100105 local/path
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Android – test application with different APIs
This is to change the device used by the emulator Run button > its menu > Run configurations > Target tab This is to change the actual API used for the application: Menu > Project > Properties > Android >
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How to make a transparent background/selection on an image using GIMP
http://geekswithblogs.net/TimH/archive/2006/03/20/72797.aspx
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PHP Conference – London 2010 – Summary
Free notes from the PHP London Conference 2010 - http://www.phpconference.co.uk Lost art of Simplicity by Josh Holmes (working in Microsoft) – http://www.slideshare.net/joshholmes/the-lost-art-of-simplicity – http://www.joshholmes.com/blog/2009/04/29/TheLostArtOfSimplicity.aspx _ NIH (not invented here) syndrome - people want to develop everything internally _ The … Continue reading
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Checklist before releasing Android app
_ Cross-Android-API testing _ Securing Your Private Key _ Versioning Your Application http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/versioning.html _Specifying Your Application’s System API Requirements http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html _ http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/preparing.html _ http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/publishing.html
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PHP – Plurilize
This is a very good post: http://kuwamoto.org/2007/12/17/improved-pluralizing-in-php-actionscript-and-ror/ We have test it in the office and it works great!
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