Author Archives: Daniele Occhipinti

Android – how to develop directly on a phone

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Daniele Occhipinti

There are severe problem with using the Android Emulator on a netbook / mini-laptop. It is much better to use your phone. That’s it: you develop on Eclipse and run and debug the program directly on your phone. In order … Continue reading →

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Android drawable default icons – they are free to use

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Daniele Occhipinti

http://androiddrawableexplorer.appspot.com/

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Android how to read and write files

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Daniele Occhipinti

http://huuah.com/android-writing-and-reading-files/

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Uncompress on the fly when copying a file from a remove location with scp

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Daniele Occhipinti

Don’t use scp, do it with ssh: ssh backups@server “cat /home/backups/backup_2010-09-27.tar.gz”| tar zxvf – You can probably use something similar also for: Compress on the fly when copying a file from a remove location with scp

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Setting up an encrypted volume on an external hard drive on CentOS

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Daniele Occhipinti

Make sure the version of your kernel is 2.6.16 or later with support for device mappers. Please replace XXXXX with the device Linux allocates the driver to (i.e.: /dev/sdc1). Use the dmesg command to find that out. Preparing the volume … Continue reading →

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Linux bash – tar tricks

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Daniele Occhipinti

Change directory: tar xzvf /var/backups/dbserver/dbserver-backup*.tar.gz -C /var/backups/dbserver Specifing the destination file: tar –create -zvPh -f /tmp/backup.tar.gz /usr/local/bin /usr/local /etc/var/spool/cron /var/svn /home/*/.ssh /home/*/.bash*

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Implement Selenium tests

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Daniele Occhipinti

Installing Selenium 1.0 and write tests with PHP _ The documentation is very good: http://seleniumhq.org/docs/ _ Donwload Selenium RC from here: http://seleniumhq.org/download/ _ When you extract it, there will be a directory with the server and a number of directories … Continue reading →

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Using a downloaded package without IDE in Java

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Daniele Occhipinti

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4093021/java-using-a-downloaded-package-without-ide

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CSS selectors optimisation

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Daniele Occhipinti

From the last chapter of “Even faster websites”. CSS selectors are matched right to left (!). That means the rightmost selector should be as less broad as possible: you should avoid * and tags as rightmost selectors. The quickest selectors … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Linux on Acer Aspire AO751h

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Daniele Occhipinti

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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