Another Blog on Linux & PHP Web Development theory & practice
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Number pad not working in Ubuntu? I feel your pain. After an upgrade to Hardy, my numberpad stopped working in Ubuntu Linux. I decided to look around in the Keyboard preferences and found my answer. I found that mousekeys was enabled. To get the use of my num pad back, all I had to do was disable mousekeys. More…
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Being a web developer, I need to make sure that the web pages I develop are rendered correctly (or in some cases “close enough” to correctly) across different browsers. Back when I was using Windows that wasn’t a problem for me, I can run all the major browsers for PC - Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox Browser and Opera. I could test how the site looks on all three.
On Ubuntu linux however, it’s a different story. While the default browser for Ubuntu is Firefox and Canonical has a version of Opera in their repository, there is no linux native version for Internet Explorer. This would have been a problem had it not been for ies4linux.
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Here’s a quick tip on disabling the touchpad on the Ubuntu Linux distro. It’s been bugging me for a while now that I have to use a non-gnome native solution to disabling my touchpad qsynaptics written in QT.
For those who are impatient and just want the quick instructions, I recommend that you install synclient, and issue a synclient TouchPadOff=1 usually SHMConfig is already on and this would be enough - in addition, synclient is usually installed by default (it is in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon).
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Why are there so many examples of bloated PHP methods out there?! I see a lot of bloated methods being used in examples through sites like phpclasses.org and a very large chunk of a project I’ve recently picked up which a few developers have worked on. Guys! remember! There is no good reason to bloat your methods to over 10-20 lines long and on the rare occasions that you do exceed 10 - 20 lines it would be more the exception to the rule as opposed to being the rule itself!
Let’s not forget what classes and its methods are supposed to be: Classes are blueprints for specialist components and their methods are singular actions which address one to a few (2 - 3 at most!) procedures at a time whether it be through the use of other classes or just through simple logic!
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Perhaps it’s because I’ve been in maintenance mode for a little bit that I’ve forgotten how to import a SQL file generated by applications like mysqldump into an existing database, but earlier today while dumping existing data from DevScripts and trying to install it on our testing server, I drew a complete blank.
So I guess this is more a note for me and anyone else who has a tendency to forget nifty little tricks like this one.
A quick way to duplicate MySQL databases is to do the following:
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Well, to be “correct” the title of this should have been “how to add your key to the list of authorized public keys on a remote or local linux machine”, but being a newbie like myself, I would not have known to search for it. If I wanted to find out about logging in automatically to a remote machine using a generated public key, I myself would have used “Passwordless SSH” - so there you go.
To get started, I’ll assume that you have OpenSSH set up (it’s setup by default… well usually) and that your remote machine has OpenSSH-server set up.
If not, then do the following on the remote machine:
Monday, February 18th, 2008
I was surprised that there was no built in way of adding multiple files to a SVN repository. I did a quick search and it seems that there is “one easy way” - execute the following piped command line from a Terminal window.
I could have sworn that I came across an easier way of doing this without resorting to doing the above.
More…
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Well it’s been a very busy 14 days for me, I’ve recently acquired a new work rig and in the process of converting my desktop to a local file server. The main goal for me acquiring this monstrous 19 incher is just so I can move around (mind you this mofo is huge, so my moving around is limited) my house and not just stay couped up in the study. A couple of important things happened when I got this laptop:
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