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Corey Donohoe is a GitHubber

Today marks Corey "atmos" Donohoe's first day as a GitHubber. He'll be helping us make GitHub more awesome.








We're all super excited to have Corey on board, and a quick browse through his repos explains why: Sinatra, node.js, and OAuth are among...

Julian Andres Klode: Google Public DNS blocks wikileaks.org (Update: No, they don’t)

It seems that Google is blocking wikileaks.org in its ‘Public DNS’ servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4):

; DiG 9.7.1-P2 @8.8.8.8 wikileaks.org
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER

JIEHAAAHH!!! Mijn manuscript wordt uitgegeven door Podium!

Ik heb over het schrijven van mijn manuscript het afgelopen jaar regelmatig geblogt.
Hier vind je alle blogposts bij elkaar en hier vind je de laatste posts die ik schreef over het schrijven ervan: 1, 2, 3. Dit artikel, van direct na de 1e versie ...

Exoplanets

Foursquare Surpasses 3 Million Users

FoursquareFoursquare now has more than 3 million users, if the site's public user registration numbers are correct.The 3 millionth member appears to be Brian S. from St. Louis, Missouri, who has yet to check in to any venues via the mobile-based social...

Benjamin Humphrey: The joke that is Maverick’s default wallpaper

As many of you know, I tend to be the first to criticize anything in this community of people who are often afraid to voice their opinion about something. This time, however, I’m not going to do the talking, I’m just going to share some comments.
A...

Use different configs for different environments

Coming from Rails, I was surprised that I couldn't find any support for multiple configuration environments in CakePHP. There were a couple of other solutions for Cake, but I found them a bit complex for what they try to achieve. Having said that, my m...

Attention, couch potatoes! Walking boosts brain connectivity, function

A group of "professional couch potatoes," as one researcher described them, has proven that even moderate exercise -- in this case walking at one's own pace for 40 minutes three times a week -- can enhance the connectivity of important brain circuits, ...

Reading Rainbow slowed down

oh childhood

Quotes: Paris Hiltons Twitter, Shortly After Being Arrested for Cocaine Possession

In bed watching Family Guy. Love this show.! So hilarious! Stewie is my favorite :) love his accent. PARIS HILTONs Twitter update, shortly after being arrested for cocaine possession in Las Vegas.

Eric Hammond: Updated Ubuntu AMIs for EC2 released by Canonical

As Scott Moser announced, Canonical has released updated AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) for running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, and Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy on Amazon EC2.

The table at the top of Alestic.com has been updated to reflect the new AMI ...

Skull-A-Day Makes A Skull Image Using Brain Slices at Mtter Museum

Noah Scalin of Skull-A-Day made a giant skull image using brain slices at the Mtter Museum in Philadelphia.
via Make

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Here are a few other possibly related...

New Skateboard Design: The Strongest and Lightest In The Market

The new carbon fiber skateboards from RollsRolls incorporate a new deck concept, provisioning for better riding and making them the lightest and strongestlongboardscurrently available in the market.
The deck lowers the center of gravity which provides ...

18 Creative Calendar Designs

Whether we like to be organized or not, Calendars are rather a necessary thing that is seen every day in many different versions. Whether it is on your cellphone, wristwatch ...Continue Reading on Walyou

Changes and fixes coming to Digg's redesign

The new Digg is out and available for everyone, but a few things went awry or missing along the way. Digg's founder Kevin Rose has come out with a laundry list full of things that are being done.

Introducing the Digg Known Issues pages

Hey all -
We've created a couple of different Known Issues pages to keep you abreast of bugs and other issues affecting the functionality of the site.
read more

Canned Beer Is The Future of Good Beer

#blotto




America makes some of the world's finest beers. And now those beers are getting the conveyance they deservecans. More

Digg v4: release, iterate, repeat.

At Digg it's our job to try new things, analyze the usage data, iterate, and evolve. While not everyone is happy w/the new design, as of right now the usage looks extremely good (ie. more people registering (43,000+ new users yesterday), digging, consu...

IdeaPaint

Screw putting up a dry erase board in your home office turn a whole wall into one with IdeaPaint ($30-$175). This ingenious paint turns anything you can paint into...

7 Stories About Women Heroes in Tech - Please Send Us More

The technology press is full of stories of heroic men. In the startup economy, they often take the form of brave men who quit steady day jobs to join crazy startups. That's an inspiring kind of story; I wrote about Louis Gray doing that earlier this ...

Computer Wire Dress by Tina Sparkles

Systems Supernova, a dress made out of recycled computer wires created by Tina Sparkles for the Keep Austin Beautiful Recycled Fashion Show.
Made mostly of recycled computer wiring, the Systems Supernova dress addresses the growing problem of e-waste i...

Cannibal restaurant in Germany?

Ads for a new Berlin restaurant called Flime are requesting people to donate body parts for hearty meals. Naturally, people are flipping out. Of course, whether this is all a hoax remains to be seen. I bet it's a (rather provocative) prank. From The Gu...

Nike Air Maxes get a Wii Balance Board infusion

Recently Nike -- a shoe company that seems to enjoy a side dish of tech from time to time -- challenged 78 artists to "hack" its shoes and come up with something decidedly different than your typical Air Force Ones. Now, a lot of the projects were more...

One Million Calls Placed From Gmail in 24 Hours

If you're as big as Google, there's no such thing as a small product launch. So when Google introduced voice calls into its webmail service Gmail,

The Downfall of Digg (Hitler doesn't approve)

Hitler is frustrated as the rest of us.

Zuckerberg: “Guess What? Nobody Wants To Make Lists.”

A couple days ago, I wrote a post wondering if it wasn't time to change Facebook's social graph dynamic? Specifically, I called for a simplified system that had two layers: your friends and your followers. I think that their current social management ...

Formspring Ramps Up Social Features As It Passes 16 Million Members

Formspring, the Q&A service that lets users invite their friends to

Bankruptcy for Blockbuster

Film News: Vidtailer to file for Chapter 11 in September -- Here's how much the landscape of Hollywood's homevideo biz has shifted over the years: Netflix is readying to pay Epix $1 billion for a slate of movies, while Blockbuster is being taken down b...

Dustin Kirkland: Buy 1, get 8 Free! Or, a Useful Awk Hack...

But first, a couple of updates...If you appreciated my errno post, you might be happy to know that /usr/bin/errno is now provided by the ubuntu-dev-tools package in Maverick. This probably won't be the permanent home for the utility (currently in disc...

Michael Lustfield: Nginx Book Review

Most anyone reading this already knows me. My name is Michael Lustfield. I'm running the servers of a starting web development company called Kalliki Software. We've been in business for a little while now. When we started we had an Apache Web server w...

Dave Beckett, Leaving Yahoo – Joining Digg

Foursquare Now Tells You When Youll Become Mayor

Just when I was about to give up hope of ever becoming mayor of Mashable HQ on Foursquare, the location sharing social network has launched a new feature that might help alleviate my checkin fatigue: am I mayor yet?According to the new feature, which l...

I F***ING LOVE DIGG V4

Git Notes Display

I just blogged about the new git-notes functionality over at the Pro Git blog. If you're interested in using Git notes for something, you might be interested to know that GitHub now supports them and will display them on your commit pages.

If you pus...

PayPal and Slide Co-founder Becomes a Google VP of Engineering

Max Levchin, the founder of recently-acquired Slide and co-founder of PayPal, has been named Googles newest vice president of engineering.Levchin joined the company as part of Googles $182 million acquisition of Slide, the company he founded and ran as...

Canon EOS 60D: 18 megapixels and 1080p video flexes its articulating screen this September

Well, what do we have here? Last we heard about the Canon 60D it was just a twinkle in our articulating screen of a peripheral vision. And now it's official -- my, how times have changed. Here's what we know: the 18 megapixel DSLR boasts 1080p H.264 vi...

Vit D linked to cancer, autoimmune disease genes: MedlinePlus

Scientists have found that vitamin D influences more than 200 genes, including ones related to cancer and autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis -- a discovery that shows how serious vitamin D deficiency can be.

Mackenzie Morgan: Is packaging new software hard?

EDIT: Sorry Planet readers. I tried adding a "read more" thing to shorten it, but apparently that doesn't change the RSS feed, just the blog's front page. And yes, I will fix up the Ubuntu Wiki later.
A common answer to my question about why people ...

Podcaster Leo Laporte, the everywhere man

Leo Laporte arrived Thursday at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank.
On Friday morning he arrived at the office of KFI AM 640, the radio station that airs his syndicated "The Tech Guy" program. At 3:42 p.m., he was back at the airport, ready to fly home to Pet...

High Quality MySQL driver for Node

High Quality MySQL driver for Node: Now that Felix Geisendörfer launched his node powered site http://transloadit.com, he’s tacked the much needed task of writing a high quality MySQL protocol implementation in pure JavaScript.

Using the high perfo...

Git Extras: Helpful tools for Git

Git Extras: Helpful tools for Git: If you’ve ever been working heavily on a project that uses git, you’d know, that sometimes it’s good to have a few extras to help you out, and that’s what TJ Holowaychuk’s recent project git-extras provides!...

300,000 Largest Websites Visualized With Favicons

An interesting visualization over at Nmap.org shows the favicons of the 300,000 biggest websites on the Internet (according to Alexa), with the size of the favicons corresponding to sites with the most traffic.

Presidential Prank of the Day (PIC)

Seif Lotfy: GNOME Activity Journal 0.5.0 (Development Release) & New Data Providers

The Activity Journal (powered by Zeitgeist) has been finally rolled out from what was in trunk. We reduced some of the functionality Randy developed in our development branch since we wanted a smaller scope of things to fix for now.
You can read mor...

Rename Refactoring

Rename is one of the most useful refactorings at all. The developer can alter the name of a selected type, type member, function, constant in the code. Users of NetBeans PHP IDE could use Instant Rename feature since 6.5 and now in daily builds the Ren...

Mohamad Faizul Zulkifli: Windows 7 Theme For Ubuntu Linux

Transform your Ubuntu to Windows 7 familiar look now. The right way to make you child or wife feel happy when using your Ubuntu desktop/laptop. Sounds funny, take a look here.read the installation manual here http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Win2...

Jono Bacon: 11.04 Ubuntu Developer Summit Announced

Hot on the heels of the announcement of the Natty Narwhal, I am tickled pink to announce the details of the next Ubuntu Developer Summit taking place in Orlando, USA from 25th – 29th October 2010. We also have a brand new Ubuntu Developer Summit webs...

EXCLUSIEF! Backstage @Lowlands: de shit die ze je niet laten zien.

Het afgelopen weekend heb ik items gemonteerd voor Film it Yourself van 3voor12 (hier het overzicht en hier zijn straks de edits te zien)
Maar tussen de optredens, de hitjes, de snacks, de marketing en het monteren door, kwam ik backstage iets tegen w...

GithubFinder: JavaScript-powered Github repo browser

GithubFinder: JavaScript-powered Github repo browser: For those times you need to quickly browse a GitHub repo but don’t want to clone it locally, check out GitHubFinder from Alex Le.



Modeled after the Mac OSX finder, GitHubFinder provides a famil...

Diego Turcios: Frequently Problems when we use Oracle in Ubuntu

When we begin to work on Oracle in Ubuntu. We have some troubles to run Oracle. Some of the common
mistakes it gives us is that the user is not part of the dba group, or similar errors.I am living a
 small guide I did thanks to many google search, so ...

Alexa Meade

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Mark Shuttleworth: 10.10.10.10.10…..

Saw this URL fly by today… wow and thank you to the Ubuntu Ads guys

So, who’s up for making Maverick Movies? It would be great to have a “10 best features in 10.10″ video collection for release. Unity’s awesome and then there are things to...

slablet: Stylish CSS layout for iPad and more

slablet: Stylish CSS layout for iPad and more: If you like Sencha Touch, the HTML5 mobile framework we recently covered in Episode 0.3.0, but long for a more declarative, markup-driven approach, then keep an eye on Slablet from Fellowship Technologies....

Type Hierarchy View

Everyone who uses daily builds of our PHP support in NetBeans IDE might noticed couple of new features that were added after 6.9.1. One of them is Type Hierarchy View which is helpful for OO PHP code. 
To show this view use action from editor popup...

Mark Shuttleworth: N-imal?

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New Ubuntu will be called: Natty Narwhal

Oh yes, it’s that time of year again, when numerate pollsters make nasal proclamations about the naming of the next next version of Ubuntu. When gazers of balls crystal provide nifty suggesti...

Chase Douglas: Decoding Apple’s Magic Trackpad

Notes on the meaning of protocol bits
We’ve received a lot of questions on whether Apple multitouch products will be supported in Ubuntu 10.10. I’m pleased to say that all of the currently available products will have some support:

Magic Mouse
Mag...

The Fridge: Multi-touch Support Lands in Maverick

Canonical is pleased to announce the release of uTouch 1.0, Ubuntu’s multi-touch and gesture stack. With Ubuntu 10.10 (the Maverick Meerkat), users and developers will have an end-to-end touch-screen framework — from the kernel all the way through ...

Mark Shuttleworth: Gestures with multitouch in Ubuntu 10.10

Multitouch is just as useful on a desktop as it is on a phone or tablet, so I’m delighted that the first cut of Canonical’s UTouch framework has landed in Maverick and will be there for its release on 10.10.10.
You’ll need 4-finger touch or bette...

CakePHP Plugins - A Biblical Retelling

I'm just going to list a few plugins I use and abuse on a daily basis, as well as things

Mohamad Faizul Zulkifli: Spreadtweet By Elliot Kember

Need a Twitter client ?Dont want your boss know that you are tweeting while you are in office ?Introducing Spreadtweet, a twitter client that looks like Microsoft Excel.p/s: suitable for secretaries, typist, etc but remember, your network administrator...

Nitrode: A lightweight HTTP Server on top of Node.js

Nitrode: A lightweight HTTP Server on top of Node.js: Released earlier today was Nitrode, which aims to be FASTCGI type server for Node.js, this is a server for those who want the power of something like Nginx, but would prefer to write the logic in Ja...

Streaming Spotify to a PS3 from Ubuntu

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WANT!
A post came up a couple of days ago on the Spotify “What’s new” feed: how to stream spotify wirelessly to your stereo, which got me thinking about something I’ve been after for a while – the ability to stream spotify a...

Streaming Spotify to a PS3 from Ubuntu

A post came up a couple of days ago on the Spotify “What’s new” feed: how to stream spotify wirelessly to your stereo, which got me thinking about something I’ve been after for a while – the ability to stream spotify audio to PS3. This is men...

Matthew Helmke: Nginx HTTP Server

I started using Nginx as my primary web server a little over 18 months ago. At the time, I was using an underpowered server with low memory, and I wanted to replace Apache with something lighter. Even though I still love Apache for its power, configura...

Complicated Mechanisms Explained in simple animations

Radial Engines Radial engines are used in aircrafts having propeller connected to the shaft delivering power in order to produce thrust its basic mechanism is as follows Steam engine Principle Steam engine once used in locomotives was based on the r...

Design updates

Earlier today we rolled out a minor design update to the site. Notably, we have a brand new home page (remember, you can always get to the homepage at http://github.com/home):



It's simpler, sweeter and to the point. GitHub has evolved a lot since...

Programmer Productivity: Measuring Results

This is post #2 of my programmer productivity series.

Before I embark on trying out various productivity strategies, I need to establish a set of metrics that will help me understand what works, and what doesn't.

For now I decided to keep track of tw...

gollum: A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.

gollum: A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.: If your open source project needs a wiki, GitHub will leave you saying “My PRECIOUS!” After much anticipation, GitHub has finally taken the curtain down on their new git-power...

Making GitHub More Open: Git-backed Wikis

We've been hearing a lot of great feedback regarding our current wiki system. Today, we're launching the first phase in a rollout of a completely rewritten Git-backed wiki system to address these issues. Each page is a file in a directory. Each chan...

Seif Lotfy: My sexy desktop

Well I received a lot of comments and mails about my overall *sexy* desktop layout and look…
So to get everyone down a bit here is what you need to use and set up to have your desktop look like mine…

Get the Elementary wallpaper right here



Get ...

Brian Murray: Biking Ubuntu

This past weekend I participated in the Providence Bridge Pedal, in Portland, Oregon, with both of my sons. This is an interesting event because they close the top deck of both interstate highways over the Willamette river which bisects Portland.
I wa...

html5-boilerplate: Best practices starting point project for HTML5 and mobile web apps

html5-boilerplate: Best practices starting point project for HTML5 and mobile web apps: While HTML5 is expanding in definition to include any whizz-bang feature in the post rounded corner web era, implementing actual HTML5 in your web app can be confus...

smoothie: Lightweight JavaScript library for smooth real-time charts in the browser

smoothie: Lightweight JavaScript library for smooth real-time charts in the browser: Providing real-time, smoothly updating charts in the browser is a challenge. London-based developer Joe Walnes has tackled the problem with Smoothie Charts, a lightwei...

Og Maciel: Book Review: Python 3 Object Oriented Programming

Python 3 Object Oriented Programming
I can’t claim to have looked hard for a Python book on object oriented programming (OOP) but I was immediately attracted to the title of this book. Sure, you can find small tutorials here and there about some spec...

Seif Lotfy: Bringing fun back to the desktop…

After Jorge linked me up with this idea
I quote from the blog post:
I think it would be fun to add an achievement system to the Ubuntu Desktop, like is done on Steam and XBox.
The tricky part is tracking various events and finding amusing correlation...

HAProxy Logging in Ubuntu Lucid

At transloadit we use HAProxy "The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load
Balancer" so that we can offer different services on 1 port.
For instance, depending on the hostname, a requests to port 80 can be
routed to either nodejs for api.transloadit....

Announcing: HTML5 Boilerplate

When kicking off a new project, I've always wanted to take with me all the kickass tricks I learned on the previous one. This project has been on and off for the last 2.5 years with a whole lot of on lately. Finally, HTML5 Boilerplate is ready to share...

Dustin Kirkland: Dear Bash, please ping me when you're done running $FOO

UPDATE: The "alert" alias has landed in Maverick's /etc/skel/.bashrc ... thanks for your support!!!How often do you run a command line tool on your desktop that takes a really long time? Maybe something like make, debuild, rsync, or wget?You probably ...

Canonical Design Team: The first milestone

As work on the font continues we thought it would be good to get some insight from the people working on developing it. In the first of these posts, Bruno Maag explains where the team are and what’s coming.

The first milestone

Hinting lower case ZH...

Oxford Archaeology: KVM, VMBuilder & Puppet - (Really) Automated deployment

I've spent some time automating the deployment of virtual machines using vmbuilder and puppet. There are two reasons behind this:I give every IT person in the company (about 8-10 of us) a VM for development, to play with new software and try fancy conf...

Easily Filter Notifications by Repository

We added a special header to all outgoing repository and direct message notifications that should make it much easier to filter emails:






Direct messages get a List-ID of user.github.com, while repositories get repo.user.github.com. Do you want to...

Canonical Design Team: An Update to the Ubuntu Light Themes

One of our key objectives when we started conceptualising the new themes was their ability to be immediately recognisable as Ubuntu, even if represented as a small screenshot. As easily recognised as when it used to be brown – but not that brown… t...

Generate PhpDoc

Today, I would like to show you how one can generate documentation for his/her PHP project. Fortunately, it is a very simple task in NetBeans. First, validate in IDE options that your PhpDoc installation was recognized and that the PhpDoc script has be...

GitHub Jobs launches tomorrow

In a little over twelve hours from now we'll be flipping the switch on GitHub Jobs. That means you only have until midnight PDT to post a job at our discounted $150 rate.

We're really excited with the quality of jobs being posted and can't wait to fl...

Oxford Archaeology: Even Accenture say so

In a press release that surprised me (I'm more used to thinking of them as a .net developing, MS Shiny Partner, if ain't got a 6-figure pricetag it ain't worth nothing sort of a consultancy), Accenture have announced nearly everything open source is ju...

Jorge Castro: Stack Applet, vanity for your SE rep.

Here’s a nice little application that will tell you what your reputation is on any site on Stack Exchange, including Ubuntu.
I mailed George Edison (the author) with some tips and stuff, and next thing you know he’s got it up on Launchpad ready to...

Still No Sleep

Michael Lustfield: Persistent SSH

It's time for another post. Recently I've had issues with dropping network connections or wanting to connect and keep working on the same thing from other systems. Most of you probably already know the answer. You screen.
Sounds easy enough. My issue i...

Debian : purge packages marked with rc status

Packages with rc status are not completely removed from the system, configuration files are still present.
If you have a bunch of rc packages you need to purge, as root, type :
dpkg --list |grep "^rc" | cut -d " " -f 3 | xargs sudo dpkg --purge
Source ...

7 Scaling Strategies Facebook Used to Grow to 500 Million Users

Robert Johnson, a director of engineering at Facebook, celebrated Facebook's monumental achievement of reaching 500 million users by sharing the scaling principles that helped reach that milestone. In case you weren't suitably impressed by the 500 ...

Making Git Behave

It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Git, and of distributed version control in general; they offer a compelling toolset and degree of flexibility that you would be hard pressed to find in a “traditional” centralized version control system. Ins...

Features in PHP trunk: Aray dereferencing - Johannes Schlüter

I was writing about new features in the upcoming PHP version (5.4, 6.0?) before. Today's topic reads like this in the NEWS file:

- Added array dereferencing support. (Felipe)

Now you might wonder what this typical short entry means. when doing OO...

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Mohamad Faizul Zulkifli: Recover Your PDF Password

The scenario is,i have created a pdf file for my personal document, and then to make it safe i put a password so anyone else cant read the file except myself.After a month later, I've forgot the password but i want to read the file as soon as possible....

Steven Harms: Using Apache to decrypt SSL pages

Although you should almost never have a decent rationale for doing this, at some point I needed to do it, and documentation was scarce. The basic idea is we have a website – https://www.securewebsite.com and our clients cannot use https (ssl), so we...

Scott Moser: Verify SSH Keys on EC2 Instances

Like every server, every EC2 instance should have a unique ssh fingerprint. On "real servers" this fingerprint is generated at first installation of the openssh-server package. On EC2, instead, it is done on first boot of an instance. This is becaus...

Mono & OpenStack on GitHub

Following our one millionth repository, we'd like to welcome a couple new notable faces around GitHub.




The first is the Mono project.

Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Co...

One Million Repositories

Last night, the one millionth git repository was created on GitHub. That is a heck of a lot of repositories.

Since we first launched, there have been a lot of interesting code filling those repositories, including projects like jQuery, Erlang/OTP, Rub...

Kees Cook: Achievement Unlocked

I think it would be fun to add an achievement system to the Ubuntu Desktop, like is done on Steam and XBox.
The tricky part is tracking various events and finding amusing correlations. For example, if your screen-saver kicks in 40 times in a single 24...

Our jQuery plugin is now open source!

We are happy to let you know that we have open-sourced our jQuery plugin on Github.

transloadit/jquery-sdk

While doing that, we also added a very cool new feature: events for uploads and results. This means you can now give the jQuery plugin an onUpl...

Tarp surfing

Get yourself a skateboard, a big blue tarp, have someone lift the edge of the tarp over you as you skateboard by, and guess what that looks like:



(via mathowie) Tags: remix   skateboarding   sports   surfing   video

Is OpenStack Cloud Computing Rocket Science?

There’s a real explosion of cloud platforms and management tools, it seems you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one these days. In the commercial proprietary solutions space you have – CA’s 3Terra AppLogic, Enomaly, Nimbula, RightScale. I...

New: Free plan

You wanted it, you got it. We are happy to present to you:

Feel It - our free plan including 1 GB usage!

While your wallet remains entirely untouched with this plan, we do require a little love in return, namely embedding our badge.

--fg

Soren Hansen: OpenStack is open for business

Moments ago Rackspace announced the OpenStack project. Not only is this awesome news in and of itself, it also means that I can finally blog about it
The Rackspace’s IaaS offering consists of two parts: Cloud Servers and Cloud Files. Incidentally, ...

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New: iPhone SDK

We have been hard at work this weekend, and one of the first things to come out of it is our shiny new Transloadit iPhone SDK:






The SDK contains a simple example project, as well as a stand-alone TransloaditRequest class you can use in your apps. ...

Cross-Repository Compare View

When we launched Compare View earlier this year, we knew there was a
killer feature still missing: the ability to compare branches across
repositories. Easy forking and the networks that emerge as a result is what
makes GitHub great. Limiting the Compa...

On Benchmarks on SSD

(cross post from SSD Performance Blog )
To get meaningful performance results on SSD storage is not easy task, let's see why.
There is graph from sysbench fileio random write benchmark with 4 threads. The results were taken on PCI-E SSD card ( I do not...

Announcing transloadit.com

Today we are thrilled to announce the commercial availability of
transloadit.com.

If you have a web (or mobile) application that needs file uploading you should consider integrating transloadit.
Transloadit will handle the upload process, resizing of ...

Jono Bacon: Sound Indicator

I am totally digging the sound menu that is shipping in the development branch of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat:



It feels well designed, implemented and sleek. Great work mpt and Conor!

Several improvements

Today, I would like to show you several improvements we have implemented in our PHP support. Have a look at the following picture, can you see any of them?

I think that most of you have noticed that:


PHP projects with framework(s) ...

Duane Hinnen: A Script for Making Screencasts on Ubuntu

Gotta be a Better Way
Recently I joined the Ubuntu Screencast Team and much to my disappointment my screencasts were not coming out so well. A lot of people I talked to have had good luck using GTK-RecordMydesktop. Unfortunately it did not work to well...

Meet Nodeload, the new Download server

I recently launched the first GitHub node.js project: nodeload. Nodeload replaces the ruby git archive download server. Basically, any time you download a tarball or zip file of any repository branch or tag, you're going through nodeload.




This is...

Sphinx component and behavior

I have made a "branch" of the sphinx behavior ( http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/sphinx-behavior ), and make a component and a behavior that uses this component.

I have also add more features like the geosearch filter.

Motivation: i have a man...

Sheepdog block driver for distributed storage merged into upstream qemu

The sheepdog block driver for qemu has been merged into mainline qemu providing access to sheepdog’s distributed storage system. Sheepdog is the first driver for a distributed file system to be included into upstream qemu ( I don’t consider nbd t...

Seif Lotfy: Accessing files made easy – Exploring vs Finding

As part of the Elementary Project we are trying to find easy ways to access the documents, videos, notes, etc…
Recently I experienced second hand how painful accessing documents is while trying to get my grandmother and mother to open recent photos o...

Abacus

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More technology.

translate.js - a JavaScript Babelfish

translate.js - a JavaScript Babelfish:

Translate.js from Marak Squires might not know that the meaning of life is 42, but it can prompt you to ask “¿Cuál es el significado de la vida?” en español.

The JavaScript library wraps the Google Trans...

Hot Scalability Links for July 2, 2010

What says 4th of July like Nathan's ultimate scalable hot dog eating contest? This totally requires a scale-up strategy.
Facebook at 60,000 servers and counting.
Deepak Singh has collected some impressive massive data stats on extreme Hadoop usage: Fa...

Daniel Holbach: Renewed call for participation: fix an Ubuntu bug

I’d like to renew my call for participation: please pick an Ubuntu bug, find docs if you need them, attempt to fix it and explain to me what you did, what you tried, what worked, what didn’t in an email to daniel holbach ubuntu com.
I’ll post abo...

We are launching on July 13

Exciting news, we have overcome our earlier
setback and are now headed for launching on:

Tuesday, July 13

What's new? Well, everything. We rewrote the entire system. As you know,
rewriting can be a very nerve-wrecking experience, but we did not compr...

Kees Cook: reporting all execs

I recently learned about the process event connector, and went looking for an example program that could report all the exec()s that happen on my system to help with debugging things like AC plug/unplug scripts, etc.
After cleaning it up and adding som...

Ddorda: ‫How to install Dropbox without having a GUI‬

Hey there,
Yesterday I tried to find a way how to install Dropbox when no GUI available, which means on my Ubuntu server machine (just an old computer sitting in my small "mamad"mamad). I wanted to use it for some kind of a little cloud between the com...

Organizations for Small Businesses

When we launched Organizations yesterday we were overwhelmed by the response. We designed and built Organizations for large customers managing many teams of developers, not realizing how useful they'd be for small businesses.

Today we're introducing t...

Introducing Organizations

Today we're introducing Organizations. Organizations simplify management of group-owned repositories (for example: your company's code), expand on our permissions system, and help focus your GitHub workflow for business and large open source projects....

High availability for MySQL on Amazon EC2 – Part 2 – Setting up the initial instances

This post is the second of a series that started here.
The first step to build the HA solution is to create two working instances, configure them to be EBS based and create a security group for them. A third instance, the client, will be discussed in ...

Putting semi-RESTful API development to… rest

With some of the older web API standards subsiding, such as SOAP based interfaces, the new buzz seems to be all about REST (for the last few years at least).
Not that SOAP is “bad” in any way, as a matter of fact self-discovery via WSDL, and the st...

Apache And MySQL Monitoring With Bijk On Debian Lenny

Apache And MySQL Monitoring With Bijk On Debian Lenny

This tutorial describes how you can monitor your server with the tool
Bijk. Bijk creates
online 30 graphs about load, CPU, memory, traffic, Apache, NginX,
PostreSQL and others with alerts. Bijk ...

Nginx-Fu: X-Accel-Redirect From Remote Servers

We use nginx and its features a lot in Scribd. Many times in the last year we needed some pretty interesting, but not supported feature – we wanted nginx X-Accel-Redirect functionality to work with remote URLs. Out of the box nginx supports this func...

Is the IDE Slow? Send a Profiling Snapshot

In NetBeans 6.9 is available Profile me Now! feature as well for PHP distribution. This feature generate a snapshot to understand what's going on if you think that the IDE is slow. By default the feature is not visible and you have to enable the IDE's ...

Kees Cook: kvm kernel console

I know there are a lot of ways to do this, but I just wanted to note what works for me to catch early boot Oopses in the kernel. In virt-manager, I set up a serial device, as a “pty”. After the VM boots, I pause in Grub, and check the VM details ...

WebPulp.tv Interview with Tom Preston-Werner

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Josh Owens for webpulp.tv. We talked about the GitHub architecture, Grit, BERT and Ernie, Erlang, load balancing, Redis and MongoDB, Resque, Git-backed Wikis, open source, backups, Unicorn, Eve...

This is Why I'll Never be an Adult

Shared by Yerdua

I went grocery shopping today!!! I'm so fucking responsible!
I have repeatedly discovered that it is important for me not to surpass my capacity for responsibility.  Over the years, this capacity has grown, but the results of excee...

Create support for your favorite PHP framework

Today, I would like to inform you that we have created a wiki page which could be a starting point for all of you who would like to create a support for your favorite PHP framework (Java knowledge is needed). All the relevant information should be fou...

APK Downloads for Android Projects

For all you Android developers out there, we now will automatically detect when you upload an Android package (.apk) file and will give you a QR code page link on your download page list, like this:



Unfortunately, only uploads since this weekend wil...

Let’s talk about the “Search”…

Not sure how to get this post started exactly, but let me first say that: “I am not a Doctor… Err… Search Engine specialist”…
Now, I think, it is an interesting topic that a few people might find helpful and perhaps (and hopefully) some coul...

Let's talk about the "Search"…

Not sure how to get this post started exactly, but let me first say that: “I am not a Doctor… Err… Search Engine specialist”…
Now, I think, it is an interesting topic that a few people might find helpful and perhaps (and hopefully) some could...

... Robert McGinnis

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Notifo service hook added

If you've ever wished you could have push notifications sent to your iPhone when someone commits to your repository — today's your lucky day. We recently added support for Notifo to our service hooks (coded up by stammy).

Click "Admin" on any of yo...

NetBeans 6.9 is Available

After bug fixing period NetBeans 6.9 final build is available. You can download it as usual from NetBeans site. What is new, you can read in this document and also you can watch some new features in NetBeans 6.9 Overview video.



...

Nick Barcet: 2010 Eclipse survey released: Linux and Ubuntu still growing

The 2010 Eclipse community survey [PDF] has just been released, and again Linux and Ubuntu is showing strong growth on the developer workstations. Some of you may remember my post on this subject last year.
From last year Windows continued its declin...

Lucid Lynx not so cloud friendly?!

Last couple of weeks we have been slowly making progress get kulitzer.com up and running. Most of our production systems run Ubuntu 9.10, or Karmic Koala. At the time we started setting up kulitzer Ubuntu just released the latest server, 10.04 LTS or L...

1958 ... punch out!

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Git Reference Site

In the talks and trainings that I do, I've been wanting a shorter, simpler reference site for people learning Git. The Pro Git book, being a full book, sometimes intimidates people trying to learn Git - I wanted something you could jump to specific co...

Jorge Castro: More great messaging menu apps

Ken Van Dine has packaged up Matt Mossholder’s gvoice-notifier in a PPA. I’ve added the PPA to the list of messaging menu applications. If you want to help package these up and get them rocking then feel free to grab one! We’re always looking ...

Spellchecker

Another new feature in NetBeans 6.9 is a spellchecker. You can switch on / off the checking for different files in Option dialog. 

In the dialog you can add and remove new dictionaries and also set the locale - which dictionary will be used f...

iPad + Velcro = ♥

Shared by gnascente

kkkkkk muito criativo!!
o Jesse Rosten lá no Vimeo, mostra que a melhor invenção do mundo é o iPad com Velcro.

Confesso que depois do vídeo dele, passei a achar o mesmo!

iPad + Velcro

(Dica do Rodrigo Polito)

The Perfect Office #40

We've seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we'll assemble a perfect office, and we'd like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect of...

Martin Owens: Sunday Special: Ubuntu Hour

We had a great time at the Ubuntu Hour today organised by David Wolfman of the Massachusetts LoCo here in Arlington, we had 10 members show up for this social event and it was very successful.


Concept by Rebecca Prigot, art by Martin Owens

Nginx Syntax Highlighting For Vim

I found this little gem by Evan Miller in the Vim scripts archive a few days ago and love it so far. If you’re working with Nginx configurations, even on a casual basis, it’s nice to have syntax highlighting. Although the Vim plugin directions are ...

Colin Watson: Hacking on grub2

Various people observed in a long thread on debian-devel that the grub2 package was in a bit of a mess in terms of its release-critical bug count, and Jordi and Stefano both got in touch with me directly to gently point out that I probably ought to be ...

GitHub at the Dutch PHP Conference 2010

We'll be sponsoring the Dutch PHP Conference's after party next Friday, June 11th in Amsterdam. Details here.








If you're attending the conference, look for the guy in the Fork You shirt and say hello!

... big computers!

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... bigger computers!

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Enable auto-scanning of sources - Scan for External Changes

NetBeans 6.9 contains a feature that automatically looks for external changes to keep informations about files up-to-date. We have some reports that it can slow down NetBeans mainly, when an open project has many folders. When NetBeans find out that fi...

ReST DataSource plugin for CakePHP

A CakePHP Plugin containing a DataSource for interarcting with ReSTful web services.

Parsing file uploads at 500 mb/s with node.js

A few weeks ago I set out to create a new multipart/form-data parser for node.js. We need this parser for the new version of transloadit that we have been working on since our setback last month.

The result is a new library called formidable, which, o...

Geeks and Nerds

CakePHP 1.3.1 now with delicious sprinkles

The CakePHP development team is happy to announce the release of CakePHP 1.3.1[1]. 1.3.1 is the first maintenance release for 1.3 and contains bugfixes and optimizations for features found in 1.3. No new features will be introduced in the maintenanc...

1929 ... Dornier DoX

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1968 ... '2001' entrance to control deck

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It’s The Community, Stupid

I had an awesome time at Tek-X in Chicago last week. It was worth the 8 hour drive to get to Chicago from my basement lair. Of course, it helped that the wait at the border was under 10 minutes both times. There were good talks, but even better *peo...

1968 ... '2001' astronauts in Discovery's pod bay

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Rick Spencer: Track the Desktop and UNE in Maverick

Ubuntu development happens in a very transparent manner. I won't cover the lead up and execution of UDS here, but I will discuss what happens after UDS for maverick.First, you should know where we are in the schedule. The schedule is always available. ...

APC Plugin For Munin

If you’re like me, you want to monitor and graph every little piece of your server. Until recently, I’ve been relying on a simple PHP script to display APC statistics. Although the tool worked well, I wanted to integrate the statistics into Munin, ...

The Perfect Office #38

We've seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we'll assemble a perfect office, and we'd like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect of...

Martin Owens: Ubuntu’s Golden Ring

I’m been catching up to TedTalks from last year (2009) and last week I got to Simon Sinek’s talk How Great Leaders Inspire Action, in the talk he describes what he calls “The golden ring” which is his representation of how to communicate ideas ...

Update for CakePHP-Goodies (AutoJavascript and Gravatar Helpers)

Just a quick one tonight.. I've received some feedback via the CakePHP Bakery indicating that an oversight in the pathing for the unexpectedly popular Automatic Javascript Includer Helper caused it to not work for Windows systems.
While I don't much ca...

Our new build status indicator

If you've been following us on the twitters, you know that we recently got our first office space in San Francisco. Our first course of action was to immediately purchase a stoplight.

But what do you do with a stoplight? Hook up arduino to ci joe to...

Brett Alton: Sick of Facebook and Want To Use Something Open Source?

Many people are sick of Facebook and their lack of care for privacy. Websites have been setup to make users aware of privacy policy changes, new features Facebook has added (for better or worse) and even JavaScript programs that analyze how open your F...

Matthew Helmke: nginx, php-fastcgi and Ubuntu 10.04

I’ve been using nginx for this blog and other sites for well over a year, beginning with Ubuntu 8.10. I have had to figure out some things, but overall I have been very pleased. I have upgraded the server for each Ubuntu release since then with no re...

Jonathan Carter: This Operating System Has Everything!

This morning I found this in my feed reader and found it quite amusing:

Shortly thereafter when I closed Liferea, I noticed this in my notification area:

E-Mail and bacon- this operating system has everything. Who am I kidding… it had me at Superco...

Details on the new Google Webfont API

As you might have see, Google now offers a full webfont API. Luckily, they let me dig into the service and code a few weeks back. So let me give you the lowdown on the features and what you can do with it…
Here's adding a @font-face declaration for T...

OpenID component v2010-05-19 released

As mentioned in the title, I released a new version of the OpenID component today. It’s a maintenance release: the only change is an update of the bundled PHP OpenID library from version 2.1.2 to 2.2.2. With this change you no longer have to patch th...

Campfire

Thorsten Wilms: He-Mark

A bit late, but here’s a drawing in wallpaper format in celebration of the Ubuntu 10.04 release and the new visual identity that made its first real appearance with it.

Full size 2560 x 1600 pixels
It all makes perfect sense, I swear:
Mark Shuttlewo...

Jamie Strandboge: Chromium saved passwords

I make use of the Master Password feature in Firefox. While not on by default, when enabled this feature encrypts your Firefox saved passwords on disk, and Firefox will prompt you when you need access to a saved password. When your browser is not runni...

Some Humor from Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

Being two of the richest men in the world, did you ever wonder what Bill Gates and Steve Jobs might talk about when they were alone? Well, as this post implies, it might be entirely different than you might think. It might also be extremely funny.

GitHub Rebase #43

github-rebase(1) – Forward-port awesome projects to the updated upstream head





Featured Project


memcached is the battle tested in-memory key/value store that helps power GitHub among countless other sites and makes its home here. With memcac...

CakePHP and PHPUnit

In the recent bakery article concerning the ongoing development of CakePHP 2.0. The already underway migration from SimpleTest to PHPUnit was introduced. I wanted to go into some of the reasons and motivations for that decision as well as explain some...

Faker.js - Generate fake data in Node.js or in your browser

Faker.js - Generate fake data in Node.js or in your browser: Inspired by Ruby’s Faker gem and Perl’s Data::Faker, Faker.js lets you create large amounts of fake yet contextual data. Need a fake name for a form or fixture?

Faker.Name.findName();
=>...

Howto : extend ext3 partition

In this example, we’ll extend a data partition (known under the name /dev/sda3), not a system partition. If you want to extend a system partition, you’ll have to boot and proceed from a live CD.
BACKUP YOUR DATA BEFORE DOING ANYTHING.
We’ll consi...

Dustin Kirkland: When was the last time your operating system released EARLY?

Seriously, when was the last time any software project used by millions of people released early? I simply can't think of a one...If you haven't heard Robbie Williamson's announcement yet, Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) will be released on the 10th d...

Annotated Downloads

I just pushed a feature that optionally uses annotated tags to describe your project's downloads. Check out how Rails describes their v2.3.5 release:

Ruby on Rails 2.3.5
* Improved Ruby 1.9 Support
* Compatible with the rails_xss plugin
* Fixes a b...

Prevent debug info from messing with your AJAX responses

Update (05/21/2010): Well, looks like it has been removed from the core completely (good riddance).
Just a little tidbit of code that can help you when doing any AJAX communication…
Generally you’ll notice that cake inserts a timestamp with each re...

GitHub Issues, Cappuccino Style

Today 280north announced the GitHub Issues Cappuccino app.

It'll run in your browser, or you can download it using their NativeHost technology.












Pretty slick - give it a shot:


homebrew's issues
280north issues issues

Brett Alton: 0 A.D. Pre-Alpha 2 is released

0 A.D., a modern, open source, Age of Empires-like real-time strategy game, just released version Pre-Alpha 2 of their game.

0 A.D Pre-Alpha 2 is already available on PlayDeb.net (or you can compile the game yourself).
Happy gaming!

Get Watching Justified

Started watching a really good show called Justified that I have to share with you good people.



It's only on the first season over in America and at the time of writing 8 episodes have aired. Get watching the first couple and let me know if you're i...

Embellish plugin for CakePHP

The Embellish plugin is an easy way to bring in functionality for “lightweight markup languages” in your application such as Markdown, BBCode and Textile.

If you know of any other markup languages that you’d like support for, let me know — it�...

Martin Meredith: An hour in the life of my mouse

A mini-meme that has been spreading round the IT team at my workplace is “IOGraph” – a small Java program that tracks and draws the status of your mouse over a period of time. Lines are movement, circles are places where the mouse has stopped…...

Autotest using Watchr getting notified via Growl

I was taking a look at ZenTest a while ago, especially the autotest functionality. As stated in the ZenTest site, autotest:

Improves feedback by running tests continuously. Continually runs tests based on files you’ve changed. Get feedback as soon ...

Sassy CSS

Those who follow me on Twitter probably know about my love-hate relationship with CSS. To ease the pain of working with CSS I switched to Compass, a stylesheet authoring framework. With Compass, you write the stylesheets in Sass (Syntactically Awesome ...

Rubén Romero: Joining Varnish Software…

Varnish makes this web site fly!

I wanted to make a quick announcement: From today I work for Varnish Software.

If you want to know more about the Varnish project, what it is, its history, how it can help you go green and its future please read on�...

Apparently Facebook considers your current IP address to be "public information" as well.

See that header in your Facebook notification email that looks like this?     X-Facebook: from zuckmail ([NzYuMTY5LjIzLjU2]) That's your friend's IP address:     % perl -MMIME::Base64 -le 'print decode_base64("NzYuMTY5LjIzLjU2")'     76.169.23...

A Campfire component for CakePHP

Here at work we use Campfire for collaboration between our teams and external clients. We find that it makes things easier when you can just email them a URL and don’t have to setup up an IM client or worry about public and private servers, those sor...

CakePHP, a visual history: 0 - 1.3.0

This is a short post, but hopefully an interesting one. I've been messing around with Gource which is adamn funky tool for producing sexy visualisations from version control systems. While we've seen this functionality from Code Swarm before, I felt th...

JSCouch - Learn CouchDB queries in your browser

JSCouch - Learn CouchDB queries in your browser: Part CouchDB interactive query console, part tutorial, JSCouch is a neat way to learn CouchDB’s map/reduce functions right in your browser. You can provide some sample JSON (or use the default demo dat...

The Keyboard Shortcuts of Ubuntu 10.04 [Ubuntu]

The free Ubuntu Linux operating system finally has some decent, condensed, official documentation, but curiously missing are the changes to keyboard shortcuts that control the desktop. The Tombuntu blog helpfully lists the multi-desktop, window managem...

Eric Hammond: Move a Running EBS Boot Instance to New Hardware on Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 has been experiencing some power issues in a portion of one of their many data centers. Even though the relative percentage of people affected might be small, when you have as many customers as AWS does, a small fraction can still be a larg...

Redesigned repository admin screens

Hot off the presses is a brand new repository admin screen!

I’m just going to leave these here…

Whew, glad I got that off my chest. We know it’s been a long time in the making, but we’re super stoked about releasing all this stuff to you. Sorry for being so secretive!
To expand a bit, we’re announcing the release of our iPad and Android ap...

Subversion Write Support

Today, we're announcing write support for our previously released Subversion support



Developers and designers in your company can now use existing SVN tools like Versions or Tortoise SVN to collaborate on Git projects.

To try it out, just use your ...

Suggested Reading

Some books that I think every self-respecting nerd should read:

Feynman’s Rainbow, by Leonard Mlodinow.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
The XKCD: Volume 0 book.
The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. Quite possibly the best sci...

Better CSS with Sassy

I’ve come to the conclusion that I am outright fed up with CSS. Organizing it, upkeep of it, repeating the same thing over and over, all of it sucks. What makes matters worse is that everyone has their way of doing it “properly” — there are 1,6...

YouTube - Pigeon riding the subway

Shared by CloCkWeRX

Move over, buscat - it's subway pigeon!

The Perfect Office #35

We've seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we'll assemble a perfect office, and we'd like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect of...

Bodhi.Zazen: apt-get how to fix very broken packages

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04.3 to Ubuntu 10.04 and things went well, except a few broken packages.
Apt-get / synaptic was very broken due to the flashplugin-nonfree.
sudo apt-get -f
[clip]
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--remove):
...

Daily Inspiration #498

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the li...

What's Wrong With CSS

We're currently in the midst of a CSS Zen Garden type excerise on our family of Q&A websites, which I affectionately refer to as "the Trilogy":


Server Fault
Super User
Stack Overflow
Meta Stack Overflow


(In case you were wondering, yes, meta is the...

Contributors

This page lists all GitHub users who have contributed to a project, sorted by number of commits.

Other fun ones:


jQuery
node.js
memcached
Tornado
Redis
GitX



Clicking a contributor's name brings you to a list of their commits.


rtomayko's Sinatra...

SSH : add port forwardings on a live connection with EscapeChar

Excerpt from the man page :
The interesting part is in bold.
When a pseudo-terminal has been requested, ssh supports a number of functions through
the use of an escape character.

A single tilde character can be sent as ~~ or by following the tilde by ...

Jono Bacon: Thank You Everyone For Ubuntu 10.04

Today we released Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, available in Desktop, Server, and Netbook editions.

Lucid is a phenomenal release that has brought a new finesse and shine to what we as a community have worked together to achieve. I see this finesse execute...

Generate Overriden & Implemented Methods

After invoking the shortcut ALT+Insert (CTLRL+I on Mac), all possible generators are offered. In 6.9 we have added next one: "Generate Overriden & Implemented Methods" (press mentioned shortcut in class declaration - between class members). See the pic...

Understanding node.js

Node.js has generally caused two reactions in people I've introduced it to. Basically people either "got it" right away, or they ended up being very confused.

If you have been in the second group so far, here is my attempt to explain node:


It is a c...

Nice Ubuntu Theme

Theme: Elementary http://danrabbit.deviantart.com/ https://launchpad.net/~elementaryart/+archive/ppa
Wallpaper: Classic Wood http://nardoxic.deviantart.com/art/Classic-Wood-132248439
Menu bar: Global Menu Bar for GNOME http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-g...

Nodules - module loader for Node with automated dependency resolution and module reloading

Nodules - module loader for Node with automated dependency resolution and module reloading: While the world of nodejs has been busily been working on competing package managers to be the rubygems of the node world, Kris Zyp has quietly come up a novel ...

Mark Shuttleworth: A global menu for Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition

In the netbook edition for 10.10, we’re going to have a single menu bar for all applications, in the panel.
Our focus on netbooks has driven much of the desktop design work at Canonical. There are a number of constraints and challenges that are parti...

http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt

HANDY ONE-LINE SCRIPTS FOR AWK 30 April 2008 Compiled by Eric Pement - eric [at] pement.org version 0.27 Latest version of this file (in English) is usually at: http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt This file will also be available in other languages:...

CakePHP Digest #25 All Hail 1.3 Stable

Sponsor
For the first time the CakePHP Digest series has a sponsor - and it's me. I need some work. Not a lot, just a few hours a week. What, you thought I did these out of the goodness of my heart? Ha! I've just been waiting for the chance to expl...

Eric Hammond: Upgrading Servers to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid on Amazon EC2

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid is expected to be released this Thursday (April 29, 2010). This is the first LTS (long term support) release since Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy, which has itself been a stable and reliable server platform for years both inside and outside of A...

XtraDB / InnoDB internals in drawing

I did some drawing exercise and put XtraDB / InnoDB internals in Visio diagram:

The XtraDB differences and main parameters are marked out.
PDF version is there http://www.percona.com/docs/wiki/percona-xtradb:internals:start.

Entry posted by V...

Seif Lotfy: Docky + Zeitgeist = Puppy Love

Well I took some time to revisit the Zeitgeist helper for docky…
Now the jump lists provide you with “Most Used Items” withing the last 2 weeks plus “Other Recently Used Items” that don’t appear in the most used. Its not the biggest hack bu...

HDTV

Comprehensive notes from my three hour Redis tutorial

Last week I presented two talks at the inaugural NoSQL Europe conference in London. The first was presented with Matthew Wall and covered the ways in which we have been exploring NoSQL at the Guardian. The second was a three hour workshop on Redis, my ...

Announcing CakePHP 1.3.0 Stable

The CakePHP development team presents CakePHP 1.3.0. After a solid release candidate cycle, we're happy to announce the release of the next version of CakePHP stable. This next instalment of the CakePHP line brings a myriad of enhancements, fixes and s...

Introducing TVDB

Combining my love of TV Shows and being a nerd I've created a PHP script that will download high quality poster and fanart images from the superb thetvdb.com and store them locally for you to use or integrate with your website or application.



For an...

Exporting data to CSV the CakePHP way

After some fast and shallow searching, finding specific information on how to properly export data to a CSV file proved difficult. After digging into The Cookbook I came up with a way of presenting data to the user in a CSV format. As CakePHP 1.2 provi...

Nizar Kerkeni: Ubuntu, the family album

A few days before the release of the new Ubuntu, here’s a guided tour through the Ubuntu family album with some annotations telling my story with the different versions.
Ubuntu Warty WARTHOG (4.10)

The first version of the Ubuntu distribution. F...

Desert Island

CakePHP 1.2.7 released

In addition to all the excitement with CakePHP 1.3's release candidate run and upcoming release, the development team has been working on minor updates to CakePHP 1.2. We are pleased to officially announce the release of CakePHP 1.2.7.

Clever train doesn't stop at stations

No time is wasted. The bullet train is moving all the time. If there are 30 stations between Beijing and Guangzhou, just stopping and accelerating again at each station will waste both energy and time. A mere 5 min stop per station (elderly passengers ...

How RDF Databases Differ from Other NoSQL Solutions

This started out as an answer at Semantic Overflow on how RDF database systems differ from other currently available NoSQL solutions. I've here expanded the answer somewhat and added some general-audience context.
RDF database systems are the only stan...

Jono Bacon: Change I Can Believe In

When I started out on my Open Source adventure, my desktop looked like this:



Today, it looks like this:



Wow.

That is all.

Smart HTTP Support

Git's HTTP protocol just upped it a few notches on the ol' IQ test. As discussed in detail on the Pro Git blog, Git supports a new, much more efficient HTTP based transport as of version 1.6.6. Well, now GitHub supports that new protocol as well.

Fr...

MySQL 5.5 Performance Gains

Oracle managed to score a major victory last week at the MySQL Conference by announcing performance gains of 200-360% in the forthcoming version 5.5.  This is a tremendous improvement and comes in part due to closer collaboration between what were his...

To launch or not?

A few weeks ago, the team gathered into one of those tiny Skype conference windows to discuss an important question: Should we launch the current transloadit version?

The problems we faced at this point were, ordered by importance:


We were stuck on ...

Values of Constants

After a few days I have found a minute to write a short blog post. Thanks to Radek, in the development build of NetBeans 6.9 values of constants are displayed in Navigator window and also in Code Completion window. As you can see on the picture below, ...

Deploying CakePHP with Capistrano

I was looking for a good deployment solution for my CakePHP apps and as nothing seems to fit perfectly, Capistrano does a very good job at keeping it simple. My setup is using a Git repository but almost SCM all supported by cap. Here is a basic guide ...

oh... the millions of inconsistent php functions for javascipt platforms? http://bit.ly/b2rqjO

oh... the millions of inconsistent php functions for javascipt platforms? http://bit.ly/b2rqjO

Mike Rushton: the system is down

In this case, it’s medibuntu. Or more specifically, their Ubuntu repository. As far as I can tell it’s been down for about a week now and was also down a while back for some time. For anyone who needs to utilize this pretty important resource, ther...

Martin Owens: Deb Package Contents

Your thoughts on this diagram:

SeedJS - Flexible JavaScript package manager on Node.js

SeedJS - Flexible JavaScript package manager on Node.js: Meant to support the SproutCore HTML5 Platform as well as manage packages for apps on the server, web browser, and other clients, SeedJS is built on node.js and Google V8 and helps distribute a...

20 Reasons You Shouldn’t Be a Freelancer

We’ve all read countless articles on the reasons you should consider freelancing.
They often make it out like anyone still working in the corporate world is just a schmuck with no ambition. But the truth is, there are plenty of reasons not to star...

Bodhi.Zazen: Improve KVM performance

In this post I would like to share two tips I have found that greatly improve the performance of KVM guests. Both tips work with Linux guests, although only the second tip will work with windows or BSD guests.
With these tips you should notice an immed...

Martin Owens: Input: Debian Packaging Guide

I’m trying to find different debian packaging guides for some work I’m doing for two people. If you know of a good guide that is simple to use and contains both explanations and instructions, then I want to hear from you at the bottom of this page ...

Wheat blog engine for node.js

Wheat blog engine for node.js: Ever wanted a blog that was made for coders? This one is built from the ground up with the needs of a modern programmer-who-happens-to-be-a-blogger-too in mind. Wheat is the new engine to howtonode.org released today.

...

jStorage - stash that hash using jQuery, Prototype, or Mootools

jStorage - stash that hash using jQuery, Prototype, or Mootools: jStorage from Andris Reinman is a small (2kb) simple wrapper for popular javascript frameworks to abstract local storage. HTML5 local storage is used if present and it even supports userD...

Artist Envy: Kilian Eng

A few weeks ago in one of our Daily Inspirations posts I saw these illustrations that immediately caught my attention and ever since then I've been obsessed with this artist. He's a Swedish artist named Kilian Eng. He illustrates, animates, and creat...

Great Pixel Art by eBoy

A while ago - December/09 to be more precise - we featured an article showing Super Cool Pixel Art Posters by eBoy. Since I really like pixel art and those three guys, Kai Vermehr, Steffen Sauerteig and Svend Smital - Eboy's team, manage to create amaz...

You Asked For It: Chris’ Awesome But Short Guide To Deployment Using Phing

I have been suffering from a major case of blogger's block, so I reached out to the lucky people who follow me on Twitter to ask them about some topics to talk about on the blog. Thanks to them I've got at least two blog posts coming. Credit to this ...

Og Maciel: Stop whining and improve your life

During your day to day conversation with your friends and family members, do you find yourself talking about work or life in general in a negative manner?
Do you tell others that something or someone is preventing you from moving ahead and fulfilling y...

Captivating Examples of Sleeveface Photography

Sleeveface is an intriguing phenomenon making its rounds on the web. It has become particularly popular on social networking sites.
The technique is pretty straightforward and consists of photographs of one more people obscuring or augmenting any part ...

Support for Google Apps OpenIDs

In a recent comment John mentioned that the OpenID component doesn’t work with Google Apps OpenIDs. And he was right.
The reason it didn’t work is that Google introduced it’s own OpenID discovery protocol as they faced challenges not addressed by...

Awesome Digital Work of Marc Lopes

I really find amazing how fantasy just lives through digital art. We've seen some great examples of fine pieces of digital work, but I've found some awesome ones at Behance, that are really worth checking out.

These are pieces by designer/photographer...

CakePHP 1.3.0-RC4 has arisen

The CakePHP development team is happy to announce the release the CakePHP 1.3.0-RC4. This release marks the last release candidate, before 1.3.0 goes to stable.

Step, control-flow the node.js way.

Step, control-flow the node.js way.: A simple control-flow library for node.JS that makes parallel execution, serial execution, and error handling painless.

After making the highly popular “Do” library for making node.JS easier to wrangle, Tim Cas...

OAuth extension to CakePHP HttpSocket

An extension to CakePHP's core HttpSocket class that supports OAuth requests in the same way HttpSocket supports Basic Auth. Provides a simple API with low level access and high flexibility. Usage instructions included with example for Twitter.

Neil Jagdish Patel: Shiney Shiney

Seeing as I wasn't ever able to complete the work I started on AWN 0.4 a couple of years ago, it's only fitting that I congratulate the guys that have done a *massive* amount of work since picking it up over a year ago and brought AWN 0.4 to release!It...

PS3 Owner Refunded (Without Return) for Missing Other OS

The owner still get to keep the console!

webkit2png - command line web screenshots

webkit2png - command line web screenshots: Typekit’s Paul Hammond built a great Python application that easily generates screenshots of websites right from the command line.

Once installed, making a screenshot of a webpage is as simple as:

webkit2p...

Video: NoSQL Smackdown Part 3

The third installment of our NoSQL Smackdown video series asks if only the world’s largest sites have big data needs. Werner says the amount of social interaction on today’s web means even low volume sites have to deal with a lot of data.



[Downl...

Dropbox Component

A CakePHP component that connects to the most excellent file syncing tool known as Dropbox.

WkHtmlToPdf Component

A CakePHP component that exports any view as a PDF using wkhtmltopdf.

Dustin Kirkland: Alfresco and Ubuntu

The alfresco-community package recently landed in Canonical's Partner Archive for Ubuntu 9.10, thanks to Brian Thomason's packaging efforts.Alfresco is an open source enterprise content management system that offers an integrated solution for many face...

WPilot A remake of XPilot, this time in a web browser near you

WPilot A remake of XPilot, this time in a web browser near you: The game uses new fancy HTML5 features such as WebSocket and Canvas to make it possible.

Please visit project homepage for more details. http://jfd.github.com/wpilot/

Server requirements...

$ cheat git

Git Cheat Sheet

The Weather Channel Component

The Weather.com offers an XML-based API to retrieve information about the weather around the world. You need an access key, and to get it, simply register here http://bit.ly/b6paHr. After registration you can download the documentation for more informa...

Benchmark Comparison of 1.3 RC3 and 1.2.6

CakePHP 1.3 has lots of new features.
But we may worry about the cost for addition of them.
This article reports result of benchmarks that we can compare the performance of 1.3 RC3 and 1.2.6.

Mathias Gug: Using puppet in UEC/EC2: Node classification

In a previous article I discussed how to set up an automated registration process for puppet instances. We’ll now have a look at how we can tell these instances what they should be doing.
Going back to the overall architecture the Cloud conductor is ...

Brandon Holtsclaw: Default Search Provider for 10.04 ( HINT: its Google )

Well for those of you that are not following the switch to Yahoo! as the proposed default search provider for Ubuntu's Branded Firefox by default, the decision has been made to revert that change back to the familiar Google Search Provider for the 10.0...

Robot renaming

As we're getting closer to the launch, we are making a few last changes to the API to make it more consistent.

One of this changes is to rename the "/s3/upload" and "/sftp/upload" robot to "/s3/store" and "/sftp/store" respectively.

This is because t...

Gizzard - Twitter just sharded

Gizzard - Twitter just sharded:

Database sharding, or shared nothing partitioning is a technique that helps sites with massive amounts of data scale. Usually sharding is built into the database technology, either RDBMS or NoSQL. Twitter has released ...

Interview on the changelog

Adam and Wynn interviewed me for the latest episode of the changelog:

Episode 0.2.0 - Node.js with Felix Geisendörfer

For those interested in node.js (frameworks, unit testing, etc.) this should be a nice introduction to the current status of the pr...

Dustin Kirkland: eCryptfs to the Rescue

My Patriot Torqx 128GB SSD bit the dust a couple of weeks ago.It just disappeared. The kernel simply stopped seeing the device. Poof. And then really weird, nasty things happened, until my OS crumbled like a house of cards. Upon reboot, not even th...

Episode 0.2.0 - Node.js with Felix Geisendörfer

Adam and Wynn caught up with Felix Geisendörfer to talk about Node.js, server-side JavaScript, and JSConf 2010.

Mentioned in the show:



NodeJS “First server-side JavaScript implementation you’d actually like to use”

Ryan Dahl Creator of Node...

How to Make a Screencast for Your Website

Having a video on your website can vastly improve your conversion rate. Whether the goal is for users to sign up for your web application or simply to get users to contact you via a web form, a video improves the likelihood of this happening.
You ne...

Seif Lotfy: Rocking with Zeitgeist

I must say I am very excited about the new developments happening in the Zeitgeist World… I have no idea where to start but here goes nothing.
Our new hacker Morten Mjelva took it as his duty to cook up the telepathy logger……. WOW it works like c...

Welcome to the blog

As we are ramping up our efforts to launch Transloadit commercially, we created this blog to make announcements, and to share some of the things we learned while building the service.

So welcome to the blog and stay tuned for interesting posts to pop ...

xkcdfools: Mock a UNIX terminal in jQuery

xkcdfools: Mock a UNIX terminal in jQuery: As seen on xkcd’s awesome April Fool’s homepage, xkcdfools is a mock terminal client written in jQuery. Many familiar commands are supported:

guest@xkcd:/$ ls
welcome.txt
license.txt
blag/
blog/
fora/
for...

Jono Bacon: Thanks Evolution Developers

Yesterday I started using Evolution instead of Thunderbird 3 in Lucid, and I justed wanted to tell the Evo team that they have done a wonderful job. I stopped using Evo due to performance problems, but many of those issues seem to have gone. I am reall...

NumberFormating by locale-settings

loading data form database had no number formatting options for floating point fields. In detail i mean converting a float like 3.33 to locale/region specific one like 3,33.
So this behavior solve this issue for me.

Mark Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat

It’s time to put our heads together to envision “the perfect 10″.
This is a time of great innovation and change in the Linux world, with major new initiatives from powerful groups bringing lots of new ideas, new energy and new code. Thanks to the...

Computer Problems

Dustin Kirkland: Server Bug Zapping: Libvirt

Jamie Strandboge and I spent today working on Ubuntu Lucid's libvirt package.We did a bit of testing of the libvirt 0.7.7 merge that Jamie has in his PPA, and we spent several hours triaging all of Ubuntu's libvirt bugs.We managed to reduce the number ...

Mike Rushton: Well, that settles it…

It’s official, Canonical (Ubuntu) has stopped caring about what its community actually wants and instead will go with the bad decision by it’s design team. Enough has been said about this issue so I’m not going bring up the reasons why this is a...

4 People You Should Ask For Website Feedback

Most people know that good feedback is essential to designing and developing quality websites.
But what constitutes “feedback” can be ambiguous: for some, it is little more than a hasty spell-check; for others, it is akin to submitting and defen...

Usability On The Cheap and Easy

Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use -- now that's the hard stuff.

I've been a long time fan of Krug's book Don't Make Me Think. Not just because...

Github Explorer: A GitHub Visualization

We are constantly amazed by the relationships forged in and around Open Source software. Franck Cuny and his team at Linkfluence put together a slew of data maps of the many relationships on GitHub.



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Fight Div-itis and Class-itis With the 960 Grid System

Years ago, HTML tables were the standard for laying out web pages. CSS and semantic thinking changed that, and today CSS frameworks make designing relatively easy.
But they can also generate a surprising number of superfluous elements.
The 960 Grid Sys...

Stop closing your PHP files

There are 4,030,000 links on Google for “headers already sent by output started” that’s four million, thirty thousand pages referencing a problem that is entirely avoidable — ending your PHP files with a “?>”

The closing tag of a PHP block...

Redis PHP Introduction

Don't know Redis? Think Memcache, with support for for lists, and disk-based storage. You can use Redis as a database, queue, cache server or all of those combined. Let's see how you can use Redis power in your PHP apps.

INI files support available

Hi all, today I would like you to inform that NetBeans supports INI files. These files are important not only for Zend Framework users but also for others as INI file is often used for configuration. So, here is an example file:

As usually, one...

What’s your focus?

Every great website has a focus. If you can’t summarize the purpose of your website into one sentence, ten words or less — your idea will almost certainly fail. Talking to founders, I’d say this idea is pretty well established. Now let me reve...

Using MongoDb with CakePHP

NoSQL datasources are becoming a bigger part of our everyday life as web developers. If you haven’t heard about it before, MongoDB is a SQL free database built in C++.

Ddorda: ‫More Ubuntu ads!‬

Hello all,
Arthur seems to like all this ad creating stuff, so he decided to begin with some kind of Ubuntu ads campaign!
you should look at his 2 new vids, which i must mention that are awesome.
First vid: What operating system is…
Second vid: Cus...

Dustin Kirkland: Introducing ssh-import-lp-id

ssh-copy-id is an incredibly useful utility for pushing your public key from your local machine to a remote server, such that you can use public key authentication thereafter.Scott Moser and I wrote a similar utility for Ubuntu Lucid, called ssh-import...

Bodhi.Zazen: KVM how to use encrypted images

KVM has a number of features that are not always obvious. I would like to show how to use encrypted hard drive images with KVM / QEMU .
Encryption is only supported with the qcow format.
This option is hinted at in the man pages, but actual use is obsc...

Mathias Gug: Using puppet in UEC/EC2: Automating the signing process

I outlined in the previous article how to setup a puppetmaster instance on UEC/EC2 and how to start instances that will automatically register with the puppetmaster. We’re going to look at automating the process of signing puppet client certificate r...

Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained

Shared by kguest

Already knew the majority of these, but the others are handy to know too!
I love working in the shell. Mastery of shell lets you get things done in seconds, rather than minutes or hours, if you chose to write a program instead.
In ...

Adding a new disk drive to a Linux VMware host without rebooting

After adding a new drive to a VMware (and probably other virtualization systems) host, it is possible to make the Linux OS rescan the SCSI bus.
The new drive would appear without the need to reboot the host.
Use the following command :
echo "- - -" > /...

Move Ubuntu's Window Buttons Back to the Right [Tweaks]

The window buttons weren't just moved from the right to left corners in the Ubuntu 10.04 beta, they were rearranged in order. Being a Linux system, though, you can fix what you don't like with a few tweaks. More »

Eric Hammond: New releases of Ubuntu and Debian Images for Amazon EC2 (20100319)

Note: I do not recommend that new users start with these AMIs. These AMIs run with older versions of Amazon’s Fedora 8 kernel which have some incompatibilities with Ubuntu and Debian (e.g., XFS is broken). My strong recommendation is for all users t...

Matthew Helmke: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

I have read programming books for years. There was a time when I could write a “Hello World” program in each of seven or eight languages. That time has passed, mainly because I haven’t been intimately involved in any specific software project for...

Is @font-face ready for prime time?

Over the last few weeks i have been involved in some projects that required the use of custom fonts to be used throughout the website, Usually in this situation i would reach for a copy of cufón and get going but today was different, It was time to ch...

Nick Barcet: Intel, Eucalyptus and Canonical join forces to help user build cloud infrastructures confidently

Just a repost of a blog entry originally published on Canonical's Blog.A few weeks ago myself and Dustin Kirkland had the privilege of travelling to the Intel facility in Hillsboro, Oregon to work with Billy Cox, Rekha Raghu, Paul Guermonprez, Trevor C...

Asset Compress plugin released

I’ve just released another plugin for CakePHP. This one helps reduce the number of HTTP requests made by helping you concatenate and compress your asset files. I’ve been working on it on and off for about 3 months now, and am pretty happy with wh...

Rick Spencer: XML Copy-Editor FTW

Picking up where Fagan left off on the Quickly ubuntu-application tutorial, I'm writing a ubuntu-pygame tutorial using docbook format. The last time I tried available XML editors, the ones I found were crashy, or didn't offer much above and beyond Gedi...

Seif Lotfy: Zeitbutton (More realistic than the Nautilus stuff)

So David C dented about Zeitbutton
#
Funny thing is … We support this functionality already as in “Get files commonly used with the other files”
In this case it would be “Get files most used with Recently Open Files”… It is just a WM hack a...

Optionable Behaviour

These last days I’ve been flirting with NoSQL databases, particularly MongoDB which has native support on the Lithium Framework. I was doing a lot of rewriting on an application that runs CakePHP + MySQL and I wish I could have MongoDB’s flexibilit...

TestDrive Virtualizes Brand-New Ubuntu Builds for Easy Testing [Downloads]

Ubuntu: Want to try out the latest build of the next Ubuntu release with almost no hassle at all? TestDrive is a one-shot tool that downloads, virtualizes, and keeps daily Ubuntu builds up to date. More »

CakePHP Progress Bar Shell Task

I haven't posted any new code in awhile, so I figured I'd share this simple progress bar I use when running long CakePHP shells.
Get It
The code is available on GitHub.
Progress Bar Pr0n
Here's what it looks like in action:

Usage
1. Include the task i...

Martin Owens: LeAnn Rimes likes Debian?

The human brain has to decode a lot of information and sometimes it just gets things wrong, especially when it comes to language. Songs are a big example, mishearing lyrics is a huge internet meme that’s worth exploring for a good laugh.
What I found...

Digg day 2 year anniversary! Win 500MB and a t-shirt!

Hey guys,
This week in March has a very special meaning for us here at the Dropbox Team. It’s the two-year anniversary of Digg Day, where we first announced Dropbox to the public and caught the eye of tens of thousands of people.

Things were a bit d...

CakePHP 1.3, Why you should upgrade

I have been doing a lot of work on the relatively new CakePHP 1.3 release. According to the bakery the finial version is just around the corner so i decided to take the time and go over a few of the new and interesting features introduced in CakePHP 1....

Dustin Kirkland: qemu-kvm daily builds, thanks Chuck!

Chuck Short (one of the unsung heroes of the Ubuntu Server) has been working hard to get daily builds from upstream source repositories into Ubuntu PPAs in Launchpad.He recently added qemu-kvm to the list of daily built upstream projects. You can see ...

The widely unused and powerful setAction()

It has been quite a while since I last developed in Cake, but earlier today I spent a good 5+ hours working on some new Controller internals for one of my apps. While working on this app, I thought I would give the not so used method, setAction() a spi...

CakePHP 1.3.0-RC2 released

Following hot on the heels of CakePHP 1.3.0-RC1, the CakePHP development team is happy to announce the release the CakePHP 1.3.0-RC2.

All your $base are belong to Ajax

We have custom routes, completly dynamic. We can even move the whole app to a subdirectory and still it works! So nice! But how to deal with that in static Javascript files? What about the Ajax and maybe some JS asset configs like image folders and suc...

Martin Owens: Ubuntu Art: March

One of my many jobs in the community is to bring you lovely Ubuntu planet readers some of the wonderful art works that are created using Ubuntu and the FOSS tools we have in the repositories, all these works come from the Ubuntu deviantArt group. These...

Sorting on aggregate and composite fields using pagination in 1.2

While it may not be a common problem, I ran into this while working on a simple website I was building, and have recieved permission to share it with the community. I had a paginated table, and wanted a SUMed column to support sorting. This is how I ...

Component For Google Custom Search

This is a pretty simple component for retrieving your Google Custom Search Engine results and returning them to cake wrapped in an array. This will only work for a Business account which grants you access to the custom search api. Usage is quite simple...

Google static maps helper for CakePHP

This is a simple CakePHP helper to create static maps using google API. For more information on the api and how to get an api key consult the Google Static Maps API.

Detect mobile devices with the WURFL API

This component uses the WURFL API to detect any mobile or wireless device, and sets custom paths for your views and css, so you can easily create a mobile version of your website.

Hostip.info - Accessing GeoIP information using HttpSocket

This article will cover how to access geoIP information from hostip.info. Hostip.info is a community-based project to geolocate IP addresses, making the database freely available but it needs you to put in your city to make it work.

CSS: Goto Declaration

There is a new feature that allows navigate to CSS class or id selector declaration from CLASS or ID attribute of an HTML tag. When you go over a usage of  a class or id selector with mouse pointer and the CTRL key is hold, then the selector is change...

Dylan McCall: Word clouds

I discovered an awesome new toy: Wordle.net! It gave me an interesting urge to generate vaguely inter-related word clouds from the current stories on some major free software related blogs. I think it would spoil these to add commentary; I just found t...

Use CakePHP + jQuery to build dynamic selects…

First, I can’t believe I’ve missed a whole month of posting…. damn 28 days :(
Anyway, a recent post on the bakery http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/dynamic-select-boxes-with-ajax-jquery prompted me to show a slightly more accurate approach ...

Kees Cook: Clearing /tmp on boot

I don’t like unconditionally clearing /tmp on boot, since I’m invariably working on something in there when my system locks up. But I do like /tmp getting cleaned up from time to time. As a compromise, I’ve set TMPTIME=7 in /etc/default/rcS so ...

Jono Bacon: I Never Realized…

…that this part of my desktop could feel so sleek:



Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, we are ready for you.

Dustin Kirkland: The Roomba Mod that Saved My Sanity

These two guys shed about 42 pounds of fur per day (it seems), and I like robots and automation, so a few weeks ago, I bought a Roomba.Really neat...at least in principle.However, the stock Roomba is simply incompatible with my house. 100% of the dai...

Alex Launi: Anything but the buttons, or how I learned to stop clicking and love Do

I know this is a controversial opinion, but I want to be one of the few to publicly announce that they love the window controls on the left side of the window. They’re so slick looking! It takes about 10 minutes to adjust to the change, but the beaut...

Shane Fagan: Ubuntu all grown up

When I started using Ubuntu back in Gutsy(7.10) we looked like this.

And now we look like this.

We are getting a nice new logo too and our own font (in 10.10 for the font) so we are quickly becoming hugely competitive. On looks and hardware support...

Dustin Kirkland: Forget the Mouse, Love Your Keyboard

When you find yourself inexorably drawn northeast, try these (in Gnome)...Alt-F10 maximizes the current windowAlt-F9 minimizes the current windowAlt-F4 closes the current windowAlt-Tab switches between windows (forward)Alt-Shift-Tab switches between w...

Fantastic Content Sliders for your Inspiration

Content sliders are extremely versatile forms of navigation that can be used to display all sorts of information, such as images, popular posts, social information and product features.
Some have automatic slideshow capabilities or buttons to scroll si...

JavaScript Meetup Hamburg + Slides

Update: Andy Wenk posted a very nice summary of the event.

Last night Tim and I took a little road trip to Hamburg. I had no idea the Reeperbahn looked like Las Vegas : ).

Anyway, our actual destination was the first Hamburg JS meetup where Malte Ubl...

Upgrading the forum plugin to 1.8

I have been working on the new 1.8 version of the forum for almost 2 months, simply because version 1.7 was completely broken. It used PHP 5.3 constants which didn't work on 99% of the users machines. This problem has now been corrected in the new 1.8 ...

Interview with Joel Moss creator of Codaset

Earlier this week Codaset.com, a software project management and code hosting site, officially left beta.  Joel Moss (@joelmoss), the creator of Codaset, agreed to answer some questions and absolutely carried this interview. 
 
Is there anyone else...

Updated ACL Plugin

An updated ACL Plugin for 1.3. Allows creation/editing/removing of ACO, ARO and CRUD.

CakePHP 1.3-RC1 freshly sliced

The CakePHP development team is happy to announce the release the CakePHP 1.3.0-RC1. Since 1.3-beta was released we've been hard at work implementing new features and fixing issues in existing features in the 1.3 branch. There have been over 165 commit...

Thierry Carrez: The most popular Linux server product ?

I was working on slides for a presentation I’ll be giving next month at UKUUG Spring conference in Manchester, and wanted to show the growth of Ubuntu Server usage, compared to other Linux enterprise-oriented server products.
Given that there is no r...

Code Completion for Colors in CSS

Another improvements that is based on your comments is code completion for colors in CSS rules. The code completion for color and background property offers now at first position an item that opens color chooser. 

There is a standard Java colo...

Cipher Behavior with Zend_Filter for CakePHP 1.3 – Easy Two-Way Encryption

Here’s a quickie – a Cipher behavior for CakePHP to handle two-way encryption of sensitive data. If you want to store, say, credit card information, you’ll need a way to retrieve it later; Cake’s built-in security hashing is one-way, meaning th...

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Showcase of Great Web App Interfaces

Web Apps are popping up everywhere. Five years or so ago, we could live without them, but as the internet has evolved we use them more and more in our daily lives.
We have put together a great compilation of beautiful web application interfaces.
The...

CSS Code Completion

Today I don't continue in formatting posts:). I would like to mentioned the CSS code completion in html tags. It's new feature, that is also available in NetBeans 6.9 M1 build. Because the CSS files are now indexed, it allows to provide better support ...

Coming to PSN this Week: Darksiders Demo

It’s been over a month since Darksiders released with near-universal critical praise, and the team at Vigil Studios is still hard at work. On Thursday, Vigil releases a demo for Darksiders. This isn’t your typical demo, however. It packs an unprece...

Michael Rooney: Why I Switched from Ubuntu One back to Dropbox

As many of you surely know, Dropbox and Ubuntu One are applications to keep files on your desktop in sync across multiple computers, and backed up in the cloud. After using Dropbox for a year or so on Ubuntu, the Ubuntu One project came out and I thoug...

Thierry Carrez: Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud: autoregistration features

Part of the improvements coming up for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud in 10.04 is the support for automatic registration of Eucalyptus components, even for complex topologies. In 9.10, we only supported local registration of components on a “CLC+Walrus+CC+S...

AUTHORS at bcf163da27676e26108ec430a392baee84f2831c from ry's node ...

Kevin van Zonneveld . Michael Carter . Jeff Smick . Jon Crosby ...

Rick Spencer: Learning Python, what I wish they told me

On Thursday I will be running a couple of little sessions to kick off Opportunistic Developer Week. One of these will be for folks who know a little or a lot of programming today, but haven't tried or gotten into Python:Thu 25th Feb 2010 - 16.00 UTC -...

NetBeans 6.9 Milestone 1 available

The milestone 1 of NetBeans 6.9 was published. It's available here. Visit the NetBeans 6.9 New and Noteworthy page to learn more about all the new features and enhancements available in this milestone release.

Setting up cron jobs with Cake shells

This post will primarily be about the process I had to go through to get cron jobs and shells working on Dreamhost. The main problem I kept running into was that the shells would simply not work at all through a cron job; yet they worked when I manuall...

Dropbox around the world!

Hi everyone!
Hope February is treating all of you well. We’ve recently hit a huge milestone and now have over 4 million Dropbox users. The coolest part is that this crowd of millions is pretty diverse and encompasses a huge range of nationalities. We...

3D Dot Game Heroes Aren’t Born; They’re Made…in the Editor

PlayStation.Blog chums,
Most games ask you to assume the role of a hero. Often, you don’t have any say in who they are or what they look like, and in some cases the customization options you’re given are limited. 3D Dot Game Heroes, while it takes ...

Formatting - Spaces I

The next  categories, where you can set up the formatting of PHP code is category Spaces. Currently there are implemented more then 40 options that are separated into six groups. All these options as other options, which were mentioned in previous pos...

Acl Extras Updated to CakePHP 1.3

Over the long Ontario weekend, I took some time to update Acl Extras. It now works with plugins and the improvements made to the Auth + Acl for 1.3. The master branch contains the CakePHP 1.3 compatible version. While the 1.0.0 tag, and 1.0 branch a...

Robert Collins: Yay Dell-with-Ubuntu down under

Dell has been offering Ubuntu on selected models for a while. I had however nearly given up hope on being able to buy one, because they hadn’t started doing that in Australia. I am very glad to see this has changed though – check out their notebook...

Jono Bacon: Proud To Be a Son

Today my dad was informed that he will be awarded a masters degree at Cambridge University where he has been studying recently. While I am overflowing with pride over his achievement, what really makes me smile is the incredible journey that led him th...

Permissionable Plugin

A CakePHP 1.3 plugin that provides UNIX-like row-level permissions for model data.

Ajax Delete with CakePHP and jQuery

In this post I'm going to describe how you can use Ajax using the jQuery javascript library to delete items without a refresh. This is quite an easy enhancement to achieve and will help with the usability of your applications. It isn't CakePHP specific...

Martin Owens: 1 Year of Blogging

So it’s been an entire year since I started blogging here on wordpress. It’s been quite the education, not only for the things I wanted to learn, like better writing skills, but also some other journalistic skills like not making people mad and usi...

Formatting - Blank Lines

Another formatting category that you can find in PHP formatting setting is Blank Lines category. If you don't know how to obtain settings for PHP formatter, look at the first blog from the formatting series. This category define adding and deleting bla...

innodb_file_per_table

Recently I attempted to use this parameter in one of our InnoDB table and had an experience to make a note of. So this is what actually happened.As we know InnoDB writes all the table information into one tablespace file ibdata1.Obviously this lead to ...

Tool of the day : etckeeper

http://joey.kitenet.net/code/etckeeper/
etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git, mercurial, darcs, or bzr repository. It hooks into apt (and other package managers including yum and pacman-g2) to automatically commit changes m...

Formatting - Braces - Update

The position of braces in PHP code can be set up in the PHP formatting setting, category Braces(select item Braces in the Category combo box). It's possible to set up separately position of the brace after class declaration, function or method declarat...

10x Performance Improvements in MySQL – A Case Study

The slides for my presentation at FOSDEM 2010 are now available online at slideshare. In this presentation I describe a successful client implementation with the result of 10x performance improvements. My presentation covers monitoring, reviewing and a...

Formatting - Braces

Based on the comments under this post the options for placing braces were changed. So this post is not relevant anymore and new information you can find here.
When you select PHP language in the formatting setting then in Category combo box you can ...

Increase your internet speed with Namebench

NameBench is a program that searches for the fastest DNS in your area. After the program is finished searching and comparing between DNS it will give you the results including the fastest and nearest DNS in your area. After that all you have to do is e...

The Shield

As a Christmas present my wonderful girlfriend bought me the box set of the superb TV show The Shield which includes the full 7 seasons presented in a very delicious box which acts a police case folder with cool separators for each of the seasons.



O...

How to Grow as a Web Designer

The field of web design is constantly changing and growing.
Getting in a rut is often the result of not staying up to date with the latest trends and technologies in the industry. Even if we do stay up to date, many of us at one time or another feel ...

How to Test your JavaScript Code with QUnit

QUnit, developed by the jQuery team, is a great framework for unit testing your JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll introduce what QUnit specifically is, and why you should care about rigorously testing your code.Tutorial DetailsLanguage: JavaScriptDi...

Formatting - Tabs and Indents

Few weeks ago I wrote that I try to improve indentation engine and formatting for PHP files. Some improvements in the indentation engine were done during fixing NetBeans 6.8 and with this post I would like to start a discussion about formatting, which ...

Asterisk Wake Up call application

If you want to be awaken by your Asterisk PBX, here’s a simple bit of code to add in your dial plan.
Basically, you would call 9253 followed by the time the phone should ring, for exemple if you want to be awaken at 06:30am you would call 92530630 (o...

A Showcase of Minimalist Workstations

No matter what your personal work style, an uncluttered and attractive workspace will improve the quality and efficiency of your work.
Getting rid of paper, digitizing your business cards, minimizing your office supplies are just some of the measure...

Bryce Harrington: >1-sec X boot

Looked like we've finally gotten boot speed of X down under a second, as measured by Martin Pitt on his box. (Our objective for Lucid was 2-seconds so this is quite good news.)

Tip: ^ and ! in the shell

Shared by kguest

If you use bash - this one is for you ;-)

I’m astounded. So don’t people know about using ^ and ! in the shell?!? Last week I watched an experienced Linux user carefully hit the ↑ cursor key to get a previous line of histo...

Improved JavaScript Validation (repost)

This article was written by me and originally published on February 12, 2008 on PHP Architect's C7Y site.  Since that site is no longer around (meaning this article is currently homeless) and their one year exclusive rights expired long ago, I figured...

Release: CakePHP 1.2.6

The CakePHP development team is happy to announce CakePHP 1.2.6

Spirit

Vbulletin Bridge For CakePHP

Vbulletin bridge for cakephp. special thanks to Netrosis (www.syphex.com)

Rolling you own Gallery2 component

Gallery2 is a Media Manager and can be embedded in other applications like CMS. Gallery2 also has an API that we can use to embed Gallery into our Web Apps. Below is only a sample of what can be done. If you find it interesting enough, please contribut...

A basic OpenLDAP server in under 15 minutes

Tested under Debian Lenny
This howto is basic, as in “no security involved”. I may come up with a second part to this guide about securing OpenLDAP with TLS, if I ever find the time.
Meanwhile see http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/security.html f...

Using custom Route classes in CakePHP

New for CakePHP 1.3 is the ability to create and use custom route classes for your application’s routing. In the past the router did double duty, managing route collections and routes were just arrays. In 1.3 Router underwent some surgery and CakeRo...

Make updateAll() fire behavior callbacks

For a while now updateAll() would not trigger any of the model’s behavior callbacks.
This presents a problem for a couple of reasons:

The updateAll() method allows to easily do things like field_value = field_value + 1, because unlike other similar ...

Error badges

Hi, today it will be a very short blog post about a feature we just added to the development version of NetBeans. As the title says, this feature is Error Badges - what does it mean? If you have a PHP file with any error, this file can be easily recogn...

Dirty Harry

qemu-kvm-0.12 adds block migration feature

There's a new feature called block migration available with the recently released qemu-kvm-0.12 version. Patches for this feature was first introduced back in November 2009 by ibm and allows you to do block migration during live migration. It works by ...

Asterisk : XMPP notifications for missed calls

Tester under Asterisk 1.4.21.
If someone calls and hangs up before leaving a voicemail (that means while the phone is ringing or during voicemail message), Asterisk will send a “missed call” notification by XMPP/Jabber.
/etc/asterisk/jabber.conf :
...

CakePHP 1.3.0-beta has landed

The CakePHP development team is happy to announce the release the CakePHP 1.3-beta.

How Much Money I Made From Side Projects In 2009

Last years version of this post was the most read post on this site for 2009.  It got 6500 views on Jan 7th, when it was featured on Hacker News and 11k views for the year.  Let's see if we can make magic again!
Gone Fishing
All the sites listed as "...

Zend_Search_Lucene Datasource for CakePHP

Major update January 22/10: much of the content of this article has been updated to reflect the changes to the datasource, the latest version of which you can download on Github.
Just out of the oven – a Zend_Search_Lucene datasource for CakePHP (bui...

CakePHP REST Plugin presentation

At our company we have a lot of uses for a solid API. We can use it to
distribute config files, have servers report in, let customers edit DNS
records using their own interface, etc. Now that I'm converting all of our
legacy code to a big CakePHP appli...

Self-Description

Introducing pearhub - SitePoint » PHP

Happy New Year.
In the previous year, I have spent a great deal of time with Ruby on Rails, and one of the things that works better in the Ruby world is the package distribution system (gems, as they are called). A lot of Ruby developers make their lib...

Amazing Alphabet Illustrations by Paul Thurlby

Paul Thurlby is a freelancer illustrator living in London, England. His illustrations are totally awesome, every piece brings a different character and it's always fun to see. The alphabet illustrations are so cool that I'm sure everyone would like to ...

Daily Inspiration #399

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the li...

Upgrading MySQL

Upgrading MySQL Server is a very interesting task as you can approach it with so much different "depth". For some this is 15 minutes job for others it is many month projects. Why is that ?
Performing MySQL upgrade two things should normally worry yo...

Coming soon – CakePHP and the Zend Framework: together at last!

Just a quick update – I’m currently working on integrating some libraries from the Zend Framework into CakePHP. The first one I’m doing is Zend_Validate, which is a heavy, robust alternative to CakePHP’s own Validation class. I’ll be sharing ...

CakePHP generic filter plugin

Although cake takes good care of the basic CRUD functionality, I often need to do one more thing with my data. And that's filtering it. Or "searching", if you like it more that way.

Valid Cake - The Easiest Validation Generator for CakePHP Models

Get started right away! Follow these simple instructions:

1. Add fields with the same names as your table's columns.
2. Add one or more rules to each field.
3. Customize your output.
4. Click Generate! Copy the results to your model.

Introducing Croogo CMS

Croogo is a free, open source, content management system powered by CakePHP framework.

The Most Popular Posts of 2009

As 2009 draws to an end, we’re taking a look back at some of the most popular posts that we published this year on WDD.
This collection is made up of the 50 most popular posts, with the most popular being at the top.
Please let us know which ones you...

A chessboard in MySQL: make your moves

Playing chess within MySQL? Over the network? In the .. cloud? Yes!This is a follow-up post of my 'A chessboard in MySQL' where we create and populate a chessboard. But pieces need to move, and a few wondered how. Easy!As an example, white openes with ...

The Beautiful Digital Work of Uribaani

Some time ago I was looking for some cool digital works at DeviantART (my favorite spot to check out great art), and I ran into the amazing work of a designer called Uribaani. He makes some excellent pieces, really worth taking a look.

For more of his...

Juanje Ojeda: WiiCan: Easy Wii remote control on Linux

Félix Ontañón, a very good friend and hacker from my company, has just released a new versión of a systray application which help to configure and manage the Wii remote control on Linux. The application is called WiiCan and is hosted on Launchpad.
...

Put a name on it

Here's a positive step to avoid the faceless bureaucracy that wants to take over your organization:Every new rule needs to be associated with one and only one person who is willing to stand up for it and explain it (to your people and to the public)."N...

Localized and Datasources plugin releases 0.2 for CakePHP 1.3

The first officially supported CakePHP plugins (Localized and Datasources) developed by the community and the core developers have released their first public release version 0.2.

A handy regular expression for 'tokenizing' a SQL statement

Often times I find myself having to handle a particular portion of a SQL statement via a script. I've written a lot of specialized regular expressions over time to handle these tasks, but the one that I've had to write the most is a basic 'tokenizer' ...

YouTube - Making Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff

Making Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff

Configuring Munin Plugins for Varnish with Git

I’ve been using Varnish as a proxy to Nginx for some time and have really been impressed with some of the performance benefits I’ve seen. Although this site doesn’t generate enough traffic to warrant this type of setup, I’ve wanted to at least ...

Merry Christmas from Abduzeedo

I love winter! Cuddling up by the fire with loved ones, and maybe a good book and some eggnog too. Oh, and of course watching cute romantic Christmas movies! My favorite :) If you weren't able to make it home for Christmas this year and be with the one...

Transparent Truck System Could Actually Save Lives [Concept]

Shared by Thiago Resek

Ideia interessante...
Art Lebedev calls this simple invention—a camera that takes images from the front of a truck to show it on screens in the back—Transparentius. I call it geeneeuzz. I don't know why this drawing shows...

Junkyard Dog's Vintage Collection

The other day, browsing through Flickr, I stumbled upon the photostream of Junkyard Dogs. While all the work isn't credited to be his, he does have a really nice collection of all things vintage and retro-futuristic; old computer ads, movie posters, bo...

Matt Zimmerman: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: How we get there

The development of Ubuntu 10.04 has been underway for nearly two months now, and will produce our third long-term (LTS) release in April. Rick Spencer, desktop engineering manager, summarized what’s ahead for the desktop team, and a similar update w...

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: lsof

This is the third post in the article series about Unix and Linux utilities that you should know about. In this post I will take you through the useful lsof tool. If netcat was called the Swiss Army Knife of Network Connections, then I’d call lsof th...

Bye-bye $cakeDebug…

The infamous $cakeDebug variable, which has been around for a long time and managed to annoy a few people in the process, has been replaced in the recent builds of CakePHP 1.3 with an element.
See the ticket here:
http://cakephp.lighthouseapp.com/proje...

Marc Deslauriers: Ubuntu movie sighting

I was watching the Millenium movie last night, and spotted an Ubuntu desktop being used by the "Plague" character:

“Mario’s Closet” by Glen Brogan

Daniel Hahler: Convert etckeeper repository from Bazaar to Git

Quite a while ago I've installed etckeeper and changed the configuration to use Bazaar as its backend for myself (and sponsored/helped with a patch to change the default in Ubuntu).
However, already the first comment asked me why I would be using you B...

New stuff!

Hey everyone!
We’ve got a holiday gift for you all: A new stable build! The 0.7 series (code name: Blue Yoshi) is sporting lots of new stuff including performance fixes, toolbar button support in Mac OS X, and LAN sync. LAN sync lets you transfer fil...

.closest(Array) in jQuery 1.4

A new method signature is slated for jQuery 1.4: .closest(Array). It builds upon the previous .closest() method and hyper-optimizes the logic needed for handling event delegation (and live events).
closest() (and by extension, is()) has become a criti...

2009 in photos (part 3 of 3) - The Big Picture - Boston.com

2009 in photos (part 3 of 3)
The year 2009 is now coming to a close, and it's time to take a look back over the past 12 months through photographs. Historic elections were held in Iran, India and the United States, some wars wound down while others esc...

2009 in photos (part 2 of 3) - The Big Picture - Boston.com

2009 in photos (part 2 of 3)
The year 2009 is now coming to a close, and it's time to take a look back over the past 12 months through photographs. Historic elections were held in Iran, India and the United States, some wars wound down while others esc...

2009 in photos (part 1 of 3) - The Big Picture - Boston.com

The year 2009 is now coming to a close, and it's time to take a look back over the past 12 months through photographs. Historic elections were held in Iran, India and the United States, some wars wound down while others escalated, China turned 60, and ...

Eric Hammond: ec2-consistent-snapshot release 0.1-9

Thanks to everybody who submitted bug reports and feature requests for ec2-consistent-snapshot, software which can be used to create consistent EBS snapshots on Amazon EC2 especially for use with XFS and/or MySQL.

A new release (0.1-9) has been publ...

Mark Shuttleworth Steps Down as Ubuntu CEO

Computerworld reports that Mark Shuttleworth (who was generous enough with his time to show us how he gets things done back in 2007) has stepped down as CEO of Ubuntu earlier this morning. Ubuntu users who like having Shuttleworth around need not worry...

Updated: Timezone Helper

This is an updated Timezone Helper.

Originally found here: Pulled, then updated from this blog post: http://planetcakephp.org/aggregator/items/2599-user-timezones-in-cakephp

Abstraction

PixelJunk Shooter and So Much More

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PixelJunk is the bomb
The wait is almost over. PixelJunk Shooter will finally be available on the PlayStation Store tomorrow, Thursday, December 10 for $9.99…just in time for the holidays! (And another great gift is PixelJunk Monster...

Photo

Sometimes internet, you wow me with your clever observations and...

Sometimes internet, you wow me with your clever observations and ability to concisely tell them through amusing images that often spread virally. This is one of those times.
via naomii

Solutions to 5 Common Ajax Problems

The modern web developer who does not consider Ajax when planning or building their websites is potentially missing out on a powerful tool to enhance usability.
There are however, challenges in implementing Ajax functionality on a web page.
In this art...

Aanjhan Ranganathan: Setting up a remote git server

For the past 1 month, especially en-route preparations for FOSS.IN 2009 I wanted to have a complete repository on my hard disk from where people can checkout, commit src code, schematics, technology information and do whatever needed without the necess...

Eric Hammond: Listing Recent Prices for EC2 Spot Instances

The new spot instances on EC2 are a great way to get some extra compute power at a price you can live with, especially if you are flexible on exactly when the instances run. On the other hand maybe you won’t get the compute power if the spot instanc...

35 CSS-based Layouts that Look Awesome

Creattica continues to be a great source of inspiration. Whether you’re there to spark the creative fuse or just browse through some amazing work, it’s well worth checking out what’s new over at Creattica. Recently, they’ve added a whole bunc...

DebugKit 1.2 released

Earlier today I tagged and packaged up the 1.2 release of DebugKit. DebugKit 1.2 features a number of improvements and features over 1.1 which include:

Attribute Exchange support for the OpenID component

The OpenID Attribute Exchange specification (or AX for short) has been around for quite a while, though I ignored it so far because at the time it was introduced (almost) no OpenID provider supported it. However, after Yahoo! announced they support Att...

A Better Postal/Zip Code Validation Method for CakePHP 1.2

The Validation::postal() method that comes with CakePHP 1.2 is good in that it can handle a number of different country formats, but the problem is you can only validate your data against one country. What if you want to accept, say, either Canadian or...

Danny Piccirillo: What might we see in YouTube 2.0?

Is a new YouTube on the way? If so, what changes can we expect, and is there a need for a total overhaul? What motivation does Google have to completely redesign the popular video sharing site, and what evidence is there that this will really happen?So...

Natural Parenting

God of War III Status Update

On Tuesday, SCEA and a number of our publishing partners (2K, Capcom, EA, SEGA, and Square-Enix) filled a SoHo art gallery with many of the best games you’ll be playing in early 2010. Before things kicked off, Sony Santa Monica Studios’ Director of...

NetBeans 6.8 is available

Today (a feew minutes ago) NetBeans 6.8 has been released and you can dowload it from the main page at netbeans.org site. 
I hope that it brings more better and usable support for web development, especially fro PHP developers. I woul like to t...

Promo Video about NetBeans 6.8

NetBeans 6.8 is almost done and is going to be published very soon. You can watch a promo video about NetBeans 6.8 here. As you can see
Usually the new splash screen is one of the latest changes in the release repository. There is the final design o...

The flawless upgrade to Cake 1.3

Cake 1.3 has been around for quite some time now, but I never had the desire to upgrade with it being in such a beginning stage. Well seeing as how its now in Alpha and many users are testing it with no problems, I thought it would be a good idea. The ...

Linux Filesystem Benchmarks

I wanted to see how various filesystems in Linux stacked up to each other. So, I decided to benchmark them.The filesystems I am benchmarking are: ext3, ext4, xfs, reiserfs, btrfs, and nilfs2.The system I am using to do the benchmarking:Gigabyte MA790...

Changes in CakePHP and new plugins

With the development of 1.3 and 2.0 well underway the CakePHP team has taken some time to re-evaluate and reconsider some of the tools we use as a team and as a community. Recently, CakePHP has undergone several changes, such as switching from Subvers...

PixelJunk Shooter and So Much More

The wait is almost over. PixelJunk Shooter will finally be available on the PlayStation Store tomorrow, Thursday, December 10 for $9.99…just in time for the holidays! (And another great gift is PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe for the PSP. Remember you don�...

Effective Photo Retouching and CGI by Happy Finish

I am always impressed with what we can do in terms of photo manipulation, retouching and CGI. Then I received an email suggesting me to take a look at the work of Happy Finish, a studio specialized and retouching and CGI from London, UK. After checking...

Top 15+ Best Practices for Writing Super Readable Code

Code readability is a universal subject in the world of computer programming. It’s one of the first things we learn as developers. Readable and maintainable code is something to be proud of in a finished product. We can share it with others, contribu...

Vintage Magazine Covers with a “Wow Factor”

Back in the day, it was considered to be very prestigious to have your artwork or photograph featured on a magazine cover, and some of the greatest artists of our time designed magazine covers.While we have by no means even begun to scratch the surface...

Abhinav Singh's Blog: How to add content verification using hmac in PHP

If you've ever wants an easy "drop in" kind of solution for helping to protect a portion of your site, you should check out this new post from Abhinav Singh about using the has_hmac functionality to do just that.


Many times a requirement arises where...

PS3 3.15 System Software Update

Hi everyone, PlayStation 3 (PS3) will receive its next system software update shortly – v. 3.15. This is an optional update, and it enables existing PS3 owners who purchase a new PS3 system (perhaps as a second unit for the household) to transfer the...

Test Out Any DNS Service in Ubuntu Without Router Tweaking

Since Google decided to launch its own DNS service, we've dug into finding the fastest domain name server and knowing if yours failed. If you're on a GNOME-based Linux system, you can also try any DNS service without router configuration.

Panji Nushan...

Martin Meredith: Everything but the Kitchen Sink

Transforming data is hard. When I joined my current company, there were stupendous amounts of Perl/PHP/Bash/ scripts that would run on a cron job and do magic things to our data. They’d create reports, they’d tell the purchasers when we were runnin...

Installing HAProxy and Stunnel (load balance http and https)

HAProxy is wonderful, it’s way faster than nginx and if you want to it can provide high availability too. I’m just using it as a load balancer though… and the catch is, HAProxy doesn’t do SSL, so for that to work port 443 will be handled by stu...

NFS Server and Client with Static Ports (Firewall ready)

This caused me a bit of a headache… mostly with nlockmgr, and as I know this caused me headache last time too (pages I’d bookmarked had all gone the way of a 404) here’s a quick guide to setting up an NFS server on a Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala serv...

NetBeans 6.8 RC 2 is out

On Friday, there was published the second release candidate of NetBeans 6.8. You can download the build here.

When we discussed the features for NetBeans 6.9, some people complain about slow scanning and editing. If this experience is based on...

The Perfect Office #14

We've seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we'll assemble a perfect office, and we'd like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect of...

Clarity in log files.

Log files are one of the most important aspects of any web service. A webapp with a well designed logging strategy will allow you to essentially go back in time to track down even the most obscure bug. Unit tests have diminished the importance of log f...

Daily Inspiration #372

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the li...

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Nov 29-Dec 5, 2009

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here...

Richard Johnson: RE: SSH Tab Complete

This is a response to SSH Tab Complete by Michael Lustfield.
Create a ~/.ssh/config file and populate it with configurations. Doing this is the only step you need to do, and you don’t need to add anything to your ~/.bashrc. Example ~/.ssh/config:

# ...

Michael Lustfield: SSH Tab Complete

I manage many servers as well as pop into a few other systems now and then. I was getting somewhat irritated with typing out everything. A search on Google showed many results. It seemed the most common command to do this was this.
complete -W "$(echo ...

2.6.32 Linux kernel Virtualization memory De-Duplication

This is pretty sweet.  In the 2.6.32 Linux kernel released yesterday, a new feature of de-duplicating memory of virtualized instances, was introduced.
Modern operative systems already use memory sharing extensively, for example forked processes share ...

All CakePHP ACL permissions for your views - lecterror

I've been messing with ACL for a while now. All the basic things were somewhat easy to set up, but when it came to disabling or hiding the not-authorised links on pages, I got stuck. I did ask for help on the mailing list a long time ago (right here) b...

Daily Inspiration #370

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the li...

Use Sprites to Create an Awesomeness-Filled Navigation Menu

CSS sprites can dramatically increase a website’s performance, and with jQuery, we can implement awesome transition effects easily. Let’s get started.





Tutorial Details

Requirements:

Basic Knowledge of jQuery
Basic Knowledge of Photoshop
Basi...

13 Interesting Infographics for Web Workers | Web Design Ledger

Infographics are a great way to get people to actually look at data. The use of visual design elements can simplify complex information and make it easier to digest. In this article, there are 13 infographics that present information and data that is u...

Minimalist Web Design: When Less is More

As designers, we all know that a minimalist design can achieve beautiful results.Still, many designers have trouble creating one; either they have a hard time making a page with so few elements look good or the final result just doesn’t look “compl...

David Planella: Squashing translations bugs

Hi all,
Here’s just a reminder that we’re having a bug squash fest on Ubuntu Translations bugs today, so get your spray cans ready and join us at #ubuntu-bugs for the Hug Day!:

Announcing the Next Ubuntu Bug Day! - Thursday 03 December 2009

Fello...

The Mesmerizing Art of Jordan S. Dill

Jordan S. Dill is a visual artist and editor of the Native American Village.Jordan is a mixed-blood, non-enrolled Tsalagi (Cherokee) of Irish, English and Tsalagi heritage, living on Mt. Hunger in Vermont.His art, fanciful and mesmerizing, is an ongoin...

‘Tis the PixelJunk Season…

We know you’ve been patiently waiting for your chance to finally go hands-on with the fourth game in the PixelJunk series. So let me lead off by formally announcing: PixelJunk Shooter will become available on the PlayStation Store next Thursday, Dece...

Synchronize Editor with Views

There is one requirement to see a part of file path as name of tab of opened editor to simply recognized the file that is opened. Sure there is a tooltip, which shows the full path of the file, but the mouse has to be used to display the tooltip. This ...

VirtualBox 3.1 adds live migration and branched snapshots

The latest version of VirtualBox delivers some compelling new features, including support for live migration and branched snapshots. Migration capabilities reflect VirtualBox’s potential for ascending into the enterprise arena.
(...)Read the rest of ...

Planning features for NetBeans next ... Continuation II

I will try to continue to answer your comments about planning features. I'm sorry if I will not answer your comment, it possibly should be because the similar question/issue was already answered or explained or simply I don't know how to answer. Also I...

YouTube - Git

Google Tech Talks October, 12 2007 ABSTRACT When you have hundreds of people simultaneously patching 25000 files of the Linux Kernel in sometimes conflicting ways, you might need some scheme or p...

YouTube - Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

Linus Torvalds visits Google to share his thoughts on git, the source control management system he created two years ago.

Fixed some bugs, added jslint checking to function pages, use the same syntax highlighting ...

Fixed some bugs, added jslint checking to function pages, use the same syntax highlighting everywhere - http://phpjs.org/

New Design, New Engine

As some of you may have noticed, I recently changed the design of Nerderati.
While I quite liked the last design — Charcoal — I wanted something lighter, and that put more emphasis on the content. Moreover, I had made the decision to switch from H...

Martin Albisetti: Why test driven development rocks

All projects in Canonical have a strong focus on testing. From all of them, I think Bazaar ranks the highest on obsesiveness on testing. As a drive-by contributor, it always felt like a very high entry barrier, and deterred me from getting into complic...

Finding Random Model Records in CakePHP 1.2

There are two main methods for finding random records with PHP (and in this case CakePHP) and MySQL:

Use a SELECT query with ORDER BY RAND() and LIMIT x (where x is the number of results you want).
Get a list of the primary keys of every record in the...

Simpla Admin theme

Nice theme for admin sites

delicious-chrome-extension - Project Hosting on Google Code

Adds a Del.icio.us button in your Chrome Toolbar. I don't like the need to have my bookmarks bar visible in Chrome to use the basic Delicious bookmarklets; so I created this very basic Chrome extension.

Planning features for NetBeans next ... Continuation I

It was exactly one year ago, when we released NetBeans 6.5, the first version of NetBeans with PHP support. I know that the support is not still perfect (which software is bug free in theses days :) ), but at least NetBeans is known inside the PHP worl...

Developing in PHP with NetBeans 6.8

The problem:
I love Textmate as an editor period.
There are some things though that I started missing while developing:

Code completion
Inline documentation
instant error checking
debugging from my editor
must have strong syntax highlighting support (...

Bodhi.Zazen: Firewall Ubuntu GUFW

This is the third in my Firewall series, is in follow up to my previous 2 blogs about firewalls, and is intended to introduce GUFW, a graphical front end to UFW.
Firewall Ubuntu Desktops
Firewall Ubuntu Servers
Although the GUFW GUI may seem deceptivel...

Comment by Jawad Shuaib on time

I love you guys, PHP.js has vastly improved my ability to ship code fast.

group date

A non-rigorous, non-scientific, totally off-the-cuff test of which function to pick when you need to group by year and month.
I populated a table with 262K rows of random dates, and then ran
SELECT %s, COUNT(*) FROM table GROUP BY %s ORDER BY NULL
wit...

Bodhi.Zazen: Firewall Ubuntu Servers

This post is in follow up to my post on firewalls on Ubuntu Desktops.
IMO firewalls are often helpful for restricting access to servers. Servers come in two varieties, public and private, and often people wish to limit access or black list IP addresses...

I think this summarizes everything.

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It's about the documentation, stupid.
I think this summarizes everything.

Bodhi.Zazen: Firewall Ubuntu Desktops

Many Ubuntu users are interested in learning how to enable a firewall. The majority of people seem to be interested in filtering in an out bound connections on a Desktop installation.
Without getting into the inevitable debate on the merits of using a ...

An Easy Plugin Callback Component for CakePHP 1.2

Most people who do serious, large scale development with CakePHP would agree that keeping the bulk of a project’s code segregated in plugins is the best way to keep things organized. Sometimes, however, we want to use a plugin’s functionality outsi...

CakePHP Excel Helper

This is a helper for building multi-sheets Excel documents in CakePHP. The hepler was inspired from Yuen Ying’s blog post, but it’s extended to support multiple sheets.

The helper:

CakePHP Searchable Plugin

A flexible and full featured CakePHP plugin for quickly adding site wide, multi-model search functionality to your application.

The Ultimate Toolbox for iPhone Development

iPhone development can be intimidating, especially to someone who’s unfamiliar with Macs, or the way iPhone apps work.But with currently more than 100,000 apps officially available from the App Store, it’s kind of hard for a developer to ignore the...

Ilia Alshanetsky's Blog: Igbinary, The great serializer

In looking for a better way to handle serialized data (than the usual serialize) Ilia Alshanetsky discovered an extension called Igbinary:


As I was reading docs on Andrei's new memcache extension (memcached) I came across a binary serialization exten...

TechChorus Blog: Create RESTful Applications Using The Zend Framework

New on the TechChorus blog there's a quick tutorial from Sudeer looking at making a RESTful web service with the Zend Framework.


The Zend Framework 1.9 release added a new feature - Zend_Rest_Controller. Zend_Rest_Controller and Zend_Rest_Route class...

The new Twitter's office and headquarters in SF

This week Twitter has moved in to a new and very stilish headquarter. The new office is still in San Francisco, now with much more space and with a lot of decorating sttuff in all the rooms, elements such as "@" and "birds" are everywhere! The office i...

PHP's MySQLi extension: Storing and retrieving blobs

There are a lot of tutorial out there describing how to use PHP's classic MySQL extension to store and retrieve blobs. There are also many tutorials how to use PHP's MySQLi extension to use prepared statements to fight SQL injections in your web applic...

Academia vs. Business

God of War Collection Launches Today for PS3!

God of War fans,
Kratos has finally come to the PS3! Just in time for the holidays, fans can now enjoy the award-winning God of War and God of War II in stunning HD. To give you a refresher on specifics, God of War Collection includes both critically a...

Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer

After reading a recent post by Steve Souders concerning a free tool called dynaTrace Ajax, I was intrigued. It claimed to provide full tracing analysis of Internet Explorer 6-8 (including JavaScript, rendering, and network traffic). Giving it a try I w...

Build a Cheap But Powerful Boxee Media Center

Adam thinks XBMC is the best media center around, but I roll with Boxee for its awesome streaming web content. Here's how I turned a relatively cheap yet powerful home theater PC into a DIY Boxee Box for my HDTV.

Why go with Boxee? A few reasons, real...

Improved form handling in CakePHP 1.3

Here is a typical, simple form done with cake’s form helpers:

echo $this->Form->create('Article', array('action' => 'test'));

echo $this->Form->input('Article.title');
echo $this->Form->input('Article.body');...

John Meinel: Memory Debugging with Meliae

Background of Meliae 0.1.0Earlier this year I started working on a new memory debugging program for python. I had originally tried to use heapy, but at the time it didn't support Windows, Mac, or 64-bit environments. (Which turned out to be all of my i...

Comment by Nick Kolosov on get_html_translation_table

Entities order must depend on the direction of translation.
With conversion =>
entities['38'] must be the first one.
With conversion =>
entities['38'] must be the last one.

Current version with html_entity_decode converts   to space inste...

Daily Inspiration #355

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the li...

AJAX pagination with jQuery and elements

A simple way to get your paginated data in your view through ajax with jQuery. Thanks to Cesay Dreier and his article at the bakery http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/easy-ajax-pagination-using-jquery.
I changed the code a bit because I use elemen...

Eric Hammond: Ubuntu Karmic Desktop on EC2

As Thilo Maier pointed out in comments on my request for UDS input, I have been publishing both server and desktop AMIs for running Ubuntu on EC2 up through Jaunty, but the official Karmic AMIs on EC2 only support server installations by default.

Ubun...

‘form’ a reserved word for CakePHP 1.2 controller params - watch out!

Just a quick bit of advice to those who may have been banging their heads against the walls when trying to pass “form” as a custom parameter in a CakePHP URL. Apparently ‘form’ is a param - an array, to be specific - that’s already set by Cak...

Image Magick Resize Helper

I was looking for a resizing helper and found one which wasn't exactly what I was looking for so I tweaked it a bit.

Developer Diary #3: The Saboteur for PS3

Hey guys, I just got back from my little world tour (San Francisco, London, Moscow, whew!) showing off The Saboteur’s open-world/sandbox gameplay and perks system, so I figured this might make a good topic to add to my developer diary series on The S...

Dustin Kirkland: Results of the Ubuntu Virtualization Survey

A big thanks to everyone that participated in the Ubuntu Virtualization Survey. I am pleased to share the results with you now.ResultsAnswersI will provide a few of my own observations, but we are very interested in your own conclusions!There were a t...

A little holiday present: 10,000 reqs/sec with Nginx! - WebFaction

A few weeks ago we quietly started to configure our new machines with Nginx as the front web server instead of Apache (we still run Apache behind Nginx for people who need all the features from Apache).

Here is a little benchmark that I did to compare...

PHP - cucumber - GitHub

Most people seem to use cucumber for rails and most of the howtos and documents on the web reflect this. But cucumber is a great tool for testing any kind of web application, no matter what language it was builtin. We could use Selenium, and there are ...

Seven Steps to Better OOP Code » Wahrnehmungen aus zwei Welten

Slides of my presentation Seven Steps to Better OOP Code at php|tek in Chicago, IL.

Sohaib’s Blog - A Cake-PHP Web Developer, Pakistan » CakePHP Archivable Behavior

The Archivable Behavior. I love CakePHP's behavior architecture and had Mariano Iglesias's SoftDeletable behavior in mind before baking this baby.


It simply puts the record you want to delete in another table. I see no use bloating my existing table ...

A Visual Introduction to Screen

Here's a visual tour of how screen works.

How to Program in C++

How to Program in C++

iPhone or Droid

php|architect Podcast: Bake'n'Shake (Ep. 2009-07)

The php|architect podcast has posted their latest episode - "Bake'n'Shake" with a few extra cast members like Nate Abele, Davey Shafik along with the usual crowd.


We're back with another episode of the php|architect Podcast'"and, to make up for the h...

Daily Inspiration #352

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the li...

Dual-Boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu in Perfect Harmony

Windows 7 and Ubuntu, despite their opposing missions, can get along like best pals on a single computer. Here's how to set up a dual boot system that lets you enjoy the best of both worlds in perfect harmony.

By default, Windows 7 takes over your boo...

30 Amazing Photographs by Joe Holmes

This is and unbelievable display of beauty within photographs that the Photographer Joe Holmes was able to capture on his photo journeys that take place in many parts of the globe. It's not only the beauty of the scenery but the sharpness of each photo...

Eric Hammond: New --mysql-stop option for ec2-consistent-snapshot

The ec2-consistent-snapshot software tries its best to flush and lock a MySQL database on an EC2 instance while it initiates the EBS snapshot, and for many environments it does a pretty good job.

However, there are situations where the database may sp...

Stephan Hermann: Fun with Upstart

 Yesterday I dist-upgraded an Ubuntu 9.04 Server to an Ubuntu 9.10 Server and ran into a serious problem.
No network interfaces after reboot into 9.10 anymore. 
 Ok, what do we have here...I'm using a bonding + vlan (with vlan_raw_device bondint...

Ubuntu Server blog: Server Team 20091111 meeting minutes

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online
with the irc logs here.


Review ACTION points from previous meeting



kirkland to add a recipe covering virsh to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/VirtManager: Done
nurmi to inve...

Slicehost Forum - Mass Dynamic Name-Based Virtual Hosting with Nginx

I have set up a catch-all (*) A DNS entry for my server. I would like nginx to intercept all requests for that domain and subdomains and re-route to the appropriate folder, as such:

friedneko.com -> /var/www/friedneko.com
www.friedneko.com -> /var/www...

Typography Mania #3

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography work on the web, from videos to images everything is full of great design and inspiration. Check out this weeks Mania and comeback in 7 days for more...

Emulate Windows 7's Aero Snap Sizing in Linux

Windows 7's Aero Snap is a pretty neat feature, allowing for easy side-by-side window sizing of any application. You can get a similar effect in Linux by tweaking your Compiz configuration settings.

Getting a half-size, Aero-Snap-like window when drag...

Why I like Redis

Redis is typically categorised as yet another of those new-fangled NoSQL key/value stores, but if you look closer it actually has some pretty unique characteristics. It makes more sense to describe it as a “data structure server”—it provides a ne...

Setting up continuous integration for PHP using Hudson and Phing « Dave Gardner – PHP Developer

I’m going to write about the benefits of Unit Testing and how Continuous Integration (CI) can be used to get the best out of Unit Testing. This will include details of how I setup a CI system using Hudson CI server, Phing build tool combined with var...

Martin Owens: Karmic Art, What the Paintbrush is Saying

Today I’m going to post the artworks, backgrounds and other pictures that have been posted in the last few weeks. Works that either reference ubuntu karmic or at least linux or gnu. I hope you enjoy this selection of works from deviantArt and if you ...

40 Seriously Funny Print Ads

Print adverts need to get a message across with a single image and without the recourse of interactivity that we find today on the Internet.As interactive media expands, attention spans are getting shorter and shorter every day.For any company trying t...

img_6158.jpg on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

funny ubuntu karmic koala tshirt

Netflix on the PS3 Available Now!

Great news for everyone who wants to instantly watch movies and TV episodes via your PS3: it’s available now! If you’ve requested a Netflix instant streaming disc for PS3, it’s on its way to you. If you haven’t, go to Netflix.com/PS3 today to ...

Asynchronous Queries verses Synchronous Queries

In a procedural language without the use of threads (or Inter Process Communication via forks), to execute I/O requests they are done one after another. Synchronous Queries produce at best a Big-O of N such that N is an element of I/O communication (qu...

Eric Hammond: Understanding Access Credentials for AWS/EC2

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a dizzying proliferation of credentials, keys, ids, usernames, certificates, passwords, and codes which are used to access and control various account and service features and functionality. I have never met an AWS user w...

Dell Linux Engineering Team: Dell Recovery Tool Enhancements

Hi Everyone,Today I'd like to announce some new features that have been introduced to the dell-recovery tool that we are shipping with Ubuntu machines.  As you might have been aware, the dell-recovery tool takes the content of a Linux Dell recover...

Fixing Poor MySQL Default Configuration Values

I've recently been accumulating some MySQL configuration variables that have defaults which have proven to be problematic in a high-volume production environment. The thing they all have in common is a network blip or two can trigger some very undesir...

GetDeb.net Repository Makes Newer Ubuntu Apps Easily Available

GetDeb's web site has long been the go-to spot for Ubuntu (and Debian, and Mint) users to grab the latest copies of software not yet released by their official repositories. Now GetDeb makes it even easier with a repository.

By adding GetDeb's reposit...

Amazon eCommerce datasource

I just pushed the Amazon eCommerce API datasource to gitHub: http://github.com/primeminister/CakePHP-Amazon-eCommerce-datasource
With this datasource you can easily get listings and items from Amzon in the books, music, etc categories.
You need an acce...

Flickr Photo Download: Japanese Maple (Re-Edit)

Awesome Japanese Maple

New Version: Cupcake 1.4 + i18n/l10n Support!

My awesome forum plugin now comes bundled with localization support. It comes packaged with German and Spanish for the time being. If you would like to translate it into other languages, send me an email!Installation
You must run the upgrade_to_1.4.sql...

SMS Component

A simple and free SMS gateway component based on the information provided in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_carriers_providing_SMS_transit. This component aims to be as easy as the Email component but for text messages.

Defining Permissions: Cake's Database ACL :: Access Control Lists :: Core Components :: The Manual :: 1.2 Collection :: The Cookbook

In creating new ACL objects (ACOs and AROs), realize that there are two main ways to name and access nodes. The first method is to link an ACL object directly to a record in your database by specifying a model name and foreign key value. The second met...

Geshi CSS Pack | Mark Story

A CSS pack to be used with geSHi clones 4 Textmate themes to be used on your site. Included themes are Mac Classic, Twilight, Dawn and Vibrant Ink

CodeCheck Plugin

A plugin to check whether your code follows Cake conventions.

CakeFest Berlin > Cake Toppings | Tips & tricks about CakePHP

Second day I was up to give my talk about Building APIs in CakePHP. The presentation and code is freely available on cakephp.org/downloads together with other presentation and code.

Hot out of the oven CakePHP 1.3 alpha

The CakePHP development team is happy to announce the release the alpha build of CakePHP 1.3.

Ubuntu Karmic Ships with PEAR-Affecting Issues

Be aware that the initial release of Ubuntu Karmic contains a bug that affects PHP and PEAR, whose fix came a tad too late to make the initial release.  The bug is fixed, and will be included in upcoming updates from Ubuntu.
From PEAR’s perspective,...

Using Cake models from non-cake project

It really is as simple as Felix writes. It is just that his post is from 2006 and a few details have changed. I just tried this on 1.2 stable and it does work: $_GET['url'] = 'favicon.ico'; require_once('path_to_app_dir'.DS.'webroot'.DS.'index.php'); /...

CakePHP Archivable Behavior

Alright folks ... yeh I know I've been out of the picture really long and me blog is looking deserted for real now. Anyhow, I've got a bunch of posts in the pipeline. Thanks to Ahmed of SoccerLens for convincing me to start posting again :).
Enough chi...

Coming to PSN this Week: Military Madness: Nectaris

Hello, Playstation Blog!
I’m back yet again to talk with you about Military Madness: Nectaris as we approach its impending release on the PSN this Thursday. I know it’s been a while since our last chat, but I aim to make up for it today!

First off...

Sheepdog: Distributed Storage Management for qemu/kvm

In case you missed the announcement on the kvm mailing , sheepdog is a new third party open source project around kvm providing distributed storage management features. Sheepdog provides high availability to kvm guests by providing block level storage...

CakePHP's routing explained

Routing in CakePHP is a very powerful feature and is used to make URLs look good. Experience in the #cakephp IRC support channel tells me it appears to be hard to grasp even though the book is quite complete. This article should change that a bit and d...

Web Design in Pixelmator

The newly released Pixelmator includes a very important feature: the Slice Tool. Now we can slice and save pieces of the layout to create Web sites. That is really handy! Because of that, I decided to create a tutorial showing how to create a Web site ...

How To Upgrade From Ext3 To Ext4 Without Formatting The Hard Disk – Make Tech Easier

Yesterday, we have discussed some of the new features in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. In that article, I did mention that the new filesystem – ext4 is stable, fast and backward compatible with ext2 and ext3. Today, we will look at how you can upgrade your exi...

The Silent Number: Top things to do after installing Ubuntu Linux 9.10 Karmic Koala

So you've just installed Ubuntu 9.10, the cute and cuddly Karmic Koala, but now you're confronted with a most pertinent question, "What do i do now?" Ubuntu is a very complete and full-featured Linux distribution, but no operating system can come with ...

Win the New Apple Magic Mouse

Across all of the TUTS sites, we’re starting a new weekly giveaway! This means that you should check Nettuts+ every Friday to potentially win a prize related to web development: anything from a new book, to a code editor, to Apple’s new magic mouse...

Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 is now available for download

The Mozilla community is proud to release Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 for download. This beta version of the next version of Firefox is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, an...

my PPA : raphael

You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:raaa/ppa to your system's Software Sources. Not using Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)?

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #21

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it's awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#21 and make sure to com...

Danny Piccirillo: Top things to do after installing Ubuntu Linux 9.10 Karmic Koala

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Lot of good stuff in here! Should try out that media centre for sure

So you've just installed Ubuntu 9.10, the cute and cuddly Karmic Koala, but now you're confronted with a most pertinent question, "What do i do now?" Ubuntu ...

SQL code completion improved

Shared by kvz

Not that I type a whole lot of queries nowadays, but still a pretty cool feature.
Today, I would like to show you some improvements done in SQL code completion area (thanks to our colleagues from database team!).
As you probably kno...

Logo Design A to Z - H

Some time ago we began a series of posts on logo design. Our goal? To cover as many logos as we can until the end of the year... we started with logos starting with A, today is all about H's. We've been seeing some great logos, and we wish to have you ...

Daily Inspiration #338

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the li...

CakePHP 1.3 helps with team-based development workflow…

I do have to say that in 1.2 some of the features described here are available as well, however CakePHP 1.3 takes it slightly to the next level to make team-based development even easier… With SVN or Git it is already easy enough to make team-based d...

PHP Namespace Support Screencast

We've now finished a screencast demonstrating PHP 5.3 namespace support in NetBeans IDE 6.8. (See Code Completion for Namespaces part I). The screencast also shows code hints for assigning variables, namespace naming hints, and how to set the options f...

200+ Free Exclusive RSS Icons: “Supra”

Today we bring you a set of over 200 free and exclusive RSS icons called “Supra”.The icons are provided in both raster and vector formats: The transparent PNG versions are 32×32, 64×64 and 128×128, and we have also included source files for Illu...

Where’s Walden? » pbcopy and pbpaste for Linux

Mac OS X has the useful commands pbcopy and pbpaste. pbcopy reads the contents of standard input into the clipboard; pbpaste writes the contents of the clipboard to standard output. These commands aren’t part of the standard set of commands on Linux,...

Creating Simple Ajax Pagination with CakePHP 1.3 and Mootools

Creating ajax pagination has gotten more simple and flexible for 1.3. In 1.2 you could only use the built in Ajax pagination if you were using Prototype as your javascript library. With the addition of the JsHelper you can use any Javascript library t...

The Weirdest Clouds that You’ll Ever See

Nature has always been a source of inspiration for designers to look at things differently.We all know that a tree doesn’t always have green leaves, water is not blue and clouds are certainly not always white and puffy. As designers, we need to know ...

Push tags to github - Guides - GitHub

Use git-push with the —tags option to push them to the remote (github in this case).

$ git push --tags

Writing an easy to use A/B test helper with CakePHP and jquery

Knowing what is driving the user experience is key to the success of an application. Subtle changes in the interface can cause dramatic shifts in user behavior. Here, A/B tests display two (or more) language choices or color choices to a user (any HTML...

Rails in a Nutshell manuscript now available for collaboration

I'm excited to announce that the manuscript of Rails in a Nutshell is now available in draft format through the
O'Reilly Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS).



Rails in a Nutshell aims to be the perfect desktop companion
for your Rails 3.0 developm...

Restore Ctrl-Alt-Backspace Behavior in Ubuntu 9.10

Ubuntu 9.04 disabled the semi-crucial keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, that used to force the X graphical server to restart, and made it wonky to re-enable. Luckily, Ubuntu 9.10, due out in nine days, has a single setting to restore it.

The I am...

Daily Inspiration #331

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the li...

Coming to PSN this Week: Trine

Hi everyone,
I’m Olivier, I work for Nobilis as the Product Manager of Trine, and I’m really happy to be able to tell you that it’s coming to the US PlayStation Store this Thursday, October 22!

This long-expected innovative action / platform ga...

Formatting and Indentation

I attended this weekend WebExpo 2009 in Prague. I had one session there
about developing web applications in NetBeans. Originally I though that
the presentation should be divided into two main parts. One part about
PHP and second part about Java Web. B...

Daily Inspiration #330

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the li...

Traits and Grafts, PHP6 Gold | Mark Story

You will no long need deep hierarchies of classes in order to enable code reuse. Instead you can write blocks of functionality and as long as you design things in a generic way, reuse them as needed. If you are working from a CakePHP perspective, trait...

PHP templates improved

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It's a shame so many people still haven't figured out just how good NetBeans really is.
Today, I would like to show you the latest improvements in PHP templates area.
The first improvement is that one can easily surround his/her cod...

PHP templates improved

Today, I would like to show you the latest improvements in PHP templates area.
The first improvement is that one can easily surround his/her code with these PHP statements:

while
do
switch
if / elseif
try & catch
fo...

An intro look at jQuery Tools, enhancement for setFlash() and CakePHP 1.3

Actually the main focus of this post will be how to creatively use JavaScript and Session::setFlash() to make your app a little more sexy.
(Slightly tweaked to use CakePHP 1.3, although there is nothing special here that you couldn’t do with other ve...

Commit 8489bdbaeb07b18a736a438719adc8837c1908a0 to ry's node - GitHub

Buggy connections could crash node.js. Now check connection before sending
data every time

Supercharge Website Performance With AWS S3 and CloudFront

We live in a world where people are increasingly expecting more and faster speeds. In fractions of a second, your website can lose valuable visitors and in turn, money. Although most people think CDNs are for the “big dogs”, they’re actually supe...

Super Freaky Movie Posters of the 70’s

From Attack of the Killer Tomatoes to Zardoz, the 1970’s were not only home to some of the craziest titles in film, but some of the most interesting movie posters.The 70’s were also home to some of the more psychedelic and funky designs for movie p...

Open API Reference

README Formatting - Guides - GitHub

You can make your README formatted by putting README with specific extension.

Git Undo Last Commit

My new favorite git command:

$ git reset --soft HEAD^

This pulls out your most recent commit, putting the changes back into your working tree. It’s exactly like an undo button for whatever you just committed.

Download NetBeans IDE 6.8 Milestone 2

The NetBeans team is
pleased to announce the availability of NetBeans
IDE 6.8 Milestone 2.

Download
NetBeans IDE 6.8 Milestone 2

PHP support focuses on:

Symfony support
PHP 5.3 support - screen...

Design for Testability Talk

Here is may latest presentation on design for testability…
Slides: Design For Testablity

Using the Google Perftools to speed up your MySQL server

The Google Perftools, especially tcmalloc (Thread Caching Malloc), can be very useful to speed up your applications, depending on your environment :

TCMalloc is faster than the glibc 2.3 malloc (available as a separate library called ptmalloc2) an...

whitewashing.de :: PHP CodeSniffer for Netbeans v0.2

I finally found some time to spend some time on the PHP CodeSniffer for Netbeans plugin. Previously the plugin used an unnecessary API which restricted the use to Netbeans 6.7.0 only. This API was removed so that the plugin should now work with all Net...

Top 10 things to look forward to in CakePHP 1.3

With CakePHP 1.3 release is just about on the horizon, there are a few developments that I am particularly excited about.
There are some great summaries and previews at code.cakephp.org, but still a few things are somewhat scattered, so here’s my att...

7 + 8 === 7 in JavaScript

I kid you not, this is an issue I actually ran into a long time ago and have been terribly careful of avoiding ever since.
It must have been a fantastic day in the "Bad Parts" JavaScript department. While one team was busy screwing up the + operator to...

YouTube - Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009

Reduce Image File Size Without Any Loss of Quality

punypng is a free tool that dramatically reduces page load times by reducing the file size of an image without any loss of quality. punypng uses several web optimization techniques to reduce the file sizes of your images. It first analyzes the content ...

Public Key Authentication Problems

server$ chmod go-w ~/
server$ chmod 700 ~/.ssh
server$ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

How the Linux OOM killer works

Most admins have probably experienced failures due to applications leaking memory, or worse yet consuming all of the virtual memory (physical memory + swap) on a host. The Linux kernel has an interesting way of dealing with memory exhaustion, and it co...

Dropbox - Get the Dropbox iPhone app - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.

Dropbox.
There's an app for that.

* Access your Dropbox on the go
* Download files for offline viewing
* Sync photos and videos to your Dropbox
* Share links to files in your Dropbox

requires 3.1..

So is the Dropbox iPhone app out yet?

Dev logger: Usecases using git log

I did a lightning talk (< 10 min) about 'git log' @ Montreal.rb yesterday. My sources were Scott Chacon's git log screencast, Nick Quaranto's gitready post, as well as git-log manpages. Here are my notes:

6 ways to stay sane while working from home

Since I joined Percona, my work/life balance has changed. I used to work eight-hour days and go home, period. Now I find it’s sometimes difficult to keep good boundaries between work and the rest of my life. I also found that 8 hours in my new job...

The Difference Between Art and Design | Webdesigner Depot

The subject of what separates art and design is convoluted and has been debated for a long time.

Artists and designers both create visual compositions using a shared knowledge base, but their reasons for doing so are entirely different.

Some designer...

Code snippets now available

So over the years I have written many small code snippets, functions and what have you, and thought it would be a good idea to release them to you guys. I use most of these snippets on my own projects and applications and are great to be re-usable ever...

Simplifying Controller logic with Exceptions | Mark Story

In the ongoing struggle against code bloat and creative ways to do things, I’ve been playing with throwing exceptions from model methods. While not earth shattering stuff, I’ve found it to have a few advantages over returning false. First, you can ...

Seriously Cool Watercolor Paintings

One style that really has caught me lately is watercolor! I find those painting of such a great taste that I cannot express how much I like it. We've seen some artists doing some great work on watercolor, such as Mathiole, and I found a girl artist who...

Amazing Architecture from the Netherlands by MVRDV

Everytime I see these guys' works, I get even more impressed. It's modern and exciting. I'm talking about the Dutch architecture group called MVRDV. Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries work together since 1993 and are known worldwide for th...

Crazy Photo Manipulation from Desafios Photoshop Brasil

A few days ago I received an email from Thiago Daubt and he told me about this brazilian site called Desafios Photoshop Brasil. The site has a very active community and it's all about Photoshop challenges. Pretty much a Brazilian version of Worth1000.c...

gource - Project Hosting on Google Code

Gource is a software version control visualization tool for Git and CVS.

Software projects are displayed by Gource as an animated tree with the root directory of the project at its centre. Directories appear as branches with files as leaves. Developer...

Using bitmasks to indicate status | Mark Story

At some point or another we’ve all had to make a data model that involved various flags to indicate different statuses / modes for an object. Often the schema for such a data model may end up looking like
Show Plain Text


This makes logical sense...

Unit Testing CakePHP Shells | Mark Story

Shells are one of the more difficult objects to properly unit test. Since they normally run in a CLI context instead of a web context they provide some interesting challenges. The biggest hurdles are separating the Shell from the CLI environment, and s...

Miles Johnson // Script: Decoda (Lightweight Markup Parser)

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It has be...

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Deploying a CakePHP app with Capistrano

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Make Compiz Run More Smoothly on Linux Desktops

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Making a global plugins directory for CakePHP | Mark Story

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FAQTs - Knowledge Base - View Entry - What is the difference between echo and print?

What is the difference between echo and print?

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Peritor Webistrano – Trac

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Webistrano&#039;...

Karmic Koala Alpha 6 | Ubuntu

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Sebastian Bergmann's Blog: PHPUnit 3.4.0 (Release)

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Getting Started - Capistrano

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Deploying with Capistrano - Guides - GitHub

Deploying GitHub repos with Capistrano

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I am very fond of those websites that allow users to upload files for a public viewing (called pastebin), usually I upload logs, links and other text files with pastebinit, a simple command-line tool, already available in Debian’s and Ubuntu’s arc...

John Resig - HTML5 DOCTYPE

What&#039;s nice about this new DOCTYPE, especially, is that all current browsers (IE, FF, Opera, Safari) will look at it and switch the content into standards mode - even though they don&#039;t implement HTML5. This means that you could start writing ...

Carsonified » How to Debug in PHP

With PHP 5 it’s also a good idea to turn on the E_STRICT level of error reporting. E_STRICT is useful for ensuring you’re coding using the best possible standards. For example E_STRICT helps by warning you that you’re using a deprecated function....

jCryption – Javascript HTML-Form Encryption Plugin

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Jono Bacon: 30 Years Young

Today I turn 30.

It seems everyone has an opinion about what happens when you turn 30. Sharing my news of the imminent event with friends would usually result in sarky mutterings of “it’s all downhill from here, boyo“, and affirmations that hang...

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How to generate per-database traffic statistics using mk-query-digest

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Steven Harms: Encrypted Swap

This post was spawned from my own misconception that my swap partition contained no sensitive data on systems with a lot of ram.
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Ubuntu Server blog: Server Team 20090915 meeting minutes

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online
with the irc logs here.


Review ACTION points from previous meeting


smoser to tag existing UEC image bugs with “uec-images”: Done
soren to ensure that smoser can update the UEC ...

Come have a Cupcake, open beta released!

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Ibuildings techPortal: Grokking the REST Architecture

On the Ibuildings techPortal website today they've released the latest episode in their series of talks given at this year's Dutch PHP Conference. This episode is a talk from Ben Ramsey about REST architecture.


Forget what you thought you knew about ...

Interview with Legendary Drew Struzan

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Fixing non-atomic commits in git

Let's say somebody else made a commit that mixes a bug fix and a new feature together. This sucks if you only want to take the bugfix to merge it into your stable branch (using git cherry-pick).
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Dave Walker: Call For Testing - Asterisk (1.6)

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Display a Stylish Sitemap with SlickMap CSS

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The Evolution of Apple Ads

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08/31/09 PHD comic: &#39;Peak Productivity&#39;

Shared by iFeghali

too bad it is out of my office time



Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham


www.phdcomics.com







title:
"Peak Produ...

Autumn Plans - Derick Rethans

I've been missing-in-action on my own blog for some time. Moving to
London does that to you. Anyway, I've not been idle in the meanwhile at
all, and been working on some cool side-projects. First of all I've been
adding some features to Xdebug.
Xdebug ...

Jonathan Ernst: Converting PHP scripts that still use « short-tags»

This is a translation of an older article (original in French).
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Running Drupal with Clean URL on Nginx or Lighttpd | HostingFu

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jQuery TOOLS - Version 1.1.0

A major upgrade: Smaller, faster, richer and more stable

After ten weeks of creative free time and two months of hard work it&#039;s time to shake up the web again. This version of jQuery Tools is even smaller than before: 5.68 kB of (pollution free) ...

Kees Cook: uninstall sun-java6

With the vrms meme raging on Planet Ubuntu, I noticed some people still have sun-java6 installed. I’ve been using openjdk-6 since Hardy, and everything I use works fine with it (e.g. Vuze, Catan, Eclipse, FreeMind, and even Facebook’s photo upload...

3 ways MySQL uses indexes

I often see people confuse different ways MySQL can use indexing, getting wrong ideas on what query performance they should expect. There are 3 main ways how MySQL can use the indexes for query execution, which are not mutually exclusive, in fact som...

The open source business model

Seth Godin explains it perfectly this morning:
You need to make something else abundant in order to gain attention. Then, and only then, will you be able to sell something that's naturally scarce.
Tim and I stumbled across this model by accident when w...

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This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the li...

Community News: PHP Hits Top Three on TIOBE Programming Community Index

According to the latest results for the TIOBE community index, PHP has made it into the top three in the monthly-updated list of programming language popularity.


The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programmi...

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Igbinary

Igbinary is a drop in replacement for the standard PHP serializer. Instead of time and space consuming textual representation, igbinary stores PHP data structures in a compact binary form. Savings are significant when using memcached or similar memory ...

Webcast: Git in One Hour

In this webcast, Git evangelist Scott Chacon covers the basics of the Git source control system. He&#039;ll introduce the audience to Git basics: staging and committing snapshots, viewing the commit log, pushing to and pulling from servers, and creatin...

Cakephp – Beautify Html Code Output | Black Sheep Designz

It’s no secret that CakePHP often outputs some very ugly and hard to read HTML. This little trick will make it a lot cleaner.
Create a file named app_helper.php in your app’s root directory.

Next add this function to it:

Extending CakePHP’s core components - cakebaker

In a recent comment David Cournoyer shared a tip about extending CakePHP’s core components and I think it could also be useful for others.

Let’s say we want to add a method to the request handler component. And so we create a new class which inher...

Train Your Employees - Brandon Savage

Last week, Cal Evans retweeted James McGovern, who originated this tweet:

I’m not a fan of catchy sayings and one-line wonders, but this tweet got me thinking. How many companies, especially in the economic world we’re in, think about training as ...

30 Typography Posters That You’ve Probably Never Seen Before

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Daily Inspiration #298

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Jono Bacon: LifeHacker and Ubuntu: A Response

Recently LifeHacker had an article talking about five things they would like to see in Ubuntu. The article is very supportive of Ubuntu, and we appreciate that LifeHacker folks, and I wanted to follow up with a few notes about each of the five areas th...

Jim Campbell: How free is the software on my computer, Virtual Richard Stallman?

The VRMS program does a nice job of listing the non-free components on your system.  Let’s see what my VRMS report shows:
————
jwc@tereska:~$ vrms
Non-free packages installed on tereska
linux-generic             Complete Generic ...

Forty Percent! - Paul M. Jones

Big news (for me anyway): my employer, OmniTI, is allowing me to spend a minimum of 40% of my paid work time on the Solar Framework for PHP 5 (plus additional time as duty allows). The project remains open-source under New BSD license.
The agreement h...

Scott Ritchie: Warning: This dialog is deadly, fatal, and could kill you (and then you would die and be dead)

My computer told me to restart today.

Here, let me highlight it for you in case you missed it.

That’s at least five different places where we tell the user to restart.  This is, as I would say to my students, a redundant use of redundancy.
I think...

Running Tests from The Commandline in CakePHP » Debuggable Ltd

I have contributed some new cool feature for you to the cake branch. A testsuite shell that allows you to run your tests from the commandline. It allows you to run all of the following:

* All core testcases at once
* All core test groups
*...

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Dynamic Sprite Framework with PHP: New PLUS Tutorial

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In Part I, I talked about my approach to deploying a website and I offered pear and subversion as solutions ...

Ubuntu Server blog: Server Team 20090908 meeting minutes

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online
with the irc logs here.





UEC images

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When does InnoDB do disk IO?

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jQTouch is a jQuery plugin for mobile web development on forward-thinking devices. You can create powerful mobile apps with just HTML, CSS, and jQuery. It supports native animations, automatic navigation, and themes for mobile WebKit browsers like iPh...

How to Fetch the ENUM Options of a Field - The CakePHP Enumerable Behavior

Hey folks,
for a current client project of ours we had to build an extensive ACL-like permission system. It had to support roles permissions and specific user permissions, possibly overriding the roles permissions. So, to create a user, you had to firs...

‘Gratis proefdraaien met ons botnet’

Een botnet huren wordt telkens makkelijker. Op gespecialiseerde fora bieden botmasters botnets voor korte perioden te huren aan, om bijvoorbeeld je concurrent met een DDoS-aanval te bestoken. De prijs voor het huren van een botnet is erg afhankelijk va...

Gamasutra - Features - Dirty Coding Tricks

Programmers are often methodical and precise beasts who do their utmost to keep their code clean and pretty. But when the chips are down, the perfectly-planned schedule is shot, and the game needs to ship, "getting it done" can win out over elegance.

...

Martin Pool: setting up an Ubuntu chroot for development testing using schroot and debootstrap

If you have, for instance, an Ubuntu machine running Jaunty and you want to test a bug that only occurs under Karmic, you can use a chroot jail. This is cheaper and faster than setting up a whole vm, assuming you're not interested in kernel-level diff...

André Gondim: New Ubuntu Screens Installer

Ten screens while installing Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. Bellow:










Hugs and Good Luck! 
My Brazilian Ubuntu Blog
Get involved
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Aug 30-Sep 5, 2009

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.
The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some her...

ExtJS Grid Accepts Data Dragged from Spreadsheet

If we could drag our tabular data into grids from other programs we could circumvent the need to upload a data file to a web server to be read and parsed, then spit back out to our browser in a readable format.
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Martin Owens: Ubuntu: Network Installs Video

I decided to do a demonstration video, to show off a more refined design and some of the features I’ve added to the PXE booter:
Note: The sound recorded very low, turn your sound up to hear it.

Video is here: http://doctormo.blip.tv/file/2559710/
Co...

YouTube - Scrum et al.

Q-Games Update: Star Dust, Dynamic Themes & Our Favorite Little Tikiman…

Hey PixelJunk fans,
Well, Q-Games has been busy again, and not just on PixelJunk. You may have noticed some new additions to the PlayStation 3’s XMB (Xross Media Bar) with the latest firmware update to version 3.00.
Well, we’re behind the “star d...

CakePHP Simple Queue Plugin

This Plugin is an attempt to provide a basic, simple to use method to enable deferred job execution, without the hassle of setting up or running an extra queue daemon, while integrating nicely into CakePHP and also simplifying the creation of worker sc...

Start Using FirePHP

I've known about FirePHP for a while now and never really
had the inclination to install and use it. Although I've
been using FireBug for quite some time to debug the client-side
and HTML/CSS issues I didn't really think that it could benefit
me tha...

Feature Branches are Poor Man’s Modular Architecture

Martin Owens: Ubuntu: New Look for Network Installs

In our LoCo team (Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo) we’ve been configuring a lovely tftp/pxe boot installer system that allows refurbished computers to be installed ridiculously easily via PXE booting. I’ve just completed a redesign of how it looks:

As y...

Import from Subversion - Guides - GitHub

Guides: Import from Subversion feed
Let GitHub do it for you

GitHub can directly import SVN projects. All you’ll need is the repository URL. More details are in the blog article that introduced the feature. Note: GitHub does not keep imported projec...

If It Looks Corporate, Change It

Are you familar with happy talk?


If you're not sure whether something is happy talk, there's one sure-fire test: if you listen very closely while you're reading it, you can actually hear a tiny voice in the back of your head saying "Blah blah blah bl...

It’s Official: Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time Available in the U.S. on October 27

Now that the new PS3 is on shelves for $299, many of you may be wondering what games to buy this fall with your extra cash. Well, for those of you who are Ratchet & Clank fans, we’re happy to officially announce (and yes, this is official), that Ratc...

X/Config/DontZap - Ubuntu Wiki

Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (i.e. the shortcut which was used to restart the X server) has to be enabled in a different way with respect to previous releases of Ubuntu.

This is due to the fact that "DontZap" is no longer an option in the X server and has becom...

Designing a modular application using CakePHP plugins

This article will try to explain how I build a modular application using plugins. I will cover how I implement them and integrate them into the main application.

How to bend CakePHP's session handling to your needs

This article is an attempt to break the myth that Cakephp's current session handling is not easily customizable.

jsdoc-toolkit - Project Hosting on Google Code

JsDoc Toolkit is an application, written in JavaScript, for automatically generating template-formatted, multi-page HTML (or XML, JSON, or any other text-based) documentation from commented JavaScript source code.

Melissa Draper: Open Source Brownies

Apparently I make good brownies.
I got to the office just after lunch today to be greeted with sad pouty faces, forlorn at the absence of the previous batch, and my failure to bring a fresh one.
You will need the following dependencies:

4 oz. margarin...

Battle Tanks Coming to PSN this Month

Nearly everyone has played or seen Combat2600 on the Atari or Battle City on the NES. Here at Gameloft, we wanted to revisit an older but very popular gameplay style for consumers.
Battle Tanks features World War II tanks that face off against each oth...

5 Tips on How to Write a Killer Slogan (with Interactive Examples)

Slogans are memorable phrases often used in conjunction with company logos and in advertising campaigns.
They are claimed to be the most effective means of drawing attention to one or more aspects of a product or brand.
But how often do you see “serv...

Extending objects with new methods at runtime - Stubblog - Planet PHP

While the title of this blog entry might sound rather scary to straight OO evangelists it might attract other developers - e.g. those that played around with runkit or had a look into the Ruby world where the language supports adding new methods to a c...

Verify master-master[||-slave] data consistency without locking or downtime

We all knew that we are risking with MMM. Risking, and placing availability as a more important like consistency.  But non of us can risk loosing data forever but we show using it, regarding to our conversations think:  "I can fix my data later on, b...

Herman Bos: Disabling SSH reverse DNS lookup

When reverse DNS is not available, the sshd reverse lookup is an annoyance. It can be disable it in /etc/ssh/sshd_config with the following option:
UseDNS no
yay.


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I was wondering what effect a release of Ubuntu 9.10 being released at the same time as Windows 7 and Mac “Snow leopard”.
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50 Incredible Examples of Battle Art

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Ubuntu Server blog: Server Team 20090825 meeting minutes

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online
with the irc logs here.





Asterisk

jmdault reported that pwlib and openh323 had the right version in karmic since Friday. The rest of the Asterisk packages have been upload...

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Recently I had a chance to take a look at Redis project, which is semi-persistent in memory database with idea somethat similar to memcache but richer feature set.
Redis has simple single process event driven design, which means it does not have to de...

W3Avenue.com: Really Useful Tools For PHP Developers

On the W3Avenue site today there's a list of tools posted that could come in quite handy in your PHP development:


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Test Swarm Alpha Open

TestSwarm, the project that I've been working on over the past 6 months, or so, is now open to the public. Mozilla has been very gracious, allowing me to work on this project exclusively. At the beginning of April I moved from my old position as a Java...

CKEditor v3.0 - A Complete Rewrite of FCKeditor

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1,500 Hours Of LEGO Photography In 3:49

This is a short video entitled 8-Bit Trip that is a tribute to 8-bit video games made entirely out of LEGO blocks. Personally, I would have gone with a 16-Bit Trip, but I like good visuals (one time I saw the face of Loki from Super Ghouls n' Ghosts c...

What is mysqlnd?

The MySQL native driver for PHP (mysqlnd) is a superior alternative to the MySQL Client Libary (libmysql). The new driver is highly optimized for PHP due to the tight integration of mysqlnd with PHP’s internal infrastructure. This results in:

* ...

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How to find per-process I/O statistics on Linux

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Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.
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By now you already know or should know about CakeTestCase::testAction() and the wondrous things it can do. However, testAction has a few shortcomings. It can’t handle redirects, it doesn’t let you use the power of Mocks, and its impossible to make ...

Re: Testing non-trivial controllers: msg#00389 CakePHP

Well... comparing the two methods gave me an idea : make testAction
call the testController. It seems to work!! This means we don&#039;t have
to tune AppController and define global constants to flag we&#039;re
testing...

To do so, modifiy TestUsers -...

Launchpad News: MySQL at Facebook on Launchpad

I spotted this link in my Facebook news feed yesterday: MySQL at Facebook is a Launchpad project to which Facebook publishes its patches for MySQL.  There is also a Facebook note announcing the new project.
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In-Field Labels jQuery Plugin for HTML Forms

In-Field Labels jQuery Plugin is a simple plugin that turns properly formatted HTML forms into forms with in-field label support. Labels fade when the field is focussed and disappear when text entry begins. Clearing a field and leaving brings back the ...

30+ Dazzling and Interactive Media Facades

Media facades are relatively new concepts however, they have become increasingly popular in recent years.
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Genius Blog: Advanced PHPUnit: Annotations

On the Genius.com blog today there's a new post from Bill Hewett looking at some of the advanced notations you can use in your unit testing (directives in comments starting with "@").


PHPUnit, borrowing a handy feature from Java's JUnit testing libra...

Indexing Email Messages with PHP, Zend Lucene and Sphinx - Zend Developer Zone

The Zend Framework provides an implementation of the Lucene search engine that can be used for full-text search. And there's also Sphinx, the standalone (and very fast) full-text indexer for MySQL, PostgreSQL and XML content. This article looks at thes...

mathie's tech+business bits: CRC32 hash collision

I was trying to use CRC32() to uniquely identify distinctive domain names because it&#039;s probably the most economical in MySQL datatype (int only takes 4 bytes) comparing to MD5() as a 32-char string. However, it seems hash collisions with CRC32 occ...

Flush memcached using BASH

If you store application data in memcache, you may want to invalidate it
once you deploy a new version to avoid corruption or weird results. There
are several ways to do this but I recently tried one using nothing but
BASH, and I like it.

Fix node.js connection.send() issue - nodejs | Google Groups

Below is a patch that basically cause flushMessageQueue to check the
connection state for each item in the queue rather than just a single
time in the beginning.

M/Monit | Wiki

Here are some real-world configuration examples for monit. It can be helpful to look at the examples given here to see how a service is running, where it put its pidfile, how to call the start and stop methods for a service, etc.

You are welcome to cu...

Eric Hammond: runurl - A Tool and Approach for Simplifying user-data Scripts on EC2

Many Ubuntu and Debian images for Amazon EC2 include a hook where scripts passed as user-data will be run as root on the first boot.

At Campus Explorer, we’ve been experimenting with an approach where the actual user-data is a very short script whic...

Elastic jQuery Plugin Makes Textarea Fields Grow & Shrink

Elastic jQuery plugin makes your textareas grow and shrink to fit it’s content. It was inspired by the auto growing textareas on Facebook. The major difference between Elastic and it’s competitors is it’s weight. The usage of Elastic is very stra...

bake updates for 1.3

If you’ve been following the ongoing development of the 1.3 branch over at code.cakephp.org:http://code.cakephp.org. You may have noticed that bake has had a significant overhaul, and a number of features and enhancements have been built in.

Nginx Error: 413 Request Entity Too Large

While working in phpMyAdmin, I found that making a very simple table change was causing the following error:
413 Request Entity Too Large
The problem was that the client_max_body_size was not set properly in the nginx.conf. The directive is part of the...

All Programming is Web Programming

Michael Braude decries the popularity of web programming:


The reason most people want to program for the web is that they're not smart enough to do anything else. They don't understand compilers, concurrency, 3D or class inheritance. They haven't g...

Open Source Web Analytics Framework in PHP

Open Web Analytics (OWA) is an open source web analytics framework written in PHP. OWA was born out of the need for an open source framework that could be used to easily add web analytics features to web sites and applications.
The OWA framework also c...

Martin-Éric Racine: Don't try this at home, kids!

Probably the most deceptively efficient bug finding tool I've come across in a long time:

sudo apt-get --reinstall --ignore-missing install $(dpkg --get-selections | cut -f 1)

That apparently innocent APT recipe has been found to reveal tons of packa...

Super Fast JS Testing

by Shyam Seshadri
Before I jump into how exactly you can perform super fast and easy JS testing, let me give you some background on the problem.
Javascript is a finicky language (Some people even hesitate to call it a language). And it can easily grow ...

PHP Magazine » Extremely Usefull NetBeans Shortcuts

It’s been several days that I am relying solely on NetBeans for my PHP and Java coding. So far, it’s beyond my wildest expectations – I am totally satisfied with that great IDE. Today, I have searched for shortcut that would allow me to duplicate...

Using NetBeans IDE on Mac OS X

The following is an overview of useful information that we hope will help you to get NetBeans IDE up and running in Mac OS X.

Keyboard Shortcuts Learning

Keyboard shortcuts make your every day life easier, so it make sense to improve your key learnings.
PHP Magazine collected list of Netbeans keyboard shortcuts that could save you a lot of time.
Shortcuts for Mac OS X users. The
ultimate way how ...

An Interview With Alex Buga

Alex Buga – Web Design Superstar, as he likes to call himself. A man with passion for design, creative direction, photography, music and much more. His current position is as the Creative Director of a creative agency based in Bucharest. He’s a guy...

Automatic Javascript Includer Helper

A quick and easy auto-magic JavaScript includer.

Ubuntu Forums - View Single Post - Pimping StarCraft on a Widescreen Display

For Running Starcraft on Ubunty Jaunty,
I had to change /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Interview with Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror - Whats the best marketing you have used

The best marketing is no marketing– it’s doing what you love and sharing it with the public in a meaningful, easy to consume way. If you do that, and do it consistently and long enough, they’ll come to you. Whether you want them to or not!

Paypal IPN (Instant Payment Notification) plugin complete with PaypalHelper

I've created a PayPal IPN (Instant Payment Notification) plugin that includes a handy helper that will build your paypal buttons for you (Checkout, Add to Cart, Subscribe, and Donate). The Paypal IPN Plugin logs, and records any transaction made throu...

30 essential Mac time-saving shortcuts | News | TechRadar UK

We all want our Macs to be labour-saving rather than labour-causing devices. Yet, even if you&#039;ve been using a Mac for a long time, the thought, "There has to be a better of way of doing this," will probably come to mind on a daily basis.

Whether ...

The Ultimate Guide To Speeding Up Firefox 3.5

I like Firefox but it’s not as fast as it used to be. This is a comprehensive, safe guide to optimizing Firefox 3.5 for speedy browsing. For each suggestion, your mileage may vary. Before you proceed, create a new profile.

Quit Firefox, run “firef...

SQL Inject Me :: Add-ons for Firefox

SQL Injection vulnerabilites can cause a lot of damage to a web application. A malicious user can possibly view records, delete records, drop tables or gain access to your server. SQL Inject-Me is Firefox Extension used to test for SQL Injection vulner...

Pimping StarCraft on a Widescreen Display - Ubuntu Forums

Pimping StarCraft on a Widescreen Display
if any of you have ever tried running StarCraft on a widescreen display, you&#039;ll know what I&#039;m talking about. Either you can run Starcraft in windowed mode, and be forced to squint at the 640x480 displ...

Play StarCraft and Diablo II on your Mac | MacApper

Buried away on the developer’s support site is a link to the Mac OS X Native Installer. Using this application and your dusty, old StarCraft disc, you can get a Carbon version of the game running on any Mac. Intel systems will use Rosetta emulation, ...

Screencast: Declaring Variables in Comment and Code Completion for Constructors and SQL Queries

I've just finished making a screencast demonstrating the following features first presented on this blog:

Defining Variables in Comments (Part 1, Part 2) 
Constructor Code Completion
SQL Query Code Completion

The new Group has been elected! - Official Blog of the PEAR Group/PEAR President

I am more than glad to announce the arrival, the announcement of the new PEAR Group for 2009 and 2010.
With a few fresh faces in the Group, this year looks very promising with the mix of both new blood and experienced PEAR Group members.
Congratulation...

Most PHP releases in August! - bjori doesn't blog

Since PHP 3.0.18 (released October 2000) (no, php.net doesn't keep release records before that for some reason) 60 PHP releases have been made. August and May are the most common months for PHP releases, with 9 releases each.PHP5.3.1 and PHP5.2.11 are ...

PostSecret

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.

Hardened-PHP Project - PHP Security - Feature List

Suhosing Feature List - What would be lost with dropping the patch

Stephan Hermann: Puppet Recipes: Apache2 Configuration

Anyone has a better idea on this:
Puppet Class for Apache2:

class apache {

  package { "apache2": ensure => latest }
  package { "openssl": ensure => latest }
  service { "apache2":
    ensure => running,
    hasstatus => true,
    hasres...

Dreaming Girls Head on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Close up of the grass sculpture. The whole thing can be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/carolinespics/152697929/

This sculpture was created as a sister to the Mud Maid which can be found at the Lost Gardens of Heligan

I was at Eden in Feb 08 and saw th...

Code Completion for Namespaces - part I

This is brief overview how to use code completion for namespaced elements in NetBeans 6.8. Namespaced elements are resolved according  name resolution rules.
See examples for namespace name definitions that are important for resolution rules:
...

5 CSS3 Design Enhancements That You Can Use Today

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the language of Web design, and the next generation of CSS design properties are just chomping at the bit to be released.
Are you eager to start using them, but don’t know where to start?
Although many of the new prope...

Programming

I've actually written code lately, although for some reason it's been all these stupid projects. First I needed to fix the kernel tty refcounting, then I got all OCD on the git SHA1 routines.I don't quite know why I wasted that much time on something a...

Hacking Hotel Wifi With A Simple SQL Injection

After attending & speaking at CakeFest 2009 in Berlin, Germany, I decided to take a week off and explore the city. Since the hotel that I had been lodged in for the conference had free Wifi, I assumed that this was the norm in mid-range to high-end hot...

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Aug 2-Aug 8, 2009

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.
The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some her...

AWS PHP5 Libraries as svn:externals - Clay Loveless

Many of Amazon’s official PHP5 libraries for Amazon Web Services are now available (unofficially) for use as Subversion svn:externals.
To add to your SVN-managed project, just do something like this:
svn propedit svn:externals library
And add:
Amazon...

Suhosin patch for PHP 5.3 - Arnold Daniels

The hardened-php project has yet to release a suhosin patch for PHP 5.3.0. We’re already using PHP 5.3, therefore I’ve modified the 0.9.7 patch for 5.2.10 to work with 5.3.0.
-> Download Suhosin patch for PHP 5.3

MySQL query that find duplicates - mysql magic

MySQL query that find duplicates



There are many situations that can create duplicates enven when you don&#039;t want them. The thing to remember when you create a table is to set the field UNIQUE. If you have not done that, you risk adding fiel...

Installing Rhino on Mac / phpied.com

Installing Rhino on Mac

To quote http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/:

Rhino is an open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java. It is typically embedded into Java applications to provide scripting to end users.

Rhino allows you to...

Dissection of EC2 / EBS volume

So during preparation of XtraDB template for EC2 I wanted to understand what IO characteristics we can expect from EBS volume ( I am speaking about single volume, not RAID as in my previous post). Yasufumi did some benchmarks and pointed me on intere...

Understanding the MySQL forks

I put together the following diagram to explain what the origin of the current MySQL forks and deltas looks like:



But in the distributed revision control world we live in, it's never really that simple. Here are
some other notes:


XtraDB is an Inn...

Savage Moon Update and Expansion Now Available on PSN

Hello again readers! This is Ana (the producer) and Tomas (the designer) from FluffyLogic, in Bristol, UK. (On an aside, it is interesting to note that Bristol is once more the centre of global cultural attention with the opening of a new exhibition by...

Matt Zimmerman: Stemming the tide of Ubuntu kernel bugs

The Ubuntu kernel team receives an extraordinary number of bug reports, about 1000 in the past week. Yesterday, Leann Ogasawara, our Ubuntu kernel QA lead, addressed a roomful of Ubuntu developers. She shared how the kernel team is handling this situ...

100 Striking Examples of Grunge Photography

Grunge photography goes far beyond what the naked eye perceives and brings with it a dimension of frightening and powerful emotions.
These images are usually heavily edited and enhanced in order to create the grunge effect.
This effect can be describ...

Eric Hammond: EBS Snapshots of a MySQL Slave Database on EC2

At our company, CampusExplorer.com, we regularly snapshot the EBS volume which holds our MySQL database using the basic procedure I outlined in the article “Running MySQL on Amazon EC2 with Elastic Block Store”, though the snapshot code has been s...

Stephan Hermann: Puppets way

This is the way to configure tomcat6 in puppet...2 hours of work for this and the tomcat6 module behind it...
 

node "tomcat01-node" inherits basenode {
  include tomcat6
  tomcat6::add_server { "jvmRouteName":
    ensure => present
  }
  tomc...

Why you don’t want to shard.

Note: This blog post is part 1 of 4 on building our training workshop.
The Percona training workshop will not cover sharding. If you follow our blog, you'll notice we don't talk much about the subject; in some cases it makes sense, but in many we've s...

(Symfony + PHP 5.3) == Milestone 1

We are pleased to announce that NetBeans IDE 6.8 M1 Download is now available. Visit the NetBeans
6.8 New and Noteworthy page to learn more about all the new
features and enhancements available in this milestone
release. The final release of NetBeans I...

6 More Questions With Nate Abele – Lead Developer of CakePHP

If you missed part 1 you can check it out here.
From what I’ve seen the relationship between the maintainers of the top JavaScript frameworks is pretty friendly. How would characterize the relationship between the top PHP frameworks?
While there’s...

Software Pricing: Are We Doing It Wrong?

One of the side effects of using the iPhone App store so much is that it's started to fundamentally alter my perception of software pricing. So many excellent iPhone applications are either free, or no more than a few bucks at most. That's below the th...

20 Tips on How to Write for the Web

There are really only a few tricks to writing properly for the web. If you know how to write, you are already 95% of the way there.
These are some of the more common mistakes that I’ve seen in web copy and some tricks that I use every day to write ef...

9 Questions With Nate Abele – Lead Developer of CakePHP

Intro
Yeah, yeah, I know. This has been done before. What can I say – I had questions, Nate had answers. This is part one and covers general Cake and Cake3 questions. Look for part two tomorrow, which has a bunch of random questions.
General Ca...

Supported Features

Ibuildings techPortal: PHP intrusion Detection System (PHPIDS)

On the Ibuildings techPortal site today Boy Baukema looks at PHPIDS, the PHP intrusion detection system and how it can start to help protect you and your application feel a little safer.


Just a reminder to everyone who is interested in WebAppSec and ...

Drop By! » Versioning Symlinks with Subversion on Linux

Since Version 1.1 subversion can deal with symlinks (see Does Subversion support symlinks?). There are only a few remarks in the manual Versioned Properties - svn:special and ’svn add’ command.

Actually all handling of the symbolic link is up to t...

Release: CakePHP 1.2.4.8284 (Articles) | The Bakery, Everything CakePHP

CakePHP 1.3 dev includes many new enhancements and some optimizations. The most notable changes include
- compatibility changes have been added for PHP 5.3.
- new Javascript Helper including support for multiple js libraries
- improved bake code genera...

jQuery Weekly Calendar Plugin inspired by Google Calendar

The jquery-week-calendar plugin provides a simple and flexible way of including a weekly calendar in your application. It is built on top of jquery and jquery ui and is inspired by other online weekly calendars such as google calendar.
Calendar events...

jQuery Weekly Calendar Plugin inspired by Google Calendar

The jquery-week-calendar plugin provides a simple and flexible way of including a weekly calendar in your application. It is built on top of jquery and jquery ui and is inspired by other online weekly calendars such as google calendar.
Calendar events...

Open Source Cloud

There has been a lot of talk lately about the “Open Source Cloud.” What will it look like, who will be behind it, and can I use it now? These were hot topics at OSCON, and Stephen O’Grady had two excellent posts on them recently as well (one, two...

Search Wikipedia From the Command Line

If you've ever had the inclination to look up information using the shell prompt, the Command-Line Fu site explains how to query Wikipedia using the built-in dig utility.

The idea is simple—you can use the dig command to look up DNS records, includi...

10 Great Free Fonts for @font-face embedding

10 Great Free Fonts
for @font-face embedding

Create Rounded Corners with CSS3 Border-Radius Property

One of the CSS3 properties designers have been longing the most for is undoubtedly the border-radius property. With CSS3 border-radius property it’s possible to create the so popular rectangles with rounded corners exclusively via CSS - no images nee...

Create Rounded Corners with CSS3 Border-Radius Property

One of the CSS3 properties designers have been longing the most for is undoubtedly the border-radius property. With CSS3 border-radius property it’s possible to create the so popular rectangles with rounded corners exclusively via CSS - no images nee...

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Jul 26-Aug 1, 2009

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.
The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some her...

Slides for “Migrating to PHP 5.3″ - Stefan Priebsch

Migrating to PHP 5.3
View more documents from Stefan Priebsch.

A New PS3 Platformer “topatoi” Coming to PSN This Fall

Hello PlayStation Blog readers! My name is Natalia and I’m the PR Manager from Boolat Games, a game development studio from Donetsk, Ukraine. I’d like to introduce “topatoi” – a new captivating arcade platformer game for PLAYSTATION 3 / PSN.
...

Ubuntu: nginx+php-cgi on a socket - till

Moving our PHP application into the cloud, means for us that we are leaving FreeBSD for Linux. Not the best move (IMHO), but I shall elaborate on this in a future blog post.

Once we decided on Ubuntu as the Linux of our choice, I started by moving our...

Mac Software I use often - a blog involving philip olson

This is a short list currently and will eventually be completed. I prefer Open Source software but am open to other types as well. For now:

Understocked

PHP CodeSniffer Support for Netbeans - Benjamin Eberlei

I dived into the code of my new favorite IDE Netbeans these last days and came up with an extension module, which adds PHP CodeSniffer Support on a per file basis to make my life much easier. It shows warnings and errors as annotations to the Editor an...

Community Contributed Docs

We have a program for NetBeans users to submit their own tutorials, tips and tricks, and how-to docs. It's called Community Docs, and the portal is at http://wiki.netbeans.org/CommunityDocs. It's very popular. However, there have been no submissions fr...

Recent improvements in PHPUnit-support

Recent improvements in PHPUnit-support
This blog post has been contributed by Thomas Meyer who has helped a lot with these improvements. Thanks a lot, Thomas!
Today I want to introduce some new features and fixes, that will greatly
improve the su...

Eric Hammond: Matching EC2 Availability Zones Across AWS Accounts

Summary: EC2 availability zone names in different accounts do not match to the same underlying physical infrastructure. This article explains a trick which can be used to figure out how to match availability zone names between different accounts.

Bac...

Prepare for PHP 5.3

PHP 5.3 is a big leap forward for PHP and brings of a lot of neat features.
However, big leaps can also mean big changes and potentially big breakage
when it comes to backwards compatibiltiy.
I did some experimenting with running a big legacy applicat...

Ubuntu Server blog: Server Team 20090728 meeting minutes

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online
with the irc logs here.





SRU tracking on server-related packages

mathiaz had a chat with bdmurray about a way to generate a list of bugs that have been fix for a previous w...

Keeping your CakePHP shells quiet

Whenever working with shells, you most likely would like to provide some output or feedback to the user. This is especially useful when testing or observing a given shell’s work flow.
However, having your shell provide any output while it runs as a c...

Rain Design iLap stand for the Macbook 13 - Apple Store (U.S.)

Rain Design iLap stand for the Macbook 13"

Stay cool and comfortable with the iLap stand, no matter whether your MacBook is on your lap or your desktop.

Macbook Sharp edges - MacNN Forums

Well, there are a variety of solutions that work to varying degrees:

1. Wrist pad protectors, such as AVA&#039;s softpads or PowerSupport&#039;s wrist wrags are supposed to protect the wrist rest area from discoloration, but they have the added benefi...

MacBook wrist-saver | Laptop | Mac Gems | Macworld

Widespread issue or not, the question for me became, “What do I do about this?” As luck would have it, over the past couple months I’ve received several “wrist-rest”-type products for the MacBook. None of these were designed specifically to a...

MACBOOK’S RAZOR SHARP EDGES CAN CUT YOUR WRIST – STOP IMMEDIATELY

If you are scared to do the 400 sandpaper suggestion on her get a 600 sandpaper and go very slowly and carefully on a 45 degree angle on the edge. You will not notice a visible difference in the way the computer looks but you will feel it. It is like a...

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Jul 19-July 25, 2009

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.
The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some her...

Setting Up PEAR2 and PEAR Checkouts With SVN 1.5+

Now that pear2 is in svn.php.net, it is possible to do commits with
multiple packages using a feature of subversion called “sparse checkouts.”
Rasmus wrote about this for setting up php checkouts here:
http://news.php.net/php.internals/44993
Here i...

Bumpbox - A Lightbox Clone that Supports PDFs

Bumpbox is another lightbox clone with a few advantages over other lightboxes - it supports not only all common media types but also PDF’s.
Yet, the integration and implementation on your own site is pretty simple. Just add the scripts to your head s...

25 Inspiring Examples of Sign-Up Pages

A well developed and organized sign-up page has to relay a large quantity of data in a  small area and must be quick and easy to read and understand.
Overly creative plan names are more likely to hurt your sign-up process instead of help, as they’ll...

Forking PHP! - Brian Moon

We use PHP everywhere in our stack. For us, it makes sense because
we have hired a great staff of PHP developers. So, we leverage that
talent by using PHP everywhere we can.

One place where people seem to stumble with PHP is with long
running ...

20 Ruby on Rails Tuts to Rule Them All

Today, we’ll review twenty incredible Ruby on Rails tutorials that every developer should consider reading. Whether you’re a beginner who prefers video tutorials or an experienced dev, you’ll find an applicable tutorial here!

1. Try Ruby!

If yo...

Jeff Waugh: Watching nginx upstreams with collectd

Already happy with nginx in front of Apache for a number of sites, I decided it was time to start testing nginx/fastcgi on my personal server (the serial crash test dummy of my web operations). The only problem: I have yet to find a sensible method of ...

Convenient Enable and Disable of Model cacheQueries

Often we need to disable Cake's query caching for a single find statement or a sequence of related finds. This behavior provides a way to do that quickly.

TypeNow.net Themed Fonts Download Free Movie and Music Fonts

Many Many Many Many Fonts with preview

Cake 3 interview with Nate Abele

Hey folks,
since there is still little public information about CakePHP 2.0 and especially the all-new 3.0, I decided to do a little interview with Nate Abele, lead developer of Cake 3.

Hi Nate. CakeFest is over, and now everybody is slowly catching u...

CakePHP Digest #18 – The CakeFest Edition

CakeFest
Big News
The big news everyone is talking about from CakeFest is Cake3 – a completely overhauled version of CakePHP geared towards PHP5.3. Unfortunately I was stuck watching over little one (by that I mean my co-workers…I kid…you guys a...

Computing with JavaScript Web Workers

Web Workers are, undoubtedly, the coolest new feature to arrive in the latest version of web browsers. Web Workers allow you to run JavaScript in parallel on a web page, without blocking the user interface.
Normally in order to achieve any sort of com...

Martin Albisetti: Launchpad is now fully open source

As promised, Launchpad has been fully open sourced (as opposed to the initial idea, nothing has been held back). Get it now, fix your favorite pet bug, and improve tens thousands of people’s experience.
Mark Shuttleworth really deserves a lot of prai...

Matt Zimmerman: On apologies

Apologies are something I still have trouble with from time to time.  I’m going to be prescriptive in this article, though, because I think I’ve learned a thing or two about the right and wrong ways to do it, thanks to some of the people I’ve hu...

Steven Harms: Annoying people with code: A gentle introduction to C# and Mono Part 3: Creating a GUI (Graphical) Mono / C# Program

In this post we will cover how to make a basic GUI application using Mono along with Monodevelop. If you haven’t already, you will want to read part 1 and part 2 of this series before this article.
Monodevelop
Monodevelop is the tool we are using as...

Retro/Grade Coming to PS3!

!NSP no desaeler eb lliw ,esrever ni yleritne deyalp emag tsrif eht ,edarG/orteR… errr… Sorry! I’m used to time being reversed. What I was trying to say is that Retro/Grade, the first game played entirely in reverse, will be released on PSN! Actu...

Bryan Quigley: Three random things....

Microsoft adds code to LinuxMicrosoft donates code directly to Linux kernel (although I can't find the actual code or LKML post, meh, I'll take their word for it). http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Jul09/07-20LinuxQA.mspxI find this to ...

XHTML died alone, the semantic web is next

Story time:
Thursday, July 2nd 2009. Officials announce the death of XHTML2. Multiple suspects, including HTML4, HTML5 and XHTML1 have been taken into pre-trial custody.
The investigation is difficult. XHTML1 seems to have no motive as XHTML2 was his s...

Estimation

30 iPhone Apps with Sexy Interfaces « AppStorm

The iPhone is a wonderfully designed device, sporting sleek curves and oozing minimalism. Fortunately, the great design doesn’t need to stop there. Ever since the App Store went live, we’ve seen some incredibly attractive software released for the ...

Fonts Used In Logos of Popular Websites | Build Internet!

This roundup was gathered through a combination of top notch Google-ing and What the Font?-ing. Midway through my travels across the internet, I stumbled upon a Web 2.0 logo font roundup, which is worth a look as well.

Examples

This section provides two examples of how to use the Amazon EC2 firewall.

Andre Noel: How to open PDFs inside Firefox on Linux

I was thinking about how to open a PDF file inside Firefox on Ubuntu, like the Acrobat plugin do on Windows, but using Evince.
So I “googled” about Evince and Firefox and found it quickly in the Lâmpada Azul site. Altought it has many steps, I use...

Debian Package of the Day: logcheck: brilliantly simple log monitoring

Article submitted by JP Vossen. DebADay needs you more than ever! Please submit good articles about software you like!
Logcheck is a simple yet great idea, an almost set-it-and-forget-it way to monitor your server logs for problems of all kinds. You cr...

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Jul 12-July 18, 2009

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.
The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some her...

Martin Owens: Learning: Identifying Computer Ports

As a part of my materials creation initiative for my Systems Administration course, today I put together a guide to computer ports. Below are each of the sections and you can download a useful pdf or svg source here.
Copyright 2009, Martin Owens, Creat...

WipEout Fury Developer Diary – New Game Modes (+date & price)

Hey everyone! We’re back with number three in our series of developer diaries featuring the WipEout HD Fury add-on pack. This week we have Zico Liu, Programmer on the WipEout HD development team.
Hi everyone! This is Zico Liu, programmer on WipEout H...

Juanje Ojeda: Using git behind a proxy

div.paste { padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; font-size: 110%; border: .5px solid #6d4c07; background-color: #f5ebd7; }
.c { color: #008800; font-style: italic } /* Comment */
.err { border: 1px solid #FF0000 } /* Error */
.k { color: #AA22FF; font-weigh...

Ignored folders? Sure!

Today, I would like to introduce you a very nice feature that many (really many) of you wanted to see and use. In the development version of NetBeans, one can ignore project's folders - what does it mean? It means that one can specify folders that are ...