Lately, thanks to ma Master Thesis, I’ve been co-working on the Globe Plugin for QGis here my install script for a threaded version of QGis with the Globe Plugin. By now the Globe has stereo 3D support, keyboard navigation (try all the num key), mouse navigation, a gui to control Read more…
WOW, today I realized that Ubuntu 10.10 maverick meerkat was out and that I missed it by couple of days… bad me!!! (btw you have to select “normal updates” instead of “long term release” in your update manager’s settings). After the update my little eeepc lookt great, and everything worked Read more…
for my reference: Find files containing some text: grep -lir “some text” /path/to/dir/*
I’ve recently been setting up my new dreamhost for symfony projects deployment and the only thing the default PHP is missing is the support for APC (alternate php cache). (altro…)
For Symfony application I’m developing I needed all the Region separated by continent (7 continents model). I converted the MySql World Database (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/world-setup/en/world-setup.html) to a YAML NestedSet fixture file. I just had to make 4 minor changes to it: – rename the 3 continents that had region with the same Read more…
Yesterday I ordered a netbook, the asus eeepc 1005HA-H, today it arrived at my girlfriend’s place and she will bring it to Borneo (hence to me) next week. As soon as I get it i’ll get rid of the installed WinXp and install UNR (Ubuntu Netbook Remix). I’ll post the Read more…
Using Mysql workbench to visually design a data model for a symfony application is pretty cool. Thanks to the guys of https://code.google.com/p/mysql-workbench-doctrine-plugin/ you can export the model to a YAML file ready for Doctrine. (altro…)
A client of mine used to have a multilingual blog using the Gengo plugin, which I consider by now unfortunatly dead. Fortunately, the guys at https://www.wpml.org did a great job creating a new plugin that works like a charm. (altro…)
Solution to use the iphone application for multilingual blogging with wpml
During deployment of a new version of a website you might want to have your server returning an error 503 (temporarily unavailable). here a solution