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21Nov/090

Learn Symfony in 24 days


Ok the workshop was great! I can recommend this workshop to everybody with some knowledge of php.

If you're unable to follow the workshop try the tutorial book 'Practical Symfony' (with Doctrine).

This book has been built with a day to day schema of 24 days, which makes it an advent tutorial.
Even if you don't want to use symfony, this book is still usefull because it contains a lot of usefull information about creating a (web)project.

And that's why I encourage everybody to follow this tutorial!

Find the book at: http://www.symfony-project.org/jobeet/1_2/Doctrine/en/

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18Sep/090

Vim as a PHP editor

Matthew Weier O'phinney has posted a great article about using vim as your php editor. Adding mappings to run the file through php linter helps you finding any (syntax)errors while you're working in vim.

Also a project plugin is explained in this article.

Matthew's blog

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8Sep/090

Fresh new start!

Ok, thanks to the wordpress worm I was forced to setup my blog again.

Well, not really.. but installing a new wordpress version seems the easiest way for me.

Enjoy this new start!

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31Aug/090

New Skype for Linux version released!

After almost two years of silence, the Skype for Linux team presented the beta of the new, shiny Skype for Linux desktop 2.1!

The beta includes several bugfixes and improvements, which can be found at the release page

Couple of great enhancements are:

  • High Quality Video support.
  • Skype's SILK audio codec.
  • PulseAudio support.
  • SMS sending support.
  • Chat messages editing/removing support.
  • Contact groups support.
  • Typing notification in chat.
  • Chat picture support (add/change/remove) for group conversations.
  • Mood messages are visible in contact list and tooltip.
  • Video/Mobile icons are visible in contact list.
  • Bookmarked Chats are visible in contact list.
  • Contact labels/tags.

Download the new version at this page

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14Nov/080

Doubts about buying Mac Mini

Mac MiniIn autumn and winter we spent most days with our computers, simply because it's too cold to go outside.
And when you internet a lot, you find a lot of attractive things on the net, for example a Mac Mini.

I'm really thinking about buying a Mac Mini, but I doubt if it is a big winning over Linux.

Maybe you should tell me :)

Specss...

What are the specs.. well read below:

Processor:  1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo / 2MB shared L2 cache

Memory: 1GB (two 512MB SO-DIMMs) of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300)
Option: Up to 2GB

Hard Drive: 80GB Serial ATA, 5400 rpm
Option: Up to 160GB

Optical drive:  24x Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)

Graphics:  Intel GMA 950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory3

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5Nov/080

Gimp just got better!

Short post over here...

I assume everybody already heard about GIMP ( otherwise, you're at the wrong place here.. ).

Well.. there is a new version of GIMP available which is stunning!!

Check out GIMP at http://www.gimp.org

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14Oct/080

New ubuntu release coming up!

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5Sep/081

My Ideal Linux Machine

I know it has been a while since my last post. I was quit busy setting up my own company called "turnred" ( website is still under construction ).

And for a new company, you need new hardware ( is that right? no it ain't, but new hardware is always cool ). So I decided to build my own machine that works 100% perfectly together with Linux. Using the help of Infernix (collegue) and the famous Ubuntu HCL ( Ubuntu Hardware Compatibility List ), I gathered my hardware pieces together for my system. So this is what  it became

Case :Aopen QF50C ( Good silent case, except for the case fan... )

Mainboard : Asus P5K ( With p35 shit on it! )

Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 - 3.0Ghz

Memory : Kingston (ofcorz) 2 x 2Gb Dual Channel RAM - 800mhz

Videocard : Asus EN7300GT Silent ( let's keep it simple and silent.. )

Harddisk : Samsung F1 750Gb SATA disk

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3Jun/080

Tweak your ext3 filesystem

For an excellent howto about how to tweak your ext3 filesystem, read :

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=107856

I know it's a short post ;)

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1Feb/080

HELP! Don’t let Microsoft take over Zimbra!

Today the terrible news about Microsoft buying Yahoo maked me really scared. If Microsoft is buying Yahoo, then I see no way that Microsoft will support it's own enemy Zimbra. Help making Zimbra be GPL'd by posting to this forum thread:

http://www.zimbra.com/forums/zimbra-success-stories/14965-ms-buys-yahoo-we-want-zimbra-gpled-now.html

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