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Tips for wget

Amit Agarwal wrote recently really nice list of tips for well known utility wget. At the end, there is a little quiz, following wget command: wget ‐‐span-hosts ‐‐level=inf ‐‐recursive dmoz.org The first option ‐‐span-hosts will allow to download from all … Continue reading

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More stylesheets with LESS

There is an excellent article on IBM developerWorks website “Do more in CSS with LESS“.  It describes how to use LESS to write readable and maintainable Cascading Style Sheets.  Unfortunatelly command line command using Rhino to compile LESS to CSS … Continue reading

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Regular expression in JEdit

JEdit is an excellent editor and includes search and replace with regular expressions. For subexpressions in the replacement area is using dolar sign $ instead of backslash \. Here is a small example. Second occurence of substring cv needs to … Continue reading

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AWS Free Tier

Amazon AWS Free Tier is a Virtual Private Server (VPS), something to try and play with for up to one year. After creating AWS account one can use any of the 18 products and services for free within certain usage … Continue reading

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Web user experience at Groasis

Groasis is a wonderful project, which allows to grow plants in arid areas or even deserts. Their blog is wonderful also from web user perspective. If user is zooming up, the main article fills up the screen, and with more … Continue reading

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PHP Composer

Composer is very useful tool or better dependency manager for PHP. Matthieu Moquet wrote excellent blog post about 5 features to know, and I am sure there is more about Composer on his blog posts. Here is summary of the … Continue reading

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EXIF info from ISS

There is beautiful picture of the rising Orion from International Space Station. What is really nice, one can look at EXIF info, in this case by jhead program. Here is the info: File name : iss040e017069.jpg File size : 1246427 … Continue reading

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Hibernate

Hibernate is great piece of java software, which utilize concept ORM – Object Relational Mapping. If application needs to store data into relational database, it simplifies development tremendously. One don’t need to use SQL queries, unless needs to do something … Continue reading

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Nette framework: .htaccess file

Playing with nette php framework, here is www/.htaccess file, which is working on 1and1 linux platform: AddType x-mapp-php5 .php Options +MultiViews # disable directory listing <IfModule mod_autoindex.c> Options -Indexes </IfModule> # enable #cool URL <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On #following line … Continue reading

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Bootable USB Flash disk with Windows7

Here are steps to create bootable USB Flash disk with Windows7. 1. 4GB or bigger USB Flash Disk needed 2. Put your Window 7 Instalation DVD into your computer DVD mechanics. If DVD is not readily available, you may download … Continue reading

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