If you have a twitter account maybe you have played with twitter API, or even you have made a twitter application for integrating the “Sign in with Twitter”, or maybe you have created an application for something else.
Anyway, these days I’ve been working in integrating the Sign in with Twitter and Sign in with Facebook [...]
Archive > November 2009
Transfer a twitter application from one user to another
[SOLVED] The kvm-qemu virtual machine ignores shutdown and reboot
These days I’ve been playing with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine). All started with a kernel upgrade and VMWare Server stop working, and getting lots of errors when executing vmware-config.pl while recompiling the modules.
Anyway, what matters is that I’ve migrated a couple of virtual machines from VMWare Server 2 to qemu-kvm.
One of the virtual machines ignored [...]
How to get the UUID of a disk or partition in Ubuntu
Sometimes it can be very useful, and even necessary, to know the UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) of a disk or partition in Linux.
Nowadays the configuration for mounting disk partitions on linux (the file /etc/fstab) uses the UUID instead of the device name (/dev/hda1, /dev/sda1 …).
If you need to know which is the UUID of a [...]
Emulate short tags in PHP when short_open_tag = off
Yesterday I was playing with PHP 5.3. It seems that the default configuration comes with short_open_tag disabled
The short open tags is what allows to write code like this <?=”algo”?> instead of having to write <?php echo “algo”?>. Something REALLY INTERESTING, it makes PHP code really clear when looking at templates from my [...]
Writing clean and semantically correct HTML
Web Designer Wall people has writen a post titled Coding Clean and Semantic Templates that basically gives some advices on how to write proper HTML code for templates.
Briefly, the list of advices that they give are:
Minimize the use of <div>
Use the <div> tag only for the layout: header, content, sidebar, and footer
Use semantic HTML for [...]
PHP amazingly improves itself
This was me, looking how to install PHP 5.3 in the new Ubuntu Karmic, because using the new functionality of late static binding will simplify my code, and I’ve found something amazing. A new feature that was missing in PHP, but they have included in PHP 5.3…
the…
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GOTO
It’s amazing how [...]
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