This morning I got an update message from Firefox for updating firebug to the latest 1.5 version. I’ve installed it, but when I tried to click on the icon…. booooom!! Firefox window has dissapeared.
According to this post in the Firebug blog, the crash will be solved on future versions of Firefox (3.5.8).
Just in case you [...]
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Firebug 1.5 crashes on Ubuntu 64-bit
Google Chrome for Linux
Today I’ve received an e-mail from Google telling me that they launched the new beta for linux of their browser Google Chrome. It’s been a while since they first launched a version for Windows.
As you might expect, I’ve downloaded and installed this brand new version of Chrome for Linux and I installed on my Ubuntu [...]
Transfer a twitter application from one user to another
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 [...]
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 [...]
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…
wait for it….
wait for it….
wait for it….
GOTO
It’s amazing how [...]
Configure a DNS server in Ubuntu
Today I’ve been trying to configure a DNS server in a private server with Ubuntu installed in it.
The truth is that it took me a while, but finally I got it
The following link has helped me a lot:
How to setup a DNS server in Ubuntu
Twitter API using PHP
We could be discussing about why twitter is a success, or talking about the utility of twitter, but this is a blog about programming, that’s why I prefer to talk about how to use twitter API to do your own applications.
Mainly, the only thing you need to know is that twitter has 2 APIs:
REST: is [...]
Manso advice: How to report bugs
The main work of the QA is to make sure that the product works perfectly well (or at least, with a minimum quality). QA people have to find the greatest number of problems with the product, incoherences, compatibility bugs, typos, …. and once they found them, they should make sure the bugs have dissapeared in [...]
If it’s going to take less than 15 min, do it!
The thing is that I’ve been taking a look at my pending drafts.. and there are quite a lot of them.
Probably the main reason is that I like to save ideas I have while I’m working for later, which is not bad, because otherwise I would loose focus on what I’m doing. The problem is [...]
Driving traffic to your web
I’ts not new that there are several ways of getting traffic going to your web site.
One of the easiest ways of getting traffic is to get your credit card and spend some money on Adwords (or similar) campaigns. The problem with this is that although they drive traffic to your website, people always prefer [...]
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