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
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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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Installing Firefox 3.5 in Ubuntu
In order to install Firefox 3.5 in Ubuntu (before Canonical update the official repositories) is as follows: First you should add following line in /etc/apt/sources.list (in order to edit this file you will need admin privileges, aka run as root): deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main Then, we should run following command to validate previous repository and [...]
Installing Canon PIXMA iP2600 printer in Ubuntu 9.04 64-bits
While I was in UK, I bought a Canon PIXMA iP2600 printer. It was not expensive at all and the ink was not as expensive as other printers, so I though it would be a good purchase for the price. The thing is that when I tried to install the printer in Ubuntu 64-bit, there [...]
phpmyadmin root access denied
Last Thursday I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04, and like always happens, sooner or later new (tiny/minor) problems arise from upgrades. Today I’ve found myself not being able to log into PHPMyAdmin with the root user, which has no password on my development machine, O_o Looking around to find a solution to this problem (and after [...]
Keeping aspect ratio when scaling an image
Scaling an image to keep it under specific bounds, for visualizing purposes is a common task, but it’s even better if we can scale the image without deforming it. In this cases we have to scale the image and keep it’s original aspect ratio. Nowadays there are thousands of libraries for any general purpose language [...]
Gravatar: image matters
Some time ago I was wondering how was possible that some people had an image associated to their comments while others (like me) don’t. The answer: gravatar. In a sentence: gravatar is a web site where you associate an image or photo to your e-mail address. That’s it! Once you sign up (you only need [...]
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