Hardware repairs
I’ve been tinkering with my computers ever since the days of ZX Spectrum, more or less. In the last eight years or so, however, people would come to me with their broken laptops and computers every now and then. It …
Gettext translations
Gettext is a great way to localize and internationalize (simply put, to translate) your (web)applications. It’s especially useful when you’re building a multi-language application because you can separate the code from the translation process effectively. all strings that need to …
Lands of Lore (again)
Some time ago, I started playing Lands of Lore. Then I took a short break (for about five years 🙂 ) and now I happened to stumble across the saved games so I decided to go on again this Xmas. …
Skype in Docker
Although jabber is my preferred IM protocol, sometimes I have to communicate with people who, for some reason, only use Skype. On Debian, that can be quite a problem, supposing you are not particularly keen on weed infestation of your …
Yii CRUD generator and plural forms
Yii framework has a really nice CRUD generator that can speed up building back-end applications, which tend to be rather similar and therefore repetitive. If you prepare reasonable taxonomy of the underlying database tables, it also manages the page headers …
Check the WordPress version of several sites at once
I’ve got this blog of mine where I log in every now and then, so whenever there is a new version of WordPress, I see the update reminder message. There is, however, over a dozen other blogs under my wings …
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AWK – print no newline
Using awk to display information, the print function, by default, adds newline after each iteration. I wanted to copy the results and use them as an actual array in a program and preferred to have them all on one line, …
Grep result to a shell variable – no line breaks
There was this website containing regularly updated content I wanted to follow. Unfortunately, they had no RSS feed available and I didn’t feel like checking on the website every now and then. Also, what I needed was just the posts …
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CentOS 6 and MiniDLNA
I’ve got a small home server made from a half-broken laptop nobody wanted any more. The screen was’t working, but otherwise the machine was fine, so I took it, shipped Centos 6 on it and it’s been serving as a …
Subdirectory Checkout with git sparse-checkout
It’s very convenient, even necessary, to use a version control system, e.g. CVS or Git. One can go back in history and easily trace the changes (especially) when something goes wrong. Git, being a distributed system, can be used to …