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Category Archives: Dev

Restore Grub in Gentoo

How to restore your grub installation if you somehow messed with the MBR or grub itself, using a Gentoo minimal install CD.

Posted 13 February 2010 † belerophon § Hobbies § sysadmin ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

My Gentoo Experience on Toshiba A100

My experience with Gentoo operating system, from the installation to the daily use. Problems I had, what I don’t like and what I’m excited about this new operating system rolling on my 4-year-old Toshiba A100.

Posted 04 February 2010 † belerophon § Hobbies ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

CSS3 @font-face currently sucks!

How to use CSS3 @font-face specification to render the fonts you desire on your website. The problems that still exist and alternatives.

Posted 30 January 2010 † belerophon § Hobbies § Web ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Rails: Migrate between databases

How to migrate a rails app, Redmine, and from Sqlite3 to MySQL effortlessly.

Posted 18 January 2010 † belerophon § sysadmin ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

After Sapo Codebits

Summarizing Sapo Codebits 2009 edition…

Posted 12 December 2009 † belerophon § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Creating and Managing a Remote GIT Repository

Using Gitosis to manage a remote repo, with groups of users for each repo, and emailing the revision comments to everyone.

Posted 10 November 2009 † belerophon § sysadmin ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

From CSV to SQL statements…easy.

Writing a perl script to transform data from CSV data to SQL statements, and taking a look at mysql procedures and loops to change table structure and data.

Posted 26 October 2009 † belerophon § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,

Sapo Codebits 2009

I have just submitted my application form to attend Sapo Codebits 2009. Let’s see if I’m accepted Hope so.

Posted 22 September 2009 † belerophon § Web ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

CakePHP: how to selectively update record fields without blanking or changing others

When updating a database record, you might not want to update every field. CakePHP has a “not so cool” behaviour when updating records, which might lead to password changing even when user has not updated its password in the form.

Posted 11 September 2009 † belerophon § php ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

CakePHP and Auth Component Password Hashing

Some tips about CakePHP and the Auth component. How to use password validation in the model, overriding the default hashing function.

Posted 05 September 2009 † belerophon § ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , ,

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