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CakePHP once again: scripts_for_layout from Element

I thought this was worth mentioning:

* using inline=false from an element will probably not work :) since…’this’!

So, echo $javascritpt->link(‘file.js’) FTW! :)

Posted 23 March 2010 † belerophon § Dev ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

CakePHP: trouble updating record after overriding beforeSave

After defining the function beforeSave in one of my models, I could not get it to update table records anymore. No matter what I did, any call to save function would only create a new record.

Posted 22 March 2010 † belerophon § Dev ‡ 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 § Dev § Hobbies ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Apache SSL Vhosts and Default Vhosts Behavior

How to create an SSL Virtual Host with Apache2. How to couple this with normal Virtual Hosts already in production. Apache2 behavior when Server Name does not match and Virtual Host selection with SSL.

Posted 21 January 2010 † belerophon § Academic § sysadmin ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Hotmail, Thunderbird, pop3 and password.

Authentication issues using Thunderbird to access hotmail account.

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

TwitSlider — Mobile Widget

A mobile widget using Vodafone’s modified runtime of the Opera Widget Plataform.

Posted 30 August 2009 † belerophon § Dev ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Apache (apparently) Secured against our beloved slowloris attack

How to defend against slowloris attack.

Posted 23 August 2009 † belerophon § sysadmin ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Name-Based Virtual Hosts with Apache

So here is the situation:

  • you just bought a domain, namely spectacular.com, and you want to point it to you home server with a static IP, or VPS or whatever…
  • you want to serve web-pages with apache and want to have configurations that enable you to configure several sub-domain, just like sub1.spectacular.com and sub2.spectacular.com;
  • you are running Ubuntu or some Debian-based server.

Apache supports name-based virtual hosts. This nice feature of apache, lets you

Posted 01 August 2009 † belerophon § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

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