Apr

26

A Single User Across Multiple Computers

April 26, 2011 | 1 Comment

The problem : The problem is famous : how to keep multiple computers in sync in order to have access to our data no matter where we are, no matter which computer we are using. It isn’t the first time I wonder about how to improve this aspect of my computer setup and I must [...]

Apr

24

Dead iMac, a geek’s nightmare (with Happy Ending)

April 24, 2011 | 1 Comment

On tuesday this week, my iMac started acting up. It would boot successfully, run normally for a while but sometimes hang from 20 to 60 seconds in a row with the spinning beach ball cursor. I quickly identified two things : hangs would occur when launching apps or triggering the launcher (spotlight, Alfred) which meant [...]

Apr

17

Change the default language and keyboard layout of a Debian machine

April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Recently, I was given a Virtual Machine development appliance to work with. The machine was running Debian which I like but it had been installed in French which I … dislike. First, I find Debian to be not so well translated and I’d rather use it in English. Second, I use qwerty keyboards so the [...]

Apr

17

Convert a VMWare Player appliance to be used with Virtual Box

April 17, 2011 | 1 Comment

As I understand, this post might soon be outdated if the next version of Virtual Box does manage to natively run VMWare Player appliances. Still, this version hasn’t be released yet and, since the VMWare Player doesn’t exist for OS X, I had to convert an appliance from VMWare player to Virtual Box. Here are [...]

Mar

26

Using WordPress Hooks by Example – hiding a category

March 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The plugin used on the homepage of this blog to display featured articles is called Related Posts with Thumbs. It will display the last X posts published in a given category. For flexibility, I created a categoruy called “Editorial” for the posts which should be displayed with the plugin. The problem was : I didn’t [...]

Mar

8

Detect Links in a text content with PHP

March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Here’s a quick code snipet allowing to parse some content (a string), detect the URLs it can contain and make them clickable links. The method uses preg_replace and a regular expression to detect URLs. 123function detectLinks($content) { return preg_replace(’/\s((http|https|ftp|ftps)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.\/]+\.[a-zA-Z\/]{2,3}(\/\S*)?)/’, ‘<a href="${1}">${1}</a>’, $content); }   Let’s test this snipet by doing : 12$content = "This is [...]

Mar

6

Installing Typo (RoR blog engine)

March 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Since I successfully reinstalled Ruby on my server last week to reinstall my Teambox, I now have a Ruby stack I can use to tryout other Ruby/RoR projects. This time, I decided to try out Typo, a RoR blog engine which is currently developed and maintained by Frédéric De Villamil and Matijs van Zuijlen. The [...]

Mar

5

PHP: Working with the YouTube API with Zend Framework

March 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The YouTube API allows a user to retrieve a lot of information about an user’s profile and his videos (his uploads, his favorite videos). For each of these videos, it also allows to retrieve a lot of information like duration, keywords, comments and trackbacks… These information are accessible without the need of an API key. [...]

Feb

27

Creating a Mac OS X Finder Droplet for iTerm

February 27, 2011 | 2 Comments

Recently, I stumbled on the Textmate droplet by Henrik Nyh allowing me to quickly open a file or a folder in Textmate by dragging it to the Finder toolbar. Since I had just setup iTerm2 and learned to script it with AppleScript, I figured I’d put the two together and create my own iTerm2 droplet. [...]

Feb

27

Setting up Ruby Enterprise, passenger and installing Teambox (RubyOnRails) on Debian

February 27, 2011 | 4 Comments

Teambox is an open sourced project collaboration software with simple task managements, file sharing and wiki collaborations for small teams. Teambox can be used in a hosted mode (Saas version with various plans depending on how many team members and projects you need to manage) on teambox.com or the code can be downloaded from GitHub [...]

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