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The light of the LAMP
http://lightoflamp.blogspot.com/
Notes and adventures of a LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP|PERL|Python) developer/maintainer
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send mail to correct local host
After upgrading my previous server with a new one, I run a lot of migration scripts and update procedures to make sure that everything transferred OK and worked as expected. However, a little thing kept bugging me until today. Usually, when you want...
Change photo extensions by content
Recently I had an interesting problem. I had a lot of files in a directory, all photos, with their filenames messed up, especially their extensions. So, in order to clear them and keep only the good ones, I had first to rename them in a m...
Focus-stealing applications
I don't like focus-stealing applications (and I bet that I'm not the only one)! They are like kids who are struggling for your attention while you 're working with something else, constantly interrupting your thoughts and work flow. Is it so difficu...
3D: Desktop Describing Day
Our desktops are (like) our offices, right? Well, not for me friends! Although my 3D (i.e. real life) office is rather messy (at least for other people, not for me of course), my computer desktop is rather simple. I work usually with my laptop, as ...
I don't like you any more, ScribeFire!
Today I uninstalled the ScribeFire addon for Firefox because I was not happy by its performance. Don't get me wrong... I 've used it as an offline blog post editor for more than a year and, I have to say that, it has some very useful features and I ...
Sample data and how to produce them
Sometimes a programmer needs to test/debug one application by feeding it with data, random or not. In a situation like this, there are some utilities one can use to produce as many data as she needs. Let's start with a simple example of feeding our ...
