For my master's degree thesis I did research about infrastructure automation with configuration management software. I discovered the power and advantages of these tools and would like to share my findings about Infrastructure ...
I had some trouble getting my Edimax EW-7811Un wireless adapter to work on my Raspberry Pi. This Realtek RTL8188CUS chipset based adapter works right out of the box when you use it to connect to wireless networks. ...
Redmine is a free and open source, web-based project management and bug-tracking tool. I would recommend Redmine for everybody working on private projects, and I will guide you through the installation process on Ubuntu.
While working on my personal Ubuntu server, I often run into the following locale warnings.
At home I have an Ubuntu file server where I keep all my files and backups. On my macbook I have a startup script that mounts my shared folders into finder. But while experimenting with Avahi I managed to advertise my samba shares automatically.
I was quite nervous to be starting as a project manager of 2 projects during these 3 weeks. But looking back at the past 2 weeks I think I did a great job leading and helping both teams. Both projects and ...
Day 2 of the iRail summer of code: hackathon time. All teams participed to experience all of the thought and development processes for the next 3 weeks in one single thrilling day. Each team had to complete an ...
A summer of code, that's right. I have been invited to join a fantastic event organized by iRail. For three weeks I will be working and assisting multiple projects as project manager. I am really looking forward ...
Sparks is a package management system for Codeigniter that will allow you install high-quality libraries into your applications instantly. These sparks are like packages of reusable code that developers make available ...
I recently bought a new router and was going through the basic configuration. Like most routers, the default Wi-Fi channel is set to automatic. This means that when your router boots, it will scan nearby Wi-Fi ...
One of the more popular articles on my blog was "Codeigniter: resizing and cropping images on the fly". At the time I wrote the article I wanted to create a code that would be really easy to use. However, ...
This extension for CodeIgniter enables the use of the Hierarchical Model View Controller(HMVC) pattern and makes your application modular. This allows easy distribution of independent components (MVC) in a single directory ...
Today while creating a newsletter module for my personal CMS I ran into a weird CodeIgniter bug in the email library. When you are trying to send an email to a number of people while only using the BCC field ...
A few months ago I released a simple cookie-only authentication library for simple websites. Security is getting more important these days so I decided to release my secure library that I use for more serious/bigger ...
Amazon's Simple Storrage Service is a great service for storing lots of files on a solid and stable system. I have been experimenting with it for a few days and quickly found the need for a CodeIgniter library ...