Mabishu Studio

Sending patches through mail with ‘git send-mail’

Fran Diéguez — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:20:49 +0000

If you want to send code patches to your coworkers you don’t need to do strange things with different tools. Git has all the neccesary tools for handling this in a pretty way. The idea is generate a patch from git and send to your coworker via email. After received the message they can import [...]

Thoughts about our privacy in social networks

Fran Diéguez — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:51:42 +0000

Recently I had an interesting conversation in G+ about social network privacy policies. I supported the view that their privacy policies are mere posturing. The moment you upload content to any social network that content is no longer belong to you just because they can be analyzed and schematized by incredible software that tracks that vast flow of information. Lets analyze some of them: By clicking the “sing up” button in any of [...]

GNOME Launch Party en Galiza, España

Fran Diéguez — Mon, 02 May 2011 10:45:00 +0000

O pasado xoves 28 de abril foi un día maravilloso para toda a comunidade GNOME de Galicia. Xa que celebramos a Festa de Lanzamento de GNOME 3. O evento foi organizado maxistralmente pola asociación Ghandalf en colaboración coas asociaciónsGpul e Trasno, e co apoio económico da Xunta de Galiza. As nosas espectatívas de asistencia vironse sobrepasadas. Fomos [...]

How to easily create Debian packages for PHP extensions

Fran Diéguez — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:41:07 +0000

Let me explain to all of you how to create a Debian package from a PECL tarball. Currently is very simple to package a PECL extension without having any previous experience in Debian packaging and thus this system administration by installing deb packages could be more easy too. So let’s start the packaging. For this [...]

Setup a remote git repository using http with push support and digest auth

Fran Diéguez — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:38:57 +0000

And here is another post about our daily job with git, this time talking about how to setting up a remote git repository with digest authentication and support for pushing changes using http protocol. There is a lot of options to setup a git repository: git-daemon, gitosis, ssh, and more. The more secure way is [...]

Sort an array of objects by one of the objects property with PHP

Fran Diéguez — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:20:08 +0000

If you want to sort an array of objects but using one of its object properties you can do it with usort, but this could take a lot of time and will be very computational expensive. So I have implemented one method you can insert into one of your PHP classes. This method implements the [...]

Indent your HTML code with a Smarty plugin

Fran Diéguez — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:09:52 +0000

If you are using Smarty as a template system in your PHP project you will be very pleased to use this tiny-but-very-useful outputfilter that I made. Smarty as you can read in its documentation has some extension points where you can create plugins into to extend its functionality. One of them are outputfilters, that allow [...]

Migrate Subversion repository to Git without loosing data

Fran Diéguez — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:35:43 +0000

In our company we migrated all our SVN repositories to Git, as the migration is not straight forward I wrote down it and made available for all of you. Some tips are taken from documentation and others from other websites. So, let’s go! 1.- Get the name of all Subversion commiters Subversion just lists the [...]

Slides of our last lecture at the University of Coruña

Fran Diéguez — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:36:07 +0000

This Wednesday, November 24th, we made a lecture at the University of Coruña to tech and linguistic people, related with the projects that our galician opensource community are managing and what are their states, and for the other hand how to improve translations by using different techniques we are currently applying in GNOME and Ubuntu. [...]

Get back your disk space in a Debian-based Linux

Fran Diéguez — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:59:01 +0000

There are some actions you can perform to achieve if you can get back disk space in your Debian/Ubuntu based box. Most packages contain files that aren’t necessary. For example, UI and documentation translations in languages you don’t use. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could get rid of them and get back a few [...]