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Some valuable ‘User Interface Patterns’ resources

Fran Diéguez — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:36:22 +0000

Last week I’ve been investigating about Web UI Patterns and anything concerning Social Media Patterns, mainly focused on building a consistent UI Pattern Toolkit that I’ll release as soon it will be ready. In this searching I found some valuable resources with incredible useful UI Patterns solutions, with some discussions around them: The first resource is about patterns [...]

Restore files and dirs from previous commits in Git

Fran Diéguez — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:20:02 +0000

When I met git, I fall in love in the moment. You can read any apointments I wrote previously here, and here (in spanish) but today I’ll explain how to restore files and directories from previous commits that it was deleted by a mistake or intentionally in the past. It’s quite easy to revert or reset a [...]

Joining Ubuntu Lucid Lynx to Active Directory

Fran Diéguez — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:11:45 +0000

From Jaunty Jackalope version of Ubuntu and now in the lastest release (Ludid, 10.4) it’s very easy to join your Ubuntu to an Active Directory. Where I work we have a huge Active Directory to centralize users, groups, computers and resources (far more than 3000 users). Here I go to explain how to join an [...]

Feelings at Guadec-ES 7 (A Coruña)

Fran Diéguez — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:35:18 +0000

Last Thursday and Friday I was in Coruña attending to the GUADEC-ES, the most important event of GNOME and “hispanic version” of GNOME Users and Developers Conference. It was my first event focused in GNOME and was simply amazing. I met a lot of GNOME Hackers and get the feeling that I’m in a collaborate [...]

How to setup a LAMP server with less than 100 characters

Fran Diéguez — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:30:14 +0000

One of the reasons cause I love the GNU/Linux for developing is its easy and quick setup. So if you’re a LAMP-dev you can setup a LAMP server with less than 100 chars. With the next command you will have a apache2+php5+mysql on Debian based systems with the bonus of phpmyadmin for administer your databases. [...]

MacBook Pro keyboard backlight keys on Ubuntu GNU/Linux

Fran Diéguez — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:39:13 +0000

Recently I have purchased a new MacBook Pro 15″ and the first thing I do was install Ubuntu Lucid Lynx on it. After some readying I have all the hardware working properly but the keyboard backlight wasn’t integrated into system and unfortunately after searching on the web for something that could do this, I decide [...]

Speed up Google Analytics js by caching it locally

Fran Diéguez — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:18:51 +0000

The big problem of use Google Analytics is that you have to get its javascript to get to work statistics. For me this causes that my sites takes a lot of time to end the load. For this reason I always recommend put the GAnalytics code at the bottom of the page, but for me [...]

3 ways of get memcached status

Fran Diéguez — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:38:04 +0000

If you use memcached to cache contents among different servers and apps, and you want to get statistics for what is happening inside the memcached-sever you can use one of the available interfaces for programming languages but there are simpler ways to do that. The best way is use the command line because the simple [...]

Improve Munin stats page with new layout and plugins

Fran Diéguez — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:39:58 +0000

When the number of your servers is increasing more than you have expected, is a good practice to have a friend that helps you track what’s happenning on those. For this I use, among other apps, Munin. Munin is a “networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and [...] problems” according to [...]

Show nicer file listings with Apache autoindex module

Fran Diéguez — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:04:01 +0000

Recently I have working on “mabishu-apache-autoindex”, a set of html, css, icons and image files designed to work together with the mod_autoindex module to make the default Apache file listings look a little nicer. Try this screenshot demo and If you like it, grab the source files at my Github repository, now I’ll explain how [...]