Mabishu Studio

Setting up Hubot with a gTalk account for fun

Fran Diéguez — Fri, 10 May 2013 23:57:20 +0000

This article should be called like something like “Be happy: put a robot in your life”, deep down in order to represent better what I will explain here I’ve changed the title to a more technical point of view. Since I’ve started to work in Openhost I always thought that for creating a good product our [...]

Solving caching issues with Vagrant on vboxsf

Fran Diéguez — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:59:41 +0000

Since some months I’ve been working with Vagrant as a tool for provisioning my production-like environment to develop Opennemas. Vagrant is a really powerful tool for automating the creation of environment that mimic your production stack without having to deal with configuration files. In fact this task, automatic provisioning machines, was one of the most [...]

Steps toward modernizing a legacy codebase

Fran Diéguez — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:39:18 +0000

Paul M Jones presented at the Nashville PHP User Group on August 13th, 2012 on modernizing legacy code. “We’ve all been there, dropped into a codebase that makes perfect sense to the original developers but might as well be Greek to you. Paul will help you make sense of things with some helpful tips for [...]

Thoughts on working from home

Fran Diéguez — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:00:24 +0000

In the last month seems that the main topic to talk about among IT start-ups is telecommuting. It all started when the actual Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer announced that all company employees must start to work at the same place: “To become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will be important, so we [...]

Pingback-php: a library for performing Pingback calls in an easy-way

Fran Diéguez — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:20:53 +0000

Today I’m pleased to announce another library that I made. Pingback-php is a library for performing Pingback requests in a simple way. Pingback-PHP is compliant with the Pingback 1.0 standard specification. A quick example: If you want to inform to this article that you have referenced it from one of your posts by using the Pingback protocol, you can do [...]

Get better performance and life from your SSD in Linux-based systems

Fran Diéguez — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:15:39 +0000

Recently I acquired an OCZ Vertex 4 SSD as my old hard drive was about to die as SMART were reporting. Definitely I would suggest you to go for a SSD as this upgrade will be the most significant and noticeable upgrade you can do for you computer. Moving on. In this article I will write down [...]

Object Calisthenics: write better object-oriented code

Fran Diéguez — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:22:16 +0000

“Object Calisthenics” is supposedly an exercise to get you to write better object-oriented code. If you want me to sum-up in one sentence I will definitely say: “That which obscures my code is bad.” We’ve all seen poorly written code that’s hard to understand, test, and maintain. Object-oriented programming promised to save us from the old [...]

Remove grub from MBR under Mac OS X

Fran Diéguez — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:59:08 +0000

OK, you messed it up, you’ve installed Ubuntu on your Mac running a dual boot with OSX, and accidentally installed the bootloader to the MBR. Well this will render your system useless as Mac’s use EFI and GPTs, rendering MBRs rather useless, outside of its MBR emulation mode that is. The proper location for installing the GRUB locader [...]

Authenticate into Ubuntu 12.04 with your DNI-e (Spanish ID)

Fran Diéguez — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:24:30 +0000

This howto will explain how to setting up pam-pkcs11 for use the DNI-e (Spanish personal ID) as your auth credential and login into Ubuntu with it. I will assume that you have setted up your DNI-e. If you are looking for a comprehensive howto about this topic you can find it in the next link: [...]

Setting up Jenkins in Ubuntu Precise 12.04 for PHP projects

Fran Diéguez — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:44:18 +0000

This howto tries to clarify all the steps for setting up a Ubuntu Precise box as Continuous Integration server for PHP projects by using Jenkins. In the next days I’ll write another post about how to configure a PHP project inside Jenkins. So let’s go. Installing Jenkins server Ubuntu Precise now has inside its repository [...]