tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:08:47 +0000Forging the Next Webhttp://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/cosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)Blogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-7743292479424163431Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:06:00 +00002009-12-14T21:08:47.101+02:00As I was saying a while ago MySQLWorkbench works pretty nice for making MySQL behave. Until now I was running 5.1.18 but today I noticed the release announcement for of the 5.2 Beta. The Alpha didn't quite do it for me as it was too unstable. I did get a crash on the 5.2 but 5.1 crashes too and with the EER Diagram I'm working on it's not really a surprise. So now I'm running the 5.2.10 Beta and http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/12/mysqlworkbench-5210-beta-is-here.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-7239090902485776246Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:42:00 +00002009-12-06T15:08:56.305+02:00Just going trough Robert L. Glass' "Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering" list.True, true...The "Estimation" and "Requirements and design" parts almost made me weep like a child :)Yeah, good programming is hard.And what is good programming?Maybe it is the point where the craft ends and the art begins. The point where you memorized all the moves and you yourself becomehttp://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/12/programming-is-hard.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-1725500917219310478Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:51:00 +00002009-11-20T10:47:31.010+02:00"a closure is a first-class function with free variables that are bound in the lexical environment""a closure is the local variables for a function - kept alive after the function has returned""when you pass a method reference out of the context in which it was defined, the method still has access to its parent context""a powerful, low level JavaScript library designed for building complex and http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-is-javascript-closure.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-2290182548248131774Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:55:00 +00002009-11-13T00:12:30.800+02:00CakePHP routing and reverse routing does not work properly in shells. That is because your defined routes in routes.php are actually not loaded at all. Maybe 1.3 will fix this but until then read on. To have proper routes in the email messages you are sending from shells you need to do this in your shell at the top:App::import('Core', 'Router');include CONFIGS . 'routes.php';define('FULL_BASE_URLhttp://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/11/and-your-routes-shell-be-free.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-8577347514385022418Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:01:00 +00002009-12-04T11:58:47.116+02:00I'd love to have a coffee with the guy who made this presentation.http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/10/to-be-or-not-to-be.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-2900530061911758100Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:36:00 +00002009-11-16T10:58:02.942+02:00Back to Flash.This year I've mostly been hard at work baking cakes one after another. Man I love it!But yesterday I had to stop and think. You see, I needed a video player. And somehow from all the hmmm, probably 10-15 player I've built, big and small, MVC or timeline scripted, there was not one that I could put my hands on and say to myself "This will do!". That's what u get when u do custom http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/10/error-1009-and-counting.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-2927854522074714759Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:26:00 +00002009-12-02T09:54:19.553+02:00Well not much...Except that Flash Profesional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3 !!!These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 with prerelease support for building applications for iPhone is planned for later this year.Excellent fix for the Open Screen http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/10/so-whats-planned-for-109-i-ask.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-2983706420663134522Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:26:00 +00002009-10-08T09:51:41.365+03:00Hopefully the above always returns true on save ;)This looks like old - like wine though - Cake HABTM stuff talking about Cake vs Rails and HABTM relationships. Quite interesting read.Here you can read an article and comments (best articles are those with comments even more interesting than the article itself, trust me;) about Cake vs Rails.Second is an old debuggable.com (yeah, I'm  fan and http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/10/cakebaker-hasmany-client-trough-project.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-2727169737831393183Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:08:00 +00002009-10-05T17:15:48.317+03:00Adobe announced the Flash Player 10.1 on Labs:"Flash Player 10.1 is the first runtime release of the Open Screen Project that enables uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and video across devices."I must say they really crammed a lot into that 0.1, but now it really looks mobile ready...I wonder what the checklist up to 10.9 looks like ;)http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/10/flash-101-is-here-so-whats-planned-for.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-2026973373987744808Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:47:00 +00002009-09-21T16:34:49.008+03:00[Update] Well it seems that Cake is a bit stale on the utf-8 part. Not everyone can mod the mysql config especially on a production setup and this is actually not needed. Looks like PHPMyAdmin does good when the proper collation and server encodings are set. But it's Cake that needs an explicit 'encoding' => 'utf8' in the config/database.php file. Well I gues that the below info is still ok for http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/09/cakephp-slugs-from-mysql-unicode-data.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-7330357765057532841Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:48:00 +00002009-09-08T10:14:50.867+03:00of all available TED Talks are in this list. Also while we're at it, Bill bought and made publicly available the Richard Feynman video lectures. Well Bill insists on you using Silverlight to watch so proceed at your own risk ;)http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/09/hot-online-videos.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-4105038438903195663Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:32:00 +00002009-07-31T14:41:17.452+03:00will make you bang your head against the nearest wall if you are using non alpha numeric characters in the domain name. Something like my_project.dev.mydomain.com. So all you who think that you've got your Dev workflow just right THINK again!Once again, thanks Micro$oft!http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/07/internet-explorer-session-cookie.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-9044078733852855690Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:53:00 +00002009-07-21T10:14:00.914+03:00Well the /. crowd really did it this time. Starting from Negroponte saying that"Putting a crank-shaft on the XO laptop was a mistake, but the biggest mistake was not having Sugar run as an application on a vanilla Linux laptop"the Slashdot title ended up saying"Negroponte Sees Sugar As OLPC's Biggest Mistake"and following TFP with a lot of FPC.Personally I was unaware that the OLPC Sugar was a http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/07/lol.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-1115644837057363478Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:25:00 +00002009-08-07T10:16:22.409+03:00[Update]Well what can I say. So far Opera rocks. I didn't get into it's features or widgets or anything. Don't even use the gestures although I was a big fan of the Firefox extension. I remember my room mate using Opera on his Pentium 100 back in 2002 on Win'95 and telling me that it rocks because it's lightweight and fast. Well that turns out to be true for Leopard 7 years later as well. It's a http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/07/safari-is-best-web-browser-for-leopard.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-645440363370279953Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:43:00 +00002009-08-08T09:59:08.682+03:00Dear readers,Lately I've been knee deep into SPAM issues. But I am not getting spam, I'm just trying to figure out how this bussiness of not sending it actually works. The issue is more tricky than I originally thought as it involves some voodoo criteria employed arbitrarily by the servers that receive the messages in order to mark a message as SPAM.It alls tarts from the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 andhttp://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/07/spam-urgent-anti-spam-tips.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-1376800993601688173Fri, 29 May 2009 07:48:00 +00002009-06-01T21:10:59.561+03:00HP PL DL360G3 running Samba 3.2.6 on OpenSuse 11.1 with 12 Samsung HE103UJ in RAID6+LVM on an HP MSA20 via Hp 642 SCSI RAID Controller.http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/05/space-final-frontier.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-5684667115923061343Wed, 13 May 2009 13:07:00 +00002009-05-13T16:30:59.077+03:00If you really want to browse the Windows Network from your Aspire One Linpus Linux, there is actually a way better alternative to the clumsysamba sudo mount -t cifsYou'll still need the terminal but you won't need to sudo or individually mount each share. You will see the entire Network Neighbourhood with browseable Wrokgroups, individual computers and their shares. Sweeet ain't it !?So the http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/05/fuse-your-workgroup-on-aspire-one-with.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-5473303853552830422Wed, 06 May 2009 12:36:00 +00002009-05-06T15:53:56.170+03:00Well this happened a good while ago.DBDesigner4 is my weapon of choice for well, database design. But is Win only so it's one of the fewer and fewer reasons of me running XP in VirtualBox. Actually the only other one is a VPN problem. So as you will see below, one down, only one more to go baby :DDidn't like the turn Fabforce took when they dropped it and joined MySQL but hey, whatever works!But http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/05/mysql-workbench-now-on-mac-near-you.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-9130341695337404288Mon, 04 May 2009 13:58:00 +00002009-05-04T19:48:27.728+03:00Well she's been wishing for one for such a long time now!:)And since she's into writing and literature we could easily look towards the Acer Aspire One.Because all she really wants is to read PDFs, edit text documents, surf the web, stay in touch with friends and watch movies.And mount Windows shares :PSo we decided on the a150-aw.Well a little sudo mount in the terminal never hurt any writer. http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/05/get-linux-netbook-change-her-world.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-4418518719919202577Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:10:00 +00002009-05-20T17:22:19.682+03:00Well it seems that this is the "almost one year ago I wrote ..." time of the year in blogging :)But almost one year ago I wrote about how the OLPC seemed to steer towards the crimson blue waters of Microsoft's Windows XP. And I was down right pissed about that...Today I got some of my enthusiasm back when I somehow got to the Sugar page via a Lifehacker article about Sugar on an USB stick. And http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/04/give-linux-laptop-cange-world.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-6310559032181973592Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:11:00 +00002009-04-21T14:02:42.886+03:00Almost a year ago I wrote the open the screen and let the AIR come in... post to tell you about the Open Screen Project from Adobe. Now they announced the Strobe Project as "the standard video player framework" and meant to"provide new delivery and monetization options for video distribution [...] accelerates momentum for the Flash Platform ecosystem, including the Open Screen Project, an http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/04/strobe.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-3458135408690780478Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:04:00 +00002009-04-17T15:44:37.516+03:00Install Quicksilver.Enable the User Interface Access Plugin and in OS X > System Preferences > Universal Access enable access for assistive devices.Create a new Custom Trigger > Hotkey, in the first field press "." and write say "Ooops", press TAB and in the 2nd field select Run as AppleScript, leave the 3rd field empty.There are a few more things you can do like setting the applications for http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/04/disable-commandq-in-osx.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-5403649954232649491Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:01:00 +00002009-04-10T10:17:55.462+03:00The Stillbirth of a SalesmanThis same topic pops up again and again. Why doesn't sales work right in Romania?The main cause of this general opinion seems to be the lack of smiles in the Romanian service oriented industries.When asked like 5 yrs ago by my boss, a former German automotive industry marketing executive why are the services people so rude I said "they're not happy with their wages". http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/04/selling-in-romania.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-3331653203800689809Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:48:00 +00002009-03-30T14:24:03.367+03:00Gwoo announced this last year in late December!:OMan do I have to read the Internet more!So there's a new place to chew on your cakes. It's called the Chaw.The reason I'm pissed is because I'm working at a strong CMS base for my projects and naturally it's based on CakePHP. And browsing the CakeBook I always drooled at the nice built in concepts like revisions and I18n. I even remember reading http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/03/cake-chawing-party.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810835.post-2907515878981708587Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:22:00 +00002009-03-24T16:27:24.896+02:00find . -type d -name xxxx -exec chmod 0755 {} \;In case you're wondering, the above console command recursively finds all folders inside the current location that have the name xxxx and does a chmod on the resulted list.http://cosmincimpoi.blogspot.com/2009/03/once-and-for-all.htmlcosmin.cimpoi@gmail.com (cosmin)0