Fritz Thomas

I installed the default nginx package available in Ubuntu 10.04 server. For PHP-5.3.2 you have to use the cgi version, of course. But enough of the words. It is really really simple, so i just post the config files. The only “trickier” part was to convert the Apache Rewrite Rules from the FLOW3 distribution. After [...]

If you edit a file and vim does not recognize its syntax correctly or not at all you can set its syntax manually with :set syntax=[SYNTAX] Do you want to know which syntax your vim installation understands you can list all with this find: find /usr/share/vim/*/syntax -name “*\.vim”. This is also the place where to [...]

Have you ever wanted to set permission to all directories under a certain directory to 755 and permissions to files under that certain path to 644?

This is an update and in depth look to my previous Blog post of “How to get absolute path within the running shell script“. In my previous post i used a solution with readlink which is not available everywhere. Especially on Mac OS there is no readlink. But, we do not need readlink anyway…

If you look at the RC1 source of the upcoming 5.3.3 release of PHP you see that the PHP-FPM sapi is already included. PHP-FPM was announced to be in the 5.4 release. Hopefully this gets not changed in the final release. Why i am so excited about that? “PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative [...]

My continuous research about how to create real native desktop applications brought me to this solutions which are available today:

If you want to free the memory from all unused “crap” you can run this little one liner as root: sync;echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches The sync command flushes all buffers from memory to disk so you are safe that you do not loose anything. Keep also in mind that not everything from the cleared memory [...]

cd /home/USER tar cf – . | (cd /dir/where/you/want/to/copy && tar xBf -) This has some advantages over cp -rfp. You can read it in detail at O`Reilly

RaphaelJS, JQTouch, Connect and ExtJS are joining forces and therefore ExtJS (the Company) renamed their name to Sencha. ExtJS (their JavaScript Library) gets not unchanged. I think there will be much much more cool news regarding Sencha in the future.

You can safely empty some directory`s in Gentoo. But as always – first make sure if my suggestions are OK for YOU too! # As superuser gentoo ~ # emerge –sync gentoo ~ # emerge -av gentoolkit gentoo ~ # emerge -av –newuse –deep –update world gentoo ~ # emerge -av –depclean gentoo ~ # [...]

I recently stumpled across Swiftfox when i searched for a Firefox 3.5 .deb File for Ubuntu 9.04. The .deb Files should be compatible with all Debian based distributions. The benefit of Swiftfox is it is up-to-date with the latest Firefox Version and you get it as an optimized build for your CPU! Currently there are [...]

Recently on the TYPO3-5 Mailing-List Eike Starkmann wrote about his master thesis project called Saros: “Saros is an Eclipse plugin for collaborative text editing and distributed pair programming, i.e. it allows two or more developers to work together in real-time on the same files. It is similar to Gobby, SubEthaEdit or Google Docs but focuses [...]

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Yesterday Zend Framework 1.7.5 was released with the normal enhancements and bug fixes. There is also an update to Zend_View which breaks Backwards Compatibility due an Security Issue. Read more on this on Matthews Blog. It is available for download as usual on http://zendframework.com/download/latest.

Take a look at my updated post Have you ever needed the absolute path of the shell script within this script? I do not mean the current working dir (pwd). That is different, because you do not know from which path the bash script is called. In my case i needed the absolute path, because [...]

A few weeks ago Adobe announced to release new versions of the Flash player and Air simultaneously for the 3 major operating systems Linux, Mac and Windows. Today Adobe released AIR for Linux in Version 1.5 to catch up with the others. So in future Linux Users of AIR do not have to wait for [...]

After upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid you may get some error on sshfs mounted directories, when you tried to copy something on this places. This fix seems to be fixed in sshfs 2.1. If you need a fast fix on this install sshfs 2.1 manually from here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/sshfs Select the right Architecture and download the [...]

No, it is not April the first! According to a report by TechWorld, a student asked Steve Ballmer on a Developer Conference in Australia: “Why is IE still relevant and why is it worth spending money on rendering engines when there are open source ones available that can respond to changes in Web standards faster?”

Today i found an interesting OpenSource Web Traffic Analysis Tool (GPL Licensed), which i think i will give a try on my Blog and i think it could be a real alternative to Google Analytics and also for Clicky for me. The aim of Piwik is clear: piwik aims to be an open source alternative [...]

Until now Adobe does not provide full Cross Platform Support for their RIA Project AIR. AIR was only available for Windows and MAC. Now the Linux version gets a little bit closer to this versions. With the Release of the Adobe AIR 1.1 Beta for Linux all Applications which runs on MAC and Win are [...]

So Whats new in this Release? Some of the “minor” changes and updates: Eclipse 3.4 Support. This Inlcudes many Bug Fixes and enhancements. Improved SQL Query Builder Improved Stability and Bug Fixes. I personally hope the annoying Build Errors when opening a project are fixed. Web Tools Platform is updated. This provides for example to [...]

There is a new Version of the 1.x Branch of VMWare Server. The new Version adresses some security Issues in older Versions of VMWare Server. You can download the new VMWare Server Release on the VMware download Site.

Version 1 der Multi/Cross Plattform API von Adobe wurde ja kürzlich veröffentlicht. Wie von Beginn an angekündigt wird nun laut einem Bericht von CNET eine erste Alpha Version für Linux erscheinen. Interessant wird ob und wie allgemein die API von AIR nun auch unter Linux zu verwenden sein wird. Das wird vor allem bei Dateisystemoperationen [...]

Ich hatte das Problem das ich über ein ganzes Projektverzeichnis bei bestimmten Dateien (.php, .phtml, .js, .css) ein svn propset ausführen wollte. Unter Windows und TortoiseSVN hat man zwar die Möglichkeit über ein ganzes Verzeichnis rekursiv ein Property zu setzen, jedoch nicht nach Dateiendungen zu entscheiden ob es gesetzt werden soll. Eine einfache und schnelle [...]

Seit der ersten Release von SimplicityPHP hat sich sehr viel getan. Eine neue Dev Version 0.2 des PHP Frameworks mit nativer ExtJS Unterstützung wurde veröffentlicht. Ausserdem wurde auf der Entwicklerseite ein Trac eingerichtet. Die Lizenz ist nun unter der GPLv3 veröffentlicht. Ich glaube jedoch das es hier klüger gewesen wäre die LGPLv3 zu wählen.

Das 7zip Kompressionsformat wird nicht “Out-Of-The-Box” unterstützt. Das Programm kann einfach mit thomas@gentoo ~ $ emerge -av p7zip installiert werden. Einfaches schnelles Komprimieren Eine Datei oder ein ganzen Verzeichnis mit den Standard Optionen zu komprimieren ist ganz einfach. Nehmen wir an, wir wollen ein ganzes Verzeichnis komprimieren. thomas@gentoo ~ $ 7za a test.7z test-verzeichnis/ Starkes [...]

PHP hat beim Coverity-Scan-Projekt, ein Projekt das den Quellcode von Software nach möglichen Sicherheitslücken durchsucht, den “Rung 2″ (nein, ich hab mich nicht vertippt ) erreicht – die bisher höchste “Sprosse” die erreicht werden kann. Weiter unter den Top11 von ca. 300 Projekten (darunter auch Java Projekte) insgesamt, sind auch Perl und Python zu finden. [...]

Die Basis bei Google ist Open-Source Software. Ein angepasstes GNU/Linux als Betriebssystem wird für deren Server Mainframe verwendet. Ausserdem wird MySQL sehr stark eingesetzt. Als Programmiersprachen werden hauptsächlich Python und Java verwendet. Die hier genannten sind nur einige wenige Open-Source Projekte die von Google verwendet werden. Kann man am Erfolg von Google also ablesen das [...]

Wird durch den Kernel eine neue Mac Adresse erkannt, wird angenommen das es sich dabei um ein neues Netzwerk Interface handelt. Dieses neue Device muss anschließend auch neu konfiguriert werden. Soweit so gut. Möchte man aber seine Netzwerkkarte gegen eine neue tauschen, aber denselben Device Namen behalten, um so die evtl. bereits erstellte und wahrscheinlich [...]