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Google Music Beta: A couple of months later…
I was excited to participate in the Google Music Beta testing and so far i can say that i really like the app. It performs well as far as playing music, specially through Bluetooth which i use daily. Be warned though that you better organize your music before uploading to the cloud. As I have […]
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Programming: “It pays the bills” vs “It satisfies me”
At this point in my career I find myself increasingly frustrated with my day to day work. You see, living in the DMV area (DC-MD-VA), a lot of the jobs available are in government contracting and as many will tell you, those are well paying jobs with a certain level of job security added. For […]
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Visual Editor Tool for CSS 3 Gradients
Colorzilla offers a gradient creator tool I found to be useful in quickly and visually create gradients. They have preset that you can build upon or create your own custom gradients. Check it out at: http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/
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Download phpssh2.dll extension for PHP 5.3 compatible with WAMP Server 2.1
A project that I am working on now requires shell access basically to dynamically create cron jobs. This took me a minute and will be the topic of an upcoming post but for now, in my local WAMP based dev environment, I need SSH2 set up and good to go. I quickly found out that […]
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Mysql: Remove Duplicate Values on Creating A New Table
I had a reference table for all of the World Countries that i wanted to extract Currency data from to another new table. I initially use this code which created a new table with 263 records. CREATE TABLE currencies SELECT tld, currency, currencycode FROM countries ; I quickly realized that for the purpose I was […]
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Visual tool for creating CSS gradient properties
Here is a cool little online visual tool to create CSS gradient values for Firefox and Webkit compatible browsers: http://tools.westciv.com/gradients/index.html Pretty nifty! It creates the -moz-linear-gradient and -webkit-gradient property for your elements
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An Overview of the new ExtJS 4 Javascript framework
Having worked with ExtJS 3.1, it’s a real pleasure to see them keep pushing forward today with the release of version 4. ExtJS is a great framework for doing specific types of UI, and it takes a minute to wrap your mind around the mainly class system configuration programming style required to get things rolling […]
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Deleting a file or folder monitored by TortoiseSVN
If you are trying to delete a file or folder and it won’t let you by saying that it is being used by another process and you are sure that no other visible program has it opened, chances are it is being monitored by TSVNCache.exe, the background process that watches your file system for SVN […]
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How to easily delete Subversion Folders in Windows
You’ve probably ran into a situation where you needed to just remove Subversion SVN folders from your project, maybe do a new checkout or whatever. I’ve ran into the issue while trying to create a new working copy of a repository i have been working with after getting a : This happened because i checked […]
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Zend Framework: mysqlnd cannot connect to MySQL 4.1+ using the old insecure authentication
Setting a new project that uses Zend Framework in Zend Studio I ran into an issue trying to launch the app. I got an this error; It turns out, the version of Zend I am running is 1.7, which is coded against an earlier version of PHP and when i installed WAMP i installed the […]