Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Open Blue Dragon has come a long way in a short period of time. They now offer a super fast way to get ColdFusion up and running on pretty much any machine for developement. On top of that it comes with a nice GUI. So how easy is it? Just download the package, unzip it, [...]

If you’ve ever had to work with spreadsheets on a linux system, you may have stumbled across the PEAR Excel Spreadsheet Writer. Its a quite useful too, but installing it on your system may be a little misleading. Here’s the quick rundown: # install php-pear sudo apt-get install php-pear # install PEAR OLE sudo pear [...]

A while back I discussed how to use the new sqlsrv extension for php to retrieve multiple result sets at a time from stored proceedures. This was indeed helpful when you need to retrieve related data and avoid multiple calls to stored proceedures. The down side is this was using a rather expensive (but good) [...]

The Gedit Clientside plugin is now available for Gedit 3. All the features remained the same, just some minor tweaks throughout. You can still find both Gedit versions of the plugin on Github: Clientside Plugin for Gedit 3+ Clientside Plugin for Gedit 2 I moved the old Gedit 2 version to a separate branch on [...]

The next version of Ubuntu is nearly here. I must admit I’ve not yet made the move to Unity, as I’m still on Gnome 2, but I’m debating on making the switch this go around. I’ve got a few projects I need to update as well (Clientside and Email Dissector). The last release was the [...]