Design Patterns – Factory [Series][How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos on February 2, 2010

in Design Patterns, How-To, MySQL, PHP, Programming, Series, Zend Framework

A note about these series. It appears that Giorgio Sironi and I had the same idea regarding Design Patterns and blogging about them. He covers the Factory design pattern thoroughly in his blog post, which is recommended reading.
The Problem
I started off my IT career as a network administrator. This was back in the good old [...]

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Design Patterns – Singleton [Series][How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos on January 22, 2010

in Design Patterns, How-To, MySQL, PHP, Programming, Series, Zend Framework

A note about these series. It appears that Giorgio Sironi and I had the same idea regarding Design Patterns and blogging about them. He covers the Singleton design pattern thoroughly in his blog post, which is recommended reading.
The Problem
When I started programming in PHP I was faced with creating a simple database driven web page [...]

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Create an inexpensive hourly remote backup [How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos on January 11, 2010

in Backup, Gentoo, How-To, Installation, Linux, Storage

“There are two kinds of people, those who backup regularly, and those that never had a hard drive fail”
I love the above quote. It is so true and I believe everyone should evaluate how much their data (emails, documents, files) is worth to them and, based on that value, create a backup strategy that suits [...]

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Create a SSL Certificate (Linux) [How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos January 10, 2010

There are times that I want to set up a secure communication with the server I am working on. This might be because I want to run phpMyAdmin over SSL (I do not like unencrypted communications over the Internet), install a certificate for an eShop for a client or just for my personal use.
The first [...]

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Design Patterns – Series [Series][How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos January 6, 2010

A lot of developers – including myself – have at some point in their programming careers found themselves repeating a task that they have completed for a previous project or for a previous part of the same project.
This problem of repeating code is solved by design patterns. A design pattern is the way that the [...]

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niden.net in Technorati

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos December 28, 2009

A good friend of mine suggested that I should add my blog to Technorati for more exposure. Although I do not have any misconceptions as to whether my blog will reach the top 100 – I know it never will – it is nice to know that I am making every effort to bring people [...]

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URL Beautification [How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos December 15, 2009

The last few years I have been using Quicken to manage the home bank accounts and spending. My wife never had any problems with me doing so and it helps us manage our cash flow better. Of course like every couple we buy things that we need and always provision a small amount of money [...]

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Variables in php.ini [How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos December 11, 2009

In my workplace we have been using Zend Framework for more than a year primarily as a glue framework. We have managed to integrate a lot of components from the framework to suit our needs and slowly we are moving towards the full MVC pattern.
In the meantime our own framework, or collection of code if [...]

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Faster rsync and emerge in Gentoo [How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos December 10, 2009

Recently I have started setting up a cluster of 7 Gentoo boxes for a project I am working on. The problem with boxes coming right out of the setup process of a hosting company is that they do not contain the packages that you need. Therefore you need to setup your USE flags and emerge [...]

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The world with <angular/> Part 3 [Review][How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos December 2, 2009

Continued from Part 2
Presentation of Data
Presenting data with <angular/> is really easy. All we need to do is to tell <angular/> how we want the data to be presented and where.
From Part 2 you have seen that I have declared an entity called Incident. Also in the <body> tag I have initialized the <angular/> engine, [...]

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