From iPhone to Nexus One [Review]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos on February 28, 2010

in Google, Nexus One, Review, iPhone

References: “Leaving the iPhone” by Matt Cutts, Android Equivalency Table and “Good Things: Ubuntu and Android” by Alex Payne. I am pretty sure that there are other reviews and how-to’s on the Internet, outlining that one of the above (or none) is the killer of the other. I am just posting what I did to [...]

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Spam – oh how I hate it [Rant]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos on February 18, 2010

in Communications, Rant, Wordpress

Everyone (by now) knows what spam is and by far it is one of the most hated ‘things’ of this world. Although it comes in many forms, people tend to be a lot more sensitive to spam when it relates to their email than their snail mail or any other form of it.
Junk is junk [...]

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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 January 22, 2010

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 January 11, 2010

“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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