From the monthly archives:

December 2009

niden.net in Technorati

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos on December 28, 2009

in Technorati

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 on December 15, 2009

in How-To,Input,PHP,Programming,URL,Zend Framework,mod_rewrite

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 on December 11, 2009

in How-To,PHP,Programming,Zend Framework

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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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Continued from Part 1 The Wildlife Rescue League application Design For those that do not know, the Wildlife Rescue League is a non-profit organization providing care for sick, injured and orphaned wildlife in order to return them to the wild. Our licensed rehabilitators, located throughout Virginia and suburban Maryland, work with animal shelters, humane societies, [...]

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If you haven’t heard about <angular/>, this article is intended to give you a brief overview of the features and functionality that it exposes. <angular/> is a declarative programming language that provides the programmer with a wealth of tools using a simplistic model. <angular/> lives in the HTML file and references all the necessary libraries [...]

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