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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The world with <angular/> Part 2 [Review][How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos December 1, 2009

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, wildlife groups, nature centers [...]

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The world with <angular/> Part 1 [Review][How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos December 1, 2009

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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Chromium OS Part 3 [How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos November 24, 2009

Continuing from Part 2.
I had to shut the computer down because I had a train to catch. However booting up again the computer on the train and trying to enter the chroot environment produced some errors. It might very well be the fact that I do not have an Internet connection (at least a reliable [...]

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Chromium OS Part 2 [How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos November 24, 2009

Continuing from Part 1.
The download took quite a while, so I thought it might be a good idea to split this post in parts, so as to ensure good readability.
I need to create some symlinks. Also a good place to add my repository is /usr/local hence the commands for Chromium OS and Chromium respectively.
sudo mv [...]

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Chromium OS Part 1 [How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos November 24, 2009

A lot of hype has been generated on the Internet a few months back regarding Google’s announcement that they are building a new operating system. The announcement was met with skepticism but also enthusiasm/anticipation by a lot of people who are puzzled as to what direction Google is taking and where are they looking themselves [...]

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Google Paid Storage [Review]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos November 18, 2009

A week or so ago I read a blog post in my Google Reader about Google providing now more storage for less money.
To be quite frank I did not read the whole post but I did get the message. Google was offering 10GB for $20.00 and now they are offering 20GB for $5.00. This extra [...]

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Test Driven Development [How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos November 16, 2009

I am curious by nature. This is probably one of my best attributes as a person, since I can never rest until I find out ‘what this thing is’ or ‘what is it used for’. This curiosity comes in handy in the programming world.
By being curious, one cannot rest on their laurels and will always [...]

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New blog

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos November 16, 2009

Hello everyone,
I finally gave in and decided to become a bit serious with my blog. I have been trying to find time to update this website for years and finally decided I cannot procrastinate any more.
So welcome to my new site. I have installed the latest and greatest Wordpress version and although I have never [...]

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