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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 them. I know for sure that if I ever lost the pictures and videos of my family I would be devastated since those are irreplaceable.

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Anyone that has a Google Apps account and wants to access other services like Google Reader, Google Voice etc. knows that the username and password of the Google Apps account does not work for these services, since those are not available for Google Apps accounts. To get around this limitation, what you could do (and what [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos on January 10, 2010

in Gentoo,How-To,Linux,SSL

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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