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August 11, 2015

MySQL's GROUP_CONCAT limitations and cascading bad luck

We had an incident today over at Teamup (where I have worked for the last 9 months by the way:) which is worth a quick blog post if it helps save anyone from having a bad day. We are using MySQL's...

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December 13, 2012

Writing games for fun

GitHub organized a Game Off - or a game competition - back in November. The contest ran for a month and its only limitations were that the game runs in a browser and relate somewhat to...

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April 13, 2011

Terminal (Bash) arguments tricks

Reading David DeSandro's last post on how to store strings in variables in terminal, or any bash-y shell (I'd say any unix shell but I'm sure there is a weird one out there that does things...

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October 7, 2010

Speaking at the IPC and WebTechCon

Next week the International PHP Conference and the WebTechCon will happen both in Mainz, Germany. I will speak at both events over the three days and the good news is that the combined 100 sessions...

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June 2, 2010

HTML5 my ads

First came Flash. Then came advertisers that thought it'd be great to abuse it. Then came Flashblocktm and friends. The geeks don't like Flash, it's evil. Now the iPhone & iPad don't have Flash,...

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November 28, 2008

The joys of user stylesheets

User stylesheets are a way to inject some CSS in all the sites you visit, each browser has his own way of setting it up (if you use opera step 2 there should be replaced with: "Tools > Preferences...

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August 2, 2008

Installing Habari on Lighttpd

Just a small post about Habari installation over Lighttpd, since it is not really documented anywhere that I could find. I will assume that you know how to run php scripts on your server, and start...

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