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Netbeans 7.1 integration in Unity

Romeo Adrian Cioaba — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:18:20 +0000

Go to Tools -> Plugins -> Settings -> Add

Name: Java Ayanata
URL: http://java-swing-ayatana.googlecode.com/files/netbeans-catalog.xml

then install the plugin

more details: http://danjared.wordpress.com/netbeans/

Create PDF from multiple image files on Linux

Romeo Adrian Cioaba — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:09:58 +0000

I had a bunch of image files A01.jpg, A02.jpg and so forth that i needed created into a PDF. ImageMagick to the rescue:

cd /path/to/jpgs
convert -define pdf:use-trimbox=true *.jpg batbox.pdf

Sublime text 2 Unity Launcher

Romeo Adrian Cioaba — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:01:11 +0000

I've looked into Sublime text 2 today, mostly unhappy with the speed Java based IDEs have on linux 64bit. When launching it, although I chose "keep in launcher", the icon does not stay there, so i created a custom launcher.

Create a file sublime2.desktop and save it in ~/.local/share/applications. The file should look like this:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Sublime Text Editor
Comment=Sublime Text Editor
Exec="/usr/bin/sublime" %F
MimeType=text/plain;
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/home/mimir/sublime.png
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;TextEditor;Development;Utility;

You can find the link to the icon here: http://d2o0t5hpnwv4c1.cloudfront.net/1038_sublime/sublime.png

Make sure to change the Exec path, to where you have installed Sublime2. I've installed in /opt but i've symlinked in /usr/bin

Perl recursive replace in files

Romeo Adrian Cioaba — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:27:21 +0000

While working on a ZF application, i had some models under the wrong namespace, and changing all the files from Default namespace to Application would have taken me ages. After a bit of google-ing i've found this great perl onliner:

perl -p -i -e 's/Default_/Application_/g' `find ./ -name '*.php'`

Install synergy client on Lion

Romeo Adrian Cioaba — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:55:22 +0000

I do most of my work on my Ubuntu laptop but i also have one mac mini next to it so i can debug websites in Safari or iPhone/iPad. In Snow Leopard i had setup synergy server on the laptop and the client on my mac, and i could easily use laptop's mouse and keyboard to control both machines. Here is how you can setup this:

On Ubuntu machine (server):

# install synergy 1.3.6 (other versions seem to have all sort of bugs)
# if 1.3.6 is not in repo anymore, check the download page: http://synergy-foss.org/download/
sudo apt-get install synergy

Now create the server config file (you might need to adapt this according to your setup


section: screens
	orion:
	io.local:
		ctrl = super
		alt = alt
		super = ctrl
end
section: options
        mousebutton(7) = keystroke(control+right)
	mousebutton(6) = keystroke(control+left)

end
section: links
       orion:
           left = io.local
       io.local:
           right = orion

Add this line to startup:

/usr/bin/synergys --config /home//synergy.conf -f

On Mac mini (client):
First of all, you'll need to install brew, if you haven't already (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/). For that check the installation at: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation

After you have brew installed open a terminal and install synergy:

brew install synergy

Now create a .profile file in your home directory and add:

if [ "$(pidof synergyc)" ]
then
    echo "Synergy is already started";
else
    /usr/local/bin/synergyc 
fi

First and last day of the month in PHP

Romeo Adrian Cioaba — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:25:40 +0000

I've been working with dates today and i've found a pretty neat snippet to show the first and the last day of the month using php

		$firstDoM = date("Y-m-01"); //01 -> first day of month
		$lastDoM = date("Y-m-t"); //t -> last day of month

Force IE to use the latest engine

Romeo Adrian Cioaba — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:37:36 +0000

If by some unknown reason IE8/9/10 are rendering your site in compatibility mode, ie IE7 mode or something lame like that, just force it to use the latest engine available:

note that the code added right before the doctype declaration. the using_ie() boolean function below (credits to Simeon for this solution: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.get-browser.php#101314)

function using_ie()
{
    $u_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
    $ub = False;
    if(preg_match('/MSIE/i',$u_agent))
    {
        $ub = True;
    } 

    return $ub;
}

Magento get all products

Romeo Adrian Cioaba — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:00:40 +0000

Here is an easy way to return all the products from a magento store.

$collection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')
                        ->getCollection()
                        ->addAttributeToSelect('*');

foreach ($collection as $product) {
    echo $product->getName() . "
";
}

HTTP response headers in Zend Framework

Romeo Adrian Cioaba — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:17:58 +0000

I needed to display a Zend Framework generated PDF using the browser plugins and after a bit of looking around it turns out that some headers need to be set in order to achieve that.

$this->getResponse()
     ->setHeader('Content-Disposition', 'inline; filename=invoice.pdf')
     ->setHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-pdf');

If you'd want to automatically download the PDF instead of displaying it using the browser plugins, you need to change the 'Content-Disposition' as follows:

$this->getResponse()
     ->setHeader('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename=invoice.pdf')
     ->setHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-pdf');

Switch layouts in Zend Framework

Romeo Adrian Cioaba — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:28:59 +0000

If you have a larger Zend Framework application, you probably want to you use a layout for more of your pages. For instance you'd need at least two layouts: one for a backend and another one for frontend. In order to tell ZF to use layouts, you'll need to set the layout paths in your application.ini

In order to store the layouts in /application/layouts/scripts, add the following to /application/configs/application.ini

resources.layout.layoutpath = APPLICATION_PATH "/layouts/scripts"

You can now create several layouts, something around this model:




    
    headTitle() ?>
    headScript() ?>
    headStyle() ?>


    render('header.phtml') ?>

    layout()->content ?>

    render('footer.phtml') ?>

By default, your application will use the layout in /application/layouts/scripts/layout.phtml, but if you want some pages to be rendered using another layout you can tell ZF to do so like this:

// Within controller
// note that the file that's going to be rendered is /application/layouts/scripts/backend.phtml
$this->_helper->_layout->setLayout('backend')

//Within view script
$this->layout()->setLayout('other-layout'); ?>

More info on using Zend_Layout: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.layout.quickstart.html