Mind the gap

Tarball from Arch archive

To create a tarball from your Arch project development version or stable you need to just run following command from project tree: tla inventory -sB my-project | tar -czf my-project.some-info.tar.gz –no-recursion -T-

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Say “Bye-Bye to GNU Arch!”

If you used GNU Arch some time and then decided to move to Subversion, for example, this tip for you. To delete all files and directories related with Arch run a following command in the your project tree: find . \( -name “{arch}” -o -name “.arch-ids” -o -name “.arch-inventory” \) -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf After that it’ll be like new one 🙂

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Dual-core desktop duel: AMD vs. Intel

Regarding an article Dual-core desktop duel: AMD vs. Intel it seems AMD is a currently winner! It won 7 rounds: Day-to-day, Gaming, Multitasking, Photo editing, MP3 encoding, Video and Value. I like AMD. My the first PC based on AMD K2 🙂 My God! It was 8 years ago! So, my last PC with Intel inside but new will be with AMD I think.

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SugarCRM: upgrade wizard

Today I decided to use SugarCRM upgrade wizard (which exists since version 3.5) to setup a new language pack. During uploading the language pack archive I got an error message: Abort pclzip.lib.php : Missing zlib extensions The problem was in absence of zlib – PHP extention which processes ZIP files. To add this feature PHP should be recompiled with option ‘–with-zlib’. I had PHP 5.0.4 […]

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Inside del.icio.us

Today I was surprised when I tried to add a new bookmark. I saw del.icio.us error page instead of adding form. This gave me food for thought. Ok, first of all, del.icio.us is developed on Mason which is one of the most famous Perl frameworks to build dynamic web sites. Second, del.icio.us developers release untested very well code in production which is a common situation. […]

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My first Perl one-line script

Once I found cool articles about using Perl in command line. Today I created my own one line script. By some reason Apache 2 escape \n and \t in its log: tail -f /var/log/httpd/videoguide-error_log [Tue Dec 13 23:46:26 2005] [error] [4401]ERR: 24: Error in Perl code: VG::Users can’t SELECT id\nFROM Users\nWHERE login = ?\n: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Unknown column ‘login’ in ‘where clause’ [for Statement […]

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Foto: Moscow view

Just a one view from the window in all seasons.

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Wiki + Ttracking System = Trac

Trac is wiki and issue tracking system in one. It’s developed on Python and supports PostgreSQL and MySQL. The one of the most famous tracking system is RT and wiki – DokuWiki. I use both of them and I can say they are excellant production. Generally, it’s a good idea to combine them in one application. Hope Trac absorb the best features from both.

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