A few of my recent laser cutter projects, have required that I cut some text out of the material. When you cut in to the material using normal font like Arial or Helvetica, the center parts of letters such as “O” and “P” fallout and looks horrible. The inner parts of the font is called “counters“. In typography, [...]
I got my new shinny Raspberry PI a few days ago, and got some time to play with it today. I am a windows guy by default and this is my first adventure in to the world of Linux. While getting everything started it up I ran in to these questions. [Q] I have a 700 [...]
I started searching for a LED to use in this project. Normally I would go to my local electronics supply story, but this project requires lots (~64) of LEDs and my local electronics store charges a premium for the LEDs, (@1.50 each) and I know I can get them for cheaper then that. What type [...]
Problem: I had about ~50 PDF documents that I needed to print but the local print shop charges $2 for every file opened. Most of these documents where only 2-3 pages long. Opening the files would cost me $100 and printing the documents would only cost $10. Solution: I found this great post with a Java application that [...]
Canon S90 CHDK CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kit) is a community build open source alternative firmware for canon cameras. CHDK features are; RAW files, bracketing, full manual control over exposure, Zebra-Mode, Live histogram, Grids, and most important scripting. Upgrading to this custom firmware can be tricky but they have tried to make it as easy as possibly with the application CardTricks. I have installed this firmware on several [...]
By default whenever you make a change to a MySQL database it creates a log of the query and stores it in a file simlare to ‘mysql-bin.000001′ . The MySQL database does this so that you can recover or replicate a database. Most applications this is a good things to have enabled just like doing regular backups. If you want to disable [...]
Instructions on how to fix your computer, install windows applications on your mac, Hack someones Facebook, and make a million dollars from a World of warcraft clone. Step 1. Get a fork… it should be about 4-6″ long made of metal and not too sharp. Step 2. Place in right hand with point end facing up. Ensure that you got [...]
YES All metals are conductive to electricity. If you mean conductive to heat, every material is conductive to heat…it just depends how much. Aluminum is one of the best conductors of heat. Most electronics-oriented heat sinks are made out of aluminum, because it transfers heat so well.
I been having reports from my users that they are getting randomly logged out of my web applications. After much debugging I found that CakePHP regenerates the session on every request. File: core.php /** * The level of CakePHP security. The session timeout time defined * in ‘Session.timeout’ is multiplied according to the settings here. * Valid values: [...]
When upgrading an old web application to start using CakePHP but the old systems was riddled with invalid data. When the creating the CRUD system I need a way of updating this invalid data. The following line of code will disable the validation in the controller. $this->Story->validate = array(); // Stop valadation on the story. Source: Cakephp Save [...]
This is how you add well formated meta tags to a cakephp views even thou the meta tags are rendered in the layout. In the head section of your layout, add this line: <?php echo $scripts_for_layout ?> And in the view template you can call the meta HTML helper function to dynamticly add tags and [...]
Question: setFlash() no longer showing up on the page. Why ? $this->Session->setFlash(“Hello world”); Answer As of CakePHP version 1.2 you need to tell the template where to put the flash message <?php $session->check(‘Message.flash’)) { $session->flash(); } ?>
Find the bug in the following code and win a prize. Its obvious once you find it. CSharp programmers are asked not to mock c++ in this thread. #include “stdafx.h” #include <string.h> #include <stdio.h> #define USHORT unsigned short #define BYTE unsigned char USHORT ConvertHexToBytes( /* IN */ char * hex, /* IN */ const USHORT [...]
If you run a website that has a contacts form or any other input from users. sooner or later you will start getting attacked by internet robot zombies. What is a “internet robot zombies” you ask? Well lets break it up a little bit. A robot is a program that someone has written, that searches [...]
I’m just starting to learn CakePHP 1.2 and I am running in to small little problems. As I find solutions I write them down so people after me might have an easier time finding them. Problem: Warning (512): Method HtmlHelper::file does not exist Warning (512): Method HtmlHelper::submit does not exist Solution: Those methods have been [...]
Push for web apps Currently there is a real push for everything to work in a browser, thin clients. For example; Email, Word processors (like Google docs), calendars, contact lists, router administration ect. It makes sense since everyone has a browsers, they all work relatively the same and its cross platform, plus its available anywhere [...]
Have you ever wanted to create a RSS feed just for a perpendicular category in wordpress? Say for example that you run an artiest website like my friend Camilla d’Errico. You want to send your users updates about upcoming shows but you don’t want to send them all the status updates and other blog posts. [...]
After the first time my computer crashed and i lost 3 months of work, I started religiously making backups of everything, dialy, weekly quarterly backups of all my data. Its become an obsession of mine, before I start a project I always make sure that there is a recovery procedure. For source code and documents [...]
The default action for vista power button is to put your computer to sleep. I found this to be infurating while working on my laptop. instead of shutting down like i would expect it to my laptop would go in to sleep mode and slowly dran the battiers till it was dead. After a little [...]
I create a lot of windows application to make things easier for my customers. The simple act of coping a file from an email to a certain directory can become the most complicated tasks for a certain type of customer. I use an Scriptable Install System provided by NullSoft called NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). [...]