Archive for November, 2008

Netbook remix on the Aspire one

Posted in linux on Saturday, November 15th, 2008. Comments Off

I’ve got myself an Aspire One, the basic model, 8G SSD and 512m RAM, here’s how I have setup ubuntu with netbook-remix on it. This setup fit my needs better than the default linpus install, and it look way better IMHO.

Main installation

The first step is to have a working Ubuntu, just follow the instructions at

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne110L

With [...]

Symfony 1.2beta and Doctrine ORM

Posted in php on Thursday, November 6th, 2008. Comments Off

Some days ago I was scouring the web, trying to find some example on how to use Symfony 1.2beta with Doctrine. I have found the perfect example, and it’s from a member of both the Symfony team & Doctrine team, I couldn’t have asked for more, how great!

Thanks to JWage, he have made available the [...]

UTF8 and PHP5

Posted in php on Sunday, November 2nd, 2008. Comments Off

So you’re working with a website and then you learn that some of the content will have to be in a foreign language. You’ve heard about utf-8 and all the goods it can do for you so you’ve decided to switch some stuff to utf-8.

Wrong! You can’t just convert some stuff. If you’re really serious [...]