Programming, technology and musings.https://placona.co.uk/https://placona.co.uk/boost-domain-rating/https://placona.co.uk/boost-domain-rating/Learn how to boost your website's Domain Rating (DR) with Cloudflare Workers by setting up 301 redirects and controlling Googlebot for better SEO performance.Sun, 13 Oct 2024 20:54:42 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/modern-android-android-os-networkonmainthreadexception/https://placona.co.uk/modern-android-android-os-networkonmainthreadexception/How to deal with android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException in modern Android applicationsSun, 15 Mar 2020 16:38:42 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/modern-android-development/https://placona.co.uk/modern-android-development/Below is my series proposal for fixing the problem of too many sources of information and advocating modern Android Development one gist at a time.Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:30:42 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/building-a-video-recording-application-in-android-with-camerax/https://placona.co.uk/building-a-video-recording-application-in-android-with-camerax/In this post you will learn how to build a video recording application in Android using CameraXMon, 27 May 2019 10:41:43 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/android-jetpack-and-lifecycles/https://placona.co.uk/android-jetpack-and-lifecycles/This post highlights the benefits of using Android Jetpack and the Lifecycles components to guarantee integrity of your view's dataSat, 04 May 2019 10:41:43 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/osx-pro-tip-for-environment-variables/https://placona.co.uk/osx-pro-tip-for-environment-variables/This post will take you through the steps of using environment variables from within you Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for MacTue, 22 Nov 2016 10:41:43 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/building-a-beautifully-smart-form-in-android-using-rxjava/https://placona.co.uk/building-a-beautifully-smart-form-in-android-using-rxjava/I don't think I know a single Android developer who's not stoked about Reactive Programming with RxAndroid right now. I totally dig the idea of…Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:05:59 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/picasso-same-url-but-different-content/https://placona.co.uk/picasso-same-url-but-different-content/I love using Square's Picasso library whenever I need to load images into my Android applications. It lets me load images from the internet into…Sat, 17 Sep 2016 23:26:34 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/how-to-secure-apache-with-lets-encrypt-and-cloudflare-on-centos/https://placona.co.uk/how-to-secure-apache-with-lets-encrypt-and-cloudflare-on-centos/I took it upon myself to converting a couple of my domains to use Let's Encrypt in order to offer a secure connection to them. If you haven't heard…Mon, 28 Mar 2016 17:16:36 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/multi-line-c-sharp-strings/https://placona.co.uk/multi-line-c-sharp-strings/I’ve seen this question being asked on StackOverflow so many times I event thought about writing a bot to automatically reply to it.Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:28:01 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/im-joining-twilio/https://placona.co.uk/im-joining-twilio/So the time has come for me to move on and accept a new challenge. As of the October 20th, I'll be joining Twilio as a Developer Evangelist.Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:11:59 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/dart-pub-packages-stats/https://placona.co.uk/dart-pub-packages-stats/Modulecounts came to my attention, and I thought the idea was pretty neat.Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:56:38 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/sending-and-receiving-sms-messages-with-dart/https://placona.co.uk/sending-and-receiving-sms-messages-with-dart/How to send and receive SMS messages in Dart using the Twilio API, with a small open-source library that wraps the REST calls for you.Fri, 04 Jul 2014 11:12:32 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/creating-files-with-dart/https://placona.co.uk/creating-files-with-dart/This is a very simple example of how to create files with Dart. I am working on another example that involves file manipulation, but thought I'd quickly…Sat, 03 May 2014 23:23:43 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/dart-futures-and-http-requests/https://placona.co.uk/dart-futures-and-http-requests/I wrote a little article about how to retrieve gists from GitHub, and +Seth Ladd quite rightly pointed something out.Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:14:51 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/retrieving-githubs-gists-with-dart/https://placona.co.uk/retrieving-githubs-gists-with-dart/In this post I will show you how to retrieve GitHub gists with Dart LanguageSat, 26 Apr 2014 23:21:15 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/varnish-with-apache-and-wordpress-on-centos/https://placona.co.uk/varnish-with-apache-and-wordpress-on-centos/Varnish is wicked! It works on your webserver as a reverse proxy to cache HTTP requests. According to their website:Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:45:29 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/simple-tcp-server-with-dart-setup/https://placona.co.uk/simple-tcp-server-with-dart-setup/In this article, I will demonstrate how easy it is to create a simple TCP HTTP server with Dart.Tue, 01 Apr 2014 22:15:22 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/making-it-snow-with-dart/https://placona.co.uk/making-it-snow-with-dart/After my last example showing you how to create a matrix effect with Dart, I thought it would be cool, to follow up with another example that used the…Sun, 30 Mar 2014 20:57:06 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/matrix-effect-with-dart/https://placona.co.uk/matrix-effect-with-dart/After my last post on Dart, I decided that I wanted to write something a bit more complex using the language. I had a lot of good feedback on it, but…Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:53:51 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/a-first-look-at-dart/https://placona.co.uk/a-first-look-at-dart/A few weeks ago, I went to a Google sponsored event called Dart Flight School. The aim is to promote the language by doing a road trip and presenting…Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:28:10 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/new-teamcity-agents-the-right-way/https://placona.co.uk/new-teamcity-agents-the-right-way/How to install and register new TeamCity build agents the right way, avoiding the manual setup that breaks when you migrate CI servers.Mon, 03 Mar 2014 21:45:35 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/easy-unsubscribe-with-gounsubscribe-me/https://placona.co.uk/easy-unsubscribe-with-gounsubscribe-me/I've created a new website over the last weekend and would like to share it here with you.Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:06:42 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/java-project-skeleton/https://placona.co.uk/java-project-skeleton/I could end this post here, and people would have been satisfied to read it. However, I thought I'd add some more context, and maybe throw a little…Sun, 04 Aug 2013 01:16:44 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/uk-top-40-albums-singles-json/https://placona.co.uk/uk-top-40-albums-singles-json/So I had this idea for a little application and wanted to get the UK's Top40 singles to use in it. I started by writing something that would scrape…Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:46:10 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/want-a-free-copy-of-my-new-book/https://placona.co.uk/want-a-free-copy-of-my-new-book/No catches here, all you need to do to get a free e-copy of my new bookFri, 17 May 2013 08:24:09 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/my-nodejs-app-development-experience/https://placona.co.uk/my-nodejs-app-development-experience/So, I decided to take a punt at writing a NodeJS application. Not a big application, or anything that would get me slashdoted, but an application that…Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:27:57 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/i-am-a-published-author/https://placona.co.uk/i-am-a-published-author/A few months ago I was contacted by Packt Publishing about a new project they had in mind and thought I'd be a good fit for.Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:50:45 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/managing-your-dotfiles-the-right-way/https://placona.co.uk/managing-your-dotfiles-the-right-way/It's no secret that on the UNIX world, dotfiles play a very important part when it comes to making your terminal look good. Be it on Linux, be it on a…Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:12:09 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/installing-visual-studio-on-a-different-drive/https://placona.co.uk/installing-visual-studio-on-a-different-drive/I've got a pro license of Visual Studio 2012, and decided to install it instead of my existing VS 2010 Express install.Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:16:53 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/android-where-is-my-menu-button/https://placona.co.uk/android-where-is-my-menu-button/So you’ve created your super polished android application and added a navigation menu to it, so your users can go from a place to another in your…Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:16:54 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/making-your-jmeter-tests-timeless/https://placona.co.uk/making-your-jmeter-tests-timeless/At work, we use Apache JMeter for load testing applications or API's we build.Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:45:16 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/what-breaks-wp-super-cache/https://placona.co.uk/what-breaks-wp-super-cache/Disclaimer: This blog post is not meant to be timeless, meaning it will lose its relevancy as soon as the stuff I'll mention below gets updated. I will…Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:09:52 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/finite-image-slider/https://placona.co.uk/finite-image-slider/I've been asked to come up with an image slider prototype for something new we were doing at work.Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:08:25 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/enterprise-queuing-applications/https://placona.co.uk/enterprise-queuing-applications/At work, we've decided to start using enterprise queuing applications for ease of communication between our ColdFusion and .Net projects.Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:30:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/upgrading-castle-from-2-1-to-2-5/https://placona.co.uk/upgrading-castle-from-2-1-to-2-5/I was recently working on a .Net project that uses Castle as it's IoC Container. At some point I realized it would be beneficial to have Castle running…Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:16:46 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/mobile-tablet-development-my-saga-1/https://placona.co.uk/mobile-tablet-development-my-saga-1/So I believe by my last posts here you may have guessed I've been doing lots of mobile development in the last few months.Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:27:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/e4x-and-xml-with-namespaces/https://placona.co.uk/e4x-and-xml-with-namespaces/Here's is something that got me scratching my head for a little while today while working on my new mobile application.Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:05:36 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/background-colour-in-a-label-control-in-as3/https://placona.co.uk/background-colour-in-a-label-control-in-as3/This is just a quick example of how to add a background colour to a label control in AS3.Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:33:52 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/sqlite-databases-and-mobile-applications-a-caveat/https://placona.co.uk/sqlite-databases-and-mobile-applications-a-caveat/As some of you might have noticed, I have been building some mobile applications lately on my spare time specifically for the Blackberry Playbook . They…Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:18:41 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/quick-tip-on-flash-builder-and-application-internationalization/https://placona.co.uk/quick-tip-on-flash-builder-and-application-internationalization/I'm building a new Blackberry Playbook app, and when starting to work with internationalization, I got stuck with a bug that wouldn't go away. I'm…Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:58:10 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/nifty-jquery-tricks-ajax-events/https://placona.co.uk/nifty-jquery-tricks-ajax-events/As previously mentioned on my other post, I'm working on improving usability and user experience within one of our applications.Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:00:37 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/nifty-jquery-tricks-avoid-cache/https://placona.co.uk/nifty-jquery-tricks-avoid-cache/I found this two function yesterday while working on one of our applications.Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:19:19 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/mysql-killed-my-hamster/https://placona.co.uk/mysql-killed-my-hamster/I've run some updates on my server today, and got prompted to upgrade mySQL.Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:56:51 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/android-and-what-ive-been-up-to/https://placona.co.uk/android-and-what-ive-been-up-to/I jumped into the Android bandwagon about two months ago, and so far I can't cease to be impressed.Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:20:18 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/moving-svn-folders/https://placona.co.uk/moving-svn-folders/Moving a folder in Subversion is not a drag and drop job. Here is how to relocate an SVN folder properly with svn move so you keep its history.Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:32:42 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/changing-authentication-settings-tortoisesvn/https://placona.co.uk/changing-authentication-settings-tortoisesvn/I've had my virtual machine (the one I use for development) rebuilt today, and to minimize overhead, we simply cloned a VM that had the desired settings.Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:51:48 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/getting-serial-ports-to-work-on-linux/https://placona.co.uk/getting-serial-ports-to-work-on-linux/How to get a PCI RS232 serial port card recognised and working on Ubuntu Linux, including the kernel modules and device permissions you need.Sun, 09 May 2010 20:09:11 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/migrating-mango-blog-to-wordpress/https://placona.co.uk/migrating-mango-blog-to-wordpress/As previously promised , today I'll be publishing my migration scrips from Mango Blog to WordPress .Mon, 03 May 2010 11:00:48 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/a-change-is-always-welcome/https://placona.co.uk/a-change-is-always-welcome/I've been procrastinating for too long, and somehow trying to avoid the inevitable. As must of you might have noticed, it's been a long time I don't…Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:00:59 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/how-to-return-tag-contents-with-regular-expressions/https://placona.co.uk/how-to-return-tag-contents-with-regular-expressions/As most of you already know, I LOVE regular expressions, and think they are great to solve simple and complex tasks involving strings.Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/first-flex-4-book-released/https://placona.co.uk/first-flex-4-book-released/The first Flex 4 book (Hello! Flex 4) has just been released this month in the UK. I haven't read it yet, so no way I could give any reviews on it, but…Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/date-formatting-with-flex/https://placona.co.uk/date-formatting-with-flex/I've been working with some Adobe Flex recently, and was having some trouble formatting dates. For those who don't know, here (in th UK) we use the…Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/flash-on-the-iphone/https://placona.co.uk/flash-on-the-iphone/Not really Flash running from websites on the browser, but at the MAX Conference 2009 that is happening this week, Adobe has just broken the news that…Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/iptables-opening-server-ports-to-specific-ip-addresses/https://placona.co.uk/iptables-opening-server-ports-to-specific-ip-addresses/I have been doing some housekeeping on my VPS, and decided there's a few ports that should only be accessed by certain IP addresses for security purposes.Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/updating-java-on-centos/https://placona.co.uk/updating-java-on-centos/I'm only writing this blog post because I usually try to keep my VPS up to date, and usually one of the things I have to do to accomplish such thing is…Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/a-more-elaborated-jquery-drag-drop-cloning/https://placona.co.uk/a-more-elaborated-jquery-drag-drop-cloning/I've decided to get back at jQuery draggable and droppable to a personal project I've been working on. In the past, I've demonstrated how to do basic…Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/sticky-javascript-persistence/https://placona.co.uk/sticky-javascript-persistence/On my last blog post I explained how to create a drag and drop using cloning, so you can can drag & drop multiple objectsMon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/recursively-delete-folders-with-python/https://placona.co.uk/recursively-delete-folders-with-python/At work we've been doing some deploy optimization, and the need of automatically deleting (recursively) specific folders came up.Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/auto-generating-dtds/https://placona.co.uk/auto-generating-dtds/I've used this DTD generator tool a long time ago, but today I had to use it again, so I thought I should put an entry on my blog about it and keep it…Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/speed-up-yor-website-part-2-the-free-cdn/https://placona.co.uk/speed-up-yor-website-part-2-the-free-cdn/To continue with our series of website optimization tricks, I'll talk a little bit more about Content Delivery Network (CDN) , and will talk you though…Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/speed-up-yor-website-part-1/https://placona.co.uk/speed-up-yor-website-part-1/Assets such as stylesheets, images and videos are often the major hit taken by a webserver when a webpage is loaded. I'm often trying to improve my page…Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/google-chrome-os-and-e-few-more-changes/https://placona.co.uk/google-chrome-os-and-e-few-more-changes/Yesterday the Google team posted an entry on all their blogs about a new operating system that is to come. They are going to call it Google Chrome OS.Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/apache-101-are-you-rotating-your-logs/https://placona.co.uk/apache-101-are-you-rotating-your-logs/It came to my attention today that my website was serving blank pages, and I got really intrigued with it. I checked the memory, and everything was…Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/apache-101-avoiding-duplicate-content-on-your-domain/https://placona.co.uk/apache-101-avoiding-duplicate-content-on-your-domain/Did you know that search engines consider things like https://www.placona.co.uk/index.cfm and https://placona.co.uk/index.cfm as duplicate content? It…Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/apache-101-case-insensitive-url-s/https://placona.co.uk/apache-101-case-insensitive-url-s/How to make Apache URLs case insensitive using mod_speling and mod_rewrite, so visitors reach your pages whatever case they type.Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/installing-yum-on-centos-5/https://placona.co.uk/installing-yum-on-centos-5/This is really for my future reference, but I thought someone would bump into that any time. I'm configuring a new CentOS 5 server and for my surprise…Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/full-google-mail-smtp-power-for-your-domain/https://placona.co.uk/full-google-mail-smtp-power-for-your-domain/I've recently been playing with Google apps for domains, where it lets you create Gmail based emails for your domain. Basically you can configure Google…Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/apache-101-cache-control/https://placona.co.uk/apache-101-cache-control/Continuing with my Apache series, I'll be today talking about cache control.Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/sync-your-outlook-or-google-calendar-with-the-iphone/https://placona.co.uk/sync-your-outlook-or-google-calendar-with-the-iphone/How to sync your Outlook or Google Calendar with an iPhone so meetings and appointments stay up to date across both devices.Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/apache-101-compressing-files/https://placona.co.uk/apache-101-compressing-files/I'm going to start a server configuration series here, where I'll be talking about my goals and frustrations when configuring my own webserver. As most…Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/learning-jquery-1-3-book-review/https://placona.co.uk/learning-jquery-1-3-book-review/Book reviewer Marcos Placona | Publisher: Packt. Author(s): Jonathan Chaffer, Karl SwedbergSat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/the-day-finally-came/https://placona.co.uk/the-day-finally-came/And of course I was out of the country and then too busy to even read anything about it.Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/so-what-else-do-you-need-then/https://placona.co.uk/so-what-else-do-you-need-then/Last week it came to my attention that ColdFusion is being used by 75 of the Fortune 100 companies . Then, I was also informed that ColdFusion was…Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/jquery-ui-1-7-1-released/https://placona.co.uk/jquery-ui-1-7-1-released/The jQuery UI team have done it again. This Friday is only a point release to the jQuery UI 1.7 released last week but with some great improvements.Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/jquery-ui-updates/https://placona.co.uk/jquery-ui-updates/The jQuery UI team has just started a weekly series on what's happening with jQuery UI.Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/jquery-ui-1-6-book-review/https://placona.co.uk/jquery-ui-1-6-book-review/Book reviewer Marcos Placona | Publisher: Packt. Author(s): Dan WellmanWed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/my-top-favourite-twitter-tools/https://placona.co.uk/my-top-favourite-twitter-tools/UPDATEI'm constantly finding new tools that help me to use my twitter account in a better way. Some of the tools are really great, but I can't be…Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/windows-mobile-on-the-iphone-hoax/https://placona.co.uk/windows-mobile-on-the-iphone-hoax/I've just seen this video and thought I'd share it with my few readers. It appears that a Norwegian lad found a way to boot Windows Mobile OS on the…Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/jquery-ui-1-7-released/https://placona.co.uk/jquery-ui-1-7-released/The jQuery UI team has marked a major milestone for the UI. Today they released version 1.7 with some nice updates, and also put their own dedicated…Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/tip-of-the-day-regular-expression-generator/https://placona.co.uk/tip-of-the-day-regular-expression-generator/I have just came across this very nice service which promises to write Regular Expressions for you.Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/quick-and-dirty-jquery-drag-drop/https://placona.co.uk/quick-and-dirty-jquery-drag-drop/I feel kinda bad to be calling this dirty, but mind you, I'm only using dirty as an expression, as it's freaking sweet.Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/adobe-air-1-5-1-released/https://placona.co.uk/adobe-air-1-5-1-released/I know I'm a bit late on this one, but yesterday Adobe released AIR 1.5.1 with a few bug fixes and one "minor-albeit useful-new feature." as they say.Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/things-you-may-not-know-about-jquery/https://placona.co.uk/things-you-may-not-know-about-jquery/I just came across this very interesting list of things you can do with jQuery .Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/a-few-new-year-s-resolutions/https://placona.co.uk/a-few-new-year-s-resolutions/Well, I've never publicly done this before, as I though it was a little too personal, but this year I decided to try it.Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/10-dropbox-invites/https://placona.co.uk/10-dropbox-invites/Just a quick post to say that I have 10 7 dropbox invites I'm willing to give to anyone able to tell me why I should give it away.Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/learning-jquery-book-review/https://placona.co.uk/learning-jquery-book-review/Book reviewer Marcos Placona | Publisher: Packt. Author(s): Jonathan Chaffer and Karl SwedbergFri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/how-i-treat-the-links-on-my-blog-with-jquery/https://placona.co.uk/how-i-treat-the-links-on-my-blog-with-jquery/This is a very quick and dirty example of how to treat links on your blog / website using JQuery.Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/javascript-saves-the-day-again/https://placona.co.uk/javascript-saves-the-day-again/As some of you know, one of my hobbies is electronics with micro controller usage, and I happen to use an electronics forum a lot when I'm losing hair…Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/as3-my-own-implementation-of-capfirst/https://placona.co.uk/as3-my-own-implementation-of-capfirst/I'm just studying a little bit of Flex and Action Script 3. Basically to be able to build some tiny gadgets using Apollo.Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/flash-player-for-linux/https://placona.co.uk/flash-player-for-linux/Adobe released the Flash Player for Linux, closing a long-standing gap for Linux desktop users. A short note on what it meant at the time.Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/ripping-mp3-s-on-ubuntu/https://placona.co.uk/ripping-mp3-s-on-ubuntu/Ripping CDs to MP3 on Ubuntu: the codecs and tools you need to get usable audio files out of a disc on a Linux desktop.Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/mozilla-firefox-3-alpha-1-ready-to-be-downloaded/https://placona.co.uk/mozilla-firefox-3-alpha-1-ready-to-be-downloaded/Yes, it seems that Mozilla just released the new version of Firefox codenamed Gran Paradiso.Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/wireless-now-working-on-ubuntu/https://placona.co.uk/wireless-now-working-on-ubuntu/As previously said I was having some kind of troubles with my wireless connection on Ubuntu.Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/ubuntu-experience/https://placona.co.uk/ubuntu-experience/Following the last post about network problems and dodgy Firewalls. This time I decided to install Ubuntu on my laptop. I have to be honest saying that…Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/breaking-the-network/https://placona.co.uk/breaking-the-network/I recently bought a brand new Compaq Presario desktop to my new flat. For the first week living there I was just using my laptop (also a Compaq…Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/what-s-jrun-s-name/https://placona.co.uk/what-s-jrun-s-name/Just found it on my old ColdFusion installation and thought it might be useful for someone in a multiple Jrun installations environment.Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMThttps://placona.co.uk/tokenizing-a-string-with-java/https://placona.co.uk/tokenizing-a-string-with-java/As everybody knows, this Blog should show my studies integrating CFML with other technologies. Today I was playing with the Java class arrayList() and…Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT