Technology/Internet Archives

General

February 2, 2015 By wildeng

Merging pdf files into a single one Merging pdf files has never been so simple using Ghostscript from command line in both Linux and OsX. Just open a console and type: gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=<yourfile.pdf> <your_list_of_pdfs> This command will merge pdf files your_list_of_pdfs into a single file called yourfile.pdf. So easy, […]

General

SEO tools for beginners

January 30, 2015 By wildeng

Online SEO tools Hello folks, I want to share with all of you a couple of SEO tools I started using the past days. Simple and practical stuff available for free. SEO tools list Google Trends: Google Trends is a nice way to find out which are the search volumes for the chosen keywords; it […]

Programming

HTML5 you’re ready!

October 31, 2014 By wildeng

After many years W3C puts its official stamp on HTML5 which has been widely used in these past years by a lot of developers fascinated by its promise of develop once deploy anywhere. In its post about HTML5, W3C says that according to a Vision Mobile Survey, 42% out of 10.000 interviewed developers are using the combination of […]

Linux tips

Shellshock bug Here’s How To Patch It – ReadWrite

September 27, 2014 By wildeng

I wanted to write a small article on how to fix “Shellshock” bug on Apple OSX, but there are many around the net. I found this one on ReadWrite and I think that it’s well written and easy to understand! “Apple is aware of the bash “Shellshock” bug that affects OS X users, and issued […]

OSX

How to activate a personal web projects folder for Apache on Mac

September 2, 2014 By wildeng

Hi all, My faithful Sony Vaio equipped with Ubuntu 14.04 after some honourable years, stopped working properly; since I’m a developer and I need a computer to work, I decided to move into the Mac world. One of the first things I had to learn, was how to start and stop apache properly and how […]

General

Introductory Linux Course on edX

March 26, 2014 By wildeng

The Linux Foundation announced that it will offer its 60 hours introductory course ( normally charged US$2500) for free on edX platform. The course should start on the 3rd Quarter of 2014, as stated in its page on edX website and it will be available for anyone having an internet connection. More explanations here on […]

Javascript tips

Create a basic slide show with JQuery and CSS

September 28, 2013 By wildeng

Hello folks, Today I’d like to talk about how I used jQuery , HTML and CSS to build a simple slide show. Obviously this is only a wire frame so, it’s up to you making it beautiful!! So, open your favourite editor and let’s start. The problem: At job I had to display a bunch […]

Javascript tips

Using Node.js and Twitter Stream API

May 30, 2013 By wildeng

Hello folks, I know I don’t have a frequent blogging experience, but my second son just arrived and being a dad is not so easy so, I didn’t have too much time to write. During the small amount of time left , I tried out Node.js a powerful platform built on Chrome JavaScript’s runtime, which […]

Programming

Functional tests using Devise gem and Declarative authorization gem

April 9, 2013 By wildeng

Hello, During these past days, I’ve been busy in writing test methods to check the reliability of a web application I’m working on, and I had to face many different problems; the main one was gathering information about writing good tests and the tools used to do it, while another one was how to test […]

Javascript tips

Force a file download after an ajax request

January 26, 2013 By wildeng

Hello, Today I’d like to show you how to force the download of a file using an ajax request, since I think that this is a common problem. Because of the nature of ajax, it’s not possible to download a file during an asynchronous request. What can be done instead is using a combination of […]