A quick hack to display the current medal count from the winter Olympics using a Raspberry Pi and a 7-segment display.

So, as most of you know PHP 5.5.x has deprecated the original MySQL extension, and instead we should be using  MySQLi or PDO_MySQL extensions. Here I will show you how to use MySQLi to query the database. I will cover the basic SELECT statement with and without prepared statements, and will show you

Recently I had to make use of templates in PHP, and as a lot of people on StackOverflow ([1], [2]) suggested “you don’t need another templating engine like Smarty on top of PHP,  as PHP itself is a templating engine”. So, I ended up making a simple function which looks like this: [

Today I’ll turn you into a decorator. Let’s build a house and decorated it.First things first… the house. In my world it’s very simple to build a house, just call the function build_house().After the “construction”, in order to live there, we need to turn it cozier. For this effect we can call a dec

I used to specify per-host entries in ~/.ssh/config file, but I recently found an excellent and automatic solution:Place each key in a directory named after its host and user, like:~/.ssh/ids/github.com/git/id_rsa~/.ssh/ids/myhost/me/id_rsa~/.ssh/ids/myhost/mygf/id_rsaThen set up ~/.ssh/config file

1. Weird 'connection reset' problems with Google sitesI recently bought a new Windows laptop for my Mum, and she immediately complained about not being able to reach neither Google nor GMail with any browser. Interestingly, all other sites (including competing search engines) were working fine and I

This summer my old friend motivated me to restart demoscene activity and I started coding a 4k intro for x86 Linux (which was supposed to be released at WeCan'2012, but we missed the deadline). This is an ongoing work, but I decided to share some experience that I consider interesting. 1. Even C is

One of the things I have seen people applaud about Python is its “namedtuple” class. If you could describe this in terms of .Net’s Tuple (and ) it would be to basically say that it’s the same as Tuple, but if instead of “Item1” on Tuple you got “Name” or “Age” or whatever […]CodeProject-->

This blog will go into advanced topics that need consideration when moving a LAMP stack to a scaled architecture.

In the two-part series on scaling PHP applications, this part will focus on replacing Apache.