A new series by Transition bikes with Lars Sternberg. With all the attention DH is getting it is nice to see a project about trails.
It all started with somebody else’s dream. A friend of mine has always dreamed about crossing the alps on a mountain bike. This guy was definitely not new to mountain bike adventures. He has already cycled, over a period of three months along the rockies from Canada to Mexico. One evening in February 2010 we [...]
Recently I have started on a new project which will utilize a lot of the new web technology. The server will be nginx, combined with nodejs. For the database side there are two options to consider: MongoDB and CouchDB. Since I know two little about these two databases, I decided to try them both out [...]
Shutting down Postgres server on Snow Leopard requires some shell work, so open up terminal and execute the following commands: sudo su – postgres This will log you into the postgres server user and move you to its directory. bin/pg_ctl -D data stop This will stop the server from running.
At DOP we started working on a django front end for Sql-Ledger with the idea of combining it later on with our ticketing system. Getting it going on my MacBook proved to be more challenging then expected. Most of the problems were easily solvable, but finding the oplossing proved to be tricky. Therefor I have [...]
iLife 08 brought a big change to iMovie. iMovie 06 was a very capable video editing software with a good plugin library. iMovie 08 has taken a step back in the amount of pure editing feature. It seemed like apple was aiming to make iMovie the “iPhoto for home video”. One of the features not [...]
Disclaimer: This method will probably not work for all servers running tomcat, it is more a personal guide then a general one. Solr is a “popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project”. Drupal search has traditionally been less then adequate. Using Solr to index and search you Drupal site [...]
For one of our projects, I was creating a photo bar. When the mouse was over one of the photos it was ment to increase in size and decrease back to original size when the mouse left. Unfortunately the client for which this was developed uses ie7 exclusively. This has brought two problems: 1. ie7 [...]
It is good practice to put all of your javascript code in its own namespace. When doing so in combination with setTimeOut timer function it is important to remember that the object evoking the function will be the DOM window and not your namespace object. Therefore it is needed to add the namespace before the [...]
Drupal saves its sessions in the sessions table. One can always query they table to get the session ID. There is however a faster way. If the user is logged it, the session id can be found with the following code: global $user; $user->sid; In any case the session id can also be read from [...]