Firefox 3 is about to be released and Mozilla Inc. is trying to set a world record for the Most Software Downloads in 24 Hours. Let’s be part of this World Record!
Go to : http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/
Posted on May 30th, 2008 by SMD
Filed under: Open Source | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, The Mambo Foundation announced that they will use CakePHP for the next version of Mambo and at the same day I presented about CakePHP at PHP Meetup 3.0.
You can download my slide here and the announcement is here.
Posted on July 22nd, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: CakePHP, Open Source | No Comments »
If you would like to read & write to your ntfs partition (windows’s partition), installing ntfs-3g on your machine is a better solution. This is the method I used to install ntfs-3g on my debian etch :
1. Remove old libfuse (if any) :
sudo apt-get remove libfuse2 fuse-utils
2. Get required package:
wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/n/ntfs-3g/ntfs-3g_1.328-2_i386.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/n/ntfs-3g/libntfs-3g0_1.328-2_i386.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.6.3-2_i386.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.6.3-2_i386.deb
3. Install [...]
Posted on July 13th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: Debian | 10 Comments »
I had a problem connecting mysql from DBDesigner4. Error occurs :
Connection to database failed.
dbExpress Error: Invalid
Username/Password
Username/Password spelled correctly. The problem is because DBDesigner4 was designed for MySQL 3.x.x. For MySQL 4 and higher we have to do the old password trick. This is the solution which is works fine for me. In your terminal, [...]
Posted on July 9th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: Open Source | 2 Comments »
I have been using Eclipse for quite some time now. I prefer Eclipse as development IDE because its ease of use. The overall design of Eclipse keeps the tools you need immediately at your fingertips.
Using APT to install Eclipse on your Debian / Ubuntu machine will give you the old version of Eclipse. I [...]
Posted on July 8th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: Debian, Ubuntu | 22 Comments »
I am a Free and Open Source Software lover, advocate. I would like to see Open Source grow, and more users being able to use and understand it. I would like to continue to become a part of this growing community, and to grow with it! 
