By Niccolò Favari on January 20, 2010
I use the Bitnami LAPPstack on my Linux system to develop my apps. It’s fast, lightweight, and doesn’t get in the way messing up with my system. I start it, restart it, stop it… whenever I want.
One thing it doesn’t have, apart the XDebug extension (I wrote an article on how to get it working: Configure XDebug with Bitnami PHP Stacks on Linux Ubuntu ), is the PL/pgSQL language configured inside the postgresql DBMS. Meaning that if you try to create a stored procedure and a trigger using that language, you’re going to get an error similar to this:
Posted in PostgreSQL | Tagged Linux, PL/pgSQL, PostreSQL, stored procedures, triggers
By Niccolò Favari on January 19, 2010
Fact is that if you want to develop something more than a dynamic menu in php, you’re going to need a debugger. You’re going to need it badly and you don’t even know it (shame on you!).
So let’s start from the beginning. You got bitnami lapp (or lamp) stack because it’s cool and doesn’t need so much configuration (if any at all). So you’re basically ready to start coding.
You realize you need a debugger. You search for it and you find out about xdebug. Cool. Then you approach the Xdebug download page and you see only sources and many windows binaries. Not cool.
Posted in Linux, PHP | Tagged bitnami, lamp, lapp, Linux, netbeans, PHP, ubuntu, xdebug
By Niccolò Favari on January 3, 2010
Dopo aver smanettato per giorni con temi e aspetto di Ubuntu Linux, mi sono ritrovato con un obbrobrio di interfaccia utente. L’unica cosa che volevo fare era reinstallare Ubuntu da zero e ricominciare.
Il problema
Mi mancava l’interfaccia pulita, la leggerezza di un sistema appena installato. I puntatori del mouse erano inconsistenti, così come i bordi delle finestre. Persino i menu. Avevo personalizzato (e devastato) così tanto l’interfaccia utente che sembrava di usare un Mac OS versione Chernobyl.
La prima, ovvia, soluzione era quella di reinstallare il sistema. Il fatto è che avendo una partizione dedicata per /home, tutti i miei settaggi, compreso l’aspetto di gnome, sarebbero riapparsi come per magia sul nuovo sistema operativo.
Posted in Linux | Tagged gnome, Linux, ubuntu