Using Linux with the Acer Aspire S3 391
If Linux on an Acer S3 laptop is critically important to you then thispost tells of our experiences. In the end most is good news.The test laptop is an Acer Aspire S3 391 (manufactured May 2012)...
PySide on Centos 6.3
The easiest way to install PySide 1.1.1 on Centos is using the BuildScripts. However, the build_and_install script needs a minor tweak before it will run successfully. Firstly, clone the PySide...
Testing XPath in Google Chrome and Firefox
If you ever use tools such as Nokogiri orSelenium trying to come up with the right XPath canbe tricky. Wouldn't it be great if we could try out an XPath right in thebrowser? With Google Chrome and...
Storing media URIs using Android SQLite
Whilst developing an Android app recently we came across a pitfall when storingmedia URIs inside a SQLite database.The idea was to load media onto an external SD card and store links to thatmedia...
Incremental server backup with rsync
We have a VPS on which we keep our web server and project code. This stuff isimportant for our business so we back it up daily onto a machine in our office.Here's a really simple and easy way to...