Technical stuff Requirements are like water. They're easier to build on when they're frozen.

I first used Putty Tray. But today I found a tabbed version, the Putty Connection Manager. Both do get minimized in the taskbar, isn’t this cool? ...

You go to the yUml site and throw some data in the text box offered Press “Generate the Diagram!” Voila! And here’s an example, as well: [sourcecode] http://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy;scale:60/usecase/[Admin]^[User Free], [Admin]^[User Premium], [Admin]-(note: Most privileged user), [User Free]-(note: No costs), [User Premium]-(note: Monthly subscription), [User Free]-(Login), [User Free]-(Logout) , [User Premium]-(Login), [User Premium]-(Logout) , (Login)<(Reminder) , ...

So, we need to find out different values of a column and the number of their occurrences. Let’s set up a small test first: -- Step #1: prepare the ground CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `test`; DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `test`.`test_count_distinct`; CREATE TABLE `test`.`test_count_distinct` ( `id` INT(11) NOT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY, `title` VARCHAR(50) NOT ...

I had the same problem as a lot of people, actually. I found the following solution to be working for me: Open the alsa config file by: sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf at the end of the file just paste the following lines: options snd-pcsp index=-2 options snd slots=snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel model=hp-m4 alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel ...

You might need to make a short video recording of your actions to share with someone else. Maybe you need to show a client how things should be done, or you want to show off to your blog’s readers, who knows? What software package to use? There are a lot of solutions out there, I’ve ...

So, you are using Ubuntu 8.10 (codenamed Intrepid Ibex) and you’d like to play around with Compiz, which made you “wooow”. Let’s see. ...

There are explained several options one has when trying to run IE6 and IE7 on the same machine. ...

Be careful: if you want to submit a form from Javascript using something like this.form.submit(); or document.forms[ myFormName ].submit(); and it gives you a nasty error like submit is not a function don’t despair, just: look at the HTML source code: <input id="submit" name="submit" value="Send to developer" type="submit" /> change the name of the button ...

Correct syntax to add two numbers using Smarty. ...