Category Archives: Programming & Web Development

How to install PHP PDO extensions on Debian Lenny

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Gabriel Saldaña

If you need to install PHP PDO extensions on Debian Lenny, its very simple. This is what I did to get it done: sudo aptitude install php5 php5-dev php5-cli libmysqlclient15-dev Then use pecl to get PDO: sudo pecl install pdo … Continue reading →

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Make Emacs yasnippet work with html-helper-mode

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

Yasnippet is a great emacs minor mode that lets you have lots of code snippets easily at hand. Also you can create your own snippets in a very easy way without needing to write them in emacs lisp. Basically, like … Continue reading →

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My 5 reasons to leave Ruby on Rails

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

I’m stopping all my ruby on rails development. Its been a while since my last rails line was written and I will not continue to develop on that framework. Here are my reasons for this: Documentation and entry point price … Continue reading →

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How to install latest Git on Ubuntu

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

Git is a distributed version control system. I won’t go into much details of what Git is or why use Git instead of other VC systems. There’s plenty other sites where to check that information. I love Git, but there’s … Continue reading →

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Animate your webpage fast and easy with Facebook Animation Library

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

Today Facebook released an animation javascript library that modifies CSS properties on the fly. You can download it and use it on your webpages. Its a very light (10.4 Kb compressed version) animation library and its very easy to use. … Continue reading →

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PHP 5 OOP implementation quirks

Posted on November 14, 2007 by Gabriel Saldaña

PHP 5 is supposed to be fully object oriented. Yes, it has classes and inheritance and all those things an OOP language is supposed to have. But, is it implemented like most OOP languages? First of all, I come from … Continue reading →

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