Marcos Placona on May 9th, 2010

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Photo by: lilit I’ve recently been “forced” to move my desktop from Windows to Linux again. Basically my current desktop “decided” it won’t support Windows anymore, and any attempt to start it ends up in a BSOD, and I just got fed-up of trying to get it to work. [...]

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Marcos Placona on May 3rd, 2010

Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes Photo by: gagilas As previously promised, today I’ll be publishing my migration scrips from Mango Blog to WordPress. As mentioned previously, I wrote this script entirely for my own benefit, so please excuse me if it doesn’t meet your expectations. It has only been tested on mySQL, but should [...]

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Marcos Placona on April 30th, 2010

Reading time: < 1 minute Photo by: JonathanCohen …the eggshell and has now been released for trial downloads. So go get your’s while it’s hot.

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Marcos Placona on September 2nd, 2009

Java on Centos
(Photo: tutchiio)
I’m only writing this blog post because I usually try to keep my VPS
up to date, and usually one of the things I have to do to accomplish
such thing is updating the Java version.

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Marcos Placona on August 7th, 2009

Recursion
At work we’ve been doing some deploy optimization, and the need of
automatically deleting (recursively) specific folders came up.
We use MXUnit to Unit Test
our applications, and store all of our tests based on what they’re
related (inside _test folders). So basically we end up having lots of
folders in our file structure that are not supposed to go into
production for security reasons.
We use SVN for development, but don’t use it on production for
security reasons as well, so we always end up with a deploy package
(SVN export) containing all of the files necessary for a specific
release.
At the moment this package is generated, we still have our test cases in it, and it would be really painful to delete all the “_test” folders

one by one if the release is too big.
We easily end up with something like:

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