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<?php konferenca 2010

July 5th, 2010 by mitja.kramberger

Od 8. do 10. julija 2010 se bo v Ljubljani odvijala PHP konferenca 2010 – letos bo potekala 3 dni z dvema večernima networking dogodka in s tem še več možnosti za druženje. Upoštevana so bila mnenja udeležencev s prejšnjih konferenc in sestavljen je še boljši program konference. Poleg najbolje ocenjenih predavateljev prejšnjih php konferenc bosta tokrat prisotni tudi dve svetovno znani imeni v PHPju – Sebastian Bergmann  (avtor PHPUnit) in Derick Rethans (avtor XDebug). Oba imata za seboj preko 100 predavanj po vsem svetu.

Na php konferenci 2010 boste med drugim izvedeli:
- kako zagotoviti kvaliteto v izvedbi php projektov
- tehnike debagiranja z Xdebugom
- kako kvalitetno izvajati review php kode
- kako implementirati v vašo spletno stran Moneto, ter plačilne kartice
- kako se postavi MySQL strežnik(e) za najbolj obiskane spletne strani
- in kako se optimizira SQL stavke
- predstavitev HTML5 funkcionalnosti
- osnove Zend Frameworka
- SPL in Namespaces
- in še več

Več informacij dobite na: http://phpkonferenca.si/2010/

Gaea+ Summer 2010 release

June 25th, 2010 by Luka Mulej

We are very proud to announce the hottest Gaea+ Summer 2010 version. Visit official Gaea+ website and try new features now.

New tall “toy”

June 25th, 2010 by Luka Mulej

About a week ago, XLAB got a new “toy” – about 15 meters tall stand for digital camera, which we connect to the the laptop on the grond and watch camera picture. Camera position and zoom we change with remote controler.

In memoriam

June 21st, 2010 by Luka Mulej

of Christian; for he moved off the run queue way too soon.

Rest in peace,
Dear colleague and friend!

VJ-ing with Gaea+

May 18th, 2010 by Luka Mulej

Click play below, to view a short clip from the Sounds of Slovenia concert. VJ used Gaea+ 3D visualization tool for showing landscape of Slovenia in 3D!

Gaea+ “green” video

May 18th, 2010 by Luka Mulej

We did another promotional video for Let’s clean up Slovenia in one day (Ocistimo Slovenijo v enem dnevu), which was showed on final gala ceremony. For more informations about 3D visualization tool Gaea+ click on www.gaeaplus.com.

Embed latex math formulas into EPS pictures

May 6th, 2010 by Aleš Černivec

When writing technical article sometimes you need embedded fonts in your EPS pictures. There is a way to do this using SketchLaTeX Plugin. First, you will need to install Skencil tool. Here you will find the plug-in for Skencil. Downlad two .py files in the package from the page and copy these under

/usr/lib/skencil/Plugins/Objects/latextext.py

/usr/lib/skencil/Plugins/Filters/epstexsaver.py

respectively.

An example

Example

If you do not have a pstoedit package, install it (e.g. via synaptic).

Run Skencil, load your .fig figure (made in xfig), go to edit–>create–>LaTeX in Skencil
and add some formulas in tex format. Save the figure as PostScript figure (File–>Save as PostScript…), e.g. filename.ps.

Run ps2eps filename.ps over your file and filename.eps should appear under the same directory. This eps file has embedded fonts.

You can also save the Skencil figure as PDF with tex math formulas but you will need python-reportlab package.

Update:

An alternative is as described here.

Building Ganglia

May 4th, 2010 by Primož Hadalin

This is one of those reminder posts because I always google what dependencies I need to install in order to build Ganglia in Debian based Linux.

The dependencies are:

  • build-essential
  • libconfuse0
  • libconfuse-dev
  • libapr1-dev
  • libexpat1-dev
  • libpcre3-dev

UPDATE:

To create default configuration, run:

gmond -t > /etc/ganglia/gmond.conf

If configuration file is somewhere else, change path accordingly.

SMETris – Eco game

April 16th, 2010 by Luka Mulej

XLAB company developed a computer game SMETris for action day Let’s clean up Slovenia in one day (Ocistimo Slovenijo v enem dnevu).

Click on button SMETris below to play the game and welcome to join action day on April 17th.

Ubuntu 9.10 automount

March 31st, 2010 by Matic Cankar

Recently I was making a media-box from an Ubuntu 9.10 Server. I had an Ubuntu server machine which I moved into the living room and connected it to a TV set. I installed the Gnome graphic interface so I can surf on the Internet and watch movies. Everything worked as I planned, except the auto-mount of USB disks. I tried many solutions from the Internet and spent a lot of time to make it work. The answer was deep on this forum. Here is the cite of the solution:

open synaptic package manager
reinstall
hal and gvfs
if you are using xfe desktop also reinstall Thunar
install [if not already installed]
gnome-volume-manager
gnome-mount
gnome-device-manager
gvfs-backends [not sure if this is actually needed]

So I reinstalled everything from the list above… only this solution worked for me!