I was playing with some statistics and wanted to display some queries as a single, comma-delimited text. Why one may need this? Since the result of the queries can be concatenated in an endless ways by (eg. PHP) code… The answer: to have one-line query returning directly the string – eg. for statistical purposes only. […]
Month: January 2013
Stock photography
I’m living from stock photography. It’s about creating useful images for others, uploading these to so called internet-based ‘Agencies’ who make these online, make marketing for these and sell a license for these. I receive an amount of the selling price, from 15% to 50%, depending on the agency. Note that I don’t sell the […]
Useful Linux (Debian) commands and facts
This article explains some very basic linux commands an facts needed when setting up and working with a web server. Note that this article isn’t covering all about Debian, in fact covers a very few but important knowledge one may need. This article contains information mainly for beginners. Some useful facts under Linux, everything is […]
Set up a Samba server on Linux
With a Samba server installed and running on Linux, we can access partly or the whole system via LAN. Install Samba: apt-get install samba Follow the install wizard and enter “workgroup” or the group your network uses. The outside access can be configured for a special directory and for a special user or it’s possible […]
Set up a web development Linux server (Debian)
At first glance localhost seems to be a good solution for developing PHP web apps, but it has some drawbacks, as: switching between projects isn’t so easy for moderately complex websites, especially when working with databases, having fixed directory structure, etc.) it’s difficult to change the server (Apache) configuration it’s difficult to switch between projects […]