Check this out very easy to understand Beginners Kohana Tutorial. http://www.dealtaker.com/blog/2009/11/20/kohana-php-3-0-ko3-tutorial-part-1/ There are many other parts to it (I'm up to 2 at the moment).
Wonk — When you have to KNOW
A little while ago I was watching an episode of Covert Affairs and it used the term `Wonk'. I had heard the term "Policy Wonk" before in relation to someone employed as a political adviser that had a vast general knowledge of just about everything related to politics...
Adobe Acrobat Reader without using The Adobe Download Manager
The latest version of Acrobat Reader has some pretty good security restrictions so an upgrade is a good idea. However if you work on a network which has 512kbps internet connection you don't want to be running Adobe's Down Load Manager 30 times and sucking the files...
Alcatel OmniPCX Voice Prompts
Just had to upload voice prompts to an Alcatel OmniPCX. The process: Record the message using the "Sound Recorder" on Windows 7 (which saves to WMA format and it's got a high sample rate and it got 2 channels etc) Upload to a Ubuntu 10.10 Linux box and use ffmpeg to...
How Old School Linux are You?
Remember the Registered Linux User Counter: LOL.
WordPress for Android Video Upload
This link http://android.wordpress.org/2010/05/11/wordpress-for-android-version-1-2-geotagging-and-video-upload/ has the secret sauce for uploading 3gp videos to a wordpress blog namely the PJW Mime Config plugin. After installing PJW Mime Config the mime type you...
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