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Resources

This will be a list of useful articles and resources, I’ll continuously populate. The idea for this is to contain stuff I don’t need to remember, or bookmark across the computers I use. This will be mainly for my own usage, but hey, if you landed somehow here – feel free to take use these,…
Linux debugging cheat sheet

I gotta admit – I “stole” this from nixCraft. But it’s so brilliant, I just need to share/keep it.
Casting

As a not so experienced PHP dev – there are plenty of things I learn on daily basis, but one thing I should really remember using is casting.Basically casting i changing the data type of a variable from one to another. Yes, I know – this is PHP, the language where an array can become…
Vitosha 100, 06.2019

So… last Saturday, for the first time in my life I participated in a competition. It was a mountain biking cross country competition – Vitosha 100 tour – a tour around the Vitosha mountain with length around 98 kilometers and roughly 2000 meters climb. I can’t say I was in perfect shape, I was mostly…
BASH Red prompt

2022 edit – this needs revisiting – do not repeat! The code bellow breaks the prompt!OK, so this is mainly for personal use. When logging via SSH to a certain server it’s always a good idea to have custom prompt colours. I personally set staging environment to be yellow and production – red.So in order…
MySQL Referential constraints actions

When you have a huge database – you eventually end up with tables with referal constraints When you create one there are several actions that can be set: • CASCADE: Delete or update the row from the parent table, and automatically delete or update the matching rows in the child table. Both ON DELETE CASCADE and…
Bookmark for switching URL

When developing multiple similar sites, I often stumble upon the case, when I want to open a specific link on different domain. Sometimes the same site/URL on local, staging, testing, production environments. Creating specific bookmarks to open the specific links is a bit of an overkill. Typing the same URL on the different environments is…
Insert entry if it doesn’t exist in MySQL

Yes, that’s probably a common issue – you want to make insert in MySQL only if a duplicate does not exist. I faced this issue today, and since it took me some time to figure out a way to do it (to be honest – a colleague gave me the query) – I’m sharing it…
API – what is it?

What is an API. Quite often I ask myself the same, and sadly – can’t give a definitive answer. Good thing the internet is a large place, and it’s full of information. The following two videos are quite helpful in that regard:The following video gives brief idea and introduction: This one goes into a bit…
Change the name of the interface in Ubuntu

I really hate the way Ubuntu names the interfaces. To someone who only clicks – it might not matter, but for someone like me, who lives by the ideal “Real men don’t click” – it’s utter garbage. So I found the solution here. Edit your /etc/default/grub changing the line from to to and, finally: and…
Connect to your android phone and copy files under Linux

OK, so MTP is a protocol, that’s implemented in Linux just as good as my Tennis skills. I’ve never played tennis. So usually it’s a tedious job to find some MTP build that will actually let you connect to your phone, usually by manually mounting it with some rag-tag tool.The bellow method is a bit…
Docker Cheat Sheet

Since I’ll start to work with docker – I’ll need a point of reference. I’ll continue to update this “article” as I continue to work with docker. Update 2022 – I haven’t used docker for nearly three years – if you land here – take everything with a grain of salt!