Secret Pomegranate Seeding Trick! How to Seed a Pomegranate with no mess. Pomegranates are a delicious winter treat, but many people are afraid of the mess or simply don’t know how to get the seeds out easily.
Now I know. I hate having this fruit because it’s such a mess!
Simple! Just need to change a setting in the .htaccess file. I am using Laravel 4, you might be using some other version but the method should apply nevertheless. I use an alias to point to this directory.
Add this line “RewriteBase /l4″ to your .htaccess where l4 is your sub directory or folder.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /l4
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
Have fun!
I wanted to install PHP Composer in Windows. And to begin, I already have a copy of XAMPP 1.8.1, I think if you have a different way to get your PHP that should not matter. I tested this to work for Windows 7 but it should work for all versions of Windows.
You can download XAMPP here. I got the 7zip version rather than the installer itself. The ZIP version is similar, just with a larger file size. I extract the xampp folder into my C: drive, i.e. to C:\xampp. Then install it by opening the file C:\xampp\setup_xampp.bat. That will set the paths in XAMPP’s configurations.
This is more of a personal note and a really specific topic. This tutorial assumes you are using Ubuntu 12.10 or Ubuntu 12.04 and installed tomcat7 package. If you haven’t already installed tomcat7, use:
sudo apt-get install tomcat7
After doing so, create and edit the file setenv.sh. Putting setenv.sh in CATALINA_BASE/bin allows you to keep your customizations separate.
sudo nano /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/setenv.sh
I set my environment variables (in my case) as in setenv.sh:
CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m"
If the file is present, catalina.sh will pick it up and add to the runtime parameters.
To restart tomcat7, use:
sudo service tomcat7 restart
After the server restart, run this to check:
ps aux|grep jar
This should return:
tomcat7 14140 63.8 11.4 4001076 918296 ? Sl 12:26 1:37 /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/tomcat7/conf/logging.properties -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/share/tomcat7/endorsed -classpath /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat7/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcat7 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat7 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp/tomcat7-tomcat7-tmp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start kahwee 15564 0.0 0.0 13580 936 pts/1 S+ 12:29 0:00 grep jar
You should be able spot your line of customization. And that’s the proper way to setting up Catalina options. You can also set JAVA_OPTS through this method too.
Think your Gmail is slow and you have a lot of emails? It could be that you have too many connected accounts. Connected accounts send out polling requests that were slowing down the Gmail application.
You can revoke access in Google here.
I have more than 40 connected apps. and this simple tip made my Gmail faster.
After I install Mac OS X Mountain Lion, it seems like my Apache server can no longer start successfully:
bash-3.2# sudo tail /private/var/log/apache2/error_log [Thu Aug 02 09:36:46 2012] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Thu Aug 02 09:37:57 2012] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache] httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using kahwee-mba.local for ServerName [Thu Aug 02 09:37:57 2012] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Thu Aug 02 09:37:57 2012] [notice] Digest: done [Thu Aug 02 09:37:57 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8r configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Aug 02 09:46:17 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/favicon.ico [Thu Aug 02 09:54:19 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/r, referer: http://home.internal.kw.sg/ [Thu Aug 02 09:54:19 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/favicon.ico [Thu Aug 02 09:54:31 2012] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
To find out why, run apachectl -t:
bash-3.2# sudo apachectl -t httpd: Syntax error on line 106 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_fs.so into server: dlopen(/usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_fs.so, 10): Symbol not found: _dav_add_response\n Referenced from: /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_fs.so\n Expected in: flat namespace\n in /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_fs.so
Seems like it is caused by my disabling of mod_dav. mod_dav_fs acts as a support module for mod_dav and provides access to resources located in the server’s file system.
So I go to line 106 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf and I comment out that line too.
sudo nano /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
Try to run the syntax check of Apache configuration again:
bash-3.2# sudo apachectl -t Syntax OK bash-3.2#
That seems to be working, now we start Apache:
sudo apachectl start
Useful apachectl commands include:
Hope it helps!
Using Invision’s BBCode isn’t straight forward. Chances are that you need to invoke the BBCode parser if you want to create a plugin or hook for Invision Powered Board. Here’s the rough code to do so, with $topics being the array containing all the topics from the database to be parsed:
<?php
$classToLoadComposite = IPSLib::loadLibrary( IPS_ROOT_PATH . "sources/classes/editor/composite.php", "classes_editor_composite" );
$editor = new $classToLoadComposite();
#$editor->setAllowHtml( 1 );
//-----------------------------------------
// Return the data
//-----------------------------------------
foreach ($topics as &$topic) {
$topic["formattedPost"] = $editor->process($topic["post"]);
IPSText::getTextClass("bbcode")->parsing_section = "topics";
IPSText::getTextClass("bbcode")->parse_smilies = TRUE;
IPSText::getTextClass("bbcode")->parse_bbcode = TRUE;
IPSText::getTextClass("bbcode")->parse_html = FALSE;
IPSText::getTextClass("bbcode")->parse_nl2br = TRUE;
IPSText::getTextClass("bbcode")->bypass_badwords = FALSE;
$topic["formattedPost"] = IPSText::getTextClass("bbcode")->preDisplayParse( $topic["formattedPost"] );
}
?>
For the parsing_section, you should put a value that corresponds to the editor section. In my case, I need it to ‘topics’. To get the full list, you may need to look up Invision Powered Board’s source code which I cannot provide.
I wrote this down more as a personal note and I hope it benefits you as it did for me. If you have any questions, feel free to post and I can attempt answering.