Short IT recipes

To obtain date and time of the last commit in a current branch one can use git log command: git log -1 --format="%cd"

Recently, I was preparing myself for IELTS (International English Language Testing System) test (general module). As part of this preparati...

Ubuntu 11.04 uses Unit as its default desktop environment. However, it is very easy to switch back to 'normal/traditional' GNOME des...

Just like for Ubuntu 10.04 , the two following icons (notifiers): can be removed by removing two packages: indicator-me and indicator-messa...

For example to make jpg thumbs of all tiff images in a current director one can use: for f in *.tiff; do bname=`basename $f .tiff` ; conver...

In short, to flatten and convert to grayscale all images in current director one can use: mogrify -flatten -type Grayscale * or mogrify -fla...

An example web application demonstrating usage of Zend_ProgressBar  and jquery progressbar  for monitoring progress of file uploads in Zend ...

This is an example Zend Framework 1.11.3 application that uses OpenID (Google, Yahoo, MyOpenId, AOL, OpenId) as well as Facebook Connect an...

I needed to add a date of last modification of the website made in Drupal 7. I did it by enable core module PHP Filter and creating a block...

In PHP, file uploads can be tested using phpt files as explained here . However, when I wanted to execute phpt test with --POST_RAW-- or --P...