Stories of daily programming
Hello my friends! Today I want to talk about some problems encountered using the property Environment.TickCount, available since the version 1.1 of .NET Framework. In a nutshell, this property tells you how many milliseconds elapsed since system boot. Why did I have to use it? During the development of TDP Robot, that I remind you…
Sometimes it can be useful to split a big file in multiple smaller files. There are simple software that allow to do this operation, but if you already installed 7-Zip, the famous files compressor which you can download at https://www.7-zip.org, you don’t need any of them. In fact, 7-Zip doesn’t oblige you to compress the…
We have finally come to the end of this series of posts. I believe that in a serious PHP development environment a MySql installation cannot be missing. So today we are going to see how we can install a MySql instance in a Windows environment. Let’s start by downloading the software. You can find the…
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Good morning folks! Here we are with another post about configuring a PHP development environment in a Windows PC. In the previous post we saw how to download and install the free NetBeans IDE. Now we are going to make another important step: configure XDebug to allow step by step debugging of your PHP applications…
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And here we are again, talking about the configuration of a PHP development environment in a Windows 10 desktop. In the previous post we saw how to configure the PHP runtime to work in IIS. In this post we will see how to install NetBeans (a free IDE) to start developing our PHP projects (we…
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As everyone knows, PHP is one of the most used server side languages on the web, and Windows is the dominating operating system for desktop PCs. So I think that a quick summary on how to configure a PHP development environment in Windows could be useful. In this post we will use the last version…
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Oracle VirtualBox is a virtualization software, which allows to run on your PC multiple operating systems. You can run VirtualBox on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and Solaris (the “host” operationg system) and it supports a variety of “guest” operating systems like old versions of Windows and Linux. In addition to all this, is open source and…
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Why should you create a folder starting with a dot? Few days ago I was buying an SSL certificate for a web site, for which I had to prove that I really was the owner. One way to do this was create a well known folder in the website with a name indicated by the…
There are moments in which you need to automatically start a program in Windows 10. Once upon a time, you could easily find the Startup folder in your start menu. I don’t know you, but I cannot find it anymore… Don’t worry, there is an easy way to open it, just follow these steps: Press…
I am the proud owner of a Dell Inspiron 7000, a very nice laptop produced by Dell. Yesterday, while I was working, suddenly the wifi network stopped working.The wifi network list was empty and, consequently, I wasn’t able to connect to any network. Since this laptop doesn’t have an ethernet socket I couldn’t work anymore……