Software

One of the most successful articles at moixo.com was the one than explains how to install Openbravo on Ubuntu. I allways have in mind to write a new post showing this process for new versions of the software, since now I had no time to do it. Finally I installed the latest version of Openbravo on the newest Ubuntu, the 9.04 release. The process is described in detail in this article.

Virtualization is becoming essential for any software developer. Operating Systems compatibility has been improved over the years, but there are still some tests that must be done by developers over different platforms and operating systems.

Web developers that use Mac OSX need to test their sites on different browsers like Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8. If you don't want to waste your hardware installing Windows, you can use any of the existing virtualization tools.

On Mac OSX there are mainly 3 wonderful options: Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion and VirtualBox. In my case, the are two reasons that made me decide wich one to use: free and open source. That is VirtualBox.

If you are a web developer on PHP and MySQL, probably you needed to define virtual servers on Apache. If you also work on Mac OSX, then a good option to have a development environment fully working and up to dateis MAMP. Alright, in this situation, I recommend you to do this:

Due to specific necessities in a project that dbloop is developing, we need to enable remote access to MySQL database form the other machines in our LAN. It isn't so easy to find good information about this issue. There are many posts but don't give clear info about how to solve it. Finally, a post gives us the solution.

When I bought my new laptop, I decided to give the old one to my father-in-law (that is 65) in order to introduce him on computers. He had bought a digital camera (after two years in doubt) and he was in need of a computer to download and organize his photos.

I told him to install Ubuntu. but their friends, also photography lovers, told him to install Windows and Photoshop because they use them. I accepted, but rejected to do the installation, so their friends did it.