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Nguyên Phó Chủ tịch nước: Quá bất công với Ba Sương!

Đọc những dòng này …

Cô ấy duy trì quỹ đó không phải để cho riêng mình tiêu xài, cũng không hề có gì dấu giếm để phục vụ cho những lợi ích cá nhân

… và những dòng này…

Tôi biết cô ấy không lập gia đình, cả cuộc đời dành mọi tâm huyết lo lắng cho Nông trường, cho cuộc sống ... read more ...

When to Choose Drupal | PracticalWeb Ltd

A very informative post about when to choose Drupal for a combination of project & people.

Drupal is a very flexible CMS which can be extended to provide the functionality needed for may different types of website.

I’ve worked on a few projects where I was brought in for my Drupal expertise, but in the end felt that Drupal wasn’t a good ... read more ...

The natural evolution from side project to full-time business

Some have doubted our advice that you should hold on to your day job and start something on the side. They argue building a business requires such persistent effort that you need to devote all your time to it to do it right.

And it’s true that building a business requires plenty of time and effort. But the idea that you ... read more ...

parsedatetime

parsedatetime is able to parse, for example, the following:

August 25th, 2008 25 Aug 2008 Aug 25 5pm 5pm August 25 next saturday tomorrow next thursday at 4pm at 4pm eod tomorrow eod eod tuesday eoy eom in 5 minutes 5 minutes from now 5 hours before now 2 hours before noon

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P2: The New Prologue

Today we’re extra-pleased to introduce you to a new theme that reinvents what it means to group blog on WordPress.com.

We call it P2 (in the style of K2, the update on the classic Kubrick theme), and it’s an extensive revamp of Prologue, the brainchild of last year’s winter retreat.

Prologue broke ground when it brought microblogging to WordPress.com. Now it’s cooler, ... read more ...

Rename files from upper case filename to lower case (in bash)

Here is a way to rename files in bash, from upper case filenames to lowercase ones

for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]`; done

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How to prevent a package from being updated in Ubuntu

If you want to update all the packages other than one package in your Ubuntu system follow this procedure

There are three ways of holding back packages, with dpkg, aptitude or with dselect.

Using dpkg

Put a package on hold

sudo echo “package hold” | dpkg --set-selections

Example

sudo echo “apache2 hold” | dpkg --set-selections

Remove the hold

sudo echo “package install” | dpkg --set-selections

Example

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Google I/O – The Myth of the Genius Programmer

A pervasive elitism hovers in the background of collaborative software development: everyone secretly wants to be seen as a genius. In this talk, we discuss how to avoid this trap and gracefully exchange personal ego for personal growth and super-charged collaboration. We’ll also examine how software tools affect social behaviors, and how to successfully manage the growth of new ideas.

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Pyinotify

Pyinotify is a pure Python module for monitoring filesystems changes. Pyinotify relies on inotify, a Linux Kernel functionnality (since kernel 2.6.13). inotify is an event-driven notification mechanism, its notifications are exported to user space through three system calls. Pyinotify binds these system calls and provides an implementation on top of them.

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