Install PHPUnit and PHPDocumentor in XAMPP

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Created on Friday, 17 August 2012 11:13

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Open XAMPP Shell (start c:\xampp\xampp-control.exe and click on the button XAMPP-Shell), and run:

pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
pear channel-discover components.ez.no
pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit
pear install phpunit/DbUnit phpunit/PHPUnit_Selenium
pear install phpunit/PHPUnit_SkeletonGenerator 
pear install phpunit/PHPUnit_Story phpunit/PHP_CodeCoverage
pear install PhpDocumentor

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Apache Maven Archetype for Joomla

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Created on Friday, 17 August 2012 09:22

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Got this email from Cyprian Sniegota, he did develop a Maven Archetype for easing development of Joomla extensions. His archetype currently support the creation of a skeleton for components, modules, plugins and templates.

I noticed some time ago that you described combination of Joomla! and Maven. Few weeks ago i wrote joomla-maven-plugin with skeleton projects (sources: bitbucket.org/deviapps) based on php-maven.org work.
Here is short description http://deviapps.com/create-joomla-extension-with-maven and 5 min video (in Polish so far) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE8w9EZciTg
I hope you will be interested.

Thanks to him for having written this project. I will also try to Maven-ize what Joomla has done with Ant in the future (I prefer now crystal clear software lifecycle )

Ubuntu 12.04 update nginx to the latest version

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Created on Friday, 17 August 2012 09:13

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Official version of nginx for Ubuntu Precise is 1.1.19 but the latest available stable version is 1.2.2 (Changes), In this post I will present you how to update to the latest available version.

vi /etc/apt/sources.list

and add depending on your Ubuntu version either

For Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid:

deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ lucid nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ lucid nginx

For Ubuntu 12.04 Precise:

deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ precise nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ precise nginx

Now you can run

apt-get update

When using the public nginx repository for Ubuntu, you’ll get this error

W: GPG error: http://nginx.org lucid Release: The following signatures 
couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY ABF5BD827BD9BF62

First of all this is only warning and you can ignore it, if you know what are you doing and in case you prefer to add public key, used for signing packages and repository, just run:

gpg -a --export 7BD9BF62 |  sudo apt-key add -

or

wget http://nginx.org/packages/keys/nginx_signing.key
cat nginx_signing.key | sudo apt-key add -

apt-get update should now run fine, however after running an

apt-get install nginx

you may still get this kind of error:

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nginx_1.2.2-1~precise_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/etc/logrotate.d/nginx', which is also in package nginx-common 1.1.19-1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/nginx_1.2.2-1~precise_amd64.deb

just remove nginx-common and retry

apt-get remove nginx-common 

More at http://wiki.nginx.org/Install

cedThumbnails 2.5.9 for J2.5 Released

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Created on Tuesday, 07 August 2012 20:56

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CedThumbnails has been updated to version 2.5.9 and contains 4 new features and correct some bug for  Joomla 2.5. For existing users the update will display in the Extensions Manager under Updates. If you do not have this currently installed, you can click the link below and install like you are use to via the Extensions Manager.

NEW: The function that detect images in your articles is now clever and now support better fallbacks. It now support Joomla articles metadata (intro image and full article image). With the first option selected the system will always find at least one image to render as thumbnail. Priority is from left to right.

• search in intro text -> use intro image -> in full text -> use full article image (NEW) it’s the default,
• search in intro text only,
• search in intro text -> use intro image (NEW),
• search in full text only,
• search in full text -> use full article image (NEW),
• search in intro text -> in full text,
• search in full text -> in intro text,

If no images are found, despite going through intro text, full text, intro image and full article image, the system will fallback to a default image that can be set up per modules/plugins.

NEW: Support for alternate images text and caption.

NEW:  Support for new resizing method:

• inside: image fits the given dimensions from the inside, aspect ratio will be kept.
• outside: image will be at least as big as X x Y, aspect ratio will be kept.
• fill: image will be stretched as necessary, aspect ratio may not be kept. it’s the default resizing method.

NEW: Support for scaling method, this determines when to scale an image:

• any: resize regardless of the image size. it’s the default scaling method.
• up: resize if image is smaller than the new dimensions.
• down: resize if image is larger than the new dimensions.

On a side note the code has been improved, no static methods, better decoupling, but that’s another story that interest only developers. Anyway adding new features will be easier!