Yet another linux nerd. Olivier Garcia's Blog

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If you’re using the 1.2 beta of CakePHP framework and played a bit with Ajax, you may have encountered that problem. For the impatient folks, one way to fix it is to set the security settings to medium (you may put that in your config/core.php) :

// Ask CakePHP to be less picky about security
// notably [...]


André Michelle did an incredible work in creating this neat simulation of Roland TR909. He even made the source available.


Alexandre Vassalotti made some handy emacs-snapshot package with XFT support included for nice anti-aliased fonts. It can’t be easier to install.
Instructions there : pretty-emacs @ peadrop


I’m loading iso-8859-1 and utf-8 files in the same emacs session, and until now I had to use universal-coding-system-argument (C-x C-m c). Very annoying if you’re loading a lot of files. Emacs got a handy way to force coding system according to filename. If you’re into RoR like me but still have to load iso-8859-1 [...]


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